Oh, how exceedingly rude! I would have cut that shop assistant's conversation dead...... as for the bloke in the queue, well, a sharp kick on the ankle would have told him.

Rudeness makes me so cross, and if I come across it, I'm in there like a whippet (no pun intended)

Lol, actually when I got home I was so cross with myself for not doing or saying more.
I suppose that is where this country is really going wrong, we don't complain enough.

OMG - don't get me started either. Rudeness drives me mad.
What drives me particularly mad (amongst lots of other things) is that I have taught my 12 year old manners - me and OH are very hot on this, but I just wonder why we bother. He will quite often step aside, open a door, stuff like that - only to be completely ignored by the person he has done it for (and I have to say it is nearly always an old person) Drives me insane and makes me wonder why we bothered.

My OH says you've clearly never been shopping with me then He thinks I complain too much whereas he never does

I always say "the word you're looking for is Thank you" , What is it with old people and their lack of manners when they're are the first to complain that youngsters have none

Don't even get me started. Will take me far too long to type my thoughts, especially this week

On the other end of the scale what gets me is the clients/customers who stand at reception happily chatting away on their mobile whilst you try to serve them! Then they get grumpy when you're not going fast enough, when really you're waiting for them to enter their fricking pin

I was having a chat with Charlie about this today.

I pulled up outside some houses to pick him up from school and three older women got out of the house to go get in their car.... they were looking to see who had dared park outside their house lol.

They were looking at him like he was a thug, yes he's 6ft 2 with long hair and a face like a wet weekend but that's normal for him lol.
Charlie said 'Those ladies are staring at me'.
When they saw him get in my car, I said to him 'Smile at them you may be surprised', so we smiled, and they smiled back and let us pull away first.

I told him I always try to say hello to people if I'm out walking etc. You'd be surprised how many people I now know by sight just from saying hello and smiling. So I've challenged him to do it too, to challenge people preconceptions of teenagers, coz he is a big kind softie underneath that greasy mop lol.

I just can't abide rudeness or prejudice and that man wouldn't have ignored me in the queue for long.

that reminds me of last week when kids get in from college straight upstairs then OH in from work straight in the garden not a hello mum or hello wife !!!!!!!!!!!!!! so i left the paper open on the property and page and circled a nice little flat .....told them all i might as well live alone to be ignored

I thought it was "where's wally" but "where's nippy" is more appropiate xxxxx

Poo pah

M2M I would be furious at that too.

Wishbone I would have liked to have seen that, bet they were amazed

Hey, aren't we a grumpy old lot?