A nasty man!

[Gemini]

OH and I were in Tesco yesterday, putting our shopping onto the conveyor belt. OH was ahead of me, I was behind the trolley, we were both loading shopping on. A man behind me said ''Can you move up so I can get my stuff on?' 'No, not really.' I replied, as I couldn't.

'No?!' he said in the tone of one who had never had the word said to him. 'Up your ar*e' said the despicable toad.
'Charming!!' was my reply. He was about my age, maybe a bit younger. I looked at his wife who just looked down, as she would, married so such a specimen. Poor woman,
'Where do you expect me to put the trolley then?' I asked him, but he ignored me after that, as he loaded the conveyor with many boxes of booze.
My dad was a gentleman as are my SILs, and my ex husband. I am not used to course, obnoxious men (although I full well know they exist)

What an idiot. I have my own secret way of making myself feel better about nasty men, because of course he is not the first by any means that I have encountered in my 65 years.
I imagine them with baby sized genitals I know they don't know what I am thinking, but it makes me laugh inwardly

[Nanto2girls]

There's always an idiot somewhere. Nasty man.

[Mimi]

Gem luckily people like him are few and far between but it’s always the obnoxious ones we remember isn’t it.
I would have put my shopping on to the belt as slowly as I could, the more he huffed and puffed and complained the slower I would have gone.
Horrible nasty man , you have to feel for his wife/partner, I would suspect that she gets a lot worse when they are behind closed doors.

[Oma]

Horrible man , last year we were in Aldi and there was a man behind us and he constantly pushed into me with his trolley so I stood still didn't move and he kept doing it ,
So I pushed back very hard with my bum and the handle hit him full in the stomach. all I heard was a ooff as it hit him and a serves you right from his wife

I stood there with a silly grin on my face , childish I know but so satisfying

[Daisy]

Gem - what a miserable specimen of manhood! Heaven help his wife/partner! And imagine having him for a dad!!!

I'm with Mimi - I'd have gone as slowly as possible.

Oma - haha, good for you.

[Plantaholic]

Well done Oma, I will remember that if I encounter a person like that.

Goodness me Gem, what a horrible man, some people are so impatient.

[Shemadee]

I tend to stick my elbows out and give bad mannered people a sharp dig if they push me. Just come back from holiday booked by OH who thought he’d got a bargain! The Spanish pensioners get a free weeks holiday (someone thought it up as an election wheeze but now no one dares to stop it). The first weeks group were fine. Pleasant and polite though the place was somewhat overcrowded. The second group were a really rough tough lot and caused chaos in the dining room. It was like being in a run down old folks home. Fortunately it was very clean. OH has agreed that I will choose any future holidays! Decent cheap bargain holidays seem to be a thing of the past!

[Daisy]

Oh dear, Shem - a week's holiday in a rundown nursing home doesn't sound much fun. Thank goodness the first week was better.

I had no idea about the Spanish pensioners getting a free week's holiday, but it reminds me a bit of 'Wakes' weeks in the UK when whole towns would shut down their factories etc for a week and everyone would get on the train to places like Blackpool or Rhyl (in our part of the world).

[Nana]

You did right Gem. What an ignorant, pompous specimen. I'll remember your tip in future. Well handled Oma. Shem I'm sorry to hear your 2nd week was a sham.