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Original poster

To think if you behave like a twat in the supermarket...

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SachaStark · 26/05/2019 12:39

... then you kind of deserve to be treated like a twat in the supermarket?

I went into our local 24 hour Asda yesterday (NEVER usually brave this on a Saturday. DH and I either shop extremely early or extremely late, so it’s only shelf stackers around. Plus, we live in a tourist area, so it’s particularly overrun at the moment) because I hadn’t realised I’d run out of hair conditioner, and I didn’t want to wash my hair without it.

Run in, run out. A couple of minutes maximum.

Fuck me, but there are some twats in the world.

People stopping at the top of the travelator- you have an extremely slow journey to make up your mind, with a very clear view of what’s at the top. And there are only two options, clothing or toiletries! Make up your damn mind, and move out of the way!

People gathering their ENTIRE family to have a reunion with another ENTIRE family in the middle of an aisle. What the fuck? This is not a social outing, and your combined mass of 20 people are blocking everything.

And grown-ass adults with their mates having a ride. On. The. Fucking. Trolley. Oh my word, grow up and get on with your shopping! One of these guys was having a slow whizz ride right in front of the aisle I needed to get to. I’m not waiting for his twattery to finish, I grabbed the front of the trolley to stop him, and carried on with my day.

AIBU to think this sort of behaviour just isn’t on in the supermarket?

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PerpendicularVincent · 26/05/2019 15:50

But which Asda is it?!! Tot & I NEED to know

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SachaStark · 26/05/2019 15:52

Come on Perp, you still have 9 minutes to get to that Asda to find out if you’re the winner!

The prize is in between the Vienetta and Fruit Pastille ice lollies, but there’s a family of 14 in front of it, all debating which lollies everybody wants to take on their outing to get through!

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MzHz · 26/05/2019 16:00

Honestly, this is standard behaviour in any Egyptian hyper market

Mind you... it’s not much better in a flagship M&S food hall, just more braying and entitlement...

FabledChinHair · 26/05/2019 16:00

Well I stop sometimes. I have a problem with my legs. Sorry there are other people in the world with stuff going on other than you.

JustSomebodie · 26/05/2019 16:00

When you exaggerate by saying 20 family members have a reunion in an aisle then you invalidate your point.

FabledChinHair · 26/05/2019 16:01

Really? everyone is a cunt? For what? Talking and stopping?

FabledChinHair · 26/05/2019 16:02

Try some mindfulness or something op. I was a bit like this a few years back because of stress.

Vulpine · 26/05/2019 16:06

You really need to chill out. I live in an area where supermarkets are always busy as standard. You just get used to it

FabledChinHair · 26/05/2019 16:18

To think maybe if you're a judgemental knob maybe you should do online shopping?

AmeriAnn · 26/05/2019 16:22

One of these guys was having a slow whizz ride right in front of the aisle I needed to get to.

Here in the US a whizz is a pee/piddle/piss. Grin

JustHereforHarriet · 26/05/2019 16:25

What conditioner do you use OP?
misses point competely

AskingQuestionsAllTheTime · 26/05/2019 16:25

It doesn't help that most supermarkets seem to think the best way to sell stuff is to move it around just as I have learned where the things I usually buy can be found. And it is always the ones that are basic, like flour and sugar and eggs, that they play Guess The New Aisle with.

I swear, next time I go for the eggs in the usual place and find they have been moved again, I may start throwing eggs when I do finally locate the bloody things.... Possibly at twats who are blocking the area while chatting.

My worst ever supermarket experience was the woman who watched while her (young, toddler or thereabouts) child got a loaf of bread out its bag and dropped it on the floor, and who then picked it off the floor, put it back into the bag, and put it back on the shelf! I said something in pure shock, like "Hang on!" and got a real earful from her about not picking on her child I wasn't, I was disgusted by her behaviour before she deliberately started squeezing all the loaves of bread in the shelving, not sure what she was trying to prove. I noted which ones were involved as I left, then went back a couple of minutes later once she'd taken her brat and moved on and told the baker what had happened, and he came out and took the dirtied bread away. But who would do that? Put bread that had been on the floor back on the shelf? I think shopping may make people go temporarily mad.

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SachaStark · 26/05/2019 16:31

Garner Ultimate Blends sleek restorer balm with coconut oil. I hate myself that it’s single use plastic pots (I’ve switched to bar shampoo), but my hair HATES bar conditioner, Lush conditioner in the reusable pots, and it just drinks up any other brand of conditioner so I’m left heaping on loads which means I go through more single use plastic even more quickly.

So yeah, I usually just buy up a whole stack, and be on my way.

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SachaStark · 26/05/2019 16:32

@AmeriAnn, he may as well have been doing this also, the amount of good he was doing in the supermarket.

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BottleOfJameson · 26/05/2019 16:42

@WorraLiberty

You seem to be the one with an answer to everything. Unless OP is literally hallucinating it's not her perception those people were acting like twats.

vdbfamily · 26/05/2019 17:13

This thread is the closest I have ever had to a thread about me without actually being. DH declared last night that we needed to go out so we dragged 2 of our kids off their devices and decided we had time to get to an Asda we had never been to before, in time for a shop and then collecting child 3 who had spent the day nearby. Not only were we forced to use 2 trollies as no big trollies left but my DH is one of those big kids who always at some point will glide along on the trolley, usually to try and embarrass one of the kids. I saw him do this at least once last night. We did also fail to notice the scanner machines but checked out in the normal way and the only drama was that one melon had no sticker!!! My husband usually shops and one of the kids nearly always goes with him. Occasionally all 5 of us go but not often and usually of non food stuff is needed. Had a good laugh a this thread though!!

nevernotstruggling · 26/05/2019 18:18

@TotHappy I guessed penryn too

TotHappy · 26/05/2019 18:42

AHH I fell asleep for three hours and still don't know if I'm the winner!!

PerpendicularVincent · 26/05/2019 19:44

I fell asleep watching Harry Potter and I can't take the suspense. I want to win!

DownstairsMixUp · 26/05/2019 20:04

Op I agree. All the ones telling you to chill are probably the bellends who park their trolley across an aisle or are so divvy they don't move their items to the bagging area and just stand their clueless till the assistant comes over.

DownstairsMixUp · 26/05/2019 20:13

I'm guessing Canterbury asda maybe as it's tourist and students ville and I've no idea where the nearest co op is, it's defintely a drive.

Harryrotter · 26/05/2019 21:40

Just looked at the conditioner and it’s half price in boots FYI Grin

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SachaStark · 26/05/2019 21:58

Y’all can keep suggesting alternative establishments, doesn’t mean they’re any less than several miles’ drive away! Seriously, we don’t all live in the middle of a metropolis.

(Cheers for the tip, though, I may do a bulk order home delivery- ain’t nobody dragging me back to Asda on a weekend afternoon again)

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PerpendicularVincent · 26/05/2019 23:11

Now Canterbury has been added into the mix my head is spinning.

TotHappy · 26/05/2019 23:37

Hmmm, we don't all live in a metropolis she says... Does Weymouth count as a metropolis?

Give us a clue, op!