I love liquorice allsorts, but that love is clearly not followed by the guy who served me in our local Co-op. He is mad as a box of frogs and often comments on the contents of the basket. Yesterday it was "Oh my God! How can you eat those? They're disgusting" and asked for his colleague's agreement. When he didn't get it, there was the theatrical turn of the head in full Larry Grayson style, and the offending item dropped into my bag after holding them with finger tips.
He can obviously identify the customers who will accept his eccentric ways, and it certainly lightens the mood. One classic, not aimed at me, was to a lady with a bag of doughnuts. "Do you like these?" he asked an elderly lady. "Yes I do" she replied. Long pause and looking her up and down, followed by "Yes, I can tell".
I’d be quite happy to take my pills with a slice of liver.
Well so would I @punkdoc (you know I'm an offal fan) ... but being swaddled tightly in a towel and held firmly upside down under someone's arm doesn't appeal ... but ....
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
You lot loving your sweeties,you do realize this is the curmudgeon thread. Mine is being irritated by million/billionaires getting together to lecture us about the climate, when we are all doing our best at grass roots level, while they fly,eat,sleep enjoy, repeat!!!
I love your checkout guy @KT53! My Dad used to loooove liquorice allsorts! I'd forgotten that, so that's nice to have a new little memory of him. But as @Nanny Beach says - this is the curmudgeon's corner so I have two that really annoy me - both are adverts. The first is Lenor who want people to buy another plastic bottle full of little balls of scented something or other to go in with their washing. When the planet is in such dire straights it seems incredible to me that anyone would want to buy something full of artificial scent in a plastic bottle and so completely unnecessary. The other is Cadbury - "A glass and a half in everyone". It used to be, before Cadbury was bought out by an American conglomerate, "a glass and a half of milk in every bar". That is clearly not the case any more but they are playing on the nostalgia people might have for the original Cadbury and using this completely nonsensical slogan instead. And they say it as 'everyone', as in all of us, not 'every one'.
Con fused by that Wild Edges?You will all be delighted to hear I did stop buying fabric conditioner. However,if I have to use my tumble dryer,I will put a "sheet" in.mu h prefer the great outdoors smell,( it's out there now)
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Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
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Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Maybe the foxes have eaten all the squirrels and moved on looking for food.
My Dad used to loooove liquorice allsorts! I'd forgotten that, so that's nice to have a new little memory of him.
But as @Nanny Beach says - this is the curmudgeon's corner so I have two that really annoy me - both are adverts. The first is Lenor who want people to buy another plastic bottle full of little balls of scented something or other to go in with their washing. When the planet is in such dire straights it seems incredible to me that anyone would want to buy something full of artificial scent in a plastic bottle and so completely unnecessary. The other is Cadbury - "A glass and a half in everyone". It used to be, before Cadbury was bought out by an American conglomerate, "a glass and a half of milk in every bar". That is clearly not the case any more but they are playing on the nostalgia people might have for the original Cadbury and using this completely nonsensical slogan instead. And they say it as 'everyone', as in all of us, not 'every one'.
I've stopped buying fabric conditioner too, and I'm just using up what I've got on bed linen