cringey moment in charity shop.

[Nevergarglebrandybutter]

Here's the scene: town centre charity shop a few weeks ago.

I spy a notice board for sale and think oh that's bloody useful and just what i need to a craft project i'm planning. i pick it up.

Person I don't know.

Person: "oh, you've picked it up, oh never mind"
Me: " yup, too slooooooowww"
Person:
Me:

Then she stood behind me at the til while i bought it and we stood in silence.

Why, why, why must I speak, or go out in public.

I was supposed to give her the noticeboard wasn't I. I wasn't supposed to taunt her about it either. Ah fuck.

Why would you give it to her?

OK, so you probably shouldn't have taunted her, revelling in your victory, but hey ho, you were feeling good!

You are a winner! It's ok to feel excited that you got what you wanted!

Hahaha!

No, you weren't supposed to give her the board. you got is first, fair & square.

Maybe taunting her wasn't the kindest thing to do though!

If it helps my dmum has had worse. She helps in a charity shop and often takes her unneeded stuff down when she is doing a shift. She had to stand on the til while the lady who was sorting donations came through with items and laughed at them with her, not realising they were my dmum's.

Ha! I regularly have moments where I later wonder why i am allowed out in public. Don't think you should have given her the noticeboard, though - all's fair in charity shop elbow wars.

she appeared from nowhere, 'all knowing' about the presence of the pinboard though. it was only £1.50.

why did i say that? i didn't really care that much. and maybe she really cared. i didn't know how to change the situation as she was behaving quite madly.

I am just visualising that now

From a viewers perspective? Genius!

Proper giggling out loud at this. Even had to read it out to DH!!
Brilliant!

No, you shouldn't have given her the board.

Yes, she should have had a sense of humour about it.

Could have been worse. I truly thought you were going to say at the till you noticed her one leg or something similar.

yes, it's funny when it's not you!

I read it as a for sale board and was thinking it was part of the display so what you did wasn't so bad, she was obviously humourless.

Maybe she just hates Jim Carrey, which is perfectly understandable in my book.

Stop cringing - you cannot be responsible for her personality bypass.

i'm not a jim carrey fan as such, but DS has been watching Liar Liar a lot recently, and maybe i subconciously picked it up. i've never done that before and can't think why i did.

Go OP! Of course you did the right thing!

She probably walked off to the cash machine, came back and you'd snagged it. Good for you, but smuggery is never attractive you know :)

no, you were not supposed to give it to her, but oh my, I can't believe you said that, you berk!

see, if she'd said ,'oh you cheeky cow, i just went to ask my friend for a couple of quid, i'll arm wrestle you for it' then i might have acted differently.

i am a berk. i fucking despair sometimes.

psst ... I'd have laughed though, if I'd heard ya )

i have no idea what the other shoppers thought. i hung my head to the til and right out of the shop.
Dh understands though. He gets that i speak before i think and that sometimes my humour gets a bit misplaced.

Reminds me a bit of the time I was chatting at a party to some fancy pants lawyers all dressed in lbd's only i was pissed and dressed as a field of sheep. internally i'm thinking, you fucking idiot what have you done now.

no nevergoogle, a barn dance is not the same as a barnyard party. who would even throw one of those.

This is totally the kind of thing I would do.

Last year I had to go to see a surgeon about something I was quite worried about, so I was rather nervous before the appointment. She politely stood back to let me go through the door, and I, on autopilot, said, 'Come in and have a seat' as though I were inviting her into my office.

She gave me a rather snide look, but fortunately I never had to see her again

This happened to me on Christmas Eve morning over a french stick

I walked into the local corner shop and a woman was stood in front of the bread shelf, yakking on a mobile phone..."How many rolls do we need for tonight?"

I said "Excuse me", leant forward, picked up the last french stick and turned to walk off. Then I heard "Oh! You pre-empted me!"

I thought she was still talking to the person on the phone...but as I got further away, her voice got louder and louder until she was shouting down the phone "The lady next to me took the last french stick while I've been stood here talking to you, I've missed out on it now the fucking cow!"

As it happened we forgot to eat it anyway in the end

OP, given that the cheeky cow said "oh, you've picked it up, oh never mind", trying to guilt you, ANYTHING you said at that point becomes perfectly reasonable.

yonder, that's brilliant.

liberty, ooh that sounds nasty! not sure how i would have reacted to that one.