Funny you say that about over 40’s. Back in April, our business had to shut. Nothing to do with legislation: it was the verbal abuse, and I mean awful language as staff were trying to enforce social distancing and customer movement within the premises. The boss had the welfare of the staff to consider first.Arzosah wrote: ↑Fri Aug 14, 2020 9:14 amThe temper thing is interesting! I've usually held back on my temper, and the few times I haven't, it hasn't gone well ... in public, in the past, I've told teenagers off before now (running through my friend's back garden? No!) but I wouldn't do much of that now - too many of them have knives now. People who are, say, 40s and upwards, continue to be simply rude but the thing that comes out in the papers at the moment is that people asking other people to wear masks (like, bus conductors who have a statutory obligation to do that) are getting beaten up for asking.jansman wrote: ↑Thu Aug 13, 2020 3:36 pmOoh Lil! Your hubby sounds like I used to be.I used to have a proper temper on me,and it has landed me in hot water a time or two. Now I am older,slower and a lot,lot wiser.Avoiding confrontation is my policy now.diamond lil wrote: ↑Thu Aug 13, 2020 10:14 am My husband is/was a biker, so is my son. Husband always had a temper. I'll never forget the night he pulled up at the chip shop in a rough area of Edinburgh and a gang of late teens surrounded the car and one spat on the window. Well he erupted out of that car, grabbed the biggest one shoved his nose in the spit, and rubbed it. I was in the car with wee children and scared they'd all turn on him. He made the guy wipe the spit off with his sleeve and then let him go.The rest just stood rooted to the spot. Thank god. But he's very streetwise, I'm not. I got a book about how to keep yourself out of trouble - think it was about terrorist type attacks, and read it. Anticipate trouble and stay out of it to begin with.
Now we are getting gob from customers when we ( ask ) them to don a face covering. The latest one is grief because the restaurant ( takeaway only) is not participating in the ‘eat out, help out’ gig. We are takeaway- we cannot! The mouth we get from them is unreal.
A publican we supply, suspended the scheme. Because customers were so bloody abusive to his staff. The best is, they were not regular customers. Just the usual scrote bounty hunters looking for something for nothing. His head chef threatened to leave because he has been working 70 hours a week, to service customers who won’t return after the freebie ends.
Only if you work in retail or service industry can you understand what pigs people are!