To think that the Tesco delivery man shouldn't have sworn at me?

[exbury]

..when he fell over the hose

or, more seriously, that he should have left the gate as he found it (i.e. closed, with notice on it saying "please shut the gate") - we live on a busy road and have small children FFS (and could have dogs for all he knew). No other (Tesco or other) delivery person has ever had a problem with closing it as they leave before.

granted the hose shouldn't have been there, and I probably would have ignored that bit if I hadn't just gone outside and found the gate wide open.

Worth complaining to Tesco, or too petty for words?

I'd just put it in your remarks column when doing your next order ('Please ensure gate is closed as have young children.')

However as you state it is dangerous.

My gardener didn't lock the side gate when he left this week. It looked closed to me and he has always locked it before and I let my 3 DC out, whilst I put tea on.

I looked out of the window and noticed it was open. I ran out and couldn't see my youngest (20 months) and in a panic started running down the road screaming his name, before I went back to check and found him happily playing in the wendy house with one of his sisters.

I was a bit tearful (from the shock) and will give the gardener an earful next time he comes. I will also always, always, always, check the back gate every time I go out into the garden from now on.

shutting the gate is excusable but swearing at you is just plain wrong.

did he swear AT you or ust within yoru earshot?

i mean did he say "you silly bitch i just fell over" or "oops shit" as he fell?

if its the former i would complain and want some action taken.

I would beat him round the chops with the hose. That'll learn him.

It was closer to the former - I can't remember the exact words but he definitely swore at me for having a hose lying around - as I said, it was, and it shouldn't have been, but it is bright yellow

I am more bothered about the gate, actually. DS is 4.5, and I do let him go out without checking the gate, often because my hands are full with DD. As it happens, he has more common sense than most, but the cat has none and could easily have wandered out in the middle of the night with disasterous consequences (I know she could climb the gate, but she is too lazy).

I was in Sainsbury's once with my 2 dd's and two men that worked there were stacking the shelves and discussing a recent night out, while I was in the aisle they were in one of them swore 3 times (once was the c word). When we got to the car dd1 asked me what the word meant. I was not impressed and wrote a letter of complaint to Sainsbury's, they wrote back apologising and sent a voucher.