to want to report this tesco delivery man to HO?

[tispity]

my online shopping arrived this evening and i opened the door to be greeted by a pleasant-looking asian guy, quite good-looking around 30. we went through the usual ritual of 'this is not available, that has been substituted' etc to which i indifferently agreed, and he proceeded to start unloading the crates. even though it was dark, i saw him doing that lingering eye contact thing and basically ignored it. then, he specifically picked up a cucumber from one of the crates and held it in a certain way on a certain part of his anatomy and said to ds (aged 4) 'this is a present for mummy' - i carried on behaving indifferently (as you do) but i was completely flabbergasted. he asked me twice if i wanted him to take the shopping into my kitchen "or anywhere else" but i declined. tbh it was dark, i was alone with the dcs and i found it quite intimidating. i was not sure whether this is how they behave. i usually shop with Ocado.

lol, thx for a giggle

@MadOldCrone!

at least you got some sort of offer of foreplay
(Asda dont timetable that into their delivery schedule)

Are you sure you didn't misread the signs?

Saying a cucumber is a 'present for mummy' is hardly derogatory. When I was in hospital, my friends brought grapes, bananas and oranges. I certainly didn't see it as innuendo

I think you've totally mis-read the signs here. I'm sure if you look in the dadsnet section, there's some poor 'pleasant-looking asian guy' having a grumble about some mad woman whom he delivered his shopping to...

It's when he comes at you with a packet of Scots Porridge Oats you have to worry. Been there and got the tee-shirt.

this is a bad bad thread.

I have been really poorly, breathing and asthma issues, just home, might need to go back as have giggled so hard at your responses I am wheezing again and my ribs hurt!!!

you are all so funny....... @ bollocks. (or two satsumas)

i do hope i get him tomorrow

zippy PMSL

As long as I can have him the next day notanotter...

Yes but how big was the cucumber? When giving context to a post you must include all details surely.

And was it a 'pleasant-looking' cucumber?

If so, no wonder you were 'flabbergasted'

lets hope it was fresh - not all limp and wet where it has touched the back of the fridge

I don't see what the problem is. My Tesco delivery man usually asks me to feel the cucumber to make sure I approve of its firmness and he does is while holding the cucumber in what you may think is a "rude position". He's only doing his job ffs! Btw, he's Polish.

I'm of you lot - I've had Tesco, Asda and Ocadao deliveries in recent months - all were made by boring white English men who were obviously too "stiff upper lip" to do anything interesting with my cucumbers and melons

Thanks for the two laughs lollops - nice to think that the time I have wasted after 'popping in to check on MN' at 10.30 hasn't been wasted.

Ok don't laugh and call me a troll I'm being serious.

This happened to me with tesco and the delivery guy was asian. he even had a cucumber but he said "do you want some of this".

Honest!

Poor man. Rejected his cucumber and not prepared to palm him off with relish either.

I don't see the problem. He was just asserting his masculinity and making sure you understood the difference between men (big cocks, real jobs) and women (breasts, housework, children).

Isn't that how you like your men to act? I mean, come on, if he'd just unloaded the shopping in the kitchen all helpful-like, that's have been tantamount to acknowledging that he was sissified. And probably had a same-sex marriage.

i really despair at how vulgarly phallocentric our society has become - i am sure that Freud is smiling down upon us.

"Isn't that how you like your men to act?" well, since YOU ask, i have only been in the one relationship (and i've only ever had one male friend) so i could not generalise. he was not exactly an alpha male with a lot of masculinity to display, so his behaviour came across as most inappropriate actually.

Eeeeh, I've not laughed like this in ages

My mascara is ruined.

btw, i threw the cucumber away not because of how he had treated it, but because it appeared to have some kind of waxy, white stuff on it so i doubted it's organic labelling. I have never seen an organic cucumber like it; they tend to be shorter, firmer and darker (almost like courgettes). the bog standard supermarket ones on the other hand seem unnaturally large, pale and regularly shaped. i would beware others to check this if it concerns them

btw, i threw the cucumber away not because of how he had treated it, but because it appeared to have some kind of waxy, white stuff on it so i doubted it's organic labelling. I have never seen an organic cucumber like it; they tend to be shorter, firmer and darker (almost like courgettes). the bog standard supermarket ones on the other hand seem unnaturally large, pale and regularly shaped. i would beware others to check this if it concerns them

"beware" sorry, WARN

Hello tispity

I didn't know Tesco delivered to West Hill

I hope it was in an unmarked van.