10-11-2017, 09:52 PM
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Re: Leisurely Scribbles (part 5)
ROBERT GOES SHOPPING
These out of town shopping malls are just too big but life compensates and in places like Marks & Spencer reside the most wonderful food halls. I am avoiding Waitrose after a run in with the portly assistant on the delicatessen. I merely asked for thick slices of ham and she mistakenly thought I had a lisp & cut me off six thin slices of ham. I am a reasonable soul, but good ham is expensive. I handed them back to her and repeated thick slices of ham, three of . Bless her, she couldn’t get it. I took whatever she handed me.
SIX THICK slices of ham. £9.50. (it was very nice)
I digress, the strangest thing happened to me on a recent visit to M & S super food hall on junction 7 of the M27. I went in looking for their “Dine for 2 for £10” offer now showing on tv. I had a devil of a job to find it and in my confusion walked backwards into an elderly man shopping with his elderly wife. As we untangled ourselves I noted that his basket was empty.
Then I looked at my basket, somehow his lingerie was hanging onto my basket I hobbled after them as fast as I could but they were too fast for me. I grabbed an assistant and said“Quick, follow that man, I have his lingerie”
Then I went & had a coffee, black