I decided to go do my weekly shop on Saturday lunchtime last week and up and down nearly every aisle were groups of pensioners parking their trolleys at right angles while having a good old gossip.  Why is it that pensioners, who have all week to do their shopping choose to do it at the weekend?  My grandparents always do their shopping on a Thursday as regular as clockwork and it's usually between the hours of 9am and 11am.  Why can't all pensioners do this.  I can understand if they don't drive and rely on working family members to take them out but please, if they are driving themselves why oh why can't they do it while the younger people are at work.  And as for the gossiping, don't they have bridge club or coffee mornings to go to.  Why do it in the middle of the damn supermarket when there are people in there who just want to get their weekly shop and go.

The other problem is mothers with their children running up and down the aisle screaming about how much they want some sweets.  Why oh why do the parents bring them and on a bloody Saturday to.  Most children have two parents, why can't one shop and the other take the kids to the jungle gym or something.  They obviously need to go somewhere to let of some energy, why the supermarket.  Surely, the shopping trip would be more successful without the kids coming along.