Humiliation (also called stultification) is the abasement of pride, which creates mortification or leads to a state of being humbled or reduced to lowliness or submission. It can be brought about through bullying, intimidation, physical or mental mistreatment or trickery, or by embarrassment if a person is revealed to have committed a socially or legally unacceptable act.
That is where I found myself. I can stand many things and have done so, but there is something I've never gotten over is the grocery line and how humiliating it can be.
Let's count the ways grocery lines are humiliating:
1) Not being fast enough loading your items on that stupid conveyor belt
2) Not having your cloth bags first in line before the food, because now the bag person is putting your groceries in plastic bags
3) Having to dig for your coupons, but you put them away so you could load the aforementioned food onto the conveyor belt
4) Having kids with you
5) Having kids who won't stop touching the conveyor belt
6) Having kids who start playing and asking and begging for the candy that is right at their level
7) Having kids hang on you, the counter, the cart while trying to pay, load or just get through the line
8) A crying, screaming or just complaining child
9) Asking, God-forbid, if the computer made a mistake and now you must hold up the line for them to check their screen, then the receipt, then the screen, then the receipt...
10) Asking for a rain-check, which has to be filled out by hand and the checker NEVER knows the specials or the price
11) Forgetting your pin number when you swipe your debit card
And the most BIGGEST humiliation....
12) Not having enough money with you to pay for your groceries so you are forced to select 1 or more items that must be put back
And don't get me started on Self-Check-out...a new and disturbing way to embarrass us and show how incompetent we really are with those stupid scanners and if we can bag correctly.
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