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

[VeronicaMars]

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.

I would much rather have an overly sociable nutter than a sullen spotty brat.

I am an overly sociable nutter. We would get on well, I think.

An old lady one told my children (6 and 3) "Errrr YUK, you don't eat vegetables, do you? Shout for cake, my lads. Shout for cake."

Lol at least you're honest about being a nutter

A nutty old lady stopped me a few years ago and asked me if dd was Madeline McCann. My jaw actually hit the floor.

my nan did the reverse the other day - poor girl on the till looked most shocked

I gave her a "sorry - she's a bit of a batty old dear" look!

FFS. This really annoys me.

Shop staff really can't do anything right.

Maybe a little over familiar to touch you but would you rather she was a f**king robot?

Customers are the dregs of rhe universe (and I include myself in that) and sometimes I think that it's not just shop workers who need training in customer service but customers should get some in how to not take your mood (bad or otherwise) out on people who are just trying to do a job to pay their own bills!!!!!!

so yes, YABU and a little precious.

Oh my, I'm glad it wasn't you serving me in that mood.

Precious? Me?

Eww that would have freaked me out . I have a problem with 'skin to skin contact' without my prior consent and certainly not by a complete stranger!
I know, I am most certainly odd

face touching is a bit extreme!

but I have to say, I work in my friend's shop occassionally and I am appalled that some customers think it is ok to come in and dump the goods on the counter and not even look up let alone attempt a few words of conversation. It is incredibily dehumanising and I think makes the world a worse place. It is so much nicer, whether as customer or shop assistant, to have a few words of friendly small talk.

oh, what has her being polish got to do with anything? My SIL is polish, and used to work in a supermarket to pay her way through law school before working in a law firm paying shed loads of taxes to this country (and marrying dh long after settling here). I hate the prejudices against foreign workers, a lot of them work very hard, far harder than we would ever work (often 2 or 3 jobs and full time studies), live in grim conditions yet are lovely, kind, and often ferociously intelligent (not just my SIL, through her I have met and got to know lots of her friends)

she sounds fantastic! what store does she work in? (i know its tesco but where lol).

i love shop staff who have character.

worst thing i every said to a customer was 'oooo you having a party ?' whilst scanning party foods.

'no, a wake'

The young lads (old gimmer emoticon) who work in my local shop are all really chatty and friendly, I really like it.

Although the other day I had a full grocery load and a pregnancy test, and he was chatting away and scanning, then happened upon the test, went bright red, stopped talking in the middle of a sentence, grinned at me and then went back to chatting about Christmas.

One of my first jobs was in a Kwik Save supermarket, I have this awful memory of working close to Christmas, the store being empty, and 'All by Myself' playing on the radio!
I quite liked chatting nonsense to different strangers all the time! I still do! Don't care if people think I'm mad!
"A smile travels a mile"!
I don't tend to touch strangers though!