To have moved this lady's empty trolley - she obviously thought I was

[slartybartfast]

shopping in Asda earlier

women in her late 60s had her trolley blocking salads, I moved it slightly, leant over and got my watercress.

She was then muttering at a packet of ready salad. I thought she was reading it out loud, then wondered if she wanted help reading the ingrediants. I said "are you talkign to me"
She said "you could have said excuse me", before I moved her trolley.

It's only a Trolley was my retort.

It does annoy me,
I must admit I occasionally do say excuse me when I move people's trolleys out of the way but do find it unreasonable that people get so protective of their trolleys, when they are standing in the way of the food!

• DH said if i was a man I would be in permanent fights in pubs with my attitude!

YANBU. I would do exactly the same but I am a bit of a gobby bint.

People who park their trollies sideways blocking off an entire section of the supermarket are one of the reasons I use Ocado.

Gah! Another post where the age of the miscreant is right up top.

Regardless of which of you was being U, what has anyone's age got to do with it? (You don't mention how old you are, for contrast!)

(And I (age 56) would have said "sorry" or "excuse me" before I moved her trolley!)

YABU. Manners cost nothing.

YMBU (you may be unreasonable) but I would be too. If someone moves my trolley I apologise that I had parked it in their way, not mutter at them.

If i hadn't been trying to help her read her ingredients, or so I thought, I wouldn't have known that she was annoyed and that IMBU.

oh and I wrote her age, rather than what I wanted to write

I must admit that I HATE it when people do it. I do think it is rude to not say excuse me. I know it's daft, but it feels like they are shoving me. If you shove my stuff you are in effect pushing me. It feels very rude indeed. It's ok. You can mock.

Of course, if you do say excuse me and they don't shift it, you are allowed to shove it up their arse

The above makes you a natural for unreasonableness!!!

yanbu, honestly, it's a sodding trolley she was inconsiderate enough to leave in the way! It's not like you moved it to the other end of the store.

(Sorry, my comment was for slarty! Otherwise it makes no sense.)

I wouldn't say excuse me to a shopping trolley. If the person is hovering then I would say excuse me, if the person was down a bit browsing I would just move the trolley a bit.

True, Usual. If it's in the middle of the aisle so that the shelf is not blocked at all - it's blocking people going past, if it's in front of you it's in the way of people wanting to look at what's there, if it's at the back of you it's in the way of people wanting to look at what's there, if it's where you're looking you can't reach...

Yabu....

'Excuse me lettuce reading biddy'
Would have been good

I expect if she looked like a sweet old dear, I might have judged her differently, dare I admit to that

I smile, say sweetly something on the lines of 'may I squeeze past, please?' or just a simple, pleasant 'excuse me, may I just reach for that ...?' I am pushing 73, by the way. No trolley-in-the-way owner has ever objected or said anything snippy to me. It's all attitude, is it not? As a rough rule, I find if you're nice to people, 99 per cent of the time they're nice back to you. Call me an old Pollyanna - I don't care!

"I wouldn't say excuse me to a shopping trolley."

I probably would.

I say thank you to cash machines on a worryingly regular basis and once said sorry when I bumped something only to look and see it was a cabinet.

Why....did she look more 'hardcore' biddy type then?

I mean I might have acted differently, I guess - but I was pretty pissed off that all the salad was out of my reach due to her empty trolley.

but I was being nice to her - after I moved her trolley - I was offering to help read the ingredients that she couldnt see

too little too late!

I would say excuse me to a person but not to a trolly

Her age has nothing to do with anything the OP was just painting us a picture of the event! Why do people nit pick?

Trolleys - bah