toddler had tantrum in clothes boutiqe yesterday

[narkymum]

on his behalf he was right to be pissed off as i had been dragging him round looking for wedding outfit for saturday got my dress and popped into "one more shop" to grab a cardi to throw over it on way back to car park it matched beautifully but i needed my size. said excuse me to pinched faced 50 something full made up lady. who ignored me said it again and followed her line of vision to my son who was throwing head back into pushchair and shouting she had a look on her face of utter contempt i said in my poshest voice ohe hates being in here seems you have the same opinon. No she replyed this is not the place for children at which i snapped oh get over your fucking self luv your a shop assistant and strode out. but that bloody cardi matched perfectly do you think i should go back in like a twat and get it or just live the rest of my life knowing my dress could have had a matching cadi (if it helps to decide may i add it had lovely beadind round edges too )

slacksally

I've been a shop assistant too, starting in my family's grocers as a child. The only good thing about working in a shop is dealing with people (the rest of it is stacking shelves, tidying, cashing up .... yawn). So, I do really hate it when shop assistants are rude and unfriendly cos I really don't get why they work there if they hate people so much!

take your point about the food chain, but I think (being charitable) that the OP really just meant, you're working in a shop so why not try being nice to people!

I've been a waitress too, now people really do treat you badly in that job!

I threw my best grapefruit at a man who, when I asked him politely if I could separate a mahoosive bunch of parsley up, said [patronizing tone as if speaking to a child], 'yes, don't do it in here because it will go on the floor, take it back outside and do it neatly and then put the rubber band back on'.

words were exchanged

I would wait until she is working then i would go in the store with every child i knew and unleash them to do there worst

harpo, I agree with you about being treated like crap as a waitress. I tried it, but I was really bad at it. I used to refuse to take food out because all the other seemed to be able to carry about twenty plates at once, while I could only manage one tray with both hands. I looked like Mrs Overall.

LOL@Throwing a grapefruit.
I read from the end of the thread first and wondered why harpo was carrying her best grapefruit around with her so had to go back to the beginning
I have now adopted that saying.

hooray, victoriansqualor

it is catching on!

here's hoping it goes mainstream and one day someone says it to my mum, cos that will really freak her out!

lazarou, the worst is you get treated like shit by the customers and the kitchen staff.

Lo, harpo, If I'm ever in a situation when I speak and will be heard by many (radio/tv/press) I shall throw in something about watermelon throwing

watermelon
I meant grapefruit.

cheers squalor (can I call you squalor?)

that will definitely send mothermarx into the twilight zone!

You can call me what you like, just make it easy to realise or I may not answer

Thread of the day

Don't feel too bad OP; my best grapefruit was when I called the man in the ticket office at Maze Hill station a cunt. Because he was one.

As for the cardi, I think you should go back in the shop when the old bat is working there and act like nothing happened. If she says anything to you just say "I'm sorry, you must have me confused with someone else - I'd never treat an old lady with such disrespect". Then smile sweetly right in her face

Am so loving this. I am always throwing grapefruit everywhere I go and now it has a name.

ooer cyteen, that was more than one grapefruit surely!

He really was, though.