I’ve never seen anyone being abusive to staff in our local Waitrose, and I don’t think they wear body cams ( yet) I did notice when they installed cameras and screens above the self check outs. I do have to make sure I don’t look at them, always disconcerting when I see some grey haired old biddie I don’t recognise, staring at me.
My other grump today is to do with driving. The girl in the house opposite is learning to drive and her instructor runs a registered driving school. Whenever she has a lesson he parks up blocking my drive, both when he picks up and drops off. They sit there going through her lesson with the engine running for 5 minutes or so, then he drives off without indicating, pulls a three point turn into someone's driveway then beeps his horn as he goes back past. Nothing wrong or harmful in what he does but you'd fail your driving test for doing any of it. It just doesn't seem like a great example to set in front of your pupil.
If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
Idling engines when parked are, as far as I know, a fineable offence so that's one thing that's both wrong and also harmful - noise nuisance and exhaust pollution. He certainly doesn't sound like the world's best instructor that's for sure .
@Hostafan1 and @wild edges Are the body cameras in the shops as an aid against theft or is the main reason to try to halt the abuse many shop staff suffer nowadays ? I've never heard customers being rude/abusive on the odd occasion when I go to a SM but I've certainly seen many reports about it.
I went to Asda last week - not somewhere I shop often, but I was over in that part of town for something else so it was convenient. I noticed a couple of groups of people looking, for want of a better word, shifty. Last time I went there was early December and as I was getting my bags out of the car boot, a chap came running out of the shop with two large heavy-looking shopping bags and a security guard in hot pursuit shouting "drop the bags". I've never noticed anything so blatant in any other shop, but maybe I just don't pay attention.
Doncaster, South Yorkshire. Soil type: sandy, well-drained
Well we weren't in the warning zone for wind but I've just moved my car as the neighbour's fence is one good gust away from becoming someone else's fence. Things that survived the previous storms are being chucked about all over the place. It's going to be hard to sleep tonight
If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
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I did notice when they installed cameras and screens above the self check outs. I do have to make sure I don’t look at them, always disconcerting when I see some grey haired old biddie I don’t recognise, staring at me.