Buying cat food at supermarkets and person on till asks if I have cats. One day I shall say no, I just have an addiction to Whiskas
Or tell them you just use it as bait? ;-)
J.
Hate.... Hate Hate Hate
- Thread starter Boris Bajic
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Or tell them you just use it as bait? ;-)
J.
martint235
Dog on a bike
- Location
- Welling
Way back when First Direct were still good, their staff were based in Leeds. As part of security I was asked for my town of birth and a 10 min conversation on the merits (or lack of) of Nelson followed.Internet banking is the way forward!
CharlieB
Junior Walker and the Allstars
- Location
- Therivermeadowatthepileofstones
I have often responded to people saying the above 'not unless you have unfeasibly long arms'
glasgowcyclist
Charming but somewhat feckless
- Location
- Scotland
I don't mind staff being pleasant and, if after a reaonable time, we've established some recognition of each other, it leads to some chat. I don't expect total strangers, on my rare visit inside a bank, to question my financial dealings. My wife was transferring a reasonable sum from one account to another yesterday when the teller asked her what it was for!
GC
(Grumpy Cyclist)
swee'pea99
Squire
My sis told me once that she arrived at the checkout and caught a fellow shopper gawping at her trolley, which contained about a dozen cans of Whiskas and four two litre bottles of cider. Embarrassed, the woman blurted out 'lucky cat'. My sis gave her a conspiratorial look..."What makes you think I have a cat?"Buying cat food at supermarkets and person on till asks if I have cats. One day I shall say no, I just have an addiction to Whiskas
threebikesmcginty
Corn Fed Hick...
- Location
- ...on the slake
Edinburgh airport, although lots of others are guilty too. You have to walk 4 miles to go 10' - there's no one about (see photo taken earlier), move the fugging barrier!
You know those things just clip in and out yeah?
threebikesmcginty
Corn Fed Hick...
- Location
- ...on the slake
Yeah, I don't work there though.
OP
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Boris Bajic
Guest
This might sound petty... but it winds me up.
Even on the BBC one hears the middle word of fine-toothed comb being stressed, as though it were a fine-tooth comb.
That would be a comb for one's fine teeth, or without the hyphen perhaps a fine comb for one's teeth. It is neither of those. It is a comb with fine teeth: a fine-toothed comb.
Further to which, one also hears the expressions 'to get one's own back' and 'off one's own bat' being mixed and miss-matched. "I did it off my own back".
There is no need for any of this. If I were in power, these would be capital offences. I see no point in light sentences for such crimes.
Even on the BBC one hears the middle word of fine-toothed comb being stressed, as though it were a fine-tooth comb.
That would be a comb for one's fine teeth, or without the hyphen perhaps a fine comb for one's teeth. It is neither of those. It is a comb with fine teeth: a fine-toothed comb.
Further to which, one also hears the expressions 'to get one's own back' and 'off one's own bat' being mixed and miss-matched. "I did it off my own back".
There is no need for any of this. If I were in power, these would be capital offences. I see no point in light sentences for such crimes.
swee'pea99
Squire
I would have thought flogging for a first offence. One must never appear vindictive or disproportionate.
You really don't need to work there to unclip a barrier and walk through it. Try it, I dare you.
akb
Veteran
- Location
- Potton, Bedfordshire
The older lady in front of you at the queue for the checkout who loads the til with a trolleys full of sshopping, asks the cashier to pack her bags and waits whilst this is all happening. When it comes to pay time spends the next 5 minutes trying to find her credit card / store card in her bottomless pit of a hand bag.
Mattonsea
Über Member
- Location
- New Forest
Its H....H....H not Haych ???????
