To think you don't brush your dirty hair.....

[starfishmummy]

...by the fridges in the supermarket.

Woman today, well dressed, hairbrush out and brushing her long hair which looked like it hadn't been washed in a while.

And in case it matters, it was Sainsburys.

Yeah, I am familiar with that (and have a bad habit of picking at my own skin - IN PRIVATE!) but this was more like she hadn't brushed it so was doing it on the way to work.

I think I described it badly.

She was combing it through with her fingers, more than picking at it, and it was the loose strands that were coming out as she 'combed', which she was then dropping everywhere. It was really disgusting, especially early in the morning and with nowhere to move.

Yes you did, you compared other people's poor hygiene and said it doesn't matter, because it's all packaged anyway. Other people's hair and dander is pretty rank that's why people working in food prep wear hair nets.
I obviously realise you have no idea what people have been doing before handling anything in a public space, but I would still actively avoid food that I could see had been handled by someone with visible poor hygiene, in the same way that I would avoid a fish fingers that had someone else's hair on it.
Food being in packaging doesn't mean it ok for people to be mingers.

Was she in pyjamas straight from her hotel breakfast, or dressed? Makes a difference to my answer.

I have a serious phobia of other peoples hairs, so I think I would literally drop dead if I saw this! I’d never be able to shop in that store again, for sure.

Oh come on. Someone working in food prep is very different to someone walking round a supermarket. She's not sealing her hair inside of a vacuum sealed steak or baking it into a lasagne. I'm not saying I'd brush my hair in a supermarket, I just think it is funny to see people get so upset about it.

You'd LITERALLY drop dead?

That would probably create a bigger health hazard in the chilled aisle.

I wouldn't even register this. Supermarkets are filthy places anyway, another person's hair is not going to make a huge difference.

FWIW, my hair looks like I've not washed it in a while only hours after washing it because of how fine it is. My sister however can go a week without washing it and it still looks great! So looking unwashed and actually being unwashed are two different things!

I guess you have never been to the hairdressers? Hair everywhere, people touching it, cutting it, , drying it, it's on the floor near where people might have coffee or tea.

I think I would literally drop dead if I saw this

No, you literally wouldn't.

It's a weird thing to do but unlikely to have been the oddest or least hygienic thing anyone did in Sainsbos that day.

She was actually rather well dressed!!

I have never actually seen a yone in PJs in this store.

She was completely blocking access to one of the fridges that happened to be the one I wanted to look in.

I wouldn't brush my hair in public. Sainsburys or Lidl.

Clearly it is not normal to brush your hair in the supermarket. See also: clipping toenails, plucking eyebrows, shaving with an electric shaver...it is not that any of these activities are harmful to others, it is just not normal to do them in the supermarket.