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AIBU?

Share your dilemmas and get honest opinions from other Mumsnetters.

... or are the locals really rude?

123 replies

pfft · 30/06/2009 17:22

Have just moved to country village outside somewhat la-di-da town where we work.

Went to the local shop. Am now too scared to ever go there again.

Picked up the milk from the shelf, it had a spare label round the handle, which was wet with condensation - it slipped out of my hand and smashed onto the floor, spilling milk everywhere. I moved the vegetables away from the advancing tide of milk, and went to the counter to say I was terribly sorry but I'd just spilt milk and did they have anything to clean it up with. Woman appeared out of the back of the shop
and shoved me aside and said impatiently "Get out the f*ing way, SOMEONE'S going to have to clean that up", and the man at the counter said "oh you're TERRIBLY sorry [posh sing-song accent] are you. Well there's a Waitrose [posh accent] on the other side of [la-di-da town] for people like you, why don't you go there and spill milk and rearrange the shop how you like it, next time."

I said nothing and paid for 2 lots of milk. The man snatched the money out of my hand and scowled at me. The shop full of people all stared at me.

I thought "heavens I'm getting paranoid", looked up from staring at the floor, and realised they were all still staring/scowling at me.

How often do people spill milk in Sainsburys?
Is it such a crime?

OP posts:
fruitshootsandheaves · 01/07/2009 22:57

I was going to suggest that you must live near me, scarily the rest of the thread has confirmed that you probably do!

Pyrocanthus · 01/07/2009 23:00

Have just read this thread - got Cambs almost immediately. Was brought up in S. Cambs village in the 70s and have more recently lived in Oxon, which seemed a much less likely candidate.

BirdFromDaNorf · 01/07/2009 23:03

It's SOOOOO Waitrose Trumpington. I just sense it. That's the one nearest us. Not that I shop there regularly. Cos I live in a village that's near Shelford, but isn't Shelford dahhhllliiinnngggssss....

Please tell me it's Trumpington. If it is, genuniely, want to meet up there for coffee with troops in tow? Do you know many people locally? I make a point of going to the Waitrose in Trumpington in my hoody and trainers. I am regularly refused alchohol despite looking desperate with kids in tow and harrassed.

Once we have become firm friends I shall proceed to your local village and muller the person who was rude to you. Cos I'm from the NORTH THE BLESSED NORTH AND THAT'S WHAT WE DO TO RUDE KNOBS.

i'll never from you again will I OP?? Sorry to have scared you away. x

Pyrocanthus · 01/07/2009 23:06

OOh, not posh village near Shelford - now you're talking my language.

Pyrocanthus · 01/07/2009 23:09

'Talking my language'? Definitely not a posh village. Apologies for linguistic abuse.

coolma · 02/07/2009 09:08

I will be your friend Bird. I live in the city itself, so am clearly very posh and rude. However, I will accept people from villages near say, shelfors and granchester.

Pan · 02/07/2009 09:16

I live in the Royston Vasey village ( Hadfield) and we are very friendly. Well, apart from the butchers that sells special meat.

fruitshootsandheaves · 02/07/2009 13:35

oh I was going to guess Trumpington too!

OrmIrian · 02/07/2009 13:41

OP - you're not Linda Snell are you

That might explain it.

verygreenlawn · 02/07/2009 13:47

I have a friend who had a little job in the village shop - apparently it was full of Colonel's wife-types buying suspiciously large quantities of sherry at 8.30 every morning. To make sherry trifles with apparently (though strangely none of the other ingredients were ever purchased).

VinegarTits · 02/07/2009 13:49

I can't beleive nobody did a 'not worth crying over split milk' pun on this thread

cheesesarnie · 02/07/2009 13:53

it can be like that where i live at times especially to new people or tourists.i married a local so im not acceptedalthough my dc will NEVER EVER be allowed to be cornish as im not.maybe theyre great great great great grandchildren will.maybe

cheesesarnie · 02/07/2009 13:53

i mean im now excepted as i married a local.

Lilymaid · 02/07/2009 14:11

It can't be Shelford because Waitrose is not on the "Other side of town" (see OP). But if you are Shelford/Trumpington way don't go for coffee in Waitrose but go here instead!

FairLadyRantALot · 02/07/2009 14:22

lol Pan...

MrsMattie · 02/07/2009 14:25

Move to London.

[This is going to be my new MN mantra - a bit like Xenia and her 'get a job')

Nothing good can ever come of living in a village.

abraid · 02/07/2009 14:25

Well if it was Abingdon or cambridge it wouldn't be a 'village' shop, would it?

Habbibu · 02/07/2009 14:31

Newmarket must be pretty extra international, with all the horse-racey types.

Move to Scotland - in our village shop they'd probably give you a free biscuit for the stress and everyone is really friendly - and we're only a few miles from a smaller but also v v v multinational university (proportionately more so than Oxford or Cambridge).

FairLadyRantALot · 02/07/2009 14:35

MrsMattie...London would be the last place on earth I personally would move, too, lol...and I am by no means spoiled....rofl...but it is so fast paced and busy and hectic and arghhhhhhhhhhhh....I'd have a nervous breakdown....lol

MrsMattie · 02/07/2009 14:37

No! That's a misconception. Central London is hectic, but I live in a suburb and it's leafy, quiet and friendly. And my local shop keeper is an old Turkish guy who can't speak English but has smiley, twinkly eyes and gives my DS feree lollipops.

OK, I'll stop trying to sell London Taaaaaan now...

FairLadyRantALot · 02/07/2009 15:10

lol...I am close enough to London to be able to visit it...and that will do me...I am not going to pay london prices for anything unless I have too, lol

Clwc · 04/07/2009 01:06

BirdFromDaNorf, I think you might just have scared the OP away. Lol.

mumzy · 04/07/2009 08:28

If I were you I'd go back and give them a piece of my mind its worth being banned from the shop just for the sheer satisfaction. Just for the record it sounds like Britain in 1970s we use to live near a corner shop that would'nt let you use its litter bin outside if you had'nt bought that item from there. Small minded nasty gits

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