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I just called a woman a cheeky cow in Asda

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bupcakesandcunting · 21/12/2010 21:01

Was just looking at the baked goods in Asda, minding my own when I heard this really loud voice go "excuse me!" Thought "she can't be talking to me as I am not obstructing the aisle" then this woman shoulder barged me and another shopper, glared at me and went "don't all move at once, will you?!" Sorry your majesty!

Something inside me clicked and I said "don't push past me, you cheeky cow!" she told me not to call her a cow and I told her not to be so rude in future. Then she said "do I look like a cow?" and I looked her up and down and did a "what do YOU think?" face.

Oh crikey, have become a screeching supermarket harridan. Does this type of thing happen in the Waitrose?

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bupcakesandcunting · 21/12/2010 21:45

I'm a midlander and have never heard that word before. We obviously move in very different social circles, usualsuspect.

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izzywizzywoowooo · 21/12/2010 21:46

She was rude but you did yourself no favous by retaliating Grin However I would of done similar just can't keep my big mouth shut! Blush

HaveToWearHeels · 21/12/2010 21:47

pmsl Bupcakes reminds me of when a huge woman was walking backwards down a super market aisle, I tried to get out of her way but she stepped on me, I said "whoops sorry" Like you do even when it's not your fault. She screamed in my face "f**king 'ell I aint got eyes in my arse". Now I am not one for quick comebacks normally but "really with an arse that size you could have three pairs" popped into my head and exited my mouth, I rather smuggly walked off to her ranking to her mother about what a mouthy cow I was PMSL

scottishmummy · 21/12/2010 21:49

where do you all shop?in da hood?

KangarooCaught · 21/12/2010 21:49

Dh & I saw a aisle-blocking barney contretemps in Waitrose and one of shouty women said to the other, "Asda closed is it?"

JingleBelleDameSansMerci · 21/12/2010 21:50

YANBU at all - this has given me the best laugh I've had all evening.

Love "Do I look like a cow?" Really, that was just asking for trouble.

rupert1 · 21/12/2010 21:50

I quite agree with "porcamiseria"earlier post you do very much get inbred looking types in Asda, especially more country locations,Best to avoid if possible or just go for a laugh

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bupcakesandcunting · 21/12/2010 21:52

I know I shouldn't have retaliated but I felt something inside me snap. I think it's because she was the umpteenth person to bash into me today but on top of that she had the cheek to shout her mahf off at me. And she had really annoying hair which wound me up.

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dementedma · 21/12/2010 21:53

I was in Asda today and trying to buy a paper but an old "git" was in my way, arsing about with the papers. Tutting slightly, i reached passed him to get a paper at which point he noticed me and said, in the most MODULATED tones "Oh, I am most terribly sorry, I DO apologise. I am always in someone's way these days" and I felt like an absolute shit, and deservedly so!!

natandchris10 · 21/12/2010 21:53

im more concerned that you shop in asda Grin

PressureDrop · 21/12/2010 21:55

I shop in a very middle class suburb of London, thank you very much Grin

Full of nutbags, though. They probbaly all think I'm a nutbag, now. I may well be known as 'crazy, shouty, sweary woman' from now on Shock.

Oh, she was a miserable beeyatch, though.

JiltedJohnsJulie · 21/12/2010 21:56

"Asda closed is it". Must remember that one for my jaunt to Waitrose on Christmas Eve.

KatieMiddleton · 21/12/2010 22:00

Often people don't put the divider down on the conveyor belt to indicate they've finished unloading in Waitrose. Sometimes I give the back of their head a glare. But only if they deserve it. If they're very elderly, pregnant, disabled or possibly special needs I let it go.

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bupcakesandcunting · 21/12/2010 22:01

I go to our mini Waitrose only at Christmas as their christmas stock is always lovely. It makes me feel all festive just setting foot in there. Am going tomorrow for clementines, mince pies and port/cheese. There had better not be any bouffant-haired, rhino arsed twats looking for a bit of verbal or else...

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Jajas · 21/12/2010 22:02

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usualsuspect · 21/12/2010 22:04

Ive never been in a waitrose ,all that boden and Cath kitson bags puts me right off

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bupcakesandcunting · 21/12/2010 22:04

Well, she looked a lot like this.

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amothersplaceisinthewrong · 21/12/2010 22:05

Love the "Asda closed" comment! But a contretemps in Waitrose. Doesn't happen in ours!! Mind you they have bouncers on the door to vet you before you go in.

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bupcakesandcunting · 21/12/2010 22:13

Why is Tesco held in higher regard than Chavsda? It's on a par, surely? Every time I've been in a Tesco, it's been like shopping in 1980s Poland. It's very depressing. Everything seems melancholy. Even the cheese seems sad.

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JiltedJohnsJulie · 21/12/2010 22:17

Its not held in higher regard in our house. Same people, same shoving, just more expensive and they usually haven't got any of the items I went in for either.

PocketMouse · 21/12/2010 22:19

seriously, our Waitrose is full of cunts really rude bitches! Usually it's some teenager in jodhpurs shouting for their Mummy and pushing my 3yo out of their way.

Tesco isn't on a par with Asda, it's much better IMO.

rofl at sad cheese though Grin

mitochondria · 21/12/2010 22:22

I had a very similar thing happen to me in ASDA the other week.

I didn't call mine a cow though, was too taken aback by her extreme rudeness.

This was just after I'd had my legs taken out by someone else with a trolley, I smiled and said "sorry".

I'm clearly not cut out for ASDA.

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bupcakesandcunting · 21/12/2010 22:23

I went into our mini Waitrose a few months back to buy a bottle of wine. One till open and huge queue so went to pay at fag counter. The woman behind it apparently couldn't serve me as she was "processing a glass hire order for a previous customer." She looked at me hoity-toitily over her specs. I told her that the ladies in Sainsbury's were excellent multi-taskers and that I'd bugger off and get my wine from there if i was troubling her too much.

I sounded like a right cunt.

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HolyTaxAccountant · 21/12/2010 22:36

Oh can I tell my favourite story about dh's work? He's a copper and on his very first day he was called to an altercation in Sainsbo's. Was rather urgent according to control, punches had been thrown.

Two OAPs were fighting over the last carrot. Oh how I chortled. They were both over 70 and punching and kicking with gay abandon. DH just didn't know where to start with dressing them down. He was only 26 and felt like he was telling off his grandad.

I was in Woolworths just before it went down the pan and a woman told my aunt 'to hurry up and move out the bloody way'. I politely explained that my aunt was profoundly deaf and disabled (which she couldn't have known considering she was barking orders at the back of her head). The response? 'Not my fricking problem, move her'. Charming, eh?

HolyTaxAccountant · 21/12/2010 22:38

I went into a Waitrose to wee once. As I left, I swear to God I hear a woman chirrup 'no Fintan darling, we only buy organic'. Fintan was about 18 months and licking a cake display hopefully.