Rude people
...particularly in shops.

Last week, I'm queuing up in Comet and two women come and stand behind me. RIGHT behind me, practically touching me. They then proceed to gabble on at each other very loudly, and then after a while they started tutting.

One poked me (yes, poked) and shouted "Are you waiting to buy something?", as if she expected me to say no and get out of her way.

"Yes, I'm queuing."

"Oh... so why aren't these people serving you?"

"Probably because they are all serving people" (as this is exacly what they were doing), I replied as sarcastically as possible. Then I relised how appalling this woman was, so I continued, "They can only serve one person at a time, can't they?"

"hmmpfff... I suppose so."

By the time I got served, the woman was getting really impatient. Whilst i was waiting for my item form the storeroom, the woman shouted across:

"Serve me now!"

The poor girl on the till politely informed her that she was serving me, to which the woman threw what every she was holding on to the floor and stormed out saying

"Well, this is just ridiculous".

Quite... wait your fucking turn!

Maybe it's because I worked in a shop for eight years and have encountred every kind of rude customer imagineable, but always appreciated customers who were polite and, just nice.


Blimey: quite a long one
( Joe Scaramanga with a G-double-O-D vibration, Wed 7 May 2008, 11:02, 3 replies)

Wow...
It upsets me that there are people like that.

At the same time though, it makes me feel better that I'm not them.
( Cawl, Wed 7 May 2008, 11:08, closed)

Try being a till person with these people!

I've worked in places before where people have to queue. My favourite example of this was when I worked in a restaurant, which may of may not have been McDonald's. People would queue for a few minutes, get to the front, and be all arsey about having had to have queued, just like everyone else. They will moan about this for several minutes, holding up everyone else, like inconsiderate twats. Then you'd finally get round to asking them what they wanted to order, and they'd then choose to look at the menu and decide. After complaining about having to queue for so long, they then proceed to hold up the queue even further.

These are the worst people in the world, and I would welcome any Government that brings about their extermination via any means.
( Thinker, Wed 7 May 2008, 11:19, closed)

totally agree with you on this one :)
have done the shop work myself, and the amount of rude idiots out there is staggering
( The Great Architect is still waiting for his account to be deleted on, Wed 7 May 2008, 11:46, closed)