Hateful things

[flemmings]

Was buying wine yesterday at Blawblaws and waiting while an aged Moddom pottered about the very narrow space, monopolizing the salesclerk, blocking access to shelves and refrigerator,  wondering why everything was 2024 vintage, and worst of all-- worse than being utterly oblivious of everyone else there: really, she could have been a middle-aged man-- looking for Wayne Gretzky wine. Gretzky is now a traitor in the minds of right-thinking Canadians but I didn't feel up to telling her this since she probably doesn't follow hockey at all. Neither do I, but for sure I was aware of his lamentable behaviour last February.

Have noticed an uptick in the number of people in stores who leave their shopping carts in the middle of the aisle while they peruse shelves and cases, or socialize with their friends and their friends' shopping carts. Hateful!

Comments

[heleninwales]

Discourteous shoppers are very annoying. It won't be long before the tourists arrive. They shop as a family or group of friends. They are slow, they block the aisle while they ponder and discuss things, exclaiming how much more expensive everything is that in the big supermarkets at home. I get frustrated trying to dodge round them.

[flemmings]

Argh, the family group shop. Know it well, is why I avoid weekend shopping. At least with me it's parent with kids and they know what they want, even if the kids dash about in front of my walker. The tourists sound dreadful.

[heleninwales]

To be fair to the tourists, it's always slower shopping in a supermarket you've never visited before, but why can't they deputise one or at most two people to shop for the group while the rest wait outside in the car?

[flemmings]

Oh but what's the fun in that? /sarcasm

I suppose they regard the local shops as part of the holiday time scenery. This is why tourists and 'summer people' have a bad rep in places where summer people go. Mind, I haven't had many problems with tourists here, back in the days when we frequented the same spots, but the most common were West Indians up for Caribana, whose culture isn't that different from Anglo-Canucks.