Humiliation

Today, I went to this supermarket in Russelsheim to do some groceries shopping. I had asked Liza to help babysitting the girls while I went shopping. If I brought them along, the 1-hour shopping time could be extended to 2-hour, dealing with their behaviour.

So, as usual I brought along my shopping trolley with me and at the supermarket I took the big shopping cart and put my shopping trolley in. After taking all the groceries stuffs I wanted, I went to the cashier to pay. As part of the routine, she asked me to open my shopping trolley to check whether I have put everything that I took on the paying desk. So after everything was paid, I loaded all items in the shopping cart and went to the one corner to transfer all the things into my shopping trolley.

Then I headed to the exit. As I passed through the exit, the scanner activated a loud alarm. I was bewildered and while I turned around to look at the cashier, one old man who was queueing to pay, shouted something nasty to me! I can't really understand what he was saying but from his expression and the way he said it, I knew he accused me for stealing! I didn't panic because I had the payment receipt with me (luckily, it is always my habit to insist for the receipt everytime I buy something). But I was thinking probably the cashier had accidentally missed to scan one of the items. One of the supermarket's staff approached me and without waiting for her to say anything, I just handed her the receipt and opened my shopping trolley. She peeped through and took out the Nescafe bottle and she asked me to walk pass the scanner. No alarm....Then she gave me back the Nescafe and asked me to walk pass the scanner. And again, the alarm was automatically activated. So the Nescafe was the culprit! The staff just asked me to go off because obviously the Nescafe has been paid for.

It wasn't my mistake but I couldn't forget the way I was shouted nastily at. Damn you old man for making me feel so humiliated in the public!