How Dare you make us aware of our own stupidity

It was just another day at the grocery store - people driving like maniacs in the parking lot, hogging the aisles, not moving from a display for 5 minutes - the usual.

I gathered my small amount of items and headed up to the crowded checkout lanes, which were "stacked" two deep. A further lane had a person just finishing up. A closer lane had the same, but also had 3 or 4 people waiting for that aisle, all with only a few items. I decided to head up to the further aisle.

I waited about 2 minutes when one man who was waiting in the closer lane storms up to me and goes "sir, the line is back there!!" I explained that it looked like everyone was waiting for the closer lane. He angrily went on to say they were all in line "waiting for the next available aisle." Which was a big lie. They were all waiting for the closer lane. He saw me and probably went "why didn't I do that??!" These people were all clueless. I brought attention to their cluelessness, and they didn't like it.

I should have stayed and checked out, but I didn't feel like dealing with the people who obviously didn't understand how lines work. I gave a "yeah, whatever" to the man and went on to another lane.

There's an old saying, "that which is not directly observed tends to persist." I guess that means those people are destined to stand in long lines for the rest of their lives.