Give the check out assistant a medal and a promotion

Aka Fri 05-Jul-13 23:34:57
What's that arcade game called where all the little heads pop out and you are supposed to bash them down with a rubber mallet?
Never mind. Time to

Ah ha!
I'm delighted to find you are still talking to me. But very confused as to why my last post provoked the reaction it did?
However, I'm off into the garden so would invite you to PM me so we can continue this discussion away from open forum, if you wish.

Jingl, don't forget me!

Who's Marion Bartoli? I thought the rude customer was called Jo Somebody.

I totally agree with that post of Aka' s!

Sorry Ana!

Bags, she is a French tennis player and won the Women's singles yesterday. John Inverdale made a very rude and sexist remark about her looks and many people are complaining to the BBC about him. It has nothing whatsoever to do with this thread!

Don't worry about it Bags.

Oh there is a lot more to it than John Inverdale' s remark. (Did you see the mention of Twitter GN?)

I was inviting posters to make comparisons. Perhaps thereby getting some perspective.

Actually GN, most people would have been able to get their head round that.

I'd like to see a customer try and talk on their mobile phone in Aldi. They throw the shopping at you so quickly you'd need to be an octopus to manage a phone call as well.

I don't look at twitter - I have more than enough to keep my happy with Gransnet and three ex-pat forums!
Plus Facebook.

Blimey, there are some vicious comments out there about Bartoli - as usual on t'interweb, turn up a stone and the creepy-crawlies rush out. It's worrying to think that many of them will pass as "normal" people in the real world.

Inverdale's reaction to the criticism of him is a bit odd. A simple sorry would have sufficed (she seems a very commonsense sort and wasn't a bit fazed by his remark), but no, he has to compound the slip by saying "She is an incredible role model for people who aren't born with all the attributes of natural athletes". What are they then - blonde locks, shiny teeth and Barbie legs?

I've just read the article in the Mail and now I know the full details I consider the check out person was amazingly rude, even bullying.

There is really no excuse for rudeness - whether in a supermarket or on Gransnet.

OH , That is soooooooooooo right , some people think they can say anything under the guise of "Being Right "

Absolutely right Nonu

Gosh , bluebell. for me and thee

I've enjoyed reading this thread but haven't contributed before as I thought that pretty much everything that could be said about the inappropriate use of mobiles had been said. How wrong was I! I was talking to someone today who had been interviewing for an office job in his small business. One woman received a text during her interview - "Hang on a sec", she said, and not only read the text but answered it!

I think that takes the biscuit, back. I bet she wondered why she couldn't seem to get a job.

I was seeing my gp yesterday when as I sat describing my symptoms I noticed an intermittant tinkly noise. After a few minutes gp said 'is that you or me?'. My phone was off so it was him. He took the phone out of his jacket pocket, looked, said it was his daughter and terminated the call.

We both grinned. It's the modern world!

I had a nice peaceful lunch with GD last week because she was so skint that her phone provider had cut her off!

anno

when i worked in my local hospital wrvs coffe shop there were notices on the wall saying mobile phones must not be used, i always wondered why as there was no equipment that they would interfere with. time has moved on.

Mobile phones should be only used in an emergency while outside your living space. What did people do before mobile phones were invented? The checkout girl was right.

Used payphones or waited till they got home .

seemed to work .