My DP nearly got into a fight. A real one with fisticuffs and everything in our local M & S. My DP is unreasonably tight when it comes to the food shop. Loves a bargain that mine. My freezer is permanently full of yellowed stickers whoopsies. Whether we like the stuff or not.
Anyhows, one day whilst I was doing a 'normal' shop and he was prowling round eyeballing the staff applying yellow stickers he stumbled upon a trolley (admittadly just behind the sticker mans set up) full with yellowed sticker items. He was so excited bless him. He helped himself to a full duck, some cheese, some little prawn things, some humous (no one likes it in our house but it was 50p so what can you do?) and a couple of packs of chicken breasts. Came charging up to me, dumped stuff in trolley then shot back 'before the rest of the bargains go'.
Followed him at a more leisurly pace with my milk and some butter to find him toe to toe with a grungy, tree huggery, student type chap. All dreadlocks and nicotene stained fingers from the rolly up fags.
Apparantly the trolley wasn't there to refill the shelves with reduced bits it was the grungy guys actual shopping. The guy wanted his duck back. He did have another 2 in there but he wanted that one too. And his hummous. DP was having none of it. Said that 3 ducks was greedy and he should share. Grungy guy pointed out he was a student (red rag to a bull where DP is concerned) and was on a budget. DP pointed out he was working 50 hours a week to support a family and layabout students who shouldn't spend there grants on luxuries like duck and stick with noodles and pizza.
It got nasty. Student type squared up to DP. DP is a builder, built like a brick shithouse and not easily intimidated. There was a finger shove by student in DP's chest. Student I think at that point realised DP was not in fact cuddly but rather muscley. Student took a step back, DP took a step forward and student fell over the wheel of stickermans trolley thing.
The manager eventually intervened,reduced another 2 ducks and some more humous (did I mention that no one actually like humous?) and order was restored apart from the student chuntering about being 'pushed' (sticker man vouched for DP on that one) and then about health and safety.
Now when shopping DP has his own trolley to get the bargains and we meet at the checkout. The dog ended up with the humous (she didn't like it either) and I froze the duck. Duck still in freezer. Its DP's reminder everytime he starts stashing his bargains not to take things too far and that I will not speak to him for about 2 days for causing a scene in M & S's foodhall.