I prefer to shop myself as I'm 1) very picky and 2) prefer to select fruit and veg (that I don't grow myself) very carefully. I am also very frugal and love to get a bargain - not always apparent when doing on line shopping.
However, yesterday in Sainsbury's I was yelled at by a very rude woman. I am asthmatic and cannot wear a mask. I wear an "exempt" badge given to me by the chest clinic and try and avoid other shoppers when out, i.e I almost always hit Sainsbury's by 8 am latest.
I had almost finished my shopping when I remembered something for my daughter and went to the dental aisle. I moved a packet of the toothpick thingies and got a snout full of dust - one of my main allergies.
I put my hand over my mouth and stepped back but it still made me cough, which is when this woman absolutely shreiked at me - "You should be ashamed of yourself - without a mask!" I held up my badge and said I couldn't and why "Well, I'm asthmatic too and I wear one!" and she flounced off.
I could only yell after her that she was very lucky to be able to do so! It reduced me to tears, not my usual reaction but it's been a bad week health wise and I feel very low right now.
I could also have explained that I was at our local hospital this week and was tested and cleared, but she never gave me the chance...
Sainsburies are continually playing a message saying that not everyone's disabilities are clear to the eye and asking customers to be a little tolerant. Maybe that woman was deaf, as well as rude.