Shouted at in Lidl

[WheresTheFire]

This morning I went to Lidl, I had a large trolley full and queued up behind a lady. I didn't put anything on the belt and kept back.
An elderly gentleman was behind me with 3 or 4 items in a basket. He had a walking stick so I asked him if he wanted to go in front of me. He thanked me and put his shopping on the belt.
He was at least a metre away from the lady and we all had masks on.
Well, the woman went ballistic, shouting at us and wagging her finger shouting at us to keep away and dont we know theres a virus about and it's not funny etc etc.
I'm afraid I shouted back saying if shes that worried maybe get her shopping delivered.
I felt so sorry for the gent, he didnt know what had hit him.

People in Lidl often do tend to be a bit edgy and there's almost no eye contact. Just before lockdown there was a man aged about 40 going around shopping and weeping while shouting "I hate shopping." If people are too close I just smile vaguely and move away.

Also, many older people are simply terrified of any human contact nowadays. I called in on a friend and her husband the other day and she became screaming mad with her husband over next to nothing. I had to stand at the gate despite wearing a visor, but her cleaner is allowed in. YANBU

Same thing happened to me. The fear and isolation is making everyone crazy. Blame your government for that. JOE Biden has alzheimers and Kamala Harris is a bait and switch. So the country will be run by her or in civil war by Novemember.

Aldi lidl deliverys.... Missing the point guys

@Zyzxyz... What the hell are you on about?

[quote Jeeperscreepers69]@Zyzxyz... What the hell are you on about?[/quote]
I wondered too.

I hate things like this.

Was he ok?

Poor man.

I was shouted at in Morrison's a couple of months ago by a middle aged lady over the same sort of thing ....The security guard had a word with her in the end and I've never shopped in that shop since. I'm 54 and in all my years up until that day I've never been shouted at in a shop...people have lost their manners and are taking these corona virus restrictions to extremes.Chronic low level anxiety is a killer and will cause more deaths than this ruddy virus. Sorry you were shouted at.

@EvilPea I think he was totally shocked to be honest, he just stood still on the spot until she had gone🙁 The cashier was lovely to him.

No one should be shouting and you clearly meant well and the gent didn’t mean any harm but I thought the social distancing rules were 2 metres in a shop? There would be less anxiety if people respected others safety and followed the rules without having to be reminded. For some people it’s a matter of life and death or serious long term health effects so not to be treated lightly. Casual disregard for the rules causes anxiety because it sends a signal that someones behaviour is unpredictable, unsafe and potentiallly dangerous. Everyone has the right to go about their business without being exposed to that. To cause stress, albeit unintentionally, then criticise and patronise the victim for being anxious seems rather odd. If we respected others and followed the rules, shopping would be more relaxing all round.

[quote WheresTheFire]@EvilPea I think he was totally shocked to be honest, he just stood still on the spot until she had gone🙁 The cashier was lovely to him.[/quote]
Oh god. That poor man. I hope it doesn’t put him off going out.

Mostly l get deliveries but every time l nip into a supermarket l see people not social distancing a lot of people are suffering from mental health problems. It’s best just to try and be kind. If some is getting a bit fraught best not to shout back just smile and say oops sorry.

I think you were spot on. Some people get themselves so worked up and think that means they can be downright rude.

My mum had a woman in a café queue in M & S who told my mum she was too close when she wasn't, she was so rude about it. I said to the lady you didn't have to be so rude to my mum and she wasn't close to the woman. There is a way you say things, you don't wave your hand to shoo people away like dirt or forget your manners.

The old lady with the lopsided face mask was probably exhaling far less aerosols than the nasty Shouty lady. Shouting has a far longer spray distance, and the elderly lady was not even speaking. People are just horrible sometimes. I was told to home when I quietly asked someone to give me space. I replied no, you go home, and then felt really stupid, as if I was back in the playground. This Pandemic is beginning to drag us down.

JOE Biden has alzheimers and Kamala Harris is a bait and switch. So the country will be run by her or in civil war by Novemember

Weeeeeeeeeelllll, you see both Joe and Kamala are American and unless their suddenly being rushed through British naturalisation process, I don’t see how they’d even be able to stand for election.

As neither of them live in Britain either I’m also not sure why or how they’d be rushed through the naturalisation process.

Also @Zyzxyz do you know something no one else knows because I wasn’t aware there was an election in the U.K. in November is Boris about to call one? He better a get a wriggle on don’t you need six weeks to dissolve parliament? And it’s already October!

Some might say that being run by an American who was in the best and most compassionate American administration in decades and articulate well informed lady is better than being run a former journalist Eton educated posh boy who writes stupid stories about bent bananas and isn’t actually sure how many children he has.

But pretty much everyone would agree that even being run by posh Eton boy is infinitely better than being run by a six time bankrupt racist disabist sexist extremist in-sighting failed businessman who can’t pronounce words and thinks that injecting bleach is in any way helpful ever let alone in the middle of the biggest health crisis the world has seen in a hundred years.

Even given all of that, I’m not actually sure what that has to do with some random woman shouting at an older gentleman in Lidl or Aldi, unless the gentleman was Boris or Biden,

Was the gent Biden or Johnson OP?

There would be less anxiety if people respected others safety and followed the rules without having to be reminded.

The supermarket I visit, it simply isn't possible to social distance. Usually very busy, no one way system, no queueing to pay system anymore. There's tape on the floor but no one even notices it now. All you can do is get in and out quickly while wearing you mask.

I’m not actually sure what that has to do with some random woman shouting at an older gentleman in Lidl or Aldi, unless the gentleman was Boris or Biden

Presumably it was Joe Biden. I doubt Boris has been in a supermarket in his life (leet alone Lidl) and I can't imagine anyone letting him jump the queue.

Although if it was Boris, I now understand why the woman was screaming for him not to go near her.

KatherineJaneaway
Why are you going there? I would be having a word with the manager. Most supermarkets are a nightmare. They demonstrate that most people are not social distancing. Whist the evidence is strong that masks help prevent exposure to Covid they are not instead of hand washing and social distancing. Keep away from people not in your household as much as possible and then keep in your bubble. Keep 2 meters away where ever possible. Don’t shout at people it spreads the virus. Be kind to others we are all under strain. When someone is being unreasonable all the more reason to be kind. Biden seems to be a nice man as does KIer Starmer

You would have been much better to say that the government recommend a metres distance, which you are observing.
Also, her shouting is dangerous as her spittle is being projected further so could she please try to control herself.
By shouting back to get shopping delivered you just bought yourself down to her level.

She sounds really unhinged. Lidl checkouts are very long. I didn't know that you couldn't put your shopping on till the other is done. That is strange as long as people are 1 meter away. There is so much fear right now. I've stopped listening to the news.

RizzleDrizzle, The pandemic has been mentioned in the news over a bizillion times. That screws with people's brains and puts everything out of proportion. Then the government clamps down basically making everyone a prisoner in their homes. It's a big mind f#ck. People are now afraid of an insidious enemy they can't even see. They have lost their jobs and livelihoods. No one here is defending criminal Trump but you have to understand the American mindset. Trump is the lesser evil between two intolerable choices . Now they've shifted the playing field by giving Trump an untested drug cocktail. He was having breathing problems possibly due to his blood type which he shares from being distantly related to the royal family. Its murder in the guise of advanced medical care. So we end up with a president addled by Alzheimer's who is replaced by Harris. The woman they've wanted since Hillary before everyone found out she was a witch and has Kuru from drinking too much blood from sacrificial babies. This is the dystopian nightmare we're all living in and driving people to the brink of suicide.

A metre isn't very far away though. Our Lidl still keeps to the 2 metre distance at the checkouts.

@Zyzxyz I don’t have to understand the American mind set no one on this forum has to understand the American mind set, no one on this thread has to understand any thing about AMERICA. This post has nothing to with AMERICA.

This country is NOT run by trump, Harris Biden Obama either Bush Clinton or even Regan NEVER EVER HAS BEEN. Because I’ll say this without being sarcastic because you clearly don’t understand my post because you’ve ignored it. We’re not AMERICAN.

This country the country this incident happened in is the U.K.. it’s run by a man called Boris Johnson, assisted by Whole group of people who are responsible for a whole stack of things.

There is no general election in this country in November, we had one last December.

The rest of your absolute BULLSHIT about the cocktail of drugs being murder doesn’t even make a massive amount of sense.

Fuck me a witch from kuru drinking sacrificed babies

DO ANERICANS ACTUALLY BELIVE THIS INSANITY?

oh okkkkkkkkay then

To everyone else ..... I think we’ve discovered screaming lord such’s distant American relative

metre isn't very far away though. Our Lidl still keeps to the 2 metre distance at the checkouts

The rule is one metre with masks which is why this lady shouldn’t have shouted at this gentleman

@Zyzxyz
How are things in your bunker?