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Hopefully you will all become old one day.And hopefully the then younger generation will have patience with you although I very much doubt it.
I never dreamt I would not be as fleet of foot as I used to be.Dreadfuly sorry that I need to go to shops to buy food and can't move as quickly as I used to.
Reading between the lines it seems that most people over 60 should be lined up and shot so as not to get in the way of the me me generation.
Be thankful you all have your health and strength and show a bit of tolerance to those less fortunate.
If you get stressed out over mundane things like shopping I hate to think what would happen if it was something really traumatic .
I never dreamt I would not be as fleet of foot as I used to be.Dreadfuly sorry that I need to go to shops to buy food and can't move as quickly as I used to.
Reading between the lines it seems that most people over 60 should be lined up and shot so as not to get in the way of the me me generation.
Be thankful you all have your health and strength and show a bit of tolerance to those less fortunate.
If you get stressed out over mundane things like shopping I hate to think what would happen if it was something really traumatic .
Try this. I've had endless fun with it.
When you arrive at the checkout, plonk your basket on the ledge at the end of the conveyor belt. As the belt edges forward a gap will open. You could start loading your shopping - but don't. You've only got 11 items after all. The gap on the belt will get larger and larger, and you will feel the agitation and resentment growing in the queue behind you. Turn round and give them a smile. Don't weaken. Eventually, and I promise you it will happen sooner or later, someone will tap you on the shoulder and say, "You could start loading your shopping now". Then you can triumphantly observe that you will be paying by CASH, that you have correctly counted it out, that you have a pre-opened carrier in your basket, and that you will be through faster than sh!t of a shovel, so rushing to load the conveyor is not going to make a ha'porth of difference.
It works best in ASDA, Sainsbury's customers are a bit less impatient.
I had an account/loyalty card with my supermarket for a while - one that you could use with one of those bleeping machines which adds everything up for you so you don't have to go through the usual checkout.
Then I was stopped three times in a month to have my shopping checked (this was supposed to happen no more than twice a year) - and when I asked for an explanation I was told that my shopping habits did not fit the norm for my age group!!
Got home, cut up the card, and have paid cash ever since. Now if I want to buy three bottles of whiskey and a tub of custard, only me and the cashier know about it, and it is not on some computer somewhere!
Unfortunately, some of us low paid swines occasionally rely on the good 'ol cheques.
There are times when it's been a pretty hard month....you know, the leerjet needed servicing, the butler wanted a pay rise and all the race horses need their innoculations !!!!
So, a couple of days before all the share divvies roll in on pay day, i might write a cheque for a few bits of shopping and some petrol if i'm a bit skint.....and obviously this will clear after i've been paid.
It's just a shame some people don't think of how hard it can sometimes be for others and how useful little things like writing a cheque can be....although i can understand how much an extra 30 seconds can inconvenience some peasants !!!!!!!!
Loosehead, that's very hard on Hammerman. The trouble is that people don't realise what it is like to live on hardly anything. Sometimes things like emergencies crop up and lo and behold, all the planning in the world won't help. Lots of pensioners have to live like this anyhow. How can you keep anything in reserve if you barely have enough to live on - try working miracles.
My mother is 85 and doesn't have any plastic, only using cheques and cash. Lots of people in her age group find it too difficult to cope with using cards, don't understand how they work and dont trust them.
As fit as you might be, if you remain as stressed out, impatient and intolerant as you sound on these supermarket threads, then you probably won't make it to be a pensioner!!
Hey ~ I don't have a cheque book because my bank won't let me have one..my husband is a discharged bankrupt so nobody in the household is allowed a cheque book. And no, he didn't go bankrupt because of irresponsible spending or borrowing ~ he just happened to have a very expensive divorce & had to have his home reposessed.
We went through a lot of 'too much month at the end of the money' times & sometimes still do (who doesn't?) please don't assume I don't know what it's like to be skint..I have had a lot of character building, thank you :o)
Well I suppose Gessoo It's because to me supermarkets are a place of tedium and to others the basis of a social life. It's like a family day to some, to be savoured where as I try and get in and out with as little agro as possible. Now I know you are going to say use the internet shopping yada yada but I'm mostly refering to the Asda across the road where I go to get lunch and spend less than a fiver. It's just all these pains in the butt seem to come out when I'm on my lunch hour.
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