Paging SteveH

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/8484116.stm

"A Tesco store has asked customers not to shop in their pyjamas or
barefoot. Notices have been put up in the chain's supermarket in St
Mellons"

Doesn't your missus work in St Mellons[1]? Pop in to Tesco in her
negligée, does she?

[1] Odd that that fact should stick in my mind, I can't think why...

 

It ain't just Tesco. I bought a new pair of shoes in M&S the other
day. Seemed fine. Lobbed the old shoes into the bin. Walked 500 yards
in the new shoes, and the right-hand shoe managed to rub the skin off
my heel. Inspection revealed a manufacturing defect that curved the
leather in too much. So back to the returns desk, and plonked them on
the counter.

"Sorry, sir. They need to be off your feet."

Me, baffled: "But they are. They couldn't be *more* off my feet."

"No, we can't examine them unless you bring them in while wearing
shoes...."

"Huh?"

And she wouldn't, either. Insisted I had to go away, put another pair
on my feet, and return bearing duff shoes in my hands. Utterly
bizarre. I was so pissed off, I lobbed the shoes into a corner of the
returns dept and wandered off in my socks, to buy a pair of shoes
elsewhere. A plaintive letter to M&S resulted in a full refund.

So M&S doesn't like bare, or at least stockinged, feet either. Bloody
odd when you consider I was in the shoe department and people wander
round shoeshops in stockinged feet as a matter of course.

 

You were wearing *stockings?!*

I've always thought you were a bit, you know...

 

Ex public school, innit. ;-)

 

Oi!

You just dropped the soap . . . . .

 

Fag!

 

What you want someone to come and run and errand?

 

No, pick up the soap... obviously.

 

I think that just sums up Cardiff. And the kind of people who shop at
Tesco.

 

Uncle WUN stop thinking of K and her Mellons. It won't do your health any
good at all.

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