General Chat

Does anyone else get annoyed at the people (usually men) who stand in the newsagents rifling through the newspapers? One this morning, completely blocking the newspaper stand in our local newsagent read the local paper from cover to cover, I watched! And when he had finished, put it back in a terrible state and picked up a Daily paper to buy. They do the same with magazines in Smiths, read them and put them back, do they think it is a free library?
I never take the top paper, I don't want one that has been mauled (& I have watched them lick their fingers to turn the pages too) by somebody else.

Ann
glos

Well what a cheek! I dont buy daily's personally, so would not know. Surely someone in the shop should say something. Or perhaps put up a sign saying there are free newspapers to read at the local library!

I understand about the mauling - you dont know where their hands have been (or rather we know too well where they have!) LOL

Tina x

i never take the top paper either lol always one a few papers down

xxx

Or how's this for service:
I motorbike to work but stop in a village (Ongar) to pick up my paper.
This morning the proprietor saw me stop and met me at the door with my paper in his hand.
If I'd been a bit slower I wouldn't even have to have got off the bike except to put it under the seat.

I can't stand people in supermarket who 'nick' a couple of grapes to see if they like them ... if they do, they take another bag. (The bags are pre-priced!!)

LW

You always want to read the paper before my mother gets to it, after it is usually screwed into a ball. LOL

Michelle

I am really strange I hate not being the first person to read a paper/magazine, it is a standing joke in the family!

I know of someone who has a coffee in a supermarket, reads the papers, and removes coupons for free offers - I suppose the papers would only be thrown away anyway?????
Liz

In WH Smith a while ago, the free choccy bars with one of the glossy mags had all been swiped!

You couldn't make it up. weren't the choc bars inside a polythene sealed bag with the mag?

Ann
glos

I never take the top paper .Have never thought why though !!!!!!!

My moan is in supermarkets when someone leaves a trolly right in the middle of the aisle and goes off to look for what they want........

.......and why do they advertise 3 for £10 for wine, and then have empty shelves where the wine should be......

sally

ps.......I am the one who is busy picking up all the bumf that has fallen out of my newspaper.....

Yes, the wine is never there when we go either. SO WHO GETS IT, OWN UP!!!

Ann
Glos

Regarding the wine - and I say this as an ex-shelf stacker in a supermarket - what always boggled me was, the wine was in a special section of the shopfloor right at the end of the last aisle after the fruit and veg, but the promotion end (the end segment of an aisle with all the special offers on) allocated for wine was at the opposite end of the shopfloor, by the deli counter!

And there was an absolute rule that the wine shop must never be left unattended, too, so - if you can't get anyone to stand in there for you while you refill the far end section - you can't get out of the shop (in case somebody pinched something!).

The T****s that I use have the 3 for £10 offers amongst the rest of the wine, well i assume there was some there because all i ever see is an empty shelf!!!

What REALLY annoys me is people who think that because they are reading their newspaper... in a waiting room/bus/train etc... that gives them automatic right to all of the space around you, too, and you are expected to sit there whilst tthey almost knock your head off every time they turn a page.... grrrr! I did have to say sommat when the guy (and it's usually guys) having his transfusion next to me, almost had my canulla out when he caught my arm as he turned his paper over with that shake they give.. you know the one?... double grrrrr!! We get on fine now, and he is extra careful with his newspapers, lol!!

Love

Daff xxxxxx

You are right Ann, it is generally the men, in our ASDA they are looking at the football page. Must have time to waste.
I am afraid I am one of the naughty ones with the grapes, but I do buy the bag I have sampled one from. The reason I do this, is I bought a bag one day, and they were absolutely sour when I tried them at home. They are not pre-priced either, they weigh them and price them at check out.
My late fil hated screwed up paper, so if mil read it first she would iron it so he did not know she had been at it.

Mo

Glad this thread has come back up. Right, with regards to newspapers. We have two Daily's every day in the week, plus a Radio Times on Tuesday, and the local rag on Thursday. Boy oh boy does my husband know better than to open the Radio Times, or the local rag before me. I do not want him telling me what is going on in the following week's programmes, and I don't like him telling me who is dead, before I read it for myself, (that's why I buy the paper).
The story about the grapes reminded me of an incident a couple of years ago in Tesco. I was getting some loose tomatoes, when the woman next to me, who I knew, pulled about 3/4 off of bunch of Vine tomatoes. Well, she said, I like Vine tomatoes, but I'm not paying that price for them. Off she went to the checkout, and passed them through as ordinary,cheaper loose tomatoes. Dammed cheek
Julia in Derbyshire

Julia, I think that takes the prize!!!!

Yes Ann it does, doesn't it. She is such a toffee nosed so so, dressed up in all her Sunday best , full make up, hair freshly done,just to go to Tesco, and pass of expensive tomatoes as cheaper ones. Takes all sorts
Julia in Derbyshire