Crikey The General Public Are Idiots

[Barmaid]

I just had to nip up to a local shop (which has a post office bit), to post a recorded delivery letter. The woman in front of me in the queue was obnoxious and completely out of order. I do wonder why some people are like this. Scenario follows:-

Customer asks for a form and is given it. Then asks for a pen. She is also given it but told "That's my only pen, I can't let you take it away because I might need it for the next customer".
"Why can't I take it away"
"well its my only pen
And I may need it for the next customer”
“HOW DARE YOU I AM A CUSTOMER”
“You might be a customer, but you should have brought your own pen” (I was inwardly laughing at this point).
“YOU JUST CHUCKED THE Fluffing PEN AT ME”
“no I didn’t I passed it to you and told you it was my only pen and I may need it for my next customer. Please do not use that language with me”.
I AM A CUSTOMER I NEED A PEN, HOW DARE YOU SPEAK TO ME LIKE THAT – THIS LADY MIGHT NOT NEED A PEN (looks at me at which point I say “Don’t bring me into this love, I don’t need a pen, but there’s no need to be rude”)
The post office lady is by this point looking a little flustered.
The “customer” then continues with her rant and states “Right I want to see your manager NOW, you have discriminated against me and you have been rude blah blah blah blah”.

I was VERY embarrassed. I felt so sorry for the lady behind the counter and have subsequently phoned the shop and spoken to the manager and told her that her staff member was acting in a professional manner under extenuating circumstances.

Jeez, how can people get so bloody stroppy over a pen For Funks Sake.

You've got to have some sympathy for people who serve the public when the public are rude stupid oiks. Since when was it the local shop's duty to provide pens? Had I actually had my handbag with me, I'd have given her a soddin pen.

[Octavius]

Understood BM, but there is clearly an underlying message to this whole sorry saga.

Three women in a shop and still the penis mightier than the sword.

[ummmm]

lol

[carrust]

I bet the wimmin took an age to find their purses:-)

[Mammar]

I am so pleased you contacted the store manager and gave him your independent viewpoint on the incident. I've done similar in the past when I've witnessed similar unwarranted behaviour.

[gness]

No Carrust!!! It's blasted men fidgeting in a pocket for a handful of change, slowly counting it out to find it's seventeen pence short and back into the pocket with the change and a rummage for the wallet that holds up queues!

[Barmaid]

*Chortlesplutters* Octavious

Carrust, if you knew me, you would know I don't "DO" girlie shopping like other women do. I just wanted to post my sodding letter!

Anyway, back to the point, why DO some people feel it necessary to be quite so rude?

[aelmpvw]

I'm one of those sad old men that never leaves the house without a pen. Incidentally the pens in my post office have three inch chains attached to them which makes it virtually impossible to actually write anything

[Mammar]

Octavious has my vote for 'best answer'

[Barmaid]

Mammar, unless something blinding comes along, I am inclined to agree with you.

[tonyav]

Three women in a shop and still the penis mightier than the sword


LOL, it's always been so, Octavius.

[ChuckFickens]

The customer sounded very restrained to me, I would have damn well expected the cashier to fill the form out for me, the level of customer service these days is appalling.

[pusskin]

Ha ha barmaid, this has really made me chuckle.
Some people are never satisfied are they. Always ready for a punch up! lol

[SlackAlice]

I'm glad I've read this thread, cheered me up on a bad day ☺☺☺

There are quite a few oiks prepared to throw a wobbly for the vaguest of reasons. Mainly because they assume they never do any wrong.

Many years ago someone wanted to report me and asked to 'borrow' my pen and a piece of paper to write down my PSV badge no. and went into one when I said 'No'

'Why not?' said she in a rising shrill voice.

'Because it's my pen and I only lend it to friends and there's no guarantee I'll get it back' said I.

Cause of the complaint? I had refused to accept her offering of 200x1p pieces to pay her bus fare! Someone else in the bus queue started chuckling and 'phoned my boss later in the day to support me.

[grasscarp]

Well you are here SlackAlice - just to let you know I have told several people about your prediction on the royal birth. I was stunned.

[Ann]

Well done BM - you sound like a woman after my own heart, I HATE rude people. Good on you for phoning the manager too, to get the poor assistant off the hook. I used to be a telephonist on a very busy switchboard of a multi-national company and you would not believe the bad language and rudeness we had to endure. I used to have a set saying ready for the obnoxious ones - "Excuse me, if you do not moderate your language, I will have no hesitation in terminating this call!"
By the way, talking of pens, we can never find a pen at hand in this house when we need one, despite me constantly buying packs of 12 from Poundland! OH said one day, "I bet they are all in your flipping handbag!" So I emptied it out and counted them - a gobsmacking .......................38 pens!!
No wonder my back aches from carrying my heavy bag around! LOL ;)

[DJHawkes]

I can understand your annoyance at the woman, I get asked10 times. a day if people can borrow my pen to writer card they have just bought,I refuse but a we sell pens at the till point I offer to sell them one, as we are a stationers, numpties

[mikey4444]

I would happily have given her a pen, by sticking it somewhere that hurt.
Its a fact of life in Britain today that we have a fair proportion of rude, stupid, uneducated, badly brought-up people. I see people like this all the time...I would have had to make a special effort not to intervene and protect the poor Post Office lady. Well done you !

[zebo]

I'll bet she wanted to fill in (not out) the form there and then, thus holding up the queue.
There are some idiots about though, The DT on Saturday had a feature in the Travel section on How To Save Money on your holiday, among the tips were Leave plenty of time to get to the airport, prebook parking as it's cheaper etc etc. Am I alone in thinking that if you need this simplistic, obvious advice, you really shouldn't be allowed out alone and deserve to get ripped off?

[237SJ]

I quite often get asked if customers can borrow my pen. I would never dream of telling them that they can`t take it away with them and I wouldn`t dream of telling them that they should have brought their own pen (much as I would love to) Maybe the condescending attitute of the server (who implied that the customer was going to steal her pen) got her back up. That`s no excuse for being rude but there are ways of saying things.