I decided to have another go at driving today and go a bit further as I am recovering well after the op - Sainsburys in fact. The purpose of the visit was to buy some carpet cleaner because Timi knocked over Jim's coffee onto the cream carpet in the house we rent. It was all in the frenzy of excitement leading up to her displaying her new belly dancing moves at the weekend. The organic lamb had also turned a very odd colour way before the sell by date so I thought I may as well return it.
It was so exciting being in a supermarket after all this time confined to the house. Jasper Conran has this really cool range of home ware there. I bought a candle that matched perfectly the coffee coloured circles theme for the lounge in my new Bournemouth flat (that will be good camouflage for coffee stains) and having seen the rechargeable batteries that may or may not fix our kaput walkabout home phone were £9, I decided to just buy a new phone for £20. What I didn’t bloody well come home with of course was the carpet cleaner which resulted in much cursing on realisation of this.
As I left the supermarket the phone made the security check beep and I decided I couldn’t be bothered to go back so kept walking calmly. An assistant hurried out after me and I started to run because it amused me to – after all he’d probably had a really boring night. I had this image in my head of the Coyote chasing Roadrunner and us zig zagging around the car park lot. After seeing my receipt he asked “Why did you start to run?”. “Oh” I replied “It’s such a long time since I was chased by a guy, I wanted to remember what it felt like.”
2 comments:
Marta, surely you realise that this is simply a great chat-up ploy and a perk of the job for blokes working at supermarkets?
Any time you see an attractive woman leave the store, you just press the Test button on the anti-theft system and run after her. She is initially worried, then relieved, and doesn't blink when you say you're going to need her phone number "just for the paperwork back in the store."
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Very funny indeed.
Well done, Bruce well noticed!!! :-))))))
But generally aren’t we strange, especially in this country… trying to create a ‘special’ reason to chat up, meet somebody, or advertise ourselves in a dating site or be in a place where (and when) it’s "appropriate" to meet etc… Reading this blog and your comment it just occurred to me that the last time I met somebody by directly saying, for example, ‘you look really cute and bla bla bla’ somewhere ordinary like in a café or on a street was (ready!) 7 years ago in Russia!!! Gosh, I want that simple and straight forward life back!!!! It's like following some business processes iand procedures here. This is way too inefficient… But do not try to hire a management consultant to sort this out :)))
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