Hubby came home early, had some lunch and because we were low on milk, suggested a trip to the local Aldi.
Now I know what our local Aldi is like, and it isn't all that great, but enticed by the advert on telly - cucumber only 49p, brocolli only 49p - hubby suggested a trip was needed. Afterall they do sell other things there he says, hoping that he may, just may, beable to pick up a drill or tool box on the cheap no doubt.
So there we are, walking around Aldi, watching this dotty woman try and get her trolley down an aisle that wasn't meant for trolleys and knocking everything off in the process - hubby gallantly helped her out - hubby going through all the racks of clothing (well two of them) in search of a bargain while I examined cucumbers, brocoli and potatoes.
Eventually we make it to a cash desk. A queue that goes halfway round the shop and one till open. Eventually one of the gormless shop assistants (sorry not all shop assistants are gormless just the ones at this particular branch) comes along and asked the person behind us if he was waiting to be helped.
"yes" says the person, "I am waiting to pay for my goods, anychance of you opening up a till?" which I thought was better a reply than I would have come up with.
So they open up a till, everyone rushes to it and they decide to close it and open up another one - cue much rushing to this one, which, again they close and open up the original one
By this time the one everyone had been queuing at was now getting down to a reasonable size so people decided to wait there while we wited at the other one. And there she was again - dotty old lady "I want to return this" she says holding up a plant.
"Why?" asks the cashier
"Because I wanted a climber and this is a ground cover plant"
hubby bursts out laughing, it says on the pack quite clearly ground cover.
So there we stand while the cashier tries to refund the dotty woman for the plant and then sort out the goods that needed paying for which the dotty woman didn't want to exchange for the plant (that would have been too easy) oh no she wanted the money for the plant which she then paid for the goods with!!!
In the meantime, with much rolling of eyes, cashier throws a sign at hubby with the words of put that there will you (till closed sign), which hubby places on the conveyor belt. We stand there patiently waiting when this woman comes along behind Nigel, reads the 'till closed' notice then proceeds to load her shopping on the belt.
Cashier "I'm closing!!" she shouts while still trying to deal with dotty woman who is making a right hash of filling out the refund form with her details and has the entire contents of her bag out on the canveyor belt in the effort to find something.
"what?" says woman
"Oh forget it" says the cashier who has clearly given up the will to live by this time, and trust me I know how she was feeling.
We finally managed to get out of the store, load up the car with our few items.
"weel I have been, I have seen and I won't go back again" said hubby.
"but the veg was cheap" says I
"Yes but I am not going there again" he says
Yes we spent little but trust me we lost a few precious minutes of our life that can not be taken back in a hurry
