Supermarket Incident

[Lee]

On Monday I called into the supermarket on the way home from work, around 5:00pm. I only wanted a few items and I was in one of the aisles when a young woman who was alongside me with a trolley full of shopping, was suddenly approached by a guy who was presumably her boyfriend or husband. He was probably in his late twenties and he was scruffily dressed as if he had just finished working (it later became obvious he was a plasterer, which would explain the state of his clothing). He was wearing a dark blue hoodie-type jacket with dark grey tracksuit bottoms, both of which were splattered with white streaks of dried plaster. He was also wearing some really grubby white Reebok trainers.

His partner was busy shopping but he immediately said “I’m dying for a piss but the toilets are shut for cleaning”.

I assume that’s where he’d been and why she was shopping alone?

I looked at him and he stood leaning his arms on the handles of the wire trolley and he was crossing his legs constantly. His partner said absolutely nothing and just continued shopping as if he wasn’t there, other than him moving the trolley along every so often. I watched him for a good 30 seconds or so but I couldn’t make my interest obvious or risk him seeing me looking, so eventually I moved on although I cast a couple of glances back and he was still doing the same.

It was probably about 5-6 minutes later that I got to the checkout and unloaded my items... only to notice that the couple were at the next checkout! He didn’t have the trolley any more as his partner was using it to load the bags so he was just standing there - with one leg crossed over the other one and every so often pressing his legs tightly together.

I just couldn’t stop glancing over at him as I was still waiting to be served and it’s so easy to get your phone out on the pretext of looking at something whilst discreetly taking a photo. So I did so!!

But guess what. Just as I took the photo of him standing with one leg over the other, he suddenly acted frantically, bent his legs and stood one foot on top of the other, looked at his girlfriend and said quietly but loud enough to be heard “Hurry up, will you. I’m going to wet myself!”

She again took absolutely no notice and continued packing the bagged shopping into the trolley. He was scowling and looked very displeased but he wasn’t being at all discreet about crossing his legs as he stood there.

They left just before me and when I walked out they were getting in a white van with the name of a plastering firm on the side. He drove out of the car park, in the opposite direction to where I was going ... and just hit a massive queue of gridlocked traffic, as is always the case at that time of night.

I spent much of the night imagining the next 15 minutes in that van!!

[Dazza88]

So annoyed, I never get to see stuff like this

Great sighting though

[Brian]

So annoyed, I never get to see stuff like this

Great sighting though

Yes, Lee has all the luck !

From this account, I cannot imagine that the guy held on successfully in that stuck traffic. The inevitable must have happened, I think.

[Fred]

My guess as to how this sighting came to be: Despite laws to the contrary, workmen are sometimes told to work in a place that has no working toilets, and perhaps the wife/girlfriend picked him up at the worksite and then had to shop on the way home, and the fellow's bladder probably hadn't been emptied since his lunch break. (If I were the employer, I'd expect a young man to be able to hold it that long, and if he was foolish enough to drink a lot of coffee or soda during that time, that would be his fault.)

Nice!

[Dazza88]

Lee you are just cruel expecting the impossible of these men

[Lee]

My guess as to how this sighting came to be: Despite laws to the contrary, workmen are sometimes told to work in a place that has no working toilets, and perhaps the wife/girlfriend picked him up at the worksite and then had to shop on the way home, and the fellow's bladder probably hadn't been emptied since his lunch break. (If I were the employer, I'd expect a young man to be able to hold it that long, and if he was foolish enough to drink a lot of coffee or soda during that time, that would be his fault.)

Nice!

Interesting idea. But when they left he drove away in a white van with the name of his plastering company on the side. So it would seem likely he’d picked his wife/girlfriend up from her work. Maybe he’d been somewhere without toilet facilities and had banked on the supermarket toilets being available?

[Wombat48]

Think he had gone for a beer after work?

Think this would make a great story! God I love workmen!!!!

[Fred]

Think he had gone for a beer after work?

Think this would make a great story! God I love workmen!!!!

Perhaps both suggestions are correct. Perhaps he was working where there were no toilets available (no dusty, grubby workmen allowed in MY bathroom!) and stopped for a beer before picking up his wife, and assumed he could use the supermarket toilet while she was shopping. And then the traffic jam! A young man might have a strong bladder, but that would really test it!

[bearshel]

@Lee
Shame you didn't see any crotch-grabbing. That would have made it a perfect sighting. I expect he did a bit of that when no one else was around and as soon as he got into the privacy of his car!

[Sam69]

Why do I see story about a young man who is a plasterer in a grocery store written by Lee just over the horizon!