There's Always One Who Tries To

[albaqwerty]

spoil your day.
Had to go out to big town this morning, came across some very pleasant people.
However, the guy at the checkout in the supermarket was a pain in the neck.
I do a family shop on a Friday, and practically every item he scanned through was 'oh, I don't like that/them' or 'how can you eat that?!'
By about the half way point I told him I didn't need his running commentary and I was buying it for my lot and not him so shurrup!!

Please tell me I did the right thing? :-D

[EcclesCake]

You reached the half way point with out lamping him one?

[Berniecuddles2]

you pick em lol x

[Berniecuddles2]

now i think of it a man actually got a word in! a miracle

[Barmaid]

This is why *insert name of supermarket* deliver..........

[albaqwerty]

I was in a good mood Eccles, might have been different otherwise lol

Cuddlyone, I swear they see me coming :-))

[Mamyalynne]

Poor behaviour, shoddy training on the part of the store.

[albaqwerty]

BM, I think Cuddlyone is right.
Once had a fiend of a delivery driver from 'insert name of supermarket' lol

[Barmaid]

Although to be fair Alba, I once flipped my lid in a supermarket. A young lad came over and was chatting to the cashier. I had to listen to their inane babbling about their social engagements for the weekend and what "so and so" said on FB. I was completely ignored - couldnt even get her attention to ask for new bags.

Mr BM at the time could see pressure guage going up and took the sensible course of moving out of sight before I "gave her some words of advice".

[Barmaid]

And isnt it funny how in those circumstances you dont realise quite how silent everything has gone?!

[TWR]

Alba, how can you lol lol, you did right. something on the same line as my Tea Pot Post.xx

[albaqwerty]

oooh, BM, I'd have paid to have been there !!

Mamya, am on friendly terms with 2 of the managers, I'll be having a discreet word or 6

[horselady]

On a recent shop the cashier had a very bad cold and kept wiping her nose, putting tissue down, scanning my food, wiping her nose- - - you get the picture. Went right off my shopping by the time I paid for it.

[anneasquith]

Or............. Maybe the young man has a slight problem ?

[Zacs-Master]

What a cock. I'd have asked for the manager.

[Mamyalynne]

The Manager should still have a word even if that's the case Anne.

[david small]

Poor lad, tried to humanise his robotic employment, didn't realise that you did not want to interact with him.
Just making his time pass more interestingly.

[aelmpvw]

he was was probably the area manager sitting in for an emergency

[Mamyalynne]

I must say that in similar situations I try the humorous approach - such as 'Now then young man, whose shopping is this , cheeky?'

[aelmpvw]

i'm sure i only keyed the word 'was' once :-)

[Peter Pedant]

Oh, we get on wiv da staff in Lidl Newton Heath - notorious drug ridden violent slum etc - and ask after babies and holidays

and what they would do over the week end ( todays was working )
so I said o we will see you tomorrow then

I see a few of them in the street pushing prams ( the men of course ) and have a little talk. They even titter at my little jokes - "so long as the child has his mothers brains - he's gonna be OK"

and in their turn they put up with the usual OAP trick of being asked to pay the bill ( only pennies of course I am a pensioner) and finding after a gap (oldster's moment - can be as long as 30s) that the wallet is now at the bottom of all the shopping

[ why do I behave like a little saint - thirty years ago a complete stranger at a till said to me: "you put up a dripup on my friends baby when no one else could" - after that I have been a very very good boy in public]