Manners!

The other day after some furious beeping I decided to treat the car to some petrol. The first petrol station on my route was Tescos so in I went. After squeezing my way past people who couldn't decide what queue they wanted to be in, I filled up Fenton (yes my car has a name) and went into the shop.

When it's my turn to be served the lady behind the counter stares at me until I walk over.

"Hi, pump 4 please" I even manage a smile.

She did not smile.
She didn't even look at me.

"So, I tried this and I tried that and it still didn't work. That's £50."

Oh so not only do I not get a greeting but you're so busy chatting away to your work mate that you appear to have forgotten the word please.

Fabulous.

Card goes in the machine, pin goes in, card comes out. Meanwhile she's still blethering away to her mate and has barely looked at me.

She hands me my receipt and the damage is done so I don't say thanks, I just walk off.

"Thank you. Yeah THANK YOU!"

Now it should be said at this point that I did not wake up in the best of moods. The numpties that couldn't pick a queue and now little miss rude did not help.

"Hang on a minute, you spend the whole of my transaction speaking to your mate with no manners whatsoever and now you want a thank you from me? Er no actually. No. Not for you."

It was worth it just for the look on her face.

I don't ask for much - please, thank you and a smile if you can manage it. I've worked in retail, I know it's not easy to be happy and smiley all the time but don't have a go at me for a not saying thank you when you don't have please or thank you in your head. And if you're serving, don't have a full blown conversation with your mate - that's just rude!

Thanks for reading.
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