Is it rude NOT to place a conveyor belt divider after your shopping?

I always make sure I pick up some KY jelly, pile cream and condoms and put them after my divider, and place another divider after that, so as to further distance myself from the next person.
 
shifty_uk said:
I can't say I've ever noticed when someone hasn't which is most generally the case. It's such a hardship having to reach over and grab a divider or even stand with your basket until there's enough room on the belt.

There's more to life than getting offended by folk who don't stick a divider in :rolleyes:
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you could claim the same thing about opening a door for someone , its such a harship having to stick your handout and stop it closing
 
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What an earth shattering dilemma. I usually put one down and don't give two hoots if there isn't one there.
 
Couldn't care eitherway, I certainly don't consider it rude, the thought of it being rude didn't even cross my mind.
Who. Needs dividers when there's self service. The few times I do go to a till I do put a divider down.
 
Always but one down, never gave it much thought of some one does not, I just ask them to move aside stretch over their shopping and get it, if they have a problem with that they should have put it down. :P
 
Cuchulain said:
I always put one down, if I end up at a till and the person in front can't be bothered, I just pile my shopping on the belt next to theirs, they soon get the message when they think they'll end up paying for some of mine.
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so they are indifferent/inconsiderate and you are an a**hole
go you :p

Personally depends how much shopping i have, if its the weekly shop and the belt is full its only polite
If all you have is a sandwich for lunch i wouldn't bother :p
 
I always put one down, if the person in front hasn't bothered and i cant reach i just start loading my shopping regardless, usually prompts them into action.
 
I actually did this yesterday (didn't realise anyone was behind me so didn't think to put the divider down). Felt pretty bad for a few moments - it's kinda like an unspoken rule when you're queuing.
 
I've never put one down for the next person, but then again I can't remember any time when someone has put one down for me...

What suprises me is "apparently" most people put one down (in this thread at least), well none of you live by any of the places I've ever shopped then!

I didn't even realise there was a "rule" to put one down after your shopping, it's up to the person behind you to do that.
 
If there is one I'll put it there just so I don't end up having any of their stuff come through with mine. If I'm behind I wouldn't consider it as rude if they didn't place it, I'd just get it myself or if I couldn't reach leave space for one later. Never something I'd given too much thought to until today though!
 
Pav89 said:
Sometimes, when people see that I only have a couple of items, they let me go before them - it happened quite a few times in Newcastle actually. Only up North though, never experienced this when living in London.

Generally, Southerners = impolite and will put it down to avoid paying for other's shopping, Northerners polite = like to be courteous towards one another.
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Had a rage moment in local shop yesterday. I had a loaf of bread nothing more, quick cash payment and I am out of there. There is a guy currently paying for whatever it was he bought, a woman and possibly her teenage daughter looking at the chocolate. Woman sees me approach the till and then informs me that she is in the queue to go next. She has a basket full of stuff and after informing me that she was the queue put couple of bags of chocolate in her basket, clearly she wasn't queuing. At this point rage is about a 6.

Now putting her stuff on the conveyor belt, its clear that she knows the woman behind the till, and the pair seem more interested in chatting than the current transaction, rage up to 7. All things scanned and suddenly she remembers she needed a couple more things, so sends the daughter off to get them. Rage at 8.

Now she wants fags and lottery, again no real rush but could have got that sorted while her daughter was off getting things they had forgot. Rage at 9.

Finally its all paid for, my bread is sitting there waiting to be scanned yet still these 2 are blabbering on about some unimportant crap. With rage at 10 now I politely said "excuse me, any chance I could pay for this" to which the woman simply looked at me and said "how rude"

Now if I had decked her it would be me the police carted away, where the hell is the justice in that!

To answer the question, if someone is behind me then yes. If not no
 
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