A little hiccup in Sainsbury

I think I must be too fussy as well, I would have cringed at all those incidents, and Greyduster, I also think the fly in the scones quite hilarious, you really couldn't make it up! It did remind me of VD in One Foot in the Grave, but it could quite easily have fitted into a Carry On film.

Grannymosh I laughed out loud at your post - still laughing in fact! And pollyperkins what goes on behind the scenes is that flies crawl all over the scones and no-one notices!!!

At one time it was quite common for bakers in particular to lick their fingers when they picked up a bag or a piece of tissue paper (loaves were once wrapped in that) and in the case of the bag blow in it. There are thousands of people my age still around! My funniest moment was when I returned a jar of jam because there was a wasp in it. "Must of got in before it was sealed" said the manager. Really? Another incident, not so funny, having waited about 45 minutes for our lunch, I cut into my omelette and had a mouthful before I realised I had put half a bluebottle in my mouth. It was brand new restaurant, the chef was mortified, had no idea how it happened, we got 6 free meals out of it, but no one felt like eating after that. Quite often now, when we are all out together my son in law will say "Right D.. where's the bluebottle?"!

Greyduster: ugh! Puts you off eating out or buying cakes etc!!

Slight digression, I'm in a group where sheets of paper are passed around. The distributor licks her fingers before separating each one. Makes me cringe, I have to stop myself screaming ' don't do that ' She's an ex teacher and I wonder how many of her pupils felt the same !

We used to use rubber "fingers and thumbs" when I worked in an office many years ago, that would remove the need to lick fingers before separating sheets of paper, this would also be useful for opening bags,much nicer than blowing into the bag!!

I too hate people licking their fingers to separate sheets of paper to hand round. I also won't buy anything from a bakery which is on the counter top directly in line with customers coughing and breathing all over them. It also amazes me that in this day and age we have a cup cake stall in the middle of the shopping centre with dozens of cup cakes open to the elements - or anything flying around them! And how long have they been made - there never seems to be many people buying them so what do they do with them at the end of the day?1