Judge bans man from every pub in Dublin. Where have you been banned from?

Well I just managed to get banned from - of all things - a Eurostore (yea a Pound Shop as they used to be called) in Kilkenny town last week.

I was in the Queue and observed the woman behind the till totally explode at a customer for having the gall to - wait for the sheer depth of his sin here - ask for a plastic bag _after the transaction in the store had been complete_. Shock horror!!! She totally ate the customer out of it.

Being three people back in the Queue I had all but forgotten it when I got to the front of the queue. There was a teen guy serving also and I placed by stuff on the counter. He however served the people behind me. Clearly he missed me or thought I was leaving with the people before me.

So jokingly I said "Hello Hello - whats going on here - we know how a queue works right?". Smile on my face - joking tone. No issue. The guy sheepishly grinned at me and was clearly about to say "My bad" or something when the battle axe woman from above whirled around with an "Shut up - It was an honest mistake - get over it". The kid working with her rolled his eyes and I just smiled at him knowingly. It’s probably a family run store and this was his mum or something in which case he has my undying sympathy.

As I was walking out I heard an under breath snide "Last time I checked I knew how a queue works" from the battle axe. I just calmly said back "Keep practicing love" to which she screamed "IF you want to be so rude - do not come here again". I replied "Its a Euroshop love where shall I ever find it’s like again" which appeared to leave her with an expression on her face that suggested she realised the pathetic futility of her trying to ban me from that store.

Still - my first ever official banning from an establishment. Though from her treatment of me - and the customer who asked for a bag - I am going to assume this woman is "known about town" by any Kilkenny locals here. Either that or she was just having a particularly bad day. A combination of minimum wage and being decidedly and noticeably obese perhaps. Or maybe she was upset at having received a large shipmetn of Fizzbombs which - judging from what I saw on her shelves - were all melted and stuck together into congealed massed in each packet.

I rather suspect being banned from there was doing me a favor.