Grocery store....which one of these makes you cringe the most?

I have three, in order...

One, crying babies and misbehaved children. I hate it when parents think that they can allow their kids to act however in public. My parents did not permit that, they took charge. Having to watch yourself to make sure that you don't accidentally hurt some toddler running around the store and having to read the nutrition labels with a screaming baby that sounds like he's up at your ear is annoying as hell. I thought that people were supposed to do something when their babies screamed.

It was worse when I worked in retail and the kids would run around, break shit, and get into trouble and their parents wouldn't even clean up after them at the very least ("oh, it's someone else's job, they have a janitor", and they wonder why their kids grow up not knowing the meaning of personal fucking responsibility, because they were taught that it's someone else's job to care).

Second, and this is one of those negative thoughts that I hate myself for having, seeing an entire family of really fat people (I don't mean chubby or overweight, but obese, like, if they died, I'd donate their body to an African village to burn as a heat source, and it would last them months) with a shopping cart full of frozen pizzas, chips, sodas, cookies and maybe one or two items of actual food. It almost physically hurts me if they also pay with food stamps/ebt and also buy cartons of cigarettes or beer.

And third, when people have "accidents" in the store, either shit or pee, and no one has cleaned it up. I went to a sewing goods store once and an old man shit himself and it was all over the floor just streaked there, no one cleaned it up and I walked past it and almost threw the hell up. It seems that this shit smell is worse when I am not in an area in which it is typical. Go figure.

This was more weird than annoying, but, once when I was about 10 years old, I was at a grocery store looking at bananas and a weird old man came up and told me that every time a banana is eaten, a baby monkey is born. I was really weirded out by this random guy saying that to me. I figure if we eat enough bananas, we can save the apes!

Other than crying babies, I'd have to say overcrowding and long lines. They just disgust me, I don't know why.

Filthy shopping carts annoy the fuck out of me. I went to Walmart once and wound up with a cart that smelled like urine. The next cart I went for smelled like menstrual blood and It had a red mess lining the bottom of the handle. I had to wash my hands and bathe them in hand sanitizer afterwards. The managers gave me a $25 gift card to shut me up. The customers that shop there have no courtesy for others. I wash my hands wherever I come back from shopping now because I have no idea what I'm touching anymore when I use the carts.

Napkin in the cart :p The worst thing I've seen working at a drug store was poo on the floor and a shitprint trail leading out the door.

One time this old man started bleeding out of his nose and he was wiping it all over his hands and touching his stuff for me to ring out. I gave him some tissue but it was still gross XD

Another time this guy had to use the bathroom, someone had to call stock to let him in. The guy couldn't hold it and he pissed himself, then he continued to shop.

A lady I worked with who was a cashier had stomach problems and she'd shit all over the toilet seat/floor..then she'd come back and she would smell like poop.

Another employee liked to pick her nose and eat her boogers, I mean okay if that's what you do but not in front of customers/while you're working!

A girl cashier I knew would always be eating food (Cheetos, candy) at the register in front of people and she wouldn't clean her hands with anything.

And the parent just leave them crying and screaming.

When people open the ears of corn and leave them there creeps me out and the produce guy looks like a perv!

As a cashier, the two nastiest things I encounter are soggy money and meat that is leaking bloody juice (and the customer doesn't even bother to put it in a sack). I reach in, grab their meat, and get a sickly wet surprise. I freaking hate it, it is so disgusting.

And when I handle soggy money, I feel like I am handling money that's been either pissed on, or the person was really sweaty and now I am touching their bodily secretions. BLECK.

All of the above minus the seafood dept which is supposed to smell, that's just the nature of things.

On two seperate occassions, in different states, I've seen guys jerking off while doing their grocery shopping.

Screaming kids only bother me if I'm responsible for them at the time. I usually get them to shut up quickly, or we leave.

You should of added me in that list, I would of totally won...if it could be classed as winning...

hmm.. None of these? I hate babies. But it's not even cringing, it's jujst the second the crying starts i wanna get out of there before I screw this little monster's head off. They don't disgust me, just annoy me.

I love my grocery store. It has never made me go "ew."

No of those things bother me, I am not a germaphobe.

Nothing, to be honest. But I've had incidents of people following me while I'm at the grocery store, those are the only unpleasant experiences I've had.

I popped into the supermarket at close to midnight last week because of a sudden craving for chocolate. I expected it to be empty but there were upwards of five hundred people out shopping and I ended up queueing for just under an hour. And, in that time, there's little to do except look around. You can't help but notice the minutiae of people's lives and what is in their baskets and trolleys.

I saw plenty of strange things but the one that got me was a family with three young kids and a shopping basket which consisted only of about 200 tins of the cheapest dog food available and bulk packs of the cheapest toilet paper.