Wish me luck

[Dangermouse]

Its the last Saturday before Xmas and in one hour I will be picking BT up from work and then battling my way around Tesco for a few veg and some beer for Xmas day, I know the shops are only closed for a day and normality is resumed on Boxing day, but lets spare a thought for the billions who will be stocking up for a month or two thinking they cant buy anything after today...........you know the ones with 7 trolleys full of everything that will be going to the landfill next week, stuff that they don't normally buy and end up arguing with the better half, why they actually bought it............oh and whilst I am on a mission, thanks to all the supermarket owners who buy so much stuff from the warehouse I work at over the last 4 weeks, meaning I cant get any time off to go shopping, and my stupid employers who think that next week, we will be busier than ever and I still cant get any time off, even though we will all be sat around doing bugger all and only getting paid normal time because all the shops stocked up weeks ago............thanks.


Anyway Merry Christmas to those who get the holiday, and to those who don't...........get back to work ya shirkers


Merry Xmas all


Rant over

 

[snorri]

Its the last Saturday before Xmas and in one hour I will be picking BT up from work and then battling my way around Tesco

Try to relax, no point in getting yourself wound up already, Christmas doesn't come round until the middle of next week.

 

[Biker Joe]

Well. That's got that rant off your chest.
I wish you a happy January.

 

[gavroche]

You can have all the time off you want next month because people will be skint and wont buy much!
merry Christmas and happy new year.

 

[biggs682]

we did click & collect last night

 

[Dangermouse]

HAHA..........thanks all, god I hate this time of year........next week I am popping a holiday request in, I may get Xmas 2020 off if I am lucky

 

[Deleted member 1258]

We drove to the 24 hours tesco in Bedworth last night and got the Supermarket shop done whilst it was quiet, this morning we were in town ten to nine and done and out by half nine, got the town shopping done before it got going, didn't even have to queue for the car park.

 

[postman]

I feel your pain.I was a delivery postman for eleven years.Back in the good old days 1972-1983,before i went indoors.Ten or twelve hour shifts,but it was helped with very big doses of humour and a great gaffer,Mr Tony Thorpe,long since gone.Bless him what a brill guy.But by Christmas eve i was cream crackered and more often than not fell asleep after xmas dinner.

 

[swee'pea99]

I feel your pain.I was a delivery postman for eleven years.Back in the good old days 1972-1983,before i went indoors.Ten or twelve hour shifts,but it was helped with very big doses of humour and a great gaffer,Mr Tony Thorpe,long since gone.Bless him what a brill guy.But by Christmas eve i was cream crackered and more often than not fell asleep after xmas dinner.

All those intercepted parcels to open & compare...






















It was a JOKE, dammit. Sheesh, some people ...

 

[gbb]

I dont think the supermarkets are that busy. Two years ago, definately 5 years ago, the xmas shop was a thing to fear, it filled me with dread, fighting your way round the aisles, the inevitable endless queues at the till, the fight to get a parking space etc etc etc.
Wednesday we did our normal shop thinking it'd be really quite busy...no, Asda was quiet.
Yesterday we went to Morrisons...a saturday xmas shop, the worst possible time...god help us. We got there, all steady inside, no queues...what's going on?

 

[snorri]

Yesterday we went to Morrisons...a saturday xmas shop, the worst possible time...god help us. We got there, all steady inside, no queues...what's going on?

Time to give yourself a pat on the back gbb
, "Everyone" knows Morrisons will be mobbed on the last Saturday before Christmas and avoids the place making it pleasantly quiet for those of us who have appllied a little logic and reasoning to Christmas shopping.

 

[Dangermouse]

Well we did our last shop this afternoon.........Tesco was bedlam

ITS ONLY ONE DAY GODDAMIT.......people seemed to be stocking up for Armageddon