Supermarket Incident
Posted: 20 Mar 2019, 11:37
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!!
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!!