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Would you class this as flirting? DH with shop assistant

385 replies

Bex39 · 12/11/2025 17:07

DH is adamant I am being OTT and he was just being polite but I disagree. Please help settle this for me.

We were in a shop which sells chocolate and he was at the till with me next to him.

Shop assistant - those (the chocolates DH was buying) are my favourites

DH - I would eat so much chocolate if I worked here

SA - tell me about it, I can’t help myself with the samples

DH - you couldn’t tell by your figure

SA - you are being too kind

DH - seriously, you are in great ‘nick’

SA - laughs

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grrrlatrix · 13/11/2025 20:31

🤮
Just so rotten.

Theworstgamerever · 13/11/2025 20:32

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Dinosaurhearmeroar · 13/11/2025 20:37

Sleazy. Don’t need some random man telling me I’m in great nick. Fuck. Off. 😂

Glitchymn1 · 13/11/2025 20:46

“In great nick”🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 I’d think- thanks a bunch cheeky lol she can’t say much back as it’s her job.
I don’t think it’s flirting, just something an older person would say.

Kittyloulou · 13/11/2025 20:47

gross! Your husband is a creep

TheCryingTheBitchAndTheFloordrobe · 13/11/2025 20:48

Grim.

How big is his ego that he thought saying something so sleazy to a stranger would 'make their day'?

Working in retail is so fucking tedious.

PithyTaupeWriter · 13/11/2025 20:49

Ugh gross, it is horrible to have to deal with comments from men about one's figure. He was definitely flirting and/or being creepy. I bet he wouldn't say it to a male shop assistant.

Spookyspaghetti · 13/11/2025 21:11

Simbaonedaythiswillallbeyours · 12/11/2025 17:13

I bet she thought he was a right creep.

Yeah, I’d be super embarrassed if someone said that to me in front of their partner.

momtoboys · 13/11/2025 21:11

IwishIcouldconfess · 12/11/2025 17:13

Another non event that I couldn't get worked up about if I tried

😂😂😂

restingbitchface30 · 13/11/2025 21:15

If my partner said that he would be sleeping on the couch indefinitely

Gremlins101 · 13/11/2025 21:19

If my husband said this to a shop assistant he would immediately have to leave the shop and step in front of an oncoming bus. Otherwise he could never live with the mortification.

weirdthread · 13/11/2025 21:21

Flirting, maybe or maybe not. However, inappropriate to comment on her body once, let alone twice. Icky that he thought her day would be made receiving male validation of her body.

Alittlefrustrated · 13/11/2025 21:22

He went too far with "your in great nick". Very disrespectful to you too.

user1470508354 · 13/11/2025 21:32

Ew, he was 'flirting' (i.e being a sleaze). The poor shop assistant was just doing her job and being polite and probably feeling horribly uncomfortable 🙄

Pandasarethebest · 13/11/2025 21:32

Asunciondeflata · 12/11/2025 17:12

Did he tell her that they put it smell in gas?

🤣🤣🤣🤣

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Bex39 · 12/11/2025 18:04

He’s from a different era, stuck in his ways sadly no matter how hard I try to educate him.

My DH is older than this and from a “different era” there’s no way he’d be so bloody inappropriate with or without me there.

FatherDickByrneV · 13/11/2025 21:38

JudgeJ · 13/11/2025 19:46

Then they should not make remarks about the purchase, she made a comment and he responded, it may have been perceived as 'pervy' by the perpetually offended, others would just accept it for what it was.

Yeah nah. 😬

AngelsandAliens · 13/11/2025 21:55

bugalugs45 · 12/11/2025 17:10

Wouldn’t bother me in slightest , he did it in front of you so obviously not trying to hide anything . Huge overreaction on your part

That’s even worse that he spoke like that in front of her . It totally belittled the OP

beansontoast85 · 13/11/2025 21:58

Ewwww!!! This is so gross!

godmum56 · 13/11/2025 21:58

Glitchymn1 · 13/11/2025 20:46

“In great nick”🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 I’d think- thanks a bunch cheeky lol she can’t say much back as it’s her job.
I don’t think it’s flirting, just something an older person would say.

fuck that! Hes in his 50's he is young ehough to have been taught better.

godmum56 · 13/11/2025 21:59

restingbitchface30 · 13/11/2025 21:15

If my partner said that he would be sleeping on the couch indefinitely

...or with the fishes....

Cardinalita90 · 13/11/2025 22:36

Donttellhim · 13/11/2025 18:06

Commenting unsolicited on anyone’s body is far from polite….whether it is positive or otherwise. It does sound very sleazy, like he’s been looking at her body and made a judgement on it. Just ew!

I said SHE wasn't flirting!

Atsocta · 13/11/2025 23:16

Yuk!!

HughGrantsfurrysquirrel · 13/11/2025 23:17

Simbaonedaythiswillallbeyours · 12/11/2025 18:02

Prize for missing the point entirely.....

Yep, you said it 👍.

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