A shopper has detailed her wild act of revenge against an “inconsiderate” fellow customer after the latter didn’t “let her go first” when lining up at a supermarket.
Sharing the “spiteful” tale to TikTok, Lani Hyde, who has a following of more than 41,000 on the platform, asked viewers if she was “in the wrong” for taking the woman’s bacon, eggs and butter from the conveyor belt and buying them herself in retaliation.
Hyde went to the supermarket to purchase two ingredients she was “missing” in order to make dinner.
“I get there, I’ve got [my son] Hudson on my hip … and he’s tantrum-ing around, and you can imagine a tantrum-ing around, 30 pounds, almost-two-year-old, he’s pulling my hair and scratching me,” she began.
“I saw this put-together lady, she was eyeballing me and greasing me off because obviously Hudson’s squeal was pissing her off, [just] like it was pissing me off, but like, what do you do? You can’t tell them to shut up because they just don’t f—king listen.”
So far, so normal.
“Anyway, all I have is these two items … I get to the register – the self-service checkouts are not working, so I’m like, ‘F—k me, I’ve gotta go line up with all the people who have massive trolleys’,” Hyde continued — which is where the incident takes a turn.
“I had to line up behind the lady that was eyeballing me. And guess what? It wasn’t her turn yet, there was still someone in front of her that was like finishing up their groceries, and she’s seen that I only had these two [items] and I’m like, holding Hudson and he’s slapping and scratching me, and she kind of just greased me off and looked me up and down and continued stacking her stuff up on the counter and did not let me go in front of her for two little things.
“So, me being the absolute spiteful bitch that I am, she was stacking all of her shopping up, she had so much, it came to $407. So I took her eggs and bacon and her butter that was at the back of the pile. I just sat it back towards me, put those [her items] in front of it, and I bought them.
“This butter is a butter that I actually use, eggs, of course I’ll use, bacon, I would normally get streaky bacon, but I’ll use shortcut bacon. So I hope she gets home and tomorrow, does not get to have her eggs and bacon for being an inconsiderate bitch.
“Am I in the wrong? Because my husband was like, ‘Oh my God, you can’t do that’. And I’m like, ‘I f—king did’. I did it. F—k her. The way she was looking at me was so bad, she literally looked at me like Hudson was the biggest germ in the world.”
Suffice it to say, Hyde’s actions divided the more than 2600 people who took to the clip’s comment section.
Many flat-out told her she was “in the wrong.”
“Yeah idk, first in best dressed tbh, that’s what a queue is,” one viewer wrote.
“Not nice of her to grease u but she didn’t owe you her place in the queue.”
A second agreed, commenting: “It’s odd that people struggle to understand the concept of how a queue works of how many things you’re paying for … No one is obligated.”
Some suggested she “could have just asked to go in front of her as you only had two items, instead of waiting for her to offer.”
“Not where I expected this story to go … I’ve asked if I can just jump ahead when my kids are losing it, I haven’t taken their items though,” another said.
Others, however, said Hyde was “the kind of petty I aspire to be.”
“Everyone’s so mad but I personally find this so funny, it’s just eggs and bacon,” one said.
“100% love this. It’s not hard to be a nice person, nice people get eggs and bacon!” another wrote.
“I’m so down for this level of petty,” a third agreed.
