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Just witnessed the future in Asda car park!

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Buttybach · 15/03/2020 13:00

Just witnessed an elderly lady telling a man in a face mask that "he should be staying at home if he has it"

He then told her that he didn't have it and it was a precaution.

He sounded like he was Italian so she shouted "I bet you have been to Italy"

He then flew into a tirade shouting that she should be self isolating as she was over 70 - and to quote him "you're all going to F**ing die if you don't!

As I walked away they were still screaming at each other from their cars!

Is this the future! We will all be turning on each other!

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HavenDilemma · 15/03/2020 13:02

🤦🏼‍♀️

I fear it may well be....

Crunchymum · 15/03/2020 13:03

Someone bumped into me with their trolley, out of habit I apologised and moved aside. He called me a fat cunt Shock

PicsInRed · 15/03/2020 13:06

She started it AND she's racist. 🤷‍♀️

Haworthia · 15/03/2020 13:08

I’ve been thinking for a while now, I’m not as scared of the virus as I am the breakdown of civilised society.

VivaLeBeaver · 15/03/2020 13:08

I saw someone screaming in tesco that she was going to barge people with her trolley. People were generally shovey.

1984isnow · 15/03/2020 13:10

My dp works at a supermarket, and he says this weekend has been the worst experience in all his years in the job (he's a security guard so already gets the worst of it!)

He says people are kicking off at each other, swearing at staff, he had to separate two women pulling each others hair yesterday. Has had to physically remove aggresive men from the store. Police stationed in the carpark.

I went into my local b&m today, and there is a new youngish lad on the till, and he looks like a rescued animal. His till went off so he had rescan my partially bagged shopping and he looked like he was about to cry. I wonder what he's seen.

I really feel for retail staff at the minute, and honestly think managers should threaten to close the stores if customers can't atleast be decent.

IfYoureNotIntoYoga · 15/03/2020 13:13

That elderly woman sounds awful

Pinkarsedfly · 15/03/2020 13:13

Well, this the result of forty-odd years of Thatcherism. We’ve been told to consume, and to look after Number One. Now the chickens are coming home to roost.

Judashascomeintosomemoney · 15/03/2020 13:15

Yep. When I picked up the last pack of loo rolls in Sainsbury’s on Thursday (we’d only a couple left at home, I haven’t overbought) there was a guy who’d been hovering near, presumably deciding whether or not to take the last one (he already had some in his trolley). He whipped round at me and gave me a death stare and said ‘oh ffs’, quite aggressively. I ignored it and moved away, but I did think, Christ, in a couple of weeks when this gets worse, he might well have made that physical not just verbal. Then, at the checkout, there was what looked like an otherwise respectable, well dressed woman (who in other times is probably perfectly civil), literally shouting at a supervisor over the lack of paracetamol and their failure to have stopped other people buying it 🤷‍♀️. We’re all doomed and it won’t be from Coronavirus.

MovingBriskyOn · 15/03/2020 13:15

It's not bringing out the best of us, is it. I despair of my fellow man sometimes Sad

makingmiracles · 15/03/2020 13:19

Some People are definately turning on others, on Friday I picked up a letter from drs with preschool dd in tow, we had no cold or cough didn’t touch anything and we’re waiting no queque for receptionist. Some old guy came in behind us and hand gelled then started passively aggressively asking dd if she had done her hands, I ignored him and after he had asked her several times he turned to me and asked if she had gelled her hands!! Felt like telling him to piss off but refrained.

In Sainsburys Friday some woman coughed once in line for kiosk and everyone was giving her dirty looks.

Friends parents were in queque at Tesco buying 1 bottle of hand sanitiser that they buy weekly as they run kennels, woman in front had a go at them asking if they usually buy it, even though she had 4 bottles in her trolley!

Unfortunately I do think it’ll get worse.

Buttybach · 15/03/2020 13:19

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Buttybach · 15/03/2020 13:21

@Crunchymum that's awful!!!

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Connie222 · 15/03/2020 13:22

The thing that scares me most is other people.

idontlike789 · 15/03/2020 13:23

I thought I was going to be lynched earlier in Asda I used the scan & pay. There were huge queues but no one using the scan & pay oddly so walked to the scan & pay till to pay . A couple of people queuing for the other till were like what's that woman doing they didn't say anything but I got a few glares of outrage .

YgritteSnow · 15/03/2020 13:25

I've just seen security run to break up a fight in Tesco at customer services :(

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Buttybach · 15/03/2020 13:25

It's only a matter of time before people are looting and roaming the streets with home made crossbows!!

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Buttybach · 15/03/2020 13:27

@YgritteSnow Jesus!!!

We once had a fight at Christmas at our local supermarket one woman twatted the other over the head with a frozen turkey!!

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Crunchymum · 15/03/2020 13:27

I must admit I was quite shocked, but it says more about him than me. And I did tell him I hope he chokes on his beans (which he had about 20 tins of!!)

Connie222 · 15/03/2020 13:28

@Buttybach that’s my fear. There’s a huge amount of fucking idiots in this country who would jump at the chance of looting. I was living in London with the riots - frightening amount of people who have that mentality.

Conny848 · 15/03/2020 13:28

I agree. I've just visited my 90 year old Nan who lived through the war and post war hardships and she's despairing at how people are reacting. I read her some of the comments on other posts on here and she just shook her head. Over the years she's told me and my children stories about human kindness and community spirit during and after the war. I wonder whether we will be telling our children and great grandchildren one day about how we all pulled together and looked out for one another during the covid 19 pandemic? I doubt it. Makes me sad.

LondonJax · 15/03/2020 13:29

Yes, the 'be kind' mantra has turned into 'I'm alright Jack so bugger off'

Ineedtobecalm · 15/03/2020 13:29

Just got back from food shopping and the atmosphere was horrible. The car park was like at Xmas where everyone was aggressively looking for a space and beeping the horn at each other, and everyone in the shop seemed short tempered. If need be I'm willing to give a load of abuse back if someone starts on me, but I felt sorry for the very elderly shopping in such an atmosphere.

HuggedTheRedwoods · 15/03/2020 13:33

I saw some awful behaviour in my own town this morning, which until today has had pretty well stocked shelves (aside from the usual scarce stuff). More than once I heard swearing about it being f'ing stupid from people who had trolleys stuffed full of items that didnt look like a regular shop! Genuinely feeling nervous about what the coming months will bring.

MoonBlood · 15/03/2020 13:34

My OH was in Tesco yesterday and a customers bottle of milk was leaking onto the conveyor belt. He said the toll operator wiped it up using some blue roll and everyone behind in the queue started ripping her to shreds for not using any antibacterial stuff or wearing gloves and storming off to other checkouts! It absolutely beggars belief, people have gone crazy :(