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  • wild edgeswild edges Posts: 10,497
    I was passing Morrison's today and against my better judgement decided to go in to stock up on stuff we can't get from Asda. I don't like that Morrison's because the staff all act like they hate the place and have serious morale issues. As I got out of the car I found someone's debit card on the ground. I handed it in at customer services but the person looked more like they would to try to use it than keep it somewhere safe. Not much social distancing going on and only a few people bothering with masks even though it was fairly busy. I bought a plant too and at the checkout the women just shoved it down the slide so it fell over and spilled the soil everywhere, then she shoved bottles down after it before I could pick it up again. I won't be going back in a hurry. :|
    Sainsbury's are also in the bad books as they still charged us for the delivery that never turned up and then charged us again with a higher delivery cost added on for the rescheduled delivery. They made it a total pain for us to get the refund too.
    If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    I go for the older checkout assistants in Sainsbuy. They get my system without any explanation. The younger ones just hurl stuff down the belt and mess it all up until I ask them to hold on a minute
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • wild edgeswild edges Posts: 10,497
    This lady was old enough to know better :|
    If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190
    I have to say that all the staff in our Morrison are lovely, a lot of them have been there since it used to be Safeway’s. Over the border into Cornwall they are even more friendly, everyone’s their lover. As in ‘Alright my lover? Traffic queues into Cornwall today, 60 mile tail back, long stretch of the main A30 shut as it seems someone had jumped off the bridge, not officially confirmed yet, but the signs are there, a regular occurrence in this spot, they were asking people’s not to come to Cornwall, it’s full! The road was shut for 10 hours. So much for social distancing, they have no idea, they think because we hardly had any cases down here that it’s all ok.
    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

  • josusa47josusa47 Posts: 3,530
    B3 said:

    Apart from no padding on your shins, another human design fault is the absence of earlids. Noselids might be useful too in some circumstances.


    And for some people, mouthlids.
  • wild edgeswild edges Posts: 10,497
    The other Morrison's is fine but it's a nightmare to park there and it's always busy. People have said it's too busy and too small to cope with any kind of distancing at the moment. Shame as they have much better plants there :(  Partly because the staff actually care enough water to them though...
    One of my wife's clients stopped someone jumping off a bridge the other day. He had to hold the person for an hour and a half and the police refused to help until their negotiator arrived.
    If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,889
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-devon-53751362#:~:text=The%20south%20west%20of%20England,the%20same%20period%20in%202019.

    Not just police , but now the Ambulance service and coast guards are saying the same. 
    Devon.
  • Nanny BeachNanny Beach Posts: 8,719
    No Wild Edges it was (or so I thought) Gross incontience, not cross!! After many many years nursing mostly with the NHS worked with a lot of different folk (dunno what I am meant to call them these days that doesnt cause offence!!(usally pretty good with accents, knowing where folk are from,causing them to be very impressed, BUT I have a dickens of a job understand some irish accents.Did you see in the paper someone complained to M & S a bra colour called Tobacco was racist, it was removed from the on-line site at great expense. The world has gone potty.  Has the Main Coon Cat had to change its stripes.. My best friend was born in India, my 10 year old grandaughter calls her "my brown friend", and my brown friend thinks that's very funny.  The grump, (well, it had to happen) According in the weather (yes, that old chestnut!!) I gnoring the TV, looked up VERY local, says shower,thunder/storms, until Thursday, I have got lots of washing!!!
  • Nanny BeachNanny Beach Posts: 8,719
    My oldest son, 43 used to say "calli who he hars, we didn't know what he was talking about, he was 4, and had (still does) perfect hearing, turned out to be that American Comedy Cop show, "Calling all cars". About the same age, he was talking about a programme on the radio about "Green Ghosts", turned out to be the word re-negotiations
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    edited August 2020
    Why is getting thousands of people to scramble back into the country before a deadline a good thing?
    In London. Keen but lazy.
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