Just witnessed the future in Asda car park!

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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!

We popped over to our Tesco at 10am for opening time, hoping to get a few bits that were not available in store yesterday.
By. 10.05 the queues were bigger than I’ve ever seen at Christmas! It was mayhem.
I did manage to get a 9 pack of loo roll, was tempted to pick up two but decided not too as it wasn’t my preferred brand, and I got a 10 pack of eggs. Family behind me had 45 eggs! I silently cursed the greedy, hoarding, panic buying twats. Nobody needs three packs of 15 eggs.

I’m not as scared of the virus as I am the breakdown of civilised society

That's what my DP said. These situations bring out the worst in people. Rationality goes out of the window.

I did find that having a peri menopausal hot flush is a great way to clear a supermarket isle though

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Our Tesco’s killed the panic spiral this morning by having every till open and shelves being aggressively restocked, so there were no queues, and the overall effect was calm and relaxed

The food bank donation box at my local Tesco is overflowing. That is all.

Just seen a big white of a bloke generally trying to intimidate the cashier at aldi. Security came over and he had some choice words for him.

The saving grace was when said gobshits point out 'I will remember this next time I am delivering to Aldi in my job as a wagon driver.....I'll remember!'

Queue about everyone else in the queues laughing at him.

@Pinkarsedfly Hahahaha I guess you have never read Lord of the Flies?

Behaviour is nothing to do with Thatcher- that's hilarious.

It's about survival instinct. we are never more than a hair's breadth away from being savages. Civilisation has a very thin veneer.

Well maybe it's just Worcestershire, but everyone in our very busy Tesco this morning was very cheerful and chatty. The queues were worse than Christmas but we were all joking about it.

I do really think our society has gotten so much more rude and selfish in the last decade or so.

We used to pat ourselves on the back at how polite British people are but recently everyone seems to be acting like selfish monsters.

Sent DH round to the corner shop (Coop) to buy some bread and eggs (walking). He also came back with 4 beers and 2 pizzas for a fiver. He chatted to a couple of neighbours en route and a few others in the shop.

Anarchy hasn't reached our corner of Somerset.

Could the supermarkets (who will be making significant profits) please consider their staff.
At Tesco earlier. All the checkout staff looked exhausted. One said it had been continuous since they opened.
Not even a bottle of water provided by management.

Come on step up Tesco and all you other multinationals and look after your staff.

"Do you realize you've got no toilet roll or paracetamol on your shelves!"

My colleague took over that one for me before she got the full length of my reply yesterday at work. My colleagues are absolute legends right now putting up with so much bs.

Hand gel put on each till has to be locked away at night and kept out of reach of customers or it gets nicked. A couple came in dressed for the Antarctic, with scarves wrapped round the noses and mouths to buy the essentials.... cheap larger and diet coke. Customers are looking for a fight over restricted items.

For a routine hospital appointment the other day my friend went to, a woman filled her own mini hand gel bottle up with the one for everyone to use. When challenged the CFucker told the nurse that she 'pays her taxes and I'm entitled to it'.

I am not seeing too much war spirit.

Dh is worried and thinks law and order will likely break down

I'm just back from my local supermarket and though it was as busy as Christmas, no loo roll, eggs, flour or of course handgel and liquid soap, queueing for the car park etc. everyone was pretty chilled. chatting in the queues about how mad busy it was etc.

This was well outside London in a small town.

Where are you witnessing such awful behaviour?

Hospital I work in had 16 bottles of alcohol hand wash ripped off end of beds....this was oncology ward ....what is wrong with people, I despair

I had my shopping delivered as normal this week but DH likes to go and do a top up shop on a Sunday morning. He is traumatised, he says it’s like Armageddon and was genuinely shocked but also said it was giving him the urge to panic buy.

Anyone who can tweet, can we start tweeting supermarket to please give elderly small pritoy to shop.
There are so many things, very inconsequential to them they could've doing to support elderly shoppers n.. Open half and hour early for them?.
Hold stuff back, have a staff member shop in store for them.. Etc

I'd seen two women stopped in Aldi (having gone through a till to buy some of their shopping) as they were leaving the shop by security guards to check their Sainsburys carrier bags which the customer claimed were their Sainsburys shopping (it wasn't it was stolen Aldi goods). The women started throwing the goods at the security guards claiming she was ill and had no food and no money so she was entitled to take what she wanted from the shelves. Woman threw it back at the staff shouting swearing. Then the store staff started shouting and told them they should be ashamed of themselves as there are people who can;t get any food because of stockpiling let alone theft!

In Tesco a couple were photographed at the till by another customer for buying an entire tray of soap. Sheer greed. The screaming and shouting brought the entire stire to a standstill and that was with 5 members of staff and a security guard. I hid.

I still didn't get my Vitamins.

I witnessed an old grumpy man 80+ shouting and saying fat people didn't exist in the war, he shouted at me, saying we gave you the country and you messed it up like he was some saint or something, I was in shock as he was really fired up. I was only buying some butter and jam and flowers for my mum.

Be careful there are some really angry people projecting there fears and narratives on others, stay safe out there

I can’t see it being long before the Army is brought in to keep law and order .

I’m not long back from Asda (no panic shopping, I just fancied making profiteroles today!). The car park is more rammed than at Christmas and the shop itself packed full.

What was hilarious was the stack of bbq coals and those instant bbqs at the entrance. Either they know more than us and the power grid is going to collapse or they’ve got a manager with a weird sense of humour. The fact that it’s absolutely pissing down.

‘Bored of the pandemic? Why not have a fun bbq with your loved ones’

JinglingHellsBells
Hahahaha I guess you have never read Lord of the Flies?

You know that's fiction, right?

Behaviour is nothing to do with Thatcher- that's hilarious.
It's about survival instinct. we are never more than a hair's breadth away from being savages. Civilisation has a very thin veneer.

I agree civilisation has a thin veneer in certain ways, in certain contexts. But as a species we survived and flourished through co-operation, not every person for themselves. Of course wider society and what's seen as "normal" affect people - so an increasingly individualistic neoliberal society is going to make people behave differently than in societies with different values.

At Asda this morning and it was mayhem and way busier than Xmas.

Loads of shoving and muttering. No trollies left at all. I went outside and three people were circling looking. Gave mine to a nice lady with her two kids.

I went to try and get the last bits that I couldn't get yesterday. Have told DH that's it now, I'm not going out to a supermarket again unless it's desperate!

We must be very lucky. I'm just back from the supermarket and it's the opposite here - even though there are no toilet rolls on the shelves, the pasta sauces have been decimated and I got the last bunch of ripe bananas!
Everyone was still trying to give each other enough space, saying sorry if they were taking too long bagging their stuff, cashiers all smiley and friendly. It was super busy but there wasn't any aggression or short-temper.

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.

I'm not sure which history books you've been reading so it may have escaped your attention that there have been numerous PMs since Thatcher, of which that Champagne Socialist Tony Blair can claim 13 of those years.

How convenient, just find someone else to blame for the selfishness, aggressiveness and rudeness of someone in Asda car park.