Sunday, 17 January 2010

I told you so!

On Friday I wrote about my supermarket nightmare and yesterday morning when I went over there with my grand-daughter it was not only exactly as I said, but worse!
The store was the usual obstacle course with the in store 'dot com' shoppers and cages blocking almost every aisle and I was looking for some curry paste when we heard an altercation taking place in the next aisle where the teas and coffees lived.
We stopped our search and stood and listened for a minute or so and there appeared to be just two voices involved. The first was very loud, bossy and dominant and I described the owner of this voice to my grand-daughter saying that her age was about forty, she was very overweight, had very few manners and had attitude with a capital 'A'. She had been demanding that the other person "Move it out of my way NOW!". The other voice again belonged to a lady who was uite well spoken and very polite.She was politely but quietly refusing to obey the commands of the other person. Then I thought the first person was speaking to an employee of Tesco and demanding that a cage be moved out of her way, but as she grew increasingly louder and ruder in her demands I realised that this was not the case. As I had found what I was looking for, we made our way round to the aisle where this racket was going on. I told my grand-daughter to wait at the top by the coffee while I went to get the teabags (I really felt like going to poke this rude woman in the eye!).
My description of the owner of the first voice was spot on and as I approached, a Tesco employee came around the shelves at the bottom and stepped in to stop the situation escalating. The mouthy woman went off and the other lady was very visibly shaken by the whole thing. She told the lady from Tesco what had happened and I said she was right because I had heard from the next aisle what was being said.
Anyway, seeing the second lady was alright, I left her in the capable hands of the other lady from Tesco, got my teabags and we went on our way.
Never a dull moment in Tesco!

2 comments:

  1. I'm not surprised people do their shopping on the internet with incidents of trolley rage in Tesco's. I'm getting my own island, Independant Republic of Emma, I'll just have supplies airlifted in!

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  2. I'm sure you guessed what the clientele is like in the Tesco that I use!!!!!!

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