I try to avoid the big supermarkets as much as I can. I just can't find anything to buy in them. My local one is so bad I might as well do my shopping at the service station where you can buy a warmed up again 'meat' pie or a pre(historic)packed sandwich. I like to go to the grocers where they have a choice of products not just their own brand and one other from Thailand, where the oranges are plentiful because they are in season and not from America where for some reason they are so bright you could use them as high viz traffic cones. However of late I have noticed a new kind of pest has permeated the food aisles, the mobile phone shopper. The I'm so popular I can't even buy sprouts without one of my five thousand hilARIOUS buddies calling me. They generally stand in front of the food item that you need to get to, staring at it with head cocked to the side and empty basket in arm, screaming into the freezer "you're fucking kidding me right". At the deli counter they leave bewildered assistants waiving leg ham in the air as the lesser ticket item holders suffer through a conversation about a four year old's teen model birthday party. I have nothing against mobile phones, I have two, one for work and one for personal use. In fact there is enough radiation coming out of my handbag to microwave a whole chicken. Perhaps if the supermarkets could provide a little outdoor area allocated specifically for mobile phone use to eliminate the risk of inhaling other people's crap conversations. Hmm. Might need to make that a bigger room.
I agree wholeheartedly. They're even more annoying at the checkout, when the goods have been scanned and packed and the assistant is waiting for payment while the customer finishes his/her conversation and the rest of the queue gets impatient. I've taken to waving my hand to get their attention and then stating the total cost while pointing at the eftpos amchine.
ReplyDeleteBefore you know it they'll be whipping out the ipad and watching their favourite sport or whatever and really forget where the hell they are or what they were *originally* doing, which they probably won't know the answer to either.
ReplyDeleteHow did we ever live without them? Actually recently I was in a supermarket and the check out girl was on her mobile phone! Cop that customers!
ReplyDeleteThe checkout girl was on her mobile?? That's a big no-no. We're not allowed to even have our phones with us, we have to leave them in our lockers. There is a mobile at the service/enquiry desk that the supervisor or manager might use to call someone in to work to cover a shift when another operator can't make it.
ReplyDeleteApologies for missing apostrophe in title line. Been found and returned. And yes, I use punctuation in text messages too.
ReplyDeleteI don't want to hear teens telling each other how much booze they consumed over the weekend or who unfriended them on Facebook but this happens on buses, trains and coffee shops and it drive me mad. I love gossip as much as the next person but I want to hear it from both sides.
ReplyDeleteI've had my mobile for 6 years and still carry the instruction book.