Supermarket car park staff member - WIBU?

[HalloweenOutThatPumpkin]

AIBU, SN, Waitrose and the car park. I must be stark raving mad, but here goes ...

I shop in the same branch of Waitrose every other day and have done for years. All the regular staff know me and the guys who collect the trolleys are among them.

This evening half the car park was totally empty so instead of driving round the one way system shown by the arrows I nipped into the "down" lane, parked in the first space and got out of the car.

Cue fairly large trolley bloke who has SN of some sort (not sure what they are because he never talks to anyone as far as I know) shouting "Eh! Eh!" at me and pointing at the ground. I couldn't work out what he meant and just looked confusedly back at him. After a minute or so of this he walked over and shouted right in my face "One Way, One Way" and pointed at the arrow. I said that there were no other cars there so I couldn't see the problem. He followed me round the car, still shouting "One Way" at me while I hunted for my bags. It was after dark, there was no one else around and I felt quite intimidated so after I had scarpered to the shop I mentioned it at the customer service desk. I just said that it was quite an outburst and it had left me feeling a bit shaken.

Now I am not sure if I did the right thing. I don't think he will lose his job over it or anything that drastic, but should I have simply thought "the guy has SN, he obviously needs people to follow rules, I've broken them and I should suck it up", or was I right to complain about him shouting at me?

[CristinaaarghdellAaarghPizza]

CM - no the OP didn't say that. Actually the OP has behaved really very well. But a lot of people have said that on this thread. So the question stands. It's about tolerance of difference. And I don't know how people are educated about that - maybe it is, as someone said earlier, having kids with SN in regular schools rather than special ed, maybe it is just about talking to people, I don't know.

No one is saying this is easy stuff because it isn't. We are taught to be on our guard against anyone who is 'other'. But the more we are all exposed to people with SN as just other members of our community who don't react or act in the same way as we might but are benign and doing their job, then the better place the world will be for all of us to live in. Tolerance is never a bad thing.

And GOD I sound like a fucking hippy :o

[CompleteMug]

And what's WRONG with hippy's ??

I understand what you're saying, and of course agree. I hadn't seen the other posts that were prejudiced, and I tend to focus to a bloody-minded degree on the OP.

[Bogeymanface]

[Straightens her tie dye top] Nowt wrong with hippies!

[HalloweenOutThatPumpkin]

festi, if you look at Page 2 you will see that I accepted the MN jury's verdict very early on. I then posted on Page 9 about my follow-up with the shop today. I hope I have done as much as I can to put right something that I handled clumsily through confusion and some panic at the time.

perrinelli: I have 6ft teenage boys here (and sometimes their friends as well), plus DH, and they all eat me out of house and home. I fondly remember only having to do a weekly shop but now the fridge just empties itself as if by magic every couple of days. The shop is also right on my route home from work.

[festi]

thanks for pointing me to those posts OP. fair play to you. but im still not reading the whole thread