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Shoppers shouting at other shoppers?

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SpringyChicken Tue 28-Jul-20 21:02:42

Upsetting though it was, Taliya, don't change your shopping habits , she was in the wrong for blocking the aisle . Horrible woman. Big hug xx

Serendipity22 Tue 28-Jul-20 20:56:13

For goodness sake!!! It is getting to the point of you feel you're watched on your every moment

So, if you had asked these 2 ladies to "please move to 1 side as I want to pass." You would no doubt have had a confrontation because you were deemed 'impertant ' !!

Buggered if you do and buggered if you dont !
smile

Smileless2012 Tue 28-Jul-20 17:00:45

I was going to post the same as you Callistemon. I wonder if she'd felt comfortable shouting at you Taliya if she hadn't been hiding behind her mask.

Sar53 Tue 28-Jul-20 16:55:47

The first time we went out after lockdown was to a garden centre. Everyone keeping their distance. All of a sudden the two ladies, one 40'sh the other 60'sh stopped in front of us in the middle of the aisle with their trolley blocking the aisle. I had to step around them to get past. The older lady was very rude to me, muttering about 'people not social distancing. I very politely said that if she hadn't just stopped and blocked the aisle it wouldn't have happened. At the time I was very upset and it really knocked my confidence.

BlueBelle Tue 28-Jul-20 16:44:15

I ve got to say considering I live in a so called deprived area everyone seems very civilised here and I haven’t come across anyone being nasty a few people have come in the shop not wearing masks but we have instructions not to challenge them so there we go it all seems quite relaxed and easy going

Oopsminty Tue 28-Jul-20 16:33:41

My friend was travelling on an almost empty train to Liverpool

She was 4 seats away from anyone. She discreetly lowered her mask to take a sip of water and got shouted at.

Not sure if you're not supposed to drink on the train but she was very apologetic and just coughed the rest of the journey due to allergies

TerriBull Tue 28-Jul-20 16:15:22

You weren't in the wrong OP, they were. People shouldn't stand in the middle of the isle gas bagging, it's annoying under normal circumstances, but at the moment really off. The object of the exercise is to get in and out as quickly as possible, keeping as safe a distance as we can from other shoppers.

Sallywally1 Tue 28-Jul-20 15:42:11

I think that at the start of all this there was a sense of pulling together in a crisis, but all that has gone now and there does seem to be more bad feeling around, which is a shame.

Callistemon Tue 28-Jul-20 15:22:19

It was unacceptable for them to stand in the middle of the aisle chatting!

How can anyone distance when they do that?

Taliya Tue 28-Jul-20 15:10:53

I had to go into town today to buy my grandson a birthday card and post it and while I was there I thought I would go into the supermarket there to get a few things I could not get online ( not a supermarket I usually go to). I put my face mask on and did my shopping. I walked down an aisle to get to the checkout to pay and there was a middle aged lady and an older lady standing in the middle of the aisle chatting, so I walked round them giving them some distance. The next thing I know the middle aged lady starts shouting at the top of her voice....You are not social distancing etc and went on a rant at me. Well a few choice words were exchanged! I told the security guard on the way out and I think he went to have a word with her. They need to put signs up in shops now that it's unacceptable for customers to start shouting at other customers. During lockdown I never saw anyone shout at another customer. Since the face masks were introduced I've witnessed someone in another supermarket confront someone who wasn't wearing a mask. It's getting ridiculous now. I'm shopping for everything online from now because I don't need this kind of upset and hassle when I'm shopping. I'm not being unreasonable am I in expecting not to be shouted at. Loads of people over the last few months may have got closer than 2 meters to me while I'm shopping but I don't start shouting at them . People need to chill more .