to REALLY want to know what the outcome to this argument in tesco today was!!!

[kerryk]

while i was paying for a couple of items in the handbasket aisle a argument broke out a couple of people back.

turned out that a young guy (late teens??) was in the handbasket aisle with a trolley, he only had about 6 items in it though.

the old dear behind him had started picking up his items and throwing them back in his trolley while pushing her lot forward and telling him to get in another queue.

the poor checkout girl did not know what to do and had to call over her manager.

everyone in the queue was voicing a opinion about what was going on

i am not sure which one was being unreasonable but i really want to know what happened after i left

I have ended up putting a few small items in a trolley because they didn't have the big heavy items I wanted that would have warranted a trolley in stock. But I didn't know that when I arrived at the store of course.

Luckily, I was there too. I can tell you how it ended.

The manager came over, the old lady started yelling at him about the youth of today and pointing out that the sign said BASKETS and not trolleys. The manager tried to calm her down, whereupon she hit him round the head with a baguette.

The young man behind her gave her a wedgie and she turned round and poked him in the eye. Security was called. It took 3 of them to wrestle her to the floor and they had her pinned when her pelvic floor collapsed with all the excitement and they all leapt back from the puddle.

They emptied the young man's stuff out of the trolley and put the old lady into it, used the baguette to soak up the puddle and then wheeled her out into the car park and shoved her down the hill.

Last I saw of her, she was zooming down the slip road onto the motorway, yelling something about having lived through the War.

Fab ending hecate. Of course when she got home she then wrote to her local paper about the youth of today having no respect.

Now stop talking about my mil you lot!!

lol at you Pedants!
Can i just ask why its "5 items or fewer " , not "less" ?
Just out of curiosity

I bet the old dear in your queue was the same old dear that barged past me whilst I was waiting for the next free toilet in M&S today.

She virtually elbowed me to one side

fewer to describe things that can be counted and less to describe things that can't.

Fewer cans of beer
less milk in the bottle

I think.

I shall have to leave MN at once if I am wrong.

He was in the right, she was in the wrong, you should have tied you shoe very slowly and waited for the out come.
Old people should only be allowed to shop between the hours of 9 to 10 and 3 to 4

OMG - this was my Nan a few years ago. She appeared sane and wasn't - totally, totally gone. I remember the day she went to smack a toddler in Woolworth's - it was an "adventure" to go out with her.

Poor bloke but the thread has made me smile - thank you, all.

you are right, hecate.

oooh, thanks Hecate
Good old MN

What about prices then? Is it 'less' , because money can be counted? Or 'fewer' , because they arnt objects?

less money, fewer coins or notes

ie 10 money doesn't make sense. 10 coins does. Integers fewer

i love seeing arguments of unreasonable nature... i stand and gawk brazingly. i would have stuck around to see the outcome of the you were witnessing. it brings people together, chatting about it in line and having a giggle at the silliness of it all.

hate that people think that a counter, (or washroom stall) with a disability sign over it is JUST for those with a disability. it's for everyone, but those in wheelchairs or those dreaded scooters (a slogan for my city is ' the city of newlyweds and nearly deads') can only comfortably use those. i'm five months pregnant and if no one else is going to use that stall because it has a disability sign, too bad for them, i gotta pee. (i would never ever park in a disability spot though. i do have some scruples).