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Original poster

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

251 replies

LIZS · 16/04/2007 11:35

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.

OP posts:
powder28 · 16/04/2007 18:11

Fio, where do you work?

Oblomov · 16/04/2007 18:11

I do this all the time. How does this affect you directly LizS - why are you bothered ?
Also, as a diabetic, I have opened lucozade, chocolate, anything.

And also, totally not related to diabetes, I have eaten hot cross buns as I go around - all sorts - infact I very rarely get to the checkout without something being 1/2 eaten and / or half drunk.

Who does this affect ? No one.

Oblomov · 16/04/2007 18:13

Why does it annoy you Blondilocks ?

Blondelle · 16/04/2007 18:13

but its so.......rude

powder28 · 16/04/2007 18:15

Batters, did he use the ham to clobber you with after the fish tank incident?

I long to cause that sort of scene when i go out with dh. Have had full slanging match with him in b&q. People politely pretending they couldnt hear

niceglasses · 16/04/2007 18:18

Rude? I don't get it. Why is it rude? Are you winding us up?

10feet away from the checkout there is probably a cafe. Presumably its not rude to eat here (in public).

bungalowbelle · 16/04/2007 18:18

Absolutely right Oblomov. It doesn't affect anyone.
Unless, that is, they feel jealous because they'd secretly like to sip a little juice at the checkour after a hard supermarket toil. They don't like the fact we swiggers are so free and easy.

Original poster
LIZS · 16/04/2007 18:19

Of course it didn't affect me , it was merely an idle observation as I replaced the divider after loading my shopping onto the conveyor. tbh it was less the fact she hadn't yet paid than the size of the container she was drinking from which struck me ! No tutting or hard stares either.

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powder28 · 16/04/2007 18:20

Yes, we are hip to the jive daddio.....

bungalowbelle · 16/04/2007 18:22

Yeah man. A little sip here, a nibble there. Mmm Hmm! Ain't life sweet?

handlemecarefully · 16/04/2007 18:22

I think you are getting a hard time LIZS, I bet she looked dog rough slurping like a pig at trough on a 2 ltr bottle of Tropicana. Did she belch sonorously afterwards? I betcha she did!

powder28 · 16/04/2007 18:23

Yeah, be cool like us and wax your board

Blondelle · 16/04/2007 18:23

I think you're winding me up by having to ask why its rude!!!!

Is there no hope

The supermarket is NOT the cafe, thats different!

Original poster
LIZS · 16/04/2007 18:25

thanks hmc , didn't loiter to listen for a belch !

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Blu · 16/04/2007 18:31

Pointydog, i've sucked all the werthers while in the checkput queue, they never make it to the glove compartment. oops, no, I tell a lie, there's a half-sucked one lodged in my cleavage now, and another jammed under my false teeth making me dribble. I think it's the dribbling that makes it hard to swig, tbh.

I've seen Batters hurling fish tanks. Lidl are stocking artillery equipment this week (you know how they market useful things like horse blankest in our inner city areas?) so i'm pleased she's banned. But I'll swear it was her flashing her arse in the Large Rear Showroom.

That's what I do call 'uncouth'.

sunnysideup · 16/04/2007 18:33

If for medical/pregnancy and pressing physical need, ok.

If not it's gross and yes, uncouth. An adult should have the ability to delay gratification just for a minute or two.

MrsSpoon · 16/04/2007 18:34

Illness/pregnancy aside I don't buy this 'I couldn't wait' business.

MrsSpoon · 16/04/2007 18:34

LOL sunnysideup, great minds!

sunnysideup · 16/04/2007 18:38

Absolutely MrsS

contentiouscat · 16/04/2007 18:46

Ah well im afraid im one of the minority here - I do think this looks a bit "common" but then I hate it when DH swigs from the carton at home too. If she were drinking from a sports bottle I wouldnt think twice about it though.

My children are by no means spooky well behave children but wouldnt ask to eat something in the supermarket because I have never let them - I would just tell them to wait until we got outside.

But to be honest I dont think I would really care, the only thing which really made me raise my eyebrows in the supermarket was when I saw a Dad enthusing over the frozen chips he had put in his basket to his massively obese toddler - but again none of my business

Oblomov · 16/04/2007 18:51

I agree with bungalowbelle - its jealousy. Jealous that you don't have the bollocks to take a sip of something or nibble or something I do it and I love it and if that irritates you , then even better

Blu · 16/04/2007 18:57

Under ideal circumstances, I think it is a bit uncouth to drink straight from cartons of any kind. And - under ideal circumstances - I don't consume things that haven't been paid for. So actually, I agree with Lizs, but am prepared to cut lots of slack for people to do what they feel like (or need to do, according to theri own circumstances) as long as it doesn'tr harm me.

Oblomov · 16/04/2007 18:59

Sorry, I was just being a bit contentious there. But seriously, I love doing it.

moondog · 16/04/2007 18:59

God,many is the evening my kids have had a three course meal served from the confines of the shopping cart.

Spidermama · 16/04/2007 19:00

I'm with Oblomov and Bungalowbelle. You are all just being jealous, snobby and too bloody British for your own good.

(Swig, burp!)