Well, it wasn’t actually a bad day, but when we went to the car park to leave I decided to use the toilet. This is what I found.
Sign at Bakewell, Derbyshire
It would have been nice for them to have put up a big sign I could have seen earlier. Then I’d have been able to plan better.
Plan B, because I couldn’t be bothered to walk back into town, was to hang on until we got to our next stop – Brierlow Books.
The toilet bit of the shop visit went well, though there was a queue. There was a queue last time we called too – suggesting the facilities aren’t keeping up with the increasing number of customers. The book buying bit was a disaster, with nothing that caught my eye. So was the plan to buy a nice card for Julia’s sister’s birthday, as they no longer stock the cards we like. The whole place was congested and the two staff at the desk were offhand, to say the least, one to the point of rudeness, when Julia went to pay. This has never happened before – the staff (whatever I may think about the direction the shop is taking) have always been extremely pleasant over the years.
However, even this couldn’t spoil an enjoyable day. In fact, by falling short the bookshop cheered me up – I love it when predictions of doom come true.
You’ll have to read the next post to see why I was happy.
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Happy? You? I can’t wait……click
“Happy” may give a slightly misleading impression… 🙂
I cheated and read part 2 first, so I know the story has a happy ending. 😉
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As you know, I read the next post first 🙂
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Nice little cliffhanger, there. hmmmmm . . .
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At least it proved the full-moon-cranky theory a bit–and it strikes me as funny that you now need to receive email updates on toilets! I know, I know, it’s not funny when you get caught short, but still–