...to think it uncouth for an adult to be swigging from a large carton of Tropicana at the checkout.

[LIZS]

Woman in queue behind us (very short queue by most people's standards, just one in front and her behind me) was unloading her trolley and had opened one of her several 1 1/2 or 2l cartons of Tropicana and was swigging away, replaced cap and placed it on the conveyor. There is a coffee shop in the store so she could have stopped for a drink before shopping or once through the checkout.

perhaps she had just remembered her morning's medication and needed fluid to wash it down before she turned in to a werewolf

I think you ABU.

I do that, allbeit after I've paid for it.

maybe she had low blood sugar?

i think it is fine - dp objects - i think shopping is a drain

it was indeed uncouth but hardly earthshattering - she might have been thirsty, dehydrated, diabetic or pregnant.
At least it was one you can reclose the cap on, and at least she paid for it.

Actually at least it was one of hers - at first reading I thought she'd opened and swigged from one of your cartons of Tropicana, which would have been seriously out of order...

I did this at the checkout the other day with a bottle of water. I was so thirsty I thought I was going to faint. As long as you are paying for the drink I can't see the problem.

yes

can't believe you bothered to poat this - of course it is okay!

I've had to force fruit juice down my diabetic friend half way round Tesco, as she was about to keel over.

Uncouth - yes. But really none of your business, plenty of reasons why she might've done it.

i'm always doing that, you need refreshment after trawling through tesco.

Under normal circumstances I don't think you're unreasonable but I agree that it's not possible to know what the woman's circumstances were.

diabetes was what i first thought of or anyone with low blood sugar...I felt really ill at the supermarket one day with dgs in the trolley and the checkout assistant packed all my shopping while I stood there sweating profusely on the verge of collapse..the people behind just stared and I felt too embarrassed to eat or drink something from the trolley

they obviously thpought i was just being awkward not packing myself and holding them up..i was actually in agony

It did occur to me that maybe she just needed a drink although she wasn't obviously pg etc . Just in those circumstances I think I'd have picked up a single portion size and had that or waited a few minutes until I'd paid for it.

not always possible to wait. i have done it before when feeling awful. its either than or scoff some choc.

I would do this if I was thirsty, as long as she paid for it I don't see what the problem is.

oh f*k I have done this and always wondered if anyone was judging me for it! I do usually wait til we are through the checkout though.
I dont go to supermarket coffee shops because they cost more, end of story.

She was probably hungover and needed the Vitamin C hit !!

Yes you are being unreasonable, uptight, small minded and rather petty.

wow. mumsnet makes me totally paranoid about how many people are clocking my every move when out and about.

what a funny thing to even notice.

this happened to me in sainsburys on saturday actually

i grabbed a bottle of OJ and downed it in one - a man nearby shook his head and my 4yr old dd points out "mummy needs sugar"

he slinks off

OJ is the best thing for me in that situation

you can explain to the checkout girl and she can still scan the barcode

sugar? dehydration? medication?

"a few minutes" LIZS can be a few minutes too long

Don't mince words, obi ! It's not as if I commented or anything, just took me by surprise.

i worry people think im drunk when i get like this

its worse when i have dds with me

please dont judge unless you knw the facts

ok