Seen in Tesco

[dormouse1953]

(Nothing to do with their financial black hole.)

I was doing some shopping just now and I passed a young woman in the aisles and something about her caught my eye.  She appeared to be wearing an off-white overcoat.  It had been raining earlier and lots of shoppers were wearing coats.  Then I realised this wasn't a coat, it was a dressing gown.  Then I looked again and noticed that the t-shirt and checked trousers she appeared to be wearing were actually pyjamas.

My first thought was that she was a student taking student idleness to a new extreme, but when I got to the check-out she was at one of the other queues, near enough for the check-out assistant to notice her but far enough away for her to discuss this person with one of the other assistants without being heard by her.  They had noticed that she was wearing a dressing on one arm and guessed she was a patient from the near-by hospital.  They objected to her walking around thus not on grounds of decency - she was wearing clothes more covering than many women wear nowadays - but on grounds of hospital hygiene.  They thought it wrong for her to be walking around in Tesco and then to bring germs back to the hospital.  (My thoughts are that that is true of anyone walking in and out of a hospital, not just people in pyjamas.)

Comments

[vicarage.livejournal.com]

I'd be concerned about her own safety. Was she mentally fit to be leaving the hospital if she didn't feel the need to follow the social conventions and get dressed.

[pauldormer.livejournal.com]

That comment was made by the Tesco staff, too.