People Gawking at Your pruchases in the supermarket

Wishbone Ash wrote:

I had to buy 250 (50 X 5 pairs) of socks in Penny's one time (long story). I got some funny looks. Even the security man followed me around the shop and up to the till. When the girl was scanning them, I could hear someone saying "Jayus, yer man is fond o the black socks".

Ah but you see, ordinary shops sell what look like black socks, but if you look closely, you'll see that they're very, very, very, very, very, very, very dark blue.

Actually a fun thing to do in the supermarket is to fill a trolley up with booze and then stick a pack of nappies on top. Then when you are told the total price at the till say "Ah, f*ck... I don't have enough... I'll have to put something back." and put back the nappies and then see all the dirty looks you get.

I look at people guess their lifestyle eating habits and then look in trolley for convicting evidence. Most don't care nor do I, but women seem a lot more uneasy than men about it.

Passes the time, waiting for someone to apy for 1L of milk with a credit card, or some biddy counting out 99cent in ones and twos.

I look at other people's trollies, and if I saw something that looked nice, I'd ask was it. Me being 6 foot 6, wearing a trenchcoat, metal blaring from the headphones around my neck, the old biddies will give me an informed answer, rather than a "f**k off and mind your own business":D

I've never had a problem with this but i did work on a check out once, there was one woman who used to come in weekly and but loads of tablets for constipation which i thought was pretty funny, untill some one told me she probably had an eating problem!

Oh and couples buying condoms, heehe, they're gonna do it!

I hate people who gawk in general. Yes we all glance or have a peep at other people in front of us etc but people who gawk are ignorant. What I really hate is people who gawk at you just because you're child is crying or whatever. You'd swear you were killing your child the way they'd stare. Best way to deal with gawkers is to gawk back. I've had to confront some people for gawking too much. Suppose that can be fun :eek:

As for looking at other peoples shopping the thought never occured to me tbh as I'm either on my own and enjoying the relaxation of being able to shop child free or else I have a teenager asking for EVERYTHING in the shop and a four year old skidding up and down the aisles & my Mam who is obsessed with "specials" and takes an hour in each aisle! Suppose I'm a ideal candidate for the gawker.

They never go to Tesco because they have all tyheir own, familiar goods in lidl and Aldi, and it's so much cheaper too.

Yesterday I had some Polish fruit drink called Physio or something, I only got it because it was very cheap, it'd be nice if there wasn't so much carrot in it, it made the drink taste like dirt.