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Women walking around the shop eating with her mask off.

195 replies

Whatsmyusername30 · 22/01/2021 15:21

I probably sound judgemental and don’t mean to be but aibu to think this is wrong given current times?

I generally get disgusted about people walking around the supermarket eating anyway. Does anyone actually do that?!

She had her mask right down walking around stuffing her face with everything. I assume she had bought these foods before she was walking around the shop from another shop or went in to get food and back in. It was all junk food too.

I’d like to think there was a valid reason for her doing this. Maybe she’s diabetic or something but she was stuffing her face as soon as he got into the shop and was walking around? (It’s a small shop and I kept seeing her) Surely she knew she needed food before she walked in and could have eaten in the car.

I even a couple of the staff were giving her looks of disgust as she was walking around. But no one looked brave enough to ask her to pull her mask up!

It’s just a mix of the mask down and stuffing her face. Really got under my skin. 🤣

Sorry if I sound judgmental. Maybe she had a good reason!

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Iminaglasscaseofemotion · 22/01/2021 16:40

@Whatsmyusername30

I said it was junk food as she had her hands in packets of crisps then touching everything. Didn’t feel hygienic to me at all.
She had her "hands" in "packets" of crisps? How many hands did she have and how many packets of crisps? I tend to just use one hand while I'm eating crisps. Was she some sort of alien?
MsTSwift · 22/01/2021 16:43

Does anyone else have an image of the op peering round shelves and tutting in a Hyacinth Bucket manner?

lockeddownandcrazy · 22/01/2021 16:43

@FrostyChocolateMilkshake

I've seen this LOADS recently - people seem to buy a take out coffee or Greggs so they don't have to wear a mask. Pretty annoying but sadly, what can you do.
Yep, saves them even having to bother to fake an exemption. Probably security could have chucked her out - eating whilst in a shop isnt exactly hygienic anyway.
seasideseas · 22/01/2021 16:43

"There is literally no need for anyone to have to eat in the middle of a supermarket"

Well it happened to me. Literally.

Although I wasn't "sauntering" at the time.

Ivy455 · 22/01/2021 16:44

@maddiemookins16mum

Nobody needs to eat food (probably also not paid for yet) walking around a shop.
So should a diabetic person having a hypo just pass out then? I need to leave this thread cause it's just making me angry. Some of you need to learn to mind your own business. Imagine starting a thread because someone ate some food in a shop. Jesus.
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Whatsmyusername30 · 22/01/2021 16:45

@Gilead

My stepmother would do this on occasion, it was because she could feel a diabetic hypo coming on. Keep your beak out and don’t be so bloody judgmental.
Diabetes runs in my family. I understand this but the difference was she was eating whilst walking in the shop. She could have just hung around outside it back untitled be car if she felt unwell. She did not look unwell she was busy acting silly and being Gobby with her friend. That’s the difference...
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Original poster
Whatsmyusername30 · 22/01/2021 16:45

Back into car I mean

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stackemhigh · 22/01/2021 16:45

@Whatsmyusername30

Eating, touching her face then touching stuff on the shelves.
Lots of people touch supermarket produce and then touch their face. People forget.
stackemhigh · 22/01/2021 16:48

Maybe I am a judgmental bastard but I think it’s vile tbh.

You are every cliche that exists on MN OP.

Babdoc · 22/01/2021 16:48

I’m sorry you are getting such a hard time on here, OP. Supermarkets are supposed to enforce mask wearing and yours is obviously failing in their duty of care to their customers.
The attitude of the PPs on this thread, insulting you and telling you to mind your own business, explains the current terrible level of infections in this country - they obviously have no understanding of the risks of aerosol spread in supermarket aisles by unmasked shoppers, and presumably don’t care.

Gilead · 22/01/2021 16:48

Your family are obviously not diabetic otherwise you’d know that a hypo can cause confusion and bad judgment. Her mucking about with her friend may have been the start of a hypo.

TangoWhiskyAlphaTango · 22/01/2021 16:48

@Wheresmykimchi

Another sneery judgemental thread dressed up as covid fear.
My thoughts too......
FoxyTheFox · 22/01/2021 16:52

they obviously have no understanding of the risks of aerosol spread in supermarket aisles by unmasked shoppers, and presumably don’t care.

Its nothing to do with a lack of understanding or a lack of caring and more to do with it being beneath my notice. I couldn't give a shiny shite what other people are up to, I'm not the self-appointed Covid Police and I don't get myself into a self-righteous frenzy based on what strangers are up to based on my superficial presumptions. I crack on with my own tasks and concentrate on my own business.

HamAndButterSandwich · 22/01/2021 16:53

I do think she was an idiot and the likelihood of her having a good reason is vanishingly low. A normal person would eat outside, then put on their mask and go shopping.

FoxyTheFox · 22/01/2021 16:54

Your family are obviously not diabetic otherwise you’d know that a hypo can cause confusion and bad judgment. Her mucking about with her friend may have been the start of a hypo.

Exactly this. My diabetic sibling gets very giddy and silly when a hypo is on the way but its almost an aggressive silliness rather a happy one, if that makes sense? They also have no hypo awareness so get no symptoms other than the giddy behaviour.

HamAndButterSandwich · 22/01/2021 16:55

@Gilead

Your family are obviously not diabetic otherwise you’d know that a hypo can cause confusion and bad judgment. Her mucking about with her friend may have been the start of a hypo.
Diabetes runs in my family and this is such rubbish. Most adults who are having a hypo would take immediate action not wander around messing about and eating. In any case most people now have a insulin pump which controls their diabates very well.
BreatheAndFocus · 22/01/2021 16:58

No, any carbs won’t do if you’re having a genuine hypo. It needs to be glucose or something sugary to get your blood sugar up fast. So Dextrose tablets, some regular Coke (ie full sugar), some sweets.

Nobody eats crisps for a hypo. If she’d already had a hypo and was adding some longer-acting carbs then she’d have eaten them outside before entering the shop.

Nobody can know for sure but it doesn’t sound like she has diabetes to me. And for anyone reading this who comes across someone with diabetes having an actual hypo and struggling, please give them glucose/sugar not “any carbs”.

FoxyTheFox · 22/01/2021 16:58

In any case most people now have a insulin pump which controls their diabates very well.

Around 6% of adults according to the diabetic nurse who did siblings pump info course, hardly a majority.

Daphnise · 22/01/2021 16:58

This disgusting episode has actually had support from some on MN.

The supporters are probably the type who eat in supermarkets.

Of course it is inappropriate behaviour.

jelly79 · 22/01/2021 16:58

Eating in a shop with no mask on is obviously not ideal obviously

But the other issues you have are U. 'Stuffing her face' 'junk food' 'the unapproachable type'

I'm keen to know exactly what she was eating to have caught the attention of you and the staff 😬

DuzzyFuck · 22/01/2021 16:58

I have (in non-covid times) felt faint during a shop due to sketchy blood sugar so I've grabbed a chocolate bar, eaten it and then asked them to scan the wrapper. DP sometimes does the same with a drink if it's really hot.

Can't imagine getting too worked up about it, even at the moment. I did a big shop this morning and honestly didn't notice what anyone else was up to, too concerned with making sure I'd got everything I needed since it's a one-way system.

Tal45 · 22/01/2021 17:01

OP don't you just love all the people telling you not to be judgemental in a really rude and judgemental way.

Neotraditional · 22/01/2021 17:02

@Babdoc

I’m sorry you are getting such a hard time on here, OP. Supermarkets are supposed to enforce mask wearing and yours is obviously failing in their duty of care to their customers. The attitude of the PPs on this thread, insulting you and telling you to mind your own business, explains the current terrible level of infections in this country - they obviously have no understanding of the risks of aerosol spread in supermarket aisles by unmasked shoppers, and presumably don’t care.
Absolutely this! 👏🏻
housemdwaswrong · 22/01/2021 17:03

I can't stand people eating in supermarkets anyway and will happily judge without apology. Unless you're 5 and in need of distraction to allow parents ro shop, I think everyone could manage a 1/2 hour without food. (Medical causes exempt, but few hypoglycemic people would want to wander around while they were waiting for blood sugar to.oick up again).

JockTamsonsBairns · 22/01/2021 17:06

Prader Willi Syndrome?
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