Overheard in Waitrose

[Clockwatching54321]

Overheard in Waitrose today a couple talking about how they coped with the mortgage rates being 15% and that people are over reacting about the percentage creeping up. I was really trying not to say anything but loads of people lost their houses when the rates where are 15% in the 90s and I don’t think the rates need to even reach 5-10% now days before we see people loosing their house.

i just looked and our mortgage of just over £200k would be nearly £3k a month at 15%.

just to add fuel the fire they talked about the line up for strictly saying theirs someone disabled who will end up winning as they will get all the sympathy votes, if disabled people want to take part it should be against other disabled people so it fair. 🤯🤯🤯

Any other overheard in Waitrose stories?

I’m sure Carol Vorderman would disagree with you @mansviewpoint

@Clockwatching54321 you should have said you'd take that interest rate if you could have those house prices too!!

I was in Waitrose today and heard nothing similar , in fact I've never heard anything horrible there .

I'm sure you could go to any supermarket and hear things , the thing about supermarkets is that all types of people use them .

They sound like my bloody parents!

Sorry you are quite right, I was mis-identifying. When I said boomers I meant the arrogant / self riteous people of that generation, rather than everyone. Ther are some very nice people of that generation. I do apologise.

You are just as likely to hear a conversation like this in Tescos as you are in Waitrose. I shop in Waitrose and M&S and I'm not right wing and I disagree with them totally- we simply aren't talking the same levels of mortgages- but we are also talking huge amounts of repossessions in the early 90s too .

Last time I was in Waitrose a woman in a wheelchair started yelling at me because I was apparently looking at her funnily. I have a facial deformity and I squint. I hadn't noticed she was there before the yelling started. I was really upset.

Never heard in Waitrose "I haven't got enough money for that, I'll have to put it back".

@mansviewpoint & @lannistunut are totally right: house prices have no raced so far ahead of incomes that higher rates are much more concerning

plenty of repossessions in early 90s (school friends parents lost their house) & also around 2008 that I remember

These are concerning times for working age people

Boomers have very little understanding of compound interest

My O level Maths paper (1969) had a compound interest question in £sd. There were no calculators then.

@Pinktoothbrushesarefab

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See I thought all the closet MC Tory voters now shopped in Aldi! It’s where they can do undercover work the best, whilst picking up interesting stories to tell their woke buddies about people with THREE (yes 3!) children.

I'm laughing at the old woman going around squashing all the bread. I bet she walked off chuckling 🤣

Oh really !

Yes I remember the late 2000s. I was thankful to 'only' be renting as we knew so many who were struggling and some who lost their homes. I was weirdly grateful to have nothing to lose.

Shopping in Lidl yesterday,nice branch couple of years old, plenty of posh cars. They eggs fell out of the trolley.... woman in her 60s laughed her head off,they fell out of the container and smashed,I wouldn't laugh at someone like that. Couldn't get a house in Surrey in the 80s for £25k,we bought a 2 bed Maisonette,1982, (Earslwood)mortgage rate 12% 2 years later 16%. people forget how much our wages were then. My ex H had 2 jobs,I ended up with 4, just to keep a roof over our heads.

@mansviewpoint many many lost their houses though in that time as the mortgages became unaffordable and it wouldn't be all boomers ( horrible word ) many would be people in their 50's now
My dads friend was saying how there morgage was nearly both their wages when interest rates went up and they were negative money every month and nearly lost their house
They appreciate its hard now and house prices are silly but also because they nearly lost their own

"Boomers have very little understanding of compound interest."

What? ALL of them??

If you have a problem with people's conversations in the queue at waitrose, don't catch the bus. Especially not the 10pm bus when the nuts running the country decide that should be pub closing time.

A few years ago I seem to recall a whole thread about Things Heard in Waitrose, featuring a lot of performance parenting. It was very funny, may not have been on MN though.

'Oscar! Behave or you won't have sushi for lunch'.

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Do the the arrogant/self righteous (sic) ones happen to also be people you don't agree with? Hmm....Maybe check your own arrogance and self righteousness.

@ShowOfHands - I think you’re my spirit animal. (Thoughts, @Ilikewinter ? )

Compund Interest and a lot more, like not living beyond your means.

There's an 'Overheard in Waitrose' FB page. But it's full of people that think they are funny talking about butlers.