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Original poster

to have moved her trolley and called her ignorant

98 replies

fluckered · 15/03/2013 13:36

nipped up to aldi on lunch break to do some food shopping. as expected place is busy, its friday and a bank holiday weekend. the only space i saw available was half blocked by a woman loading her back seat with the contents of her trolley one by one. i drove up and sat there for a min thinking she would move. she didnt. she glanced over her shoulder stared at me and continued on. i rolled down passenger window and asked her politely, "sorry can you please move your trolley". she told me to fuck off. i then pulled handbrake got out, got her trolley by the bar handle and pulled it behind her car while she was shouting this that and the other. i said nothing. hopped back in and parked properly. as i was going into the shop she was still shouting at me. was half afraid she may damage my car while i was in the shop she sounded that mental! i ignored her but am stull fuming sitting her back at my desk. wibu? should i not have touched the trolley? i didnt handle her bought goods or her ... simply moved the trolley to her boot. grrrrrr! wagon.

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Hullygully · 15/03/2013 14:07

And maybe her gerbil had died and she had its little body in a box on the back seat and didn't want to move too far from it.

You didn't think of that, did you?

nellyjelly · 15/03/2013 14:10

Do we reLly have to think of EVERY possibility, just to give someone the benefit of the doubt? really? The woman was still unreasonable by ranting and raving. If she had a bad back or whatever, she could still have moved the trolly!

OP you were quite within the realms of reasonable to politely ask someone to move a trolley blocking a parking space.

VanitasVanitatum · 15/03/2013 14:12

If she had a medical reason she could have just said, instead of swearing at OP..

flockofstarlings · 15/03/2013 14:15

YABU and self entitled and needy and judgey and passive aggressive. I bet you park in P&T spaces, don't invite children to your weddings and compose poems in your spare time asking people to give you money.

Seriously, YANBU and she sounds like a twat.

NuhichNuhaymuh · 15/03/2013 14:22

I'd say the geril theory is spot on. Terrible sad.

Gerbil deaths are the cause of many rudenesses (real word honest)

Enjoy the long weekend!

Tabliope · 15/03/2013 14:22

She was ignorant. Not sure why people are saying this is the wrong word to use. Nothing to do with "ignore" as one person put. You asked her nicely, she was lacking in the knowledge of basic manners so you called her ignorant. Perfectly correct.

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fluckered · 15/03/2013 14:23

i normally do kind of give people the benefit of the doubt but in all fairness she didnt have to be rude and if that were the case she should have parked in the disabled spots or a p&t space if she did have a condtion of some sort. anyhoo am grand now have vented and told anbu my majority so my work here is done Grin

now whats the poems asking for money about??

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ENormaSnob · 15/03/2013 14:24

She's a cunt.

Fakebook · 15/03/2013 14:37

I would've done that. I would've used a few hand gestures whilst walking away too. Good on you.

DublinMammy · 15/03/2013 14:38

Bad news my arse, Enormasnob's got it in one....

HerbyVore · 15/03/2013 14:42

Oh dear - you had to go and mention P&C and Disabled spaces didn't you...........

Spero · 15/03/2013 14:43

I am now very intrigued as to what medical condition she may have had that allowed her to wheel a trolley around, reach for items from shelf etc but only permitted her to unload trolley at odd angle? Frankly I think dead gerbil is more likely.

Round my way 'ignorant' is used to mean 'unpleasant and unhelpful person of low social origins' and usually means something major is about to kick off.

HerbyVore · 15/03/2013 14:44

I think it's the gerbil thing.

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fluckered · 15/03/2013 14:45

Shock "low social origins"? oh no you di-ent! Wink

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DublinMammy · 15/03/2013 14:47

Perhaps you could have said "You had me at fuck off" then rammed her?

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fluckered · 15/03/2013 14:47

am only 5 foot nothing and those fucking aldi/lidl trollies are soooo deep and my back plays up after them, so i think the only condition she had is most likely "cuntitis".

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Spero · 15/03/2013 14:47

You ignorant cah

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fluckered · 15/03/2013 14:48

i have since day dreamed about slowly nudging her trolley with my car in a revving fashion.

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Spero · 15/03/2013 14:48

You had me at fuck off!

I am so stealing that. They won't get it, but I can chuckle to myself while I get a good kicking.

DontForgetTheLightAlesLawrence · 15/03/2013 14:49

Hully Grin

Tubegirl · 15/03/2013 14:49

cue eastenders theme tune....

MrsDeVere · 15/03/2013 14:51

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MummytoMog · 15/03/2013 14:53

I'm going to have to disagree with you on the use of the word ignorant. I get it thrown at me a lot (because I am a rude cow obviously) and the last person who moved my trolley (with my two toddlers in it) because he couldn't wait two seconds for me to retrieve my debit card and move it myself said 'don't be so ignorant'. He did not mean ignorant. He meant rude, or lazy or selfish or obstructive or something along those lines. I can guarantee you that he did not mean 'ignorant of social norms' and I'm pretty sure you didn't either. I don't know what people mean when they say 'don't be so ignorant' but I generally assume they mean 'don't be so rude/annoying'. Either way, when I hear that phrase the red mist of rage descends and I normally call them a cunt. Sorry.

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fluckered · 15/03/2013 14:53

nope it wasnt MrsDeVere

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MummytoMog · 15/03/2013 14:53

But you were totes in the right on the trolley moving.