to tell these kids to not use their hands.

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I was in town getting some pick n mix (one of my many weakenesses!)

2 lads (about 12 years old) were getting some of the pick n mix and they were using their hands to get them. Their fingers were all over the sweets...yuck. I told them to use the scoops as their hands were all over the sweets that other people would be buying. I couldn't buy any after I saw that, too much noro virus going round!

In the past I would have ignored this but I find more and more that little things like this irritate me. Was I unreasonable to tell them to use the scoops or should I have ignored it?

that is the very reason i don't buy loose sweets.

YWNBU I hate this sort of thing. FGS a 12 year old ought to know better. I only buy PicknMix which is wrapped for this reason.

I told a bloke off in Sainsbury's once for squeezing the self service bread rolls.

Urgh its grim isnt it. YANBU

Oh thank goodness. I was beginning to think I was getting grumpier and grumpier!

I saw a woman in dunnes stores once tasting a salad from the take-away salad bar using the giant serving spoon to be used by everyone to put said into the plastic boxes...

I told off a little boy in the bulk section of our grocery store one time. He was about 8 or 9 and was licking his finger and dipping it in the bulk brown sugar. I nearly barfed.
I no longer buy the bulk stuff in containers you scoup, just the stuff in the jar things, you pull a handle on to release the stuff into a baggie. No fingers in that stuff.

I used to work for a supermarket. We called them 'lick n mix'.

I always imagine someone doing a big sneeze near the self service croissants - it rather puts me off.

I never buy anything that isn't sealed / packaged . Likewise I've never got pick and mix for my DCs . I'm a nurse and its amazing how many patients offer you fruit / unwrapped sweets urgh! I spend half my time saying "no thanks I'm on a diet " so as not to offend.

Sorry YANBU to tell them .

We have a Mr Simms sweet shop in our town - the pic and mix is all behind a glass counter and the shop attendant adds it to the bags as DS points to what he wants - she uses scoops and wears gloves.

This is the only way DS gets pic & mix.

I also cannot eat the salad in Pizza hut and other places that do a similar 'self serve' - let's just say I worked there in my late teens and some of the things I saw customers doing was enough to put me off for life - fucking sick!

Eww this reminded me of the time I worked in a nursing home and one of the residents used to offer people maltezers (sp?) except that's not what they were

Strange how threads go. Threads like this or ones involving staff licking their fingers to separate carrier bags always generate disgust, and yet on other threads the consensus is that were all too germ phobic and obsessed with cleanliness.

Very true fivesandnorks

Someone will be along soon to kick it all off.

I was on a thread once and when I said that I didn't want my mother in law letting my DS - then aged 2 cans of coke to drink was told I was unreasonable and it wont do him any harm

Glad I don't take on board all advice.

YANBU. The amount of people who don't wash their hands properly after using the loo never ceases to amaze me

moomins - x infinity

My ex mother-in-law asked to squeeze the loose cheese in Waitrose (not a euphemism) and they refused. In France, it's what shoppers do. I am glad they didn't let her though...many sweaty hands may not improve the flavour.

So YANBU!

asked to squeeze the loose cheese in Waitrose (not a euphemism)

But it should be.