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The original was posted on /r/maliciouscompliance by /u/subliminalconnection on 2024-02-12 21:13:42.
I was at Costco the other day and I had just finished punching my food order in at the kiosk and was on my way to the order pickup line when a large, heavy set, angry old man wearing a US Veteran baseball cap blocked me with his shopping cart so he could cut the line. I looked him up and down to see what I was dealing with and he glared right back as if to say “try me boy”. Now, I’m not one to get in a fight over a spot in line and I could tell that telling him off was not going to go anywhere good, so I let him be. But I did notice something during my assessment; he did not have an order slip from the kiosk. At least, not that I could see. So I waited.
Imagine the grin on my face when he finally got to the window to find out that he had been in the wrong line the whole time. Carrying my order back to the car I wore that grin as I passed that dude who was now at the very back of an even longer line than the one he had just left empty handed. I could have told him he was in the wrong one. Maybe saved him some anguish, but that is not a courtesy I believe he deserved.