Comments on: Top Ten: Supermarket Scream http://reinventedsoftware.com/blog/2005/04/14/top-ten-supermarket-scream/ Reinvented Software Weblog Tue, 11 May 2010 18:58:29 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Claire http://reinventedsoftware.com/blog/2005/04/14/top-ten-supermarket-scream/comment-page-1/#comment-52 Claire Fri, 15 Apr 2005 06:54:03 +0000 http://reinventedsoftware.com/blog/2005/04/14/top-ten-supermarket-scream/#comment-52 I totally agree with all that's already been said, but let me just add a few of my own:- - People who stop abruptly, right in front of you, without any warning, and then glare at you when you bump into them. They usually do this in conjunction with another person, thus blocking the aisle (see Steve's 'Retired Roadblockers') which leaves you hopping around trying to get through. - People who ram their trolleys into your heels/shins, and don't apologise. - 'Johnny No Stars' shop assistants who look at you as though you're from another planet when you dare to try to ask them where something is, when the only reason you can't find it is because the bloody supermarket has moved everything round AGAIN in the hope that you'll be sucked into buying something you don't need as you're searching for the thing you do need. - People who hold up the checkout queue while they chat to the till staff about their mother's bunions. And then they spend ages packing their stuff away so all yours gets mixed in with theirs, at which point they huff at you as if you're trying to steal their cat food. On the flip side, one good aspect of supermarkets is that they still sometimes ask me for ID when I'm buying alcohol :D I totally agree with all that’s already been said, but let me just add a few of my own:-
- People who stop abruptly, right in front of you, without any warning, and then glare at you when you bump into them. They usually do this in conjunction with another person, thus blocking the aisle (see Steve’s ‘Retired Roadblockers’) which leaves you hopping around trying to get through.
- People who ram their trolleys into your heels/shins, and don’t apologise.
- ‘Johnny No Stars’ shop assistants who look at you as though you’re from another planet when you dare to try to ask them where something is, when the only reason you can’t find it is because the bloody supermarket has moved everything round AGAIN in the hope that you’ll be sucked into buying something you don’t need as you’re searching for the thing you do need.
- People who hold up the checkout queue while they chat to the till staff about their mother’s bunions. And then they spend ages packing their stuff away so all yours gets mixed in with theirs, at which point they huff at you as if you’re trying to steal their cat food.

On the flip side, one good aspect of supermarkets is that they still sometimes ask me for ID when I’m buying alcohol :D

]]> By: ade http://reinventedsoftware.com/blog/2005/04/14/top-ten-supermarket-scream/comment-page-1/#comment-51 ade Thu, 14 Apr 2005 21:23:55 +0000 http://reinventedsoftware.com/blog/2005/04/14/top-ten-supermarket-scream/#comment-51 --Slow people: GET A MOVE ON!! You don't need to study every sodding item in the store! - Find the things on your list, put them in your trolley, and get out of my bloody way! And if you happen to push your trolley quicker than 1mph - it's okay! - you won't get a nose bleed with the velocity, and you won't get a speeding ticket. Push faster, god damn it! --Dithering people: See above. --People with screaming kids: SLAP THEM! Sod all the unhealthily PC people out there: smacking is GOOD. It never did me any harm (apart from the 3 week bruises, and that short stint in casualty). If the kid is screaming - you're doing a shit job as a parent. Go home, read the manual, and only come back when you've worked out where the mute button is! --People who buy too much: If there was ever a nuclear war, buying three of everything in the store is not going to help. In fact, you'll probably be dead because you'll be the idiot still unpacking the groceries from your car at ground zero while the rest of us are at home painting our windows white, and wrapping ourselves in cling-film. I have to stop there. I think I need to lie down and think happy thoughts until my blood pressure returns to normal. –Slow people: GET A MOVE ON!! You don’t need to study every sodding item in the store! – Find the things on your list, put them in your trolley, and get out of my bloody way!
And if you happen to push your trolley quicker than 1mph – it’s okay! – you won’t get a nose bleed with the velocity, and you won’t get a speeding ticket. Push faster, god damn it!

–Dithering people: See above.

–People with screaming kids: SLAP THEM! Sod all the unhealthily PC people out there: smacking is GOOD. It never did me any harm (apart from the 3 week bruises, and that short stint in casualty).
If the kid is screaming – you’re doing a shit job as a parent. Go home, read the manual, and only come back when you’ve worked out where the mute button is!

–People who buy too much: If there was ever a nuclear war, buying three of everything in the store is not going to help. In fact, you’ll probably be dead because you’ll be the idiot still unpacking the groceries from your car at ground zero while the rest of us are at home painting our windows white, and wrapping ourselves in cling-film.

I have to stop there. I think I need to lie down and think happy thoughts until my blood pressure returns to normal.

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