We were selling some coins to a customer this morning when someone entered the shop demanding that we move a car to let him out.
The forecourt of the shop allows you to back a couple of cars upto the shopfront and then park one across. Normally it works well when we confine the parking to shop staff, customers and residents of the flats above the shops. Because we’re all in the same boat we tend to get on together and there’s no problem.
However, when someone across the road parks on our private forecourt, then comes in throwing his weight about when a customer is in the middle of a purchase, it doesn’t quite work.
We explained that the parking was for the shop during business hours, and he just kept repeating that he had two cars and only enough space to park one of them on his drive.
I’m not quite sure why he thinks he’s entitled to use our parking spaces but if it happens again I may have to suggest he buys a bigger house or sells a car.
Apart from that, I have a cold. It started yesterday in the car, abated overnight then gradually crept back as I spluttered and sneezed and coughed my way through the afternoon.
It’s just a cold and should go in a day or two, but if the man from across the road comes back I will do my best to infect him.
I arrive home at 4.20pm and went straight to bed. So far, six hours of lying in bed shivering and looking pathetic have produced very little in the way of tea and sympathy.
Quite clearly I need to work on my whimpering.
I hope your cold has passed on by the time I finish catching up with your posts. 🙂
Yes, almost gone thanks.
I offer personalised whimpering training. I am a fully accredited expert.
I am trying a new approach, bit if it doesn’t work I may have to book a course.
Reading your post I was sorry about your cold but at the same time I had a good laugh reading these sentences: “I may have to suggest he buys a bigger house or sells a car” and ” if the man from across the road comes back I will do my best to infect him”.
Thank you. I feel better for knowing I’ve caused laughter. 🙂
Sorry about the cold. I don’t think it’s you who needs to stop complaining. Have you thought of parking across his drive?
Great minds… However, as he’s parked on his own side of the road this morning I may let it go. 🙂
I’m sorry you aren’t well! Get better soon 🙂
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Hope you feel better soon! Ah, winter.
I’m sure I will. Thank you.
Sorry it sounds miserable. here’s to plenty of tea and water to drink and feeling better–and for people not being idiots.
Thank you. Julia is currently making tomato soup and a sandwich. I am sure I will feel better in about half an hour.