to stop shopping at the coop because of big issue seller

[DuplicitousBitch]

i don't buy the thing from the woman adn now she has started muttering after me in a meanacingly fashion and its fecking me off frankly.

[sits back and braces self for middle class righteousness ]

We have a lady in the local village who stands outside the hardware store. She is there come rain or shine, through the snow and the wind. I just smile and say no thankyou. Am I mean?

She probably has mental health issues. I wouldn't take it personally.

she doesn't have mental health issue, she is quite rightly getting fecked off in the cold adn taking it out on me.

What is she saying then?

YABU for shopping at the Co Op, they're stuff is shitpensive.

There's a Big Issue man outside the Waitrose here. He's ever so friendly and I like his little dog.

of course waitrose would have a nice big issue seller. i don't know what she is saying cos she is romanian

You're just trying to get a jump on a Saturday afternoon eh? I've seen that advert.

Maybe you could buy an issue off her and then she'll leave you alone?

Just ignore it! Are you so precious as to imagine everyone has to be nice to you all the time? There are some odd people about and not all of them are sweetness and light! Newsflash!

Ignore her and get on with your shopping.

growl at her maybe?

i don't want a big issue.

Anyone who mutters menacingly at random strangers (with no provocation) probably has some bigger issues than the Big Issue.

it has started recently, agree it can't be a bundle of laughs standing there but i have always be polite before.

I'm out of ideas

i will jsut stop going [feeble]

Complain. There are rules about how Big Issue sellers behave, and the ones who behave badly give the others a bad naem.

But why don't you buy one?

dh buys it

You could always learn the Romanian for "No thank you, get a proper job"

thats nice scurry, i'm sure she would appreciate the effort and then go and get a job in a bank cos she hasn't thought of that already ffs

I don't buy it but I always give them a smile (I don't buy any magazines anymore - don't need the rubbish)

Just responding to the tune of your original post.

really scurry? i don't get that.

I got this alot in Fargate, theres one on every corner, one really emaciated woman was trying it on,

I'd bought one from somebody else so I told her, didnt belive me, was gonna give her some money anyway 'said here u are anyway' was quite offended by this (I didnt know what else to do tbh )

went to buy my lunch had to walk past her, she was glaring at me

I have sympathy, but they should not intimidate people.

Just say no thankyou and move on. At least she's not playing panpipes like the man in our town centre.

I don't understand how you can get upset about someone you can choose not to interact with, whose language you don't understand and whose difficulties you have no knowledge of. It just sounded a little unpleasant, that is all.

How could you know she has no mental health issues? Did you buy a psychology degree and fluent Romanian in the Co-Op (not coop btw, looks like you're only buying eggs)?