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Originally posted by Cheeky-Pixie:

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Originally posted by ѕρι∂єямσηкєγ:
What an amusing story OP. If it was me I'd have stood by my original assertion which is the cashier was being too slow. I'd have also pointed out that calling someone a "snotty cow" whilst complaining about them being "rude" is frankly comical.

I think personally, I would have told the cheeky cow in the queue to f*ck off. I'd have said 'who the f*ck do you think YOU are listening into my personal conversations you nosey bastard?!'

It would have turned into a real catfight. Of course, if I had been in a weepy mood, which is about one or two days of the month, I MAY have reacted as Holly did. Poor Holly. Have a hug Just think flower, you will never see this cow again, thank God

And at least you don't live next to her: just be grateful for that

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Originally posted by electric6:

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Originally posted by Trollop:
I will borrow you Mrs Trollop to take with you on your next shopping trip....if there are more than three people waiting at each checkout, he finds a manager and makes them open another till Never fails

I just want to die of embarrasment while hes ranting, and if anyone says anything to him he tells them to shut up. 'They all think the same thing, just dont have the balls to do anything about it'.

Funnily enough more people say thanks to him than insult him....

Fat Shhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhoes!

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Originally posted by Hollygolightly:Thanks C Pixie - cheered up enermously with all your funny responses

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Originally posted by MrsB:
I would have told her that eavesdropping into private converstions was rude, so who is she to judge?

Don't worry about it....my gob often lands me in trouble...I would probably have had a masive barney there and then! At least you came away with a bit of dignity!

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Originally posted by Cheeky-Pixie:

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Originally posted by Hollygolightly:Thanks C Pixie - cheered up enermously with all your funny responses

Awwwwww, I'm so pleased to hear that

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Originally posted by Hollygolightly:
I've just come home from Tesco and I'm in tears. I was in line waiting to pay for my stuff and the girl on the till was taking ages, I mean...eternity.

I was standing from 3.20pm and it was 3.35 before I got to the till. Whilst waiting my hubby rang and I told him it was taking ages and the girl on the till was so slow. End of - nothing else added (I promise you)

After hanging up the person beside me, said -
'I find what you just said VERY RUDE, the girl is only doing her job, where do you get off slagging her off you snooty cow! How dare you!!

It takes a lot to shock me but I nearly DIED of embaressment, everyone was looking over. I actually said 'Oh Sorry' but she kept on and on and when she got to the till, told the girl I was 'slagging her off'.... needless to say the girl on the cash till was like frosty the snow man and threw dagger looks at me and started up a conversation about what she has to put up with.
In the end I just walked away leaving my groceries, with the woman still calling me a rude cow.

I'm home now and still shaky. What should I have done? By the way I am sooo not snooty, the woman who called me this was 'new age' - dreadlocks and piercings so maybe me in my coat ,dress and handbag I looked snooty ????

(PLEASE don't think I'm being negative, just explaining her attire.) Hope it doesnt offend any new agers on her)
Anyway thanks for reading this - I just wanted to know how you would have dealt with the situation.

This is the first time anything like this has happened and I'm shocked at how upset I am.

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Originally posted by Darnell 2 Win =D:

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Originally posted by Hollygolightly:
I've just come home from Tesco and I'm in tears. I was in line waiting to pay for my stuff and the girl on the till was taking ages, I mean...eternity.

I was standing from 3.20pm and it was 3.35 before I got to the till. Whilst waiting my hubby rang and I told him it was taking ages and the girl on the till was so slow. End of - nothing else added (I promise you)

After hanging up the person beside me, said -
'I find what you just said VERY RUDE, the girl is only doing her job, where do you get off slagging her off you snooty cow! How dare you!!

It takes a lot to shock me but I nearly DIED of embaressment, everyone was looking over. I actually said 'Oh Sorry' but she kept on and on and when she got to the till, told the girl I was 'slagging her off'.... needless to say the girl on the cash till was like frosty the snow man and threw dagger looks at me and started up a conversation about what she has to put up with.
In the end I just walked away leaving my groceries, with the woman still calling me a rude cow.

I'm home now and still shaky. What should I have done? By the way I am sooo not snooty, the woman who called me this was 'new age' - dreadlocks and piercings so maybe me in my coat ,dress and handbag I looked snooty ????

(PLEASE don't think I'm being negative, just explaining her attire.) Hope it doesnt offend any new agers on her)
Anyway thanks for reading this - I just wanted to know how you would have dealt with the situation.

This is the first time anything like this has happened and I'm shocked at how upset I am.

Aww Holly Sorry you had that happen to you- it's so nasty and totally unneccesary I used to be a tillgirl and was shocked at how rude and mean the customers could be for the most petty of things, so I feel for you being on the wrath of someone too I know how you feel hun because it really got me down, but in this case it sounds like you were not only in the right to annoyed at kept waiting so long + then for that awful woman to say all that and embarrass you when you'd done nothing wrong, grr Anyway, I guess what I'm trying to say is I know exactly how you feel and remember we're all on your side and we can't all be wrong You hold your head up high, that stupid woman deserves no more of your time, you sound like a lovely person, worth a million of her hun

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Originally posted by longcat:
Sorry you had a bad day Holly, you did the best thing by walking away. I keep thinking of poor Kevin Tripp standing in a queue waiting to pay for his shopping and ending up dead. The silliest things can escalate into major situations with deadly consequences. You showed yourself to have more class than the woman who confronted you.

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Originally posted by ZAYLEE:

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Originally posted by Mummy Maz:
i woulda told her to mind her own too - i had a huge arguement with a pensioner at tesco petrol station on saturday, when i was finished with him i started on his snooty wife who almost got beaten over the head with her People's Friend... that'll teach 'em to push in infront of the fightin irish (my nickname from yrs ago!) ... bluddy pensioners, think they world owes them a favour cos they 'saved' us from Hitler... FAIL!

I find your comment very age-ist - a pensioner is anybody who receives a pension instead of going to work so they could be anything from 55+ years depending on what their previous occupation was - To have saved the likes of you from hitler they would need to be getting on for 80 and I doubt greatly if they think the world owes them anything cos most of the people I know who are in this age group just get on with life and whatever it chucks at them - I wonder if they went home skaken adn upset after the run in with so called 'fighting irish' just like the original poster did - did the woman have a nice dress on like the original poster in order to get the label snooty I wonder

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Originally posted by Cup Chick:
I am not sticking up for the crusty, although i do think she had a point, which she made badly. However some peeps have mentioned that it was a "private conversation". I have to disagree, a private conversation is one where nobody else can hear. It's not like the other people in the queue can turn their ears off, is it?

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Originally posted by *Pesky-Pixie*:

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Originally posted by Cup Chick:
I am not sticking up for the crusty, although i do think she had a point, which she made badly. However some peeps have mentioned that it was a "private conversation". I have to disagree, a private conversation is one where nobody else can hear. It's not like the other people in the queue can turn their ears off, is it?

I tend to agree...but I have a 'thing' about mobile phones anyway.

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Originally posted by Demantoid:

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Originally posted by *Pesky-Pixie*:

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Originally posted by Cup Chick:
I am not sticking up for the crusty, although i do think she had a point, which she made badly. However some peeps have mentioned that it was a "private conversation". I have to disagree, a private conversation is one where nobody else can hear. It's not like the other people in the queue can turn their ears off, is it?

I tend to agree...but I have a 'thing' about mobile phones anyway.

I disagree - most people wouldn't butt into a conversation between two strangers if both were present. Why should the fact that one of them was on the other end of a phone make any difference?

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Originally posted by *Pesky-Pixie*:

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Originally posted by Demantoid:

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Originally posted by *Pesky-Pixie*:

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Originally posted by Cup Chick:
I am not sticking up for the crusty, although i do think she had a point, which she made badly. However some peeps have mentioned that it was a "private conversation". I have to disagree, a private conversation is one where nobody else can hear. It's not like the other people in the queue can turn their ears off, is it?

I tend to agree...but I have a 'thing' about mobile phones anyway.

I disagree - most people wouldn't butt into a conversation between two strangers if both were present. Why should the fact that one of them was on the other end of a phone make any difference?

I suppose it's because I view the mobile phone the same as my home phone still.

I wouldn't pick up and start a conversation with someone on the home phone if I had visitors so don't answer calls outside the house if peeps are around either.

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Originally posted by Demantoid:
Maybe, but I wouldn't put a bunch of strangers in a queue in the same category as visitors to my home though.
Either way, you must admit that crustie was a right cow!

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Originally posted by Mummy Maz:

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Originally posted by ZAYLEE:

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Originally posted by Mummy Maz:
i woulda told her to mind her own too - i had a huge arguement with a pensioner at tesco petrol station on saturday, when i was finished with him i started on his snooty wife who almost got beaten over the head with her People's Friend... that'll teach 'em to push in infront of the fightin irish (my nickname from yrs ago!) ... bluddy pensioners, think they world owes them a favour cos they 'saved' us from Hitler... FAIL!

I find your comment very age-ist - a pensioner is anybody who receives a pension instead of going to work so they could be anything from 55+ years depending on what their previous occupation was - To have saved the likes of you from hitler they would need to be getting on for 80 and I doubt greatly if they think the world owes them anything cos most of the people I know who are in this age group just get on with life and whatever it chucks at them - I wonder if they went home skaken adn upset after the run in with so called 'fighting irish' just like the original poster did - did the woman have a nice dress on like the original poster in order to get the label snooty I wonder

Oh please!! Ageist?? get a life! My parents are pensioners yet they have basic manners... also i couldnt give a rats ass whether they went home 'shaken' - the OLD MAN (70+ btw) was downright rude and obnoxious and actually squared up to me before telling me to eff off back to my own country - i do not have respect for such people, i don't care if he was in the blimming war he does not talk to me like that, he now knows this and hopefully a young slip of a girl like me has taught him and his stupid wife a lesson - manners are easily carried. Main lesson learnt here? Don't mess with the Mummy... i've lived in this country and paid my dues for 10 years now and paid my dues back home in NI before that, i refuse to take abuse from xenophobic pensioners. nuff said.