No, I don’t mean eating in the supermarkets’ cafeteria areas. Although I always feel that if you’re eating there, you’re probably pretty desperate. And they never have all the menu available.
No, what I’m talking about are those people who start consuming their soon-to-be-purchases before they’ve actually reached the till. They drive me mad. I was in the queue behind a crisp eater today. He was slowly munching on his Walker Sensations, and I was developing a furious hatred of him. If the bored clerk at the checkout hadn’t looked carefully, he could have had black peppar crisps all over him.
It just seems to me to be the height of bad manners to tuck into food in the supermarket. Get it outside at least. And that goes for people who start drinking their purchases too. I guess that I might just about allow parents who have extremely young babies the opportunity to feed them, but overall, cut it out.
Just had to get that off my chest.