[jambutty]

Years ago we knew how to queue and wait our turn patiently. Sadly today everything has to happen at the speed of light.

I become invisible when I walk into our local Asda. The number of times that a trolley (usually pushed by a woman whilst she is looking anywhere except where the trolley is going) tries to break my ankles and all I get is “I never saw you” and once in a while “sorry”. All I can say is that if they drive their cars like they drive the supermarket trolleys then heaven help us. From what I have seen of the manoeuvres on the car park I guess that some of them do.

Now I know that people just love to stop and have a chat for an hour or two but do they have to block the whole aisle whilst they are doing it. Then to add insult to injury they look straight at you and surely must realise that you want to get past and then totally ignore you and carry on nattering. Then have the cheek to glare at you when you say excuse me.

The Grimshaw Park Asda now have fast checkouts with ABOUT 10 items where it used to be up to 10 items. It used to be quite a sight watching people count each other’s goodies to see if there were ten and woe betide someone who had 11. No one ever said anything but the whispers started, the nudges and knowing looks. I wonder how many is ABOUT 10?

To be fair though, when I nip into Sainsbury’s in Darwen for just a loaf of bread and the Radio Times many times some kind soul will usher me to the front of the queue. So it’s not all bad.