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To leave my trolley and run out of the supermarket (warning: disgusting)

38 replies

Booboostoo · 09/03/2015 13:21

This thread is super disgusting, you have been warned.

This morning I was in the supermarket, heading towards the potatoes. A man was standing by the potatoes facing me and the lettuces (oh yes this is relevant, I wish it wasn't but it is).

As I was approaching he did an odd snort/sneeze kind of thing and a big trail of snot shot out of his nose and hung over his mouth and chin. So far so disgusting, but I suppose this could have happened to anyone.

He then cleaned his nose using his hand, no hankie, and threw the snot on the floor and partly on the lettuces. Repeat three times. I kid you not and I am not exaggerating. It was one of the most disgusting things I have ever seen. I came close to shrieking, but managed to back off and run to the tills, looking behind me all the time to make sure he was not anywhere near me.

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19lottie82 · 09/03/2015 13:23

It was one of the most disgusting things I have ever seen. you must have lead quite a sheltered life! But yes, that's pretty gross.

treaclesoda · 09/03/2015 13:24
Envy
trulybadlydeeply · 09/03/2015 13:25

Hopefully you mentioned this to a member of staff so that nobody inadvertently purchased a snot covered lettuce?

ClassicTron · 09/03/2015 13:26

Someone did this behind me on the bus once. It landed in my hair....

songbird · 09/03/2015 13:26

I am ridiculously pathetic, I know, but that actually had me gagging!

VivaLeBeaver · 09/03/2015 13:27

Can we play guess the supermarket?

I'm going with Tesco.

ohbollocks2u · 09/03/2015 13:28

< dry heave > please tell me you told someone

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Booboostoo · 09/03/2015 13:31

I'm in France!

Sadly my French is not good enough to explain the snot on the lettuce to a member of staff.

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ohbollocks2u · 09/03/2015 13:36

Thank god for the English Chanel separating us !

I'm just on my way to sainsburys and came out in a cold sweat

MinceSpy · 09/03/2015 13:38

Oh I'd have been one step behind you. Yuk yuk yuk!!!!!!!

SuperFlyHigh · 09/03/2015 13:41

BooBoostoo - was it Carrefour?! Intermarche??

The local store where my parents have a house the Carrefour is definitely filled with the chavvy (sorry to offend anyone!) French... so my parents go to the posher Intermarche with the ever increasing English products!

Sounds vile though and not just limited to the French.

BumpAndGrind · 09/03/2015 13:44

my money is on le clerc

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Booboostoo · 09/03/2015 13:50

Intermarche. It was a man, late 60s I would say, nothing unusual in his appearance. We live in a rural area and if I was to guess I would say he may have been a farmer as he was wearing a tweed jacket favoured by local farmers, but nothing in his appearance gave any hint of what was to follow!

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iLoveMushrooms · 09/03/2015 13:52

urgh some people are so fuking disgusting i wish i never read this tbh

LurkingHusband · 09/03/2015 13:53

In a small delicatessen in Paris, there were cooked meats and cheese in the chiller cabinets, open to the customers. No protective glass. A terribly cultured lady (who I suspect would genuinely believe the word "chic" was intended just for her) tottered in with what I though at first was a fluffy handbag under her arm.

Turns out it was a tiny dog.

It breathed over everything in the chiller Shock, while she was deliberating on her purchase.

Luckily I was only getting a bottle of wine.

My French friends couldn't understand why I made a point of it (to fellow Brits), when I got back to the flat.

rebelfor · 09/03/2015 13:54

Dirty bastard.

GlitzAndGigglesx · 09/03/2015 13:58

Omfg that's rank but I've done it once in the shower I had nowhere to go so it just kind of trailed down the plug

ouryve · 09/03/2015 13:59

This is why I can never bring myself to buy bread and cakes from those self service displays. It's enough that I've had to divert one of my own children from sneezing all over them in the not too distance past. At least you can give a lettuce a good scrub. A sinkful of water doesn't do an awful lot of good for an almond Danish.

SuperFlyHigh · 10/03/2015 09:45

Bump - that's how backwards I am - it was Le Clerc (or E Le Clerc) - deep apologies to Carrefour! Smile

SuperFlyHigh · 10/03/2015 09:46

Intermarche eh OP?!

My parents also live (holiday home) in a rural area - 40 mins from sea but definitely countryside.

x2boys · 10/03/2015 11:04

This would make me leave to I,m a nurse I can deal with all manner of bodily fluids but not snot,or phlegm it would make Me physically sick.

nochocolateforlentteacake · 10/03/2015 11:16

I watched a tramp (well known locally, nice chap) go into a very posh supermarket and give lots of the bread on display a good squeeze/sniff before choosing a nice baguette.

He also snaffled handfuls of bread cubes straight from the sample bowl.

HappenstanceMarmite · 10/03/2015 11:28

Dirty git. Should have been forced to clean it up and pay for the veg he befouled. Ugh

123Jump · 10/03/2015 11:35

On holiday last year, there is a buffet lunch.
There is a table with all the different dressings in bowls. Some guy is dipping his finger into a dip, sucking his finger, then trying the next.....
I couldn't believe it!! Dirty brute.

Teapot74 · 10/03/2015 11:41

Sat in a pub once. The lady at the next table coughed and a bit landed on my hand. Can still remember the feeling 20 years later.