A knobhead or trying to bully a "foreigner?"

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I've just been to the supermarket and headed to the chiller section. A man was blocking the two doors to the section I needed with his trolley. His partner was looking at produce in the opposite aisle. They had a girl with them aged early teens who was wandering back and forward across the aisle. The man had a very unpleasant expression on his face so rather than politely ask him to move, I went to a door not blocked by his trolley and managed to get what I needed from there. The girl was stood in front of this door but seeing me approach she moved away. The man said:
"There's a simple word: 'excuse me' rather than pushing people out of the way."
I replied very calmly that I hadn't pushed anyone out of the way.

I could have added that "excuse me" is two words, not one, and that he was inconsiderate to block access to the chiller cabinet with his trolley but I chose not to. Much to my surprise, what I said silenced him immediately. I expected some sort of pushback. As I carried on with my shoppimg I realised I was wearing a hoodie with "La Dolce Vita" in large colourful type on it and it made me wonder whether he thought I was a foreigner who he could bully?

Maybe he would, you don't know.

This is not actually even funny. Which is what I am assuming this thread was supposed to be

It was probably more the fact you are a woman that emboldened him to speak to you like that. He wouldn’t confront another man so rudely. Very unlikely anything else.

I’m also confused why you didn’t just say to the dad ‘sorry can I just grab something out of that fridge?’ rather than martyring yourself by going in via another cabinet.

sounds like you’d judged him before even giving him a chance and then decided to call him rude.

Are people racist towards Italians?

Absolutely 💯

Yep.

Aside from all that, he was wrong anyway. You don't say 'Excuse me'; the polite thing to say is 'Excuse me please'.

Wow. You were rude.

Crikey, what a total non-event! Did you make it up just to post something on MN?

Sounds like bollocks to me and I doubt it would even register on my radar.

I am only now going to go about wearing clothes with Kate Moss on the front of them. I wear Kate so therefore I am Kate. That obviously how it works. Hopefully I won't get too besieged by the paps next time I'm wandering out of Aldi.

I need a sharpie and a blank T-shirt asap, I am Daniel Craig’s girlfriend, a T-shirt does not lie.

Of course it doesn't and what a super easy way to identify people and one that Nigel Farage will surely endorse.

Also, Rachel Weisz who??!

Are you trying to suggest you've been the victim of racist behaviour even though it was white on white and race had literally nothing to do with it?

You made a judgement about him, chose not to say excuse me, then got into their space to get what you needed. You could have said excuse me but you didn’t. You then assumed he was being xenophobic?

Weird.

This is the most non-event of all the non-events on MN

I'm currently wearing a top with 'Schoffel' written on it, and now I understand why I've been getting quips about two world wars and one world cup all day, and why I've got an inexplicable appetite for sausage.

They used to be back in the day but not now, some people are just too quick to judge

I have a T shirt with "De Nada" on
Nobody has ever accused me of being Spanish while wearing it

American English? I see you use the word produce and I can only hear that in my head said in the American way - pro-juice 😁

Do you say it prod-uce?

😂

Does no one have a life these days?

Hmm.. are you saying all racists are uneducated? Bit of classism there I think.

No, she clearly said 'most', so no need to get offended on behalf of all the educated racists out there.

He was "being" neither, but you were "being" a pussy for not just asking him politely to move his trolley in the first place......

I think what she said was that racists are stupid uneducated people. Sadly racism comes from all walks of life and it’s important to note that.