Would you go into a supermarket, take a plum from the shelf, eat it then spit the stone back out into the cucumbers. No? I should bloody well hope not. But this is what my other half witnessed a few weeks ago and out of the goodness of his heart he came home and told me all about it. Is this what we’re doing nowadays? Is this acceptable behaviour? I’m quite accustomed to seeing people stroll through supermarkets with a certain sense of entitlement; nibbling at grapes, indiscriminately handing out snacks to their kids and neglecting to pay for any of the goods that they consume. Is there some rule that I don’t know about which says anything consumed pre-checkout is free to the customer. It’s as if they think that everybody else is obliged to subsidise their gluttony. Do we really need to open a packet of chocolate chip cookies and eat half the packet before we decide that we don’t want to buy them after all? I don’t mind people who give their hungry howling kid something from the shelves and then save the wrapper so that it can be scanned, that’s alright but everything else is just pure theft. As for the woman who picks something up, eats it then spits the pip back into the fresh produce – she just belongs in a bloody zoo. The signs do not say ‘buy one, get saliva free’.
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