I'm at costco on a weekday mid-morning. I have my 1-year-old in the cart, and I've been waiting in line line like everyone else. I get to the belt, and just as I'm about to start unloading my groceries, someone with 1 or 2 items walks up and asks if they can go ahead of me. This has happened three times in the last 6 months, and I only go once or twice a month.
Has anyone else experienced anything like this, or am I crazy?
I'll bet they wouldn't dare ask a mom for cuts...
I often offer to let people go ahead of me, but, that is the point, I offer to let them go ahead. I generaly say no when people ask to cut the line especialy if I'm withmy kid and have waited a long time, and if they give my six foot 225lbs ass sass I say, "I waited in line like every one else, this is my trun you can go in the express line with your items I can't with mine." However, CostCo is not exactly the best place to talk about maners and civil behavior. If someone "pops 'round" CostCo for two items they can get at a RiteAid or a CVS or a grocetry store for that matter and they expect a quick in and out they aren't thinking rationaly and should probbably wait. Let's face it one goes toCostCo for a stock up. One spends hundreds of dollars on dozens of items. It isn't a spot for a quick stop.
Be Seeing You.
I would never let anyone go ahead of me. I'm sorry, but my time is just as important as anyone else's. If they have only a few things, go to the express or self checkout. If there is no express or self, sorry i was here first. I guess I've become much more like this since becoming a dad, I count every second of every day and try to maximize the time I have and be productive. Managing my time has become my new career since giving up my old one. Get in line befor me or get behind me.
Depends on what she looks like... just kidding.
I have never had anyone ask to go ahead, but I have let someone go ahead of me a few times. It really depends on how my kids are doing. They get pretty impatient at the checkout, so sometimes an extra minute can be the difference of total meltdown and getting out of there with happy kids.
Rudeness knows no bounds. I haven't experienced this particular form of it. I've been line jumped at amusement parks, registration lines, movie lines, etc. I guess it would depend on what kind of a mood I was in ... or like 'Mr. Dad' said, "Depends on what she looks like..." 
I have had very nice people see ME walk up to a checkout, with a 1/2 gal of milk in one hand, fidgety, sweaty little 5/6 year old hand in the other hand, and allow me to jump. I suppose in the interest of balancing the karma in the universe, I'd have to say, yeah ... if you aren't under any pressure to be somewhere else, let'em jump. Maybe it'll come back to you one day.
I have never, ever considered my time to be so much more important that the next guy's, (or gal's) that I asked someone to let me jump. I just get in line like everyone else.
Arthur Johnson
I do both (in hopes of keeing the karma bank balance neutral...). I will definitely ask to jump a crazy big line if I have just one item (...but I choose carefully...not a parent with a squirmy kid, more likely a merchant with a huge dolly of stuff who will still be busy unloading onto the belt by the time I'm gone), but I will readily let someone jump in front of me who has very little and will even offer a jump to someone who hasn't asked, but clearly will get out way faster if they go first.
I will say "no" to a jumper if I see them holding a checkbook. Check writers should have to pay a fee for the crazy amount of extra time they use up at the register!
- Andy
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