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AIBU?

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To not want the girl serving me in Tesco....

41 replies

VeronicaMars · 19/12/2009 00:00

to stand up, reach over and put her hand on my face to show me how cold she is and then examine my shopping and interogate me about the photos I had already paid for.
Give me a cranky old bat who barely says 'hello' any day.

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Kaloki · 19/12/2009 00:12

What the..????

She sounds lovely!

YanknChristmasCrackers · 19/12/2009 00:14

oh that is weird....or maybe I'm weird about strangers touching me?

No, she touched your face...I'm going with 'weird'.

MattBellamysMuse · 19/12/2009 00:15

Touching the customers is not part of the job description, I'm sure.
Weird.

TeamEdward · 19/12/2009 00:17

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YanknChristmasCrackers · 19/12/2009 00:21

If your hands had touched while she was handing you change or something, and she'd said 'ooh my hands are freezing, aren't they!' that would have been....well, less weird. I can't believe she reached over and touched your face. And after showing that level of familiarity, goes on to accuse you of not paying for stuff. Bonkers.

brandybutterfly · 19/12/2009 00:33

YABU.
Full of friendly Christmas spirit you lot, aren't you?!

brimfull · 19/12/2009 00:50

yanbu
too familiar and nosy

JustAnotherManicMummy · 19/12/2009 00:57

YANBU. But ROFL!

I once had to explain to a member of staff why people might not want to know exactly what he got up to at the weekend with his girlfriend. That was painful.

Vivia · 19/12/2009 09:45

Aw she sounds sweet

CaptainUnderpants · 19/12/2009 09:47

Well at least she spoke to you , usually at tesco they are having a conversation across the tills with each other and ignoring the customer.

MarthaFarquhar · 19/12/2009 09:48

ROFl at
There is a reason I shop in Sainsburys...

There is a reason I shop in Sainsburys too. Tesco - about a mile away - is staffed exclusively by middle aged mum types.

Sainsburys - a mile further but still the same area - is staffed almost exclusively by nubile young studenty blokes .

BexieID · 19/12/2009 09:48

Maybe she'd just served the worst ever customer and thought you looked like a friendly face!

I've had customers reaching over to me to show me how cold they were!

GroundHoHoHogs · 19/12/2009 09:49

The Cashiers at our Tescos are the friendliest I've ever seen.

Mind you, I agree, the face touching is a little OTT..

Hassled · 19/12/2009 10:05

I like a chatty check-out person. I had a frightfully posh middle aged man scanning my stuff in Sainsburys last week - we discussed mushroom recipes. And then he told me how to cook a pheasant.

curlywurlycremeegg · 19/12/2009 10:13

I once got questioned on how old my baby was when a cashier scanned through a pregnancy test, when I told her he was 7 months old she replied in a very load voice "What, and you think you might be pregnant AGAIN"

TheFoosa · 19/12/2009 10:16

she sounds young and exuberant

wouldn't bother me personally

emsyj · 19/12/2009 10:24

It can be really boring working in a shop if nobody talks to you. I remember working in John Lewis when I was a student and we all used to desperately try to engage the customers in conversation (and offer them sweets from the drawer under the till ) just to break the day up. Quite sad, but we really were that bored and lonely!

BalloonSlayer · 19/12/2009 10:34

rofl at curlywurly's cashier.

It wasn't this one was it?

ijustwanttoaskaquestion · 19/12/2009 10:37

have to say - depends what sort of mood im in!!

FabIsGettingReadyForXmas · 19/12/2009 10:49

Go to Waitrose. They pack your shopping, get what you can't find, take your trolley to your car over the snow and ice, load your ca, wish you a safe journey home and take the trolley back to the shop

CommonNortherner · 19/12/2009 11:10

YANBU, but it is also amusing!

I am still recovering from the district nurse who visited last week casting her eye over my house, including noseying in the conservatory from the kitchen window above the sink... and commenting on things!! I always get paranoid about "official" people in the house and make fun of myself cos they are never so impolite... until now! I am desperately hoping I get a different one this weekend!

jeep · 19/12/2009 11:13

the cashiers at our tesco who talk alot don't last long i've noticed

TinselianAstra · 19/12/2009 12:01

Nice that she was chatty, weird to touch you though.

AmazingBouncingFerret · 19/12/2009 13:57

I work in a shop and always get the customers who have come in from the cold touching my face or arm to show me how cold their hands are. Im used to it now.

VeronicaMars · 20/12/2009 15:31

No I think I just have this things about people other than close friends and family touching my face!!
She was about mid twentys and foreign, I'd say Polish by her accent.
When she was scanning through the carrots she sort of slouched on the scanner and put on a strange voice and said 'uuuh I haaaate vegtables, eat your vegtables, eat you vegtables my mother aaaaaaalways does make me eat my vegtables uuuhhhhh'
Completely bonkers I think.
I was in work the next day and someone who is only ever in and out of the office did it too me whilst saying 'it's sooooo cold out there' Yes I know I only came in f**king 15 minutes before you!

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