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Imagine needing to be thanked for that, yeah I can do it myself if you really have the need for pointless gratitude lol

I'm human and I enjoy these stories of pettiness just like anybody else.

But if I may please speak in my "old man who has seen things" capacity for a moment, this is not the way to live. You should endeavor to do positive things every day to make life better for people around you as well as yourself. And you don't do this because it gets you praise or rewards, you do it because of the internal rewards. It's good for your mind.

The divider is so the cashier knows when to stop ringing more stuff up because it isn't yours. If she moved the divider back afterwards, that almost implies that she wants to buy the persons behind her products. The story makes no sense, the divider is something you put up for yourself, it just happens to benefit everybody.

It is to stop items from accidentally getting charged to the wrong person. It benefits both people. I never expect a thank you for doing it. If something gets charged to the wrong person, everyone gets screwed. You, the cashier, and this idiot. Now everyone has to wait for the cashier to void the transaction and call a manager over. Congratulations, you played yourself.

Eh. I just consider it a common courtesy thing that doesn't require a response.

Practically never in my whole live, standing in thousands of checkout lines, have l heard anyone say "Thank you" to another person placing a divider.
Maybe under very special circumstances that primarily had nothing to do with the divider itself.

It is in both person's interest to place it, so the the one who has the opportunity to do it just does.

Had I encountered the woman from the post, I just would have classified her as mentally not entirely stable and kept my distance...

I am autistic. Talking to total strangers anywhere but online is really fucking hard. I find the words catching in my throat every time I go to speak. And even then, sometimes it's barely above a whisper.

To a normal person, this is petty. To me and mine, this is cruel. And you have no way to tell which it will be. Maybe you shouldn't support this.

So dumb.. the divider is for her and the checkout person’s benefit. for fuck sakes

I'm sorry, I fail to see how this reads as anything other than "Amanda" being an insanely self-important cunt...

So, if you "support this" feel free to assume that extends to you as well

Putting down the divider is not a courtesy, it is expected of you.

This is like expecting someone to say thank you because you flushed the toilet before leaving it

This doesn't make a lot of sense. Amanda is talking about a "woman in Tesco", but somehow knows the reason she took the divider back. Did the woman announce this or something? Or is it just guesswork? Or is it a bullshit made-up story? You decide!

More to the point though, putting the divider would help her more than it helps the man. Because without the divider she risks the mans stuff being confused with her stuff, such that she might pay for items that aren't hers, or just wait her own time. So why should the dude be thanking her if she's actually just looking after her own interests? (And all that is aside from the fact that it is such a low-effort ordinary interaction that a person might not notice or care that it happened.)

Am from Germany and this reads like absolute asshole behaviour TBH

Big Karen energy.

Yeah? You're supposed to put it down after You're done.

I'm not gonna thank someone for flushing the loo after they're done either.

Plot twist the man behind her was nonverbal...

Does Amanda not do shopping? You place the divider behind your shopping. It’s Tesco Woman’s turn to put the divider, she’s in front. If he places the divider in front of his groceries, she should say thank you.

If you require a thank you you didn't do it for them you did it for the validation, not saying you shouldn't say thanks but that if you do something for someone you should expect nothing for it to be truly altruistic.

The man didn't notice this and the cashier kept scanning all the products, hers and his. Very smart Karen, you got him!

You're not putting the divider for the person behind, you're putting it for YOURSELF and the cashier.