Gets right up my effing nose!!!
The chemists is next to our GP's practice, and I go there to get meds for dd's asthma or whatever.
I have two kids, 4 and 6yo and they're happy, cheery souls - they chatter to one another while waiting (but not in a shouty way) and the 4yo will look at the items on the shelves and might touch one or two items - but the older one is sensibly behaved and won't. Neither of them would ever take or steal anything though.
When 4yo was younger i.e. toddler - she may have moved the odd thing, like put a shampoo bottle a few inches to the left or something while waiting, or brought an item to me, and I've told her to put it back - she's never broken or opened anything, or stuff like that.
Well, there's this guy who works there, I'm not sure in what capacity - as I don't think he actually does the dispensing. He works the till though. Anyway - he is really OTT. As soon as 4yo literally lays her finger on something, like for a couple of seconds, he's there, asking me to get her to leave them alone. He's like fucking Gollum with His Precious. Then he makes a point of coming out with his stupid clipboard, and fiddles with the shelves, obviously stocktaking. All she's doing is having a look fgs - it's not doing anyone any harm, and what do you expect small kids to do in a chemist when there isn't always a place to sit?
So today we popped in to buy some plasters, and out he pops within a minute, with his I'm-an-officious-twat clipboard, and immediately goes to the shelf where dd was (she'd literally just pointed at, and touched with the tip of her finger, a Mr. Men gel pad). Grrr.
I was paying for the plasters two feet away, and hadn't even left the scene yet - it's so fucking rude!!! I feel like my kids, and therefore I, who are generally polite, and upstanding citizens are being treated like kleptomaniacs!!
Anyway, this has gone on long enough and though I've never really said anything to him about it before, as when they were toddlers I could understand the raging paranoia cautiousness a bit more. (Even so, I've NEVER been in a chemists anywhere else, where they've actively been prevented from looking at or touching anything - imagine if that happened in Boots!). I can't decide if he's like that with all kids or just mine, as mostly it's other adults in there waiting. It's not like we are there that often, maybe once every few months - but gradually I've noticed he does it every single time we're in. It's not even funny anymore.
WIBU to have words, if he so much as touches his blasted clipboard again, within two hundred yards of us next them we're in?
Or maybe I could just double back and move/touch everything myself, each time he's finished stocktaking?
Or get as many of my mum mates and offspring to descend on him in one fell swoop and see what he does?
Oh I realise I could go to a different chemist, but it's got to a stage now where I am drawing battle lines. Officious Git.
AIBU?
Man in chemist
Fluffymonster · 28/06/2013 19:51
He's a knob... It's war girl!!!! Play group outing to the chemist? Really interactive session 
I bet you'll get a load of responses saying of course YABU for letting a child touch anything in a shop 
That would wind me up. I'd have to shift stuff about on purpose and would be actively encouraging my kids to look at stuff. I imagine him looking like Noris off of Coronation Street. Perhaps take your own clipboard in
Where do you live? I start every visit to every shop with 'look with your eyes not with your hands' to DD. I wouldn't bother in this shop, it would kill him!!
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