When people drop litter I ask them to pick it up. Sometimes they give me a mouthful of abuse but I do find that having the accent I have is an asset, as I have often succeeded in shaming a litterbug where locals have failed.

If I catch someone leaving the loos in a work/public place without washing their hands I will advise them that they should. When I was a postgrad, in the physics department, there were so few women that I had the ladies' loos to myself, until an office opened upstairs unconnected to physics. I eventually took to shouting 'you dirty cow' to one woman in particular who never, ever washed her hands and wouldn't take hints.

The supermarket thing i can understand but i cant stand people who think its their duty to harass strangers into picking litter up. Im not saying its right but i generally have better things to do and couldnt care less what other people are doing. Im just not interested enough in other peoples lives to bother.

What about loose fruit and veg? Hermetically sealing everything is attractive from a hygeine perspective, but not from an environmental or economic point of view.

I'm no bleedin' heart, but when I take the rubbish out, it is disheartening to see just how much material is used for packaging.

Ultimately, food sales rely on trust and I for am pleased that Bobbin challenged the woman. I wish that I had the same moral fibre.

"I just care so little about people..."

How sad. How very sad.

No its not. Im sorry to revisit this but why is it sad to not want to be a busybody observing people i dont know doing things which have nothing to do with me? When i go to a supermarket im there to buy what i want to buy, pay as quickly as possible, get in the car and go home. The same applies with everything i do, i really dont care what other people are doing, why should i? When i go somewhere im there to do what i want to do and leave again, i walk through the entire town with blinkers on, there could be a massive fire and i wont see it, if it doesnt directly concern me or involve money (pile of £50 notes i'd see, fire...not so much) then im really not interested. People can say to me 'hey did you see that so and so on your way here?' and i'll tell them unless it was in the middle of the road then no.

If more people just kept themselves to themselves rather than caring so much about what non important people are doing we could all have a better life. In order, from the top down of people i care about it reads the following - Me, Me again, very small group of people i choose to care about. To get to strangers in supermarkets or people littering in the street we have to go quite far down, down a well, yes definatley that far. Perhaps a little further errm...bottom of the ocean....centre of the earth...all the way out of the other side of the earth and right on to the Rings of Saturn before you will find those people.

Lovely jubbly.