shopping trip...

ok, imagine this scenario - you're with your lady doing a bit of shopping at morrisons and you're waiting in a Queue to get served... then the next till opens up and the assistants asks for customers to be served - quick as a flash I grab the trolley and move it over.... who else would do this..?? most people I think...

well, it's what I did yesterday - but in the original queue there happened to be a gorilla in front of me (with his missus and couple of sons aged about 10) - now, this clown walks over and say's 'let me in front of you...' (or words to that effect) and I of course say 'no...' so, he's shoulder pushing me around and I just say to my lady - 'You always get one...' to which he says 'what did you say..?' - I just laughed at him and he was getting angry, but i wasn't gonna let the prick get me down (he was bigger and no doubt stronger than me) - so I kept eyeballing him (by this stage he'd already plonked most of his food in front of mine..) and he came forward (possibly expecting me to back down) and made a punching gesture (this point my lady stepped in and shouted at him) - but he kept shouting - 'yeah, keep staring...' to which I did...

but **** me - what is it with these chavscum..? - he thinks he can just bully his way through life...I then got talking to the guy behind me who said he'd went to school with this guy and he was the same then...

no doubt this gorilla could have done me in (but I didn't have a reason to fight, wasn't worth it over a feckin queue...but had he of pushed my lady etc then that would have been a different story) but I wasn't gonna back down like he expected me to have done...

anyway, he skulked off out of the shop...

 

"there happened to be a gorilla in front of me "

.....er, isn't this the point here?

The gentleman was in front of you in the origional queue...so didn't he have first option when the new checkout was opened?

Just wondering....

Might have been worth asking if he'd like to go first....?

 

maybe - but the way i saw it was that a new new had formed and I got there before anyone else... had the same of happened to me (and it has done) I would have just waited behind...

but anyway - it's good to see what other people would have done in the same situation... but I do feel as tho he over reacted...

 

I'm usually half-asleep when shopping so would probably not even notice that a new queue had opened. The other bloke certainly over-reacted though.

 

maybe...

he undoubtedly did....but TBH I would have been a liitle miffed in his place.

 

I always dive for the freshly opened queue, I've never had anyone challenge me for doing so.

Tony.

 

mr cat I think you were perfectly justified in going to the new queue

I think the other bloke was being a complete ar*e-h*le

Good for you for standing up to him and not leting him get away with his despicable behaviour

 

just out of curiosity what was the check out girls reaction to a near punch up during her shift??

eg amusement/consternation/other?

 

to be honest - while this was happening I wasn't watching anyone else - but afterwards she agreed with me...even the guys girlfriend mouthed 'sorry' to me (making sure her bloke didn't see or hear...) - but everyone there was shocked at his behaviour...whether they weren't too happy with mine remains a mystery - as nothing was said to my face....

 

Shopping in Morrisons is never a good idea.

This sort of thing never happens in Waitrose.

-- Ian

 

yeah, so people have said - but then again you can get a punnet of plums, peaches etc at a pound a pop...

 

Cheap fruit just encourages gorillas, it seems.

-- Ian

 

sorry to say it.....

I lived in the north east for the first 22 years of my life. Visting last year for the first time in over a decade I was embarrased showing my friends round. Newcastle and Sunderland both had a nasty violent undercurrent about them. I'd been oblivious to it growing up.

 

yeah, I know what you mean - that why I moved away to the sticks...that said, I don't just think it's the north east that has this problem... any big city's have the same issue, bristol, cardiff, liverpool, notthingham, london etc...
as I've said before - people may complain about imigrants, but in my experience - these chavscum pose a bigger problem...

 

This sort of thing is completely unheard of in London and the south east.

Can't you get on a train and head south when you want to go shopping? There are no gorillas in Selfridges food hall, except maybe some ready for roasting for sale at the butcher's counter.

-- Ian

 

one can assume that you're a chav then..?

 

I'll ask my butler to post a reply to you later, when he's finished mixing my martini.

-- Ian

 

I think its first past the post unless the person in front has like, two items or is old and doddery, I think its fair to jump to the next till. If he hadn't been prepared to spill blood for his sad perceived bit of turf, maybe I'd have let him in, but civility is lost on this bottom rung of the proletariat!

"Stanley Clarke - Pitbulls an endangered species"

 

personally I avoid the supermarkets like the plague.

Patiance was certainly never a strong suit of mine .....

I use a local lidl often for precisely the reason theres never any one there........straight through!!! :banana::banana:

Safeways (morririsons whatever) ??

20 mins (or seems like it) queue with a checkout girl moving at asnails pace......my blood pressure goes into orbit.....

no, not my scene

 

Not re-open this discussion unnecessarly but going back to the opening tale...

1) The bloke was completely out of line threatening violence at all.

2) If you and the bloke in front had both had 20 people in front (therefore 1/2 hour wait to be served) of you I might consider asking him a politeness.

If he was just about to be served anyway....as people have said...no big deal.

Thats what I would do any way.