Standards slipping - or is it just me?

olias

Just returned from my local Coop supermarket. In front of me in the checkout queue I was unfortunate enough to experience the delightful sights, sounds and smells of a local chavette (think Jordan wannabe, all pink velour tracksuit, Ugg boots and too much make up:rolleyes:) tucking into her takeaway of what looked like chips and curry sauce. All the while this delightful creature never drew breath from loudly proclaiming her last nights exploits to her chavette friends and hangers on. This gave me the equally delightful view of her semi masticated food to which she added fork after forkful of the healthy snack.

After she was served and left the store, I commented to the cashier that it was not really on to allow people to wander round the supermarket scoffing their malaodourous takeaways. She replied, 'well there's nothing I can do about it is there?' 'Well yes, you can.' I replied. 'You're a member of staff here, you could have asked her when she came in, to please wait outside while she finishes her chips!' - The checkout was the only one open and sited right by the entrance.

What really saddened me was that the cashier ended by saying that she didn't see what the problem was, and I could tell by her face, that she indeed, really didn't understand why there was anything wrong. The cashier was not a child, but a grown woman in her early thirties.

Is it just me or does anyone else find this sad?

Oh, and by the way, I am not some old fuddy duddy, but very youthful looking, thinking and acting 40 year old.

Olias

dmg24

I think you are overreacting. Personally, I find people eating in public quite unpleasant, but I do accept that it is their right to do so (unless the shop has a policy whereby it is not allowed).

I would question whether you would have had such a problem if the person was more to your taste, and eating something more to your liking?

faithcecilia

I'm not quite 30 and I am stunned that people do this sort of thing, plus eating takeaways on buses, playing music out loud on their phones, swear, etc, all seems totally 'normal'. Its not normal to me, its horrible!

Esqui

I find that when people are eating takeaways near me...it makes me want a takeaway!

valos_mummy

I always got taught you don't eat in shops. Even if i'm finishing off a choccy bar I won't set foot inside a shop until I've finished, but that's just me. Don't want to get told off! :rotfl:

olias

dmg24 wrote: »

I think you are overreacting. Personally, I find people eating in public quite unpleasant, but I do accept that it is their right to do so (unless the shop has a policy whereby it is not allowed).

I would question whether you would have had such a problem if the person was more to your taste, and eating something more to your liking?

Not at all, I was merely setting the scene, and (admittedly stereotyping) the type of person who has these sort of manners.

I think there is a world of difference between eating in publc whilst sat on a bench, or even standing outside a takeaway and doing the same in a supermarket. Whether it's 'their right' or not, I do not find it acceptable to wander around a supermarket with an open carton of chips and curry sauce, stuffing your face. Where do you draw the line, a curry? a kebab? Just because something is allowed, does not mean you should do it. The point I am making, is that manners and decent behaviour have not only become dirty words in modern society, but are genuinly unknown to a growing section of society.

Olias

jezebel

I have perfectly good manners, I just don't always use them in public

Edit to say: speaking as a twenty-something chavette

dmg24

olias wrote: »

Not at all, I was merely setting the scene, and (admittedly stereotyping) the type of person who has these sort of manners.

I think there is a world of difference between eating in publc whilst sat on a bench, or even standing outside a takeaway and doing the same in a supermarket. Whether it's 'their right' or not, I do not find it acceptable to wander around a supermarket with an open carton of chips and curry sauce, stuffing your face. Where do you draw the line, a curry? a kebab? Just because something is allowed, does not mean you should do it. The point I am making, is that manners and decent behaviour have not only become dirty words in modern society, but are genuinly unknown to a growing section of society.

Olias

But that is your idea of what constitutes manners and decent behaviour - who is to say that everybody should share the same values as you?

There are much more harmful things that a person could be doing than eating in a shop. Maybe you should be more accepting of those with different values to yourself?

dmg24

valos_mummy wrote: »

I always got taught you don't eat in shops. Even if i'm finishing off a choccy bar I won't set foot inside a shop until I've finished, but that's just me. Don't want to get told off! :rotfl:

Nor do I, but then I just do not like eating in public. Having said that, I don't think it is fair to inflict my own standards on other people, when they are not doing anybody any harm.

frivolous_fay

It's nasty behaviour... but if you were the sole member of staff, would YOU have ticked off said velour-clothed chavette plus posse?

You have to stay at your till. They can go off and get reinforcements if they don't like your 'tude.

moonrakerz

I think this best summed up by the recent report that the of majority of youngsters no longer want to be Doctors, Airline Pilots or the like they now want to be:-
"sports and pop stars and actors and actresses"

What have we sunk to ?

For once I agree with a Daily Mail: a story on this subject used the phrase "high heels and low IQ" - very true.