People look in your trolley.

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I work in catering with my Mother. She runs her own business and we have two kitchens so we are in and out of supermarkets alot and cos it is normally large lunches or dinners we are doing we tend to buy alot of the same thing. Me and her know our way around all the supermarkets well and so we look like we are on an absolute mission. We can steer our trolleys well and we don't take any crap off these people that see going to the supermarket as a day out. Every other day we spend around $400 depending on what we have on and people are always so curious about what we are doing and why we are buying so much and we have got sick and tired of it over time. Now we make up stories. One night there was a BBQ on it and to cut a long story short we needed more hotdogs - business was booming so my Mum went round to the local supermarket and started filling her trolley with all the hotdogs on the shelves. Every kind she was buying and she was just throwing them in the trolley and had nothing else except hotdogs. One woman turned to her and stared rather rudely before asking her - "Why are you buying all them?" She said, "Cos, I have a f*cking eating disorder, I am gonna go home and eat all these and puke them up!" She never even cracked a smile or nothing and the woman hurried off embarressed. Another time we were buying lots and lots of vegetable oil. We had to do both deep fat friers so we were buying close to 100 litres. Someone asked us why we were buying them and she seemed kind of paniced. We told her that cos the world is fighting over oil there was going to be no vegetable oil cos people would use it all for fuel. The woman paniced and bought 18 litres herself. She said she didn't have a deep fat frier. Often people stare, stare very rudely in fact. It never crosses their mind that we might be a business so we never put that idea in their head. Someone asked me once why I was buying 10 loaves of bread. I told them I had 8 kids and all they ate were sandwiches. I was 23 at the time. What do you think your reaction would be if you saw us in your supermarket, would you even notice, would you stare rudely, would you ask us what we were doing? Personally I don't think its anyones business what we are buying and I certainly don't ask other shoppers what they are buying and why. I think next time someone does I will ask them to explain the contents of their trolley.