What customer behaviour in supermarkets do you find most irksome?
Leaving empty shopping trolleys in the streets.
David Isaacs, Sydney, Australia
• Customers who find other customers irksome.
Jennifer Horat, Lengwil, Switzerland
• Generating a wait at the checkout by causing the teller to go off to bring back cigarettes.
Philip Stigger, Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada
• Cherry-picking cherries.
John Geffroy, Las Vegas, New Mexico, US
• Not putting down the divider after they have put their purchases on the belt.
Charlie Bamforth, Davis, California, US
• Those who insist on plastic bags for items already wrapped and then whinge about paying for them.
John Benseman, Auckland, New Zealand
• When someone nips into the only parking space left, just in front of me.
Peter Stone, Paddington, NSW, Australia
• Someone taking a fully loaded trolley through the eight-items-or-fewer checkout.
Eddie van Rijnswoud, Kalamunda, Western Australia
• It happened again today. The well-dressed lady with a full caddy not offering to let through the granny with two loaves of bread.
E Slack, l’Isle Jourdain, France
• Shopping cart bottlenecks caused by iPhone addicts.
Richard Orlando, Westmount, Quebec, Canada
• Wailing toddlers. Siblings and I were culprits of the same, and never thereafter accompanied Mom to the Piggly Wiggly.
RM Fransson, Wheat Ridge, Colorado, US
Chocolate is tough to resist
Is resistance futile?
For me often, especially against temptation.
Lawrie Bradly, Surrey Hills, Victoria, Australia
• Yes, grow old gracefully: plastic surgeons just stretch it out, to the limit and beyond.
Marilyn Hamilton, Perth, Western Australia
• Ineffective, often. Futile, never! To cease the struggle is to give up one’s humanity.
John Standingford, Adelaide, South Australia
• Resistance to chocolate could be seen as good if weight loss is the goal.
Jenefer Warwick James, Paddington, NSW, Australia
• Only if there is no quorum.
R De Braganza, Kilifi, Kenya
• I give up.
Noel Bird, Boreen Point, Queensland, Australia
He needed greater diversity
Why did Humpty Dumpty have a great fall?
He wasn’t well-rounded.
Andrew Thackrah, Melbourne, Australia
• High BMI.
Robert Locke, Fondi, Italy
• His hands were too small / To hang on to his Wall.
S Guérin, Cannes, France
• To prove the incompetence of all the King’s horses and all the King’s men.
Zohra Yusuf, Karachi, Pakistan
• Egotism.
Christopher Griffin, Perth, Western Australia
Any answers?
Which is more important: Notes or Queries?
Neil Mathur, Cambridge, UK
When should social respectability be abandoned as a pursuit?
R De Braganza, Kilifi, Kenya
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