So far this week I have had two arguments in two separate supermarkets - not something I usually do! Is it me or were these people unreasonable?
Today I was waiting in a supermarket to buy a fresh pastry, the type you help yourself to using the tongs provided. There was a woman in front of me who picked up a cheese twist with her bare hand, gave it a good squeeze with her fingers and put it back. I was quite shocked and said to her in a very jokey way 'you can't put it back after you've touched it like that!'
She was not happy, asked what it had to do with me. I said it was really not nice for other people and you shouldn't touch them with bare hands. There were lots of tongs and bags to put them in.
For the next 30 secs or so 10 people watched as she told me I was nosy and she could do what the hell she liked and I told her she was rude. Nobody else said a word.
After she walked off still shouting at me, the lady behind the counter asked me which twist it was and removed it.
It is gross to touch stuff isn't it or AIBU?
The other supermarket drama was a couple of days ago just as my daughter and I were about to pay at the 'scan as you shop' tills we found a children's bunny comforter that had obviously recently been dropped. We looked around and could only see one lady with children who might have dropped it and my daughter ran off to ask her if it was theirs but it wasn't. We were right next to the till and told one of the members of staff there that we had just found it and could they put it in lost property please. She then gave it back to me and said that lost property was over at Customer Services and I should take it over there. I just gave it back and said 'Can't you do it?' She then huffed and puffed at me and walked off all of 8 feet to her other colleague in the self-scan area and started moaning about me and saying I should have taken it and now she would have to do it herself. I called over and said I was only trying to help somebody who had lost a cuddly toy and that i was just a customer trying to pay for my shopping! Her colleague looked very embarrassed. In the car park we saw the lady my little girl spoke to who thanked her for trying to help somebody who would probably be upset at losing their bunny.
WIBU to expect somebody who works in a shop to take lost property? WIBU to think it's not my responsibility?
Apologies I know IABU to write such a long post - it is my first time posting. I am a posting virgin and have probably done it all wrong 😄