Real, i feel it will disturb the people behind you they will wonder why should i have bothered to gather all that i need and then get in line if others can get in line and then duck out to continue shopping, if something you do will cause animosity than you shouldn’t do it
TheGoq,
I understand what you are saying. If everything else were equal, then certainly don’t do something that could annoy someone else. There comes a point, however, when one should not make a decision based on whether another person may get annoyed, especially when, in our fast-paced culture, people get annoyed too easily. I know this example is not equivalent to the grocery store case, but if I am waiting in my car to turn at an intersection, I will not go if I don’t have a clear line of sight, no matter how much the person behind me honks their horn and perhaps thinks “Jews can’t drive!”
I would definitely agree with you that leaving the line should not be done if it would cause the next person to wait longer, but should I make my wife and kids waiting for me in the car wait longer just to avoid the possibility that the person behind me in line has no compassion or thinks I did it on purpose? Is there no room left in our society to have mercy on others?
This is all said with a given that the person leaving the line verbally told the next person in line to go ahead if he didn’t return in time, and would go to the end of the line if that happened.