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To be furious that a cashier at supermarket told me off for DD eating a bite of an apple...

664 replies

pavlovthecat · 01/06/2008 14:19

... which I paid for?

Apparently, it is paid for by weight, so could I not let her do it in future? No please. Nothing else.

She is 23 months old. So charge me the extra f**king half pence then tosser!!!

It came to 21p. She had taken two 23 month old sized bites. Which is why I was buying it in the first place!

OP posts:
Tortington · 02/06/2008 19:53

keep the middle classes in waitrose where they buy overpriced everything whilst saving the world

better than them littering our streets with Laura ashley dresses

lucyellensmum · 02/06/2008 19:57

Mr Tesco, and his shareholders, are monopolising the food market and putting small business out of business. They have fair trade goods at an elevated price, and the rest of their products are probably ripping not only the consumer off but the supplier. So if they have to lose a few grapes - fuck em. I know that is probably a very working class and niave attitude but really, im not going to lose any sleep over a few lost grapes. Besides, i never cash in my club card points so........

I'm probably wrong for feeling this way though

IorekByrnison · 02/06/2008 19:57

That is a great question, custardo. I think it is theft sure as oeufs is oeufs, and anyone caught doing it should be deported at least.

Tortington · 02/06/2008 20:00

lucyellensmum - you are as entitled to your feelings as anyone else

i think "fuck'em" is as valid a statement as any

IorekByrnison · 02/06/2008 20:03

I agree. LEM your sentiments may not correspond with the letter of the law, but they make a lot more sense than most of the bollocks on this thread (imho of course).

Judy1234 · 02/06/2008 20:03

May be it is a class issue then. I bet if you took the class of the people on this thread the working class ones are the ones who are eating grapes which by the way I think is absolutely appalling (and is theft) and the middle class ones know a theft is a theft. Anyway we have the law behind us so the position is really clear.

Also if you feed your children whilst you're shopping just realise what the rest of us think of you even if it's your own food.

One reason people are so fat these days (and I accept an apple is not exactly bad for you) is because they eat all the time, on the move, between meals in a constant pattern like cows grazing in a field all day long. Of course fat is largely a working class issue too - the lower your class the fatter you tend to be.

cheeset · 02/06/2008 20:04

lucyellensmum, my sentiments exactly!

cheeset · 02/06/2008 20:05

Xenia, what a load of tosh, your having a giraffe

IorekByrnison · 02/06/2008 20:38

Xenia, do you write all your own material or have you started outsourcing your comic turns?

Fillyjonk · 02/06/2008 20:42

oh i am absokutely rofl tat anyone can fkn CARE about this

ooooh theft of 1/100 of an apple, oooh.

spanky1981 · 02/06/2008 20:49

What's wrong with a bit of friendly thieving?
Victimless crime

hifi · 02/06/2008 20:50

so if xenia is correct it means no children will eat anything in waitrose, just asda?

IorekByrnison · 02/06/2008 20:50

Yes that's right hifi (we had already covered that point actually...)

Niecie · 02/06/2008 20:51

Xenia - there was study last year that said that actually the obesity problem is a middle class issue as the children in families where both parents work are statistically more likely to have over weight children and working class families.

I am not turning this into a SAH v WOH thread but you need to be careful before blaming obesity on the working classes and their grazing activities.

I thought that small children needed to eat more often than 3 meals a day anyway. The point is surely that the parents should expect this and take their own food with them to the supermarket and not take it off the shelf before they have paid for it.

Chequers · 02/06/2008 20:54

Message withdrawn

spanky1981 · 02/06/2008 20:57

I agree with Chequers. I am using my own method to punish them for ripping people off.

onebatmother · 02/06/2008 21:01

Xenia, as is so often the case, you are talking a Whole Bollock.

I am not working-class (you will have to guess whether or not that is true, and you have as much chance of getting it right as you do with every other of your sweeping generalizations.)

I have given a convincing legal argument which supports my belief that the OP is not a thief.

I could also argue - equally convincingly- that 'grazing' is a healthier way of eating than 'three square meals'.

I don't derive my self-belief (or any satisfaction at all) from whether my children can wait till meal-times to eat. I'm astounded that anyone does.

I think that worrying about these things - and in particular about what you and your kind think of me and my children - bespeaks a social anxiety that I cannot ever imagine feeling. But I'm very sorry if you do.

The reason that the middle-classes tend to be thinner is because they are far more likely to agonize over what their 'peers' think of them.

It is human nature to try and protect oneself from pain; if one knows one is being judged on one's weight, one has an incentive to vomit/starve/whatever, in order to avoid the emotional pain which comes from failing to make the skinny grade.

Other classes (including my own ) are far less likely to fear the opprobrium of their peers in such trifling matters as BMI. Their aspirations tend not to concern their dress-size. They are therefore more likely to be over-weight.

Whilst I know you are a system-generated junk-argument virus, I am slightly disappointed that they didn't programme in the fact that making judgments on the basis of class was as vulgar as it gets.

onebatmother · 02/06/2008 21:03

damn. is as vulgar as it gets.
Just to prove that I am not a system-generated junk-argument virus.

spanky1981 · 02/06/2008 21:05

Lovely post one bat- but didn't you know that Xenia is really a checkout girl in Tescos having a laugh?

IorekByrnison · 02/06/2008 21:13

Quite. Xenia you are being rather unusually preposterous tonight. I wondered if perhaps you wanted a break and so had outsourced mumsnet by giving one of your staff some light trolling duties along with the ironing.

But system-generated junk-argument virus has more of a ring of truth about it somehow.

pavlovthecat · 02/06/2008 21:13

I am glad to see passion is still alive and kicking despite a hard days work!

I have had a very boring conference to attend, discussing victims/risk of harm (no apples mentioned) and am settling down to a nice glass of wine and bowl of risotto, tucked up in bed, ready to read the 100 odd posts since I last looked!

I think, in order to gauge a true reflection of how many people say Yey, and how many people say Nay, I will go through and add up the YABU and the YANBU.

that will give me my answer, and I will deal with my guilt/exoneration of said crime on behalf of my daughter accordingly

OP posts:
pavlovthecat · 02/06/2008 21:16

I am loving this idea that I should take a snack with me to local shop every time I need to pop out for the paper/pint of milk, however, given the queue in said shop, might be worth it. I am not sure my DD was hungry as such. She just likes apples .

And I also approve of the fuck em attitude, and will count this as a YANBU for my poll

OP posts:
MrsCarrot · 02/06/2008 21:19

xenia - you talk a lot of guff sometimes

Quattrocento · 02/06/2008 21:20

Dame Shirley Porter is of course vile. But stealing from her is as bad as stealing from a struggling lone parent - I don't buy the robin-hoodery defence - and of course it would never stand up in law.

I don't know whether the middle-classes have a clearer sense of mine vs thine - there's probably an atom of truth in that argument somewhere - you'd have to study the socio-economic backgrounds of all the tealeaves (on this thread?) but it's a terribly un-pc argument and not one that's likely to win a popularity poll.

Quattrocento · 02/06/2008 21:21

Posting about tea-leaves, where is the Elephant and what did Mr Tesco give her today?