QuakerBear wrote:Has anyone ever said to you, "you can't speak to me like that"? Without thinking about it the answer came out of my mouth, "I will speak to you in a manner appropriate to your behaviour". It quite shocked the person I was speaking to and I'm not sure if I should have said it or not right then, but it could be a good stock reply for other situations.
Great come back.
Someone said that to me outside the supermarket and I simply said "I just did" and carried on loading the car while the old chap stood and spluttered, not able to think of a reply hehehe.
What
is it about some old people?
He had complained to the chap who checks the carpark for abandoned trolleys, people parking in disabled bays when they shouldn't etc, that my car was not positioned perfectly level in the bay. He was moaning just as I came behind him with my trolley to load the car. Yes it is a disabled bay and yes I have a blue badge due to severe osteoarthritis and a spinal disease. Quite simply, depending on which way I'm having to look over my shoulder when reversing in, I cannot turn my head to the right properly so may not park straight. I was well within the lines of the wide disabled space so I have no idea why he was going on. He was working himself up to an apoplexy when I came behind and heard it. I simply said to him "how does my parking concern you in any way? Since I am within the bay and not causing an obstruction, how is that a problem? I suggest that you get out of my way because
you are causing an obstruction to
me as I can't open the tailgate with you standing there".
He blustered and said "you can't talk to me like that", to which I replied "I just did". His mouth opened and closed like a fish and he stomped off into ASDA muttering and throwing me filthy looks.
I didn't shout, call him names or swear but I was abrupt. I do admit I was feeling a little short tempered as I had just struggled with that daft scan it yourself system which wants you to put your shopping into plastic bags after you scan and throws a wobbley if you put the items straight into your own home made fabric shopping bag which is sittng in the trolley. Invariably I have to call for help and the whole thing takes twice as long as if I had gone through a normal till. So after that lot, not really the best time for me to hear someone moaning and complaining that I had not used a slide rule and tape measure to park perfectly aligned in the exact centre of my parking bay!
