To be a wee bit narked with charidee shop lady?

[Iklboo]

We had a clear out at weekend of DS's old clothes & toys. Filled a bin bag with toys & 4 carrier bags of clothes - loads never worn, all washed & in immaculate condition etc.
Took it to the charity shop yesterday. As soon as we walked in the door the woman looked up from talking to her friend and said "put them in the stairs".
"OK - it's some baby clothes & toys" said DH
"Yeah - I told you put them on the stairs" she replied and tutted, rolling her eyes at her friend.

NOW - I wasn't exactly expecting her to prostrate herself at our feet and proclaim us as gods, but I think a "thank you" would have been nice

Especially since today my mate at work has just come back from a volunteer stint in Mombassa and told us how stuff sent from Oxfam etc is bought en bloc by people in Africa and then SOLD at a profit to the people it's supposed to be being donated to!

I feel now I should have held onto the stuff and got work to post it all out to the specific orphanage she was at

Still....doing that would deprive the British Heart Foundation, who need all the money they get.

Sigh

Caligula it sounds like you handled a difficult situation well.

OOh I'd have had to have said something to her, I would have turned around and said "As you are such a rude woman, I'l take all these brand new clothes to Help the aged".

Horrible woman.

My aunt is a lovely lady who worked for a charity shop.
She didn't work there for a few months as her husband was ill and then died of cancer.
When she went back to work, she was greeted by another volunteer with "Your recent bereavement has really inconvenienced us"
She turned round and walked out and never went back.
Absolutely horrible.

I once was browsing in a charity shop, as you do.
There were 2 women working there and in walked a friend of theirs. She picked up some kind if long stick thing, can't remember what it was , and started doing lots of 'rude' things with it, cracking lewd jokes etc.
Her mates on the till joined in and all three of them were shrieking and cackling like a trio of witches, the jokes and inuendos got worse and worse and louder and louder.
They were all not in the least mindful of anyone else in the shop.
I thought it was hysterical and I think that was the first time I truly understood where the 'league of gentlemen' had got this sort of stuff from

My local charity shop had a sign above childrens clothes 'fill a bag for a pound'. I filled a bag (standard carrier, provided by them). I offered my pound, and the woman on duty tried to charge me two quid - was actually shouting at me that they were a 'charity shop', and 'I would be expecting them to give me stuff next'. v, embarrasing in packed shop, but i stood my ground - why state one charge, then ask for a different?