This afternoon I was in a post office in Glasgow - one of those ones that's a shop with post office combined at the back. One woman had a kid about 4 or 5 wandering round while she was in the queue.
Kid appears back with ink all over his trousers and woman walks round to the other side of the aisle to see a pen lying open on the shelf. She turns to the nearest Asian man and starts shouting "look at that, he's just walked past that pen that's lyin open on your shelf and got it all over his 3 hunner pound jacket ah've just bought him for school. So what are you gonna do about it?"
"It's not my shop, I'm just a customer" says the guy.
She says shouts "sorry" wanders over to the till and starts shouting at the real shop keeper. Same speel again, mentioning the £300 jacket at least 3 times.
He refuses to talk to her about it, Meanwhile the kid is trying to talk and she keeps telling him to 'shut it' before snapping "I'm not talking to you, go stand over there" and the kid runs out the shop.
So she turns back to everyone in the post office queue "isn't that a disgrace ma boy's just got ink all over his 3 hunner pound jacket and he won't talk to me"
Nobody really says anything so she tells the shopkeeper she'll phone the police and he urges her to right now.
She then jumps back to her spot in the queue and moves on to moan at the post office clerk. (This time the jacket costs £400)... but of course there's nothing he can do.
Kid comes back and says "mummy, mummy but I opened it, I opened it"
"Naw you didnae, don't lie"
"yes, mummy I opened it"
"Is that what he told you to say down there?"
"no"
"Right, that's it you're getting **** all"
She storms off to shout at shopkeeper, kid starts crying and follows. She gracefully accepts defeat by calling him a "black bastard" and leaving.
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I almost wanted to congratulate the kid for his honesty but didn't fancy getting my head kicked in.
