Re: Leisurely Scribbles (part 5)
Pug, you continue to amaze us mere mortals with the breathtaking sweep and depth of your mind.
BTW, WTF has gimp got to with anything.
The reason I ask is not a trivial one> I have this chronic urge to make announcements in elevators when arriving at each floor level , for example
"Floor 2, menswear, haberdashery, felt, gimps, braids and tassels"I always get a smile or positive reaction, never a negative one, apart from the occasional irascible comment, "Can I still get felt on Haberdashery?". Clever dicks in the main who wouldn't ordinarily know their Twisted Insertion Piping from their Loop Edged Ladder Braid.
In doing this I salute the men and women of the 1940s , 50''s and 60's who bravely manned the elevators in my favourite department store, Grace Brothers & suffered willingly with the mind crushingly boring job. I once heard that Cecil Armstrong, one arm & one eye, used to break the cycle by singing now and then sea shanties. His favourite.....
Sons of the sea, bobbin up and down like this.
Sailing the ocean, bobbin' up and down like this.
He'd then ascend to the top floor and announce going up (doh) no one got on & then plummet to the lower basement & say going down.
This was just before he left for early retirement at The Cottage Homes, nice bloke he was