There have been many occasions on which we have deplored the abusive and threatening treatment of retail and public service staff by aggressive customers.
More than one in two workers have been on the receiving end of abuse and excessive demands.
The Asahi Shimbun newspaper reported how one staff member visited a customer’s home to deal with a complaint about out-of-date tofu, only to discover the purchase had been made a fortnight earlier.
He tried to handle the complainant with diplomacy but was forced to prostrate himself and apologise.
We can’t see anyone from Dunnes, Spar, or Centra offering that service. You can only go so far to meet someone’s over-inflated sense of entitlement.
In many ways the election of a new leader for what remains of the Conservative party in the jurisdiction of our next door neighbours is a footling matter. We won’t have to deal with a Tory Downing Street or House of Commons for at least five years, and perhaps much, much longer.