to have slapped the waitrose till lady quite hard?

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for making a quip about seeing me in there every day and beginning to think i was a member of staff and how i must have loads of spare time on my hands.

I'm not in there every day. i pop in when passing for essentials, the occasional paper or wine on my way somewhere else, usually in a tearing hurry, perhaps 4 times a week maximum.

I don't work there. the uniform wouldn't suit me.

Spare time? what's that. I work very long hours, i study, i work extras to pay the sodding bills.

Daft cow.

I assume you didn't actually slap her?!

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YABU .
The ladies in Waitrose go out of their way to be friendly and not in an automated "do you want help with your packing" kind of way.
To want to slap her is totally ridiculous.
Have a glass of wine and a lie down.

yes, daft cow. How dare she make small talk.Her job is to be silent and not look customers in the eye. YABU.

I hope you are joking?

Do you need anger management lessons? That's a rather strong response to small talk, even if you didn't really slap her.

I don't get what is so offensive about what she said. She clearly touched a nerve though, why so defensive?
Use the quick check next time.

What is your problem dear?

when i am obviously frazzled, and looking slightly windswept and running through the till with my shiraz cottage cheese and screeching children i don't want to be sneered at thanks.

i spat on my hand before wacking her too.

ummmm YABU. Or is there a hidden meaning to OP I don't understand?

You are joking, right?

Would expect that sort of thing in Iceland, but Waitrose ?

I'm not sure she was sneering at you was she? She was merely interacting.

Far rather that than she started having a conversation over you with the checkout girl next to her - that drives me insane!

I was at the supermarket once and got the standard "do you have your own bags?" question. When I said "no" the till lady said "oh, that's unusual for you" (which it is). I was actually chuffed to think that she not only remembered me from week to week, but she actually had noted that I usually brought my own bags.

I think you might be a bit over stressed EG, though I do appreciate that sometimes you just want to pass through the till without the small talk.

You assaulted a check out lady for making small talk?

This does not sound like you.

you would have been most unreasonable had you actually done it and you'd (rightly) have been arrested too!

But yanbu for feeling pissed off and narky

Oh just read the last post by EG. This is a windup right? You would never get away with assaulting someone in that manner.

I count some of the Waitrose Ladies as friends - they are so friendly and adore DD.

So YABU

Perhaps you should slow down with your "tearing hurry" to somewhere else and realise that "till ladies" are people too.

she also did the 'oooh not got your bag today?' sneer.

really women. would I be here really having slapped the old cow? really?

no. i'd have been arrested then carted off to the nearest secure unit.

and also then i'd have been barred from the only shop within 15 miles of here and then i'd have no easily accessable wine which would be a problem.

i had a nice mental imagining about how slapping her may have shut her up.

do waitrose train there staff in how to spot those stressed shoppers who don't want smalltalk? i think i'll suggest they do.

You should go and shop in Co-op instead.

no, dont shop in the co-op or dh will tell me stories about you

My MiL works in Waitrose. She'd have smacked you back

co-op is miles and miles away.

i only mentally treated her like a piece of dirt. on the surface i smiled and talked back. but i didn't want to.

i just wanted to get some essentials and move on.