To expect retired people not to clog up the supermarkets at lunchtime?

[Chil1234]

Really? I mean, come on oldsters, you've got all day to sashay round the shops at a snail's pace, stopping to chat to the assistants, lovingly examining every item on the shelf and trying to work out if the 3 for £2 offer is better than the BOGOF. Why do you want to rock up by the coachload at 12:00 when the place is full of stressed-out people (like me) trying to charge round with a trolley in the alloted 20 minutes left of their lunch-break - list in one hand and mobile phone (yes, I'll be back in a minute!!!!) in the other? What's so appealing about standing in queues five deep when, if you'd arrived an hour or two earlier or later, you could have the place more or less to yourself?

Thank you.. I feel better for that.

YABVU. Maybe they LIKE going when it's busy? Maybe some of these OAPs live alone and cherish going out when it's busy because it's the only form of social interaction they're likely to have that day.

I bet you're one of those people that stands behind someone slow at the checkout and makes tutting noises, aren't you? When I am old, I'm going to accidentally-on-purpose ram people like you with my shopping bag on wheels.

I do think the op was tongue in cheek but.......

I used to work for a kid's charity and quite frankly it wouldnt have survived without our elderly volunteers who would come into the office at 9 and sometimes work until 5pm so actually they didnt have all day to faff around as you imagine. I know not ALL oaps do this but a fair percentage volunteer and a fair percentage are probably rushing round inbetween dropping grandkids at nursery / picking them up again etc etc. Give them a break.

I would think more badly of someone running round with a list in one hand and a phone in the other because they are so busy and important the office cannot possibly cope without them for 2 minutes and they want everyone to know.

well I wish my dad was still alive so he could potter about sainsbury's when and what day he pleased. He used to love going and talk to people on the till, it used to get him out and gave him a chance to meet other people when my mum was at work.

op yabvu, you will be old one day.....

Well I think YANBU.

But only because I am a SAHM and avoid lunchtimes and after school/work times at the shops completely. I don't get why anyone would choose to shop at those times, it is a nightmare. Personally I like an early start and to be in the shops around 9.30 am, they are empty, it is fab.

They can shop when they like of course but I don't get why they would want to.

Shop online during said lunch break and make a packed lunch so you can eat at the same time. Far less stressful for everyone involved, especially the oaps and us mums who might either be a sahm or on a day off. Then we can pootle about without feeling like we are about to be knocked over by a herd of impatient maniacs with a list in one hand and a phone in the other.

YABU . They've spent their lives contributing to society...

Why should they shop 'conveniently' for impatient intolerant individuals who should learn to appreciate the value of the 'oldsters', and maybe offer them a smile and make allowances for the fact that for a lot of them they can only move at one pace, might be their only opportunity to get to the shops and for many it is a social occasion.

They could well be on their lunch break from their volunteer work. up until a very few years ago, one of them could have been my 80- year old mother getting a sandwich between clients at the CAB.

Yes, selfish old bastards, wanting to go out in society where people are. I bet they smell of wee as well, evil people.

OP, YABVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVU

YANBU
they should get out of the way. there are very very important people out there, clicking around in relaxed suiting,glammed up accesories, wiggly arsed pointy breasted way who have to get their sandwich before they get back to making cups of coffee for their boss or getting the appointment schedule at the hairdressers wrong.
These people need to eat and shop quickly for fucks sake or society as we know it will crumble and fall and civilization will be destroyed.
Oh the humanity.

YABVVU - I hate this horrible view that is perpetuated far and wide - it's fascist. People, whatever age can shop whenever they want - what a cheek.

Here's a thought. Some of these tiresome old gimmers can only get to the shops if they use community transport. Which, to make best advantage of all sorts of resources means that the bus which will do the "Shopper Special" will do this outside the time it is used to provides school services - usually to children with a range of needs and mobility impairments. So the bus is already in service between about 7 and 10.30 and 2 and 4.30. It's not a question of telling the older people they should shop online either, the journey to the shops is a social occasion that keeps loneliness at bay as well as helping to maintain independence.

Admittedly this is just an example of what happens in a coastal city down the road from here and the nearest town. But it goes to explain why some older people have the temerity to occupy the same air as younger, less tolerant fuckwits shoppers.

I'm not noted for my tolerance either. But I haven't reached the stage when I dismiss the needs of more vulnerable members of society so casually.

These are the same old people that take all the early morning appointments at the GP. So the only appointments left for people who have to go to work are at 11.30 or 3pm. I suspect they all troop down to the GP together for 8am, then get the bus at school run time into town where they shop from 12-1, then bus back at 3.30 (school run again) before getting in their cars and driving around for a bit in the rush hour at 5. Then they go home and laugh until they weep.

I suspect. No proof, mind. Not yet.

had to use it somewhere

Oh dear, some people really have no sense of humour.

I'm not suggesting old people should be confined to barracks or banned or anything else horrible. Yes of course they can shop any time they like. But if you have the choice when to shop, why go when it's horribly busy? It's like someone taking a new sports-car out for a trial run and picking 5pm Friday afternoon on the M25.... no fun whatsoever.

YABU. Funny, but Unreasonable.
Do you think you'll be positng on Gransnet in 40 year's time asking why all the young mothers are so stressy and unreasonable?

Not a hope.... And who says I'm young?....

"Oh dear, some people really have no sense of humour."

Never a good defence.

When is optimum shopping hours for OAPs then Chil1234?

my 80 year old dad goes at 7am is that ok

That ( ) is not a confused face, it is a constipated face. Or possibly an in labour face.

ROFL at some of these messages - if i delete all the po-faced serious ones it reads like stand-up comedy at its best !!!!

Never mind the oldsters... Whinging toddlers. Now they should be removed from supermarkets,- or better still banned in the first place.

Good idea curry! Perhaps we could list all our dislikes amongst the general population and generate a virtual supermarket that excludes them. Hurrah .... irritant-free shopping.