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To have told this woman in the supermarket she was rude

35 replies

clockingoff · 14/02/2015 17:54

A few of us were queueing up at the self service tills. Two of them were out of order and a woman in front of me with a little boy was grousing and giving out. She then went up to one of the tills and put her basket down while the person using it was still packing her bag. She looked a bit annoyed and reached over grousy woman to look for her receipt amongst the pile that had built up in the receipt slot. At which point the woman removed her basket with a sigh and said loudly 'could you be any slower' (the shopper had been going at a perfectly normal speed, hadn't needed authorisation for anything, or put anything 'unexpected' in the bagging area).
After the shopper was gone the woman rolled her eyes up to heaven and grimaced at me. I said 'actually, you were very rude. And setting your son a bad example'.

She gave me a filthy look. I was telling my mum and she said I should have kept out of it.
Feel bad now. WIBU to say something to this woman?

OP posts:
EvansOvalPiesYumYum · 14/02/2015 19:20

ClockingOff You were not being unreasonable, especially as grumpy woman had all but asked for your opinion, with the rolling of her eyes.

(And, PS - it seems pretty obvious what 'grousing and giving out' means. I've not heard the expression, but common sense and all that . . . )

TheGirlInTheGlass · 14/02/2015 19:28

YANBU- Well done for having the nous to speak out and set an example.
I do this all the time to people who do something to me or mine, and occasionally have spoken out for someone else too!

gabsdot45 · 14/02/2015 19:49

You can also 'give out', to another person, meaning to tell them off.

CrapBag · 14/02/2015 21:45

YANBU. I love the fact she looked to you for validation and got the truth instead. Grin She was very rude and setting a poor example to her son.

Pomegranatemolasses · 14/02/2015 21:53

Yanbu. As an aside, as an Irish person I had no idea that either 'grousing' or 'giving out' were Irish colloquailisms!

lem73 · 14/02/2015 21:55

Yes well done.

BuzzardBird · 15/02/2015 09:16

The irony that there is a thread about someone being rude and then someone posts something rude on it. Grin ^

EveBoswell · 15/02/2015 09:32

I agree with SauvignonBlanche

She looked for your opinion, she got it. YWNBU

She turned and looked at you, rolling her eyes and telling you that she thought she was right. She invited a response from you. It just wasn't what she expected wanted Grin

fuckmeblindiknowthatcat · 15/02/2015 09:36

Well done OP, I bet that woman breezes through life being rude and no one ever calls her on it.

For some reason I imagine this woman sounding like Chandler Bing Grin

PotWatcher · 15/02/2015 11:30

Yanbu. This has happened to me too. Someone plonking their basket down when I'm still finishing. Very bad manners.

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