Altercation with butcher

[CuriousaboutSamphire]

DH just came back from our local butcher and is a bit

The man being served ahead of him ordered 20 chicken thighs, 20 burgers, sausages, minter lamb chops etc

The butcher serving him said "that sounds like a BBQ for a large crowd" and got told to "just fucking bag it all up" Butcher refused saying that not only did it seriously deplete his sticks but that he wouldn't be party to someone breaking the lockdown regulations. The man got swearier and was asked to leave. As he left he shouted that he had driven "fucking miles" and wouldn't be coming back.

DH thinks he didn't quite expect the round of applause the butcher got, or the "well fuck off back there, then" that was shouted at him by a man probably in his 80s.

Apart from the obvious twattishness it struck us that Mr Big obvious didn't expect a hick town butcher, or customers, to be quite so capable of saying no!

Quite different from my encounter in the farm shop last weekend. Made me wonder how all those of you living in urban areas are doing - not saying all urbanites are tests more that we know who our local twats are and tend not to let them get ahead of themselves.

I hope you are all managing to avoid such prats, wherever you live!

But the spreading of these stories online bolster all kinds of frankly bonkers vigilante behaviour. I’m glad I haven’t left the house for 3 weeks and have avoid it in real life.

Well said.

Maybe the butcher did do the right thing, but all social media is full of at the moment is people tittle-tattling on other people for the most minor things. It's really unpleasant to see.

I honestly dont think that anyone should be ordering 80- 100 pieces of meat unless they are shopping for a home or like wise, in that case they ought to phone ahead and ask. That would massively deplete stock for others in the queue. I think your butcher is great for the way he handled the situation.

DH done didn't mention any clapping.

Unpleasant tittle tattle? Yes, again, you are probably right. Being publicly gobsmacked at the behaviour if others is nasty. I shall pull on my purity Halo immediately. I must have forgotten to reattach it when DH polished it earlier

@Coffeecak3 darned incomers

I wouldn't have thought anything of what he was buying. We often buy 20 chicken breasts, pork chops, sausages, bacon etc from the butcher as we do a monthly meat shop. However if they told they couldn't sell that much one day I certainly wouldn't be rude about it!

@CuriousaboutSamphire. Ha ha. We’d be glad of any new faces at the moment.

I’m going to disagree with many here. It’s none of the butcher’s business what he plans to do with all that meat. Does he know how large his family is? I was one of five children and our grandparents lived with us too so none of us on the house and my husband has 8 brothers and sisters. That amount of meat would probably be about right for a large family for a week.

Deplete his stocks? WTF? What else was he planning to do with them? Surely he opened the shop that morning with the intention of selling as much as he could. That’s usually why people open a shop.

Yes, he could be against against the guidelines and having a party but that’s nothing to do with the butcher. It’s guidelines and rules. No laws are being broken.

That said, the customer’s attitude was appalling. No need for the abuse even if he was doing nothing wrong.

DH done didn't mention any clapping.

Your OP says

DH thinks he didn't quite expect the round of applause the butcher got

I honestly dont think that anyone should be ordering 80- 100 pieces of meat unless they are shopping for a home or like wise,

Whatever you 'think' - and the word you failed to use is opine - some people buy that amount at a time so that they do not have to go out shopping all the time. Good luck telling the rest of the world how they should buy stuff.

I would completely and utterly boycott any fucking shop that commented on my buying habits in this fashion.

Obviously this amount of meat was meant for two bbqs of 25 or one big one with 50 people. If this is the amount of meat that a family of 8 children consume over the course of a week then take a look at your fucking diet. Disgusting.

Ah I see, OP. Your update shows it is all made up.

Sorry if covered

But how many actually clapped?

Given 2 metre rule and only one adult shopping at a time. This rude customer, your DH, the 80 year man and of course the butcher. You said he’s opened the hatch but much be a seriously long shop to have accommodated many more.

So that means... your DH, the 80 year old man and.... who else clapped?!

OK... round of applause, cheers, maybe clapping. DH said they cheered. I typed round of applause.

There were about 6 people in the queue, 2 people in the shop, the rude man and DH

Hatch???? No hatches. The shop is small and used to have 2 doors. Like many others the second door was covered over, had a shelving unit put over it, was locked, never used. Local chippies have undone a couple of them I the last week or two.

The only reason anyone outside the shop knew what was going on was because he stomped out if the in door, probably still swearing. DH only heard the older man comment as he was behind him, standing in the in doorway.

2 customers, longish, narrow shop.

This is completely unreasonable and sizeist. Sometimes, giantism is not obvious. My uncle was a giant (despite only being 5' 11") and needed 12000 calories a day just to maintain his weight.

not a laughing matter.

Very well said.

Just because you are the world's smallest giant, it doesn't mean people can take the piss.

@Laiste unless you are the Radfords I doubt it! There are ten of us in our house and that meat would be too much for a household family bbq.

Cool Story Bro

I can see that my trying to go be you a mind's eye view of the shop has only meant that the dis, dat and bro posters have decided I am lying.

I'll keep my small town, small, minded bemusement to myself in future.

And remain glad that I think Mr Bigs behaviour was outrageous and I haven't become inured to such idiots.

There are definite benefits to living in Hicksvilles.

This shames the minor altercation I witnessed in Lidl today (and i was so excited about it).

I was behind a wumman - we exchanged socially distanced pleasantries (as you do), but when she got to second from front of the queue a bloke began berating her> Was she blind? He was in the offing queue? Was he black? Why did she think she could cut in front etc etc etc etc etc .

He was carrying a single bottle of (something- God knows what). She gave as good as she got. The another till shouted for the next customer and I said "Till 6 is free" - nobody moved - though they did give me A Look.

So I went to till 6 while they thrashed it out between them. I was out of the shop before either of them (I noticed the wumman come out as I was loading the car.)

TBH - whether he'd been in front of me or not, bearing in mind he had ONE ITEM, I would have just said "Oh - so sorry. Please go ahead."

Life's rich tapestry, eh?

There’s 15 of us living in our hamlet.
Swells to 21 in summer.

I can imagine the road. Total gridlock!

So the older man shouted at him to fuck off without knowing what actually happened in the shop?

So far you've said there was a round of applause, DH didn't say if anyone clapped and then DH said they cheered, round of applause, cheering and maybe clapping.

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So far you've said there was a round of applause, DH didn't say if anyone clapped and then DH said they cheered, round of applause, cheering and maybe clapping

Come on!

A bit of poetic license when telling a tale is acceptable.

2 people inside the shop (your DH and the rude customer)
And then 4 outside, 2 metres apart.

Oh come on OP. This “round of applause” or “clapping” as you amend, was what... 2 people at most? Your DH and the 80 year old who wasn’t even in the stores. How would the last two in the queue have the foggiest what had gone one.

Basically - I think storm in a thimble of a tea cup. But sounds like your DH was very excited at the clapping!!

???

Shop counter... Mr Big DH in the middle of the shop older man standing in the open doorway

DH heard nobody else clearly but did hear the other 3, maybe 4 (DH wasn't concentrating on counting, neither of us knew there would be a test) people outside in the pavement react to Mr Big stomping out of the in door. An ironic cheer maybe, like when someone drops a tray of glasses. Or maybe just because he got into his car that was parked on zig zags. I don't know why, DH doesnt know why.

Is it really that hard to envisage? Are such shops, similar CV arrangements that rare?

So the story changing really Op

And that’s funny, but also... annoying.

You have clearly employed hyperbole in your OP to grab attention. You posted in Coronavirus chat. Your post is contributing to the idea of people are behaving badly, it’s another negative story.

We know some people are behaving badly, we all know that. But there is no point in starting a thread that turns out - really is exaggerating and could have been about parking!

Ahh! So also parked on zig zags.This is unbelievable!!

( no,really)