Tag Archives: customer

Stephen Fry turns up nose at roll up soap bag (Rousse)

Posted on March 29, 2021 by Dreamaticus

For years, my little sister scoured the sales for bargains. Many of her purchases had been stored away unused for years, the majority still in their original packaging. I took a pile of these goods to a posh toy shop … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged baby, bag, bargain, customer, nose, proprietor, purchase, rubbish, sale, shop, sister, soap, sponge, Stephen Fry, wash | Leave a comment

Chatty arts professional protects her left breast (Rousse)

Posted on April 30, 2018 by Dreamaticus

ECM arrived in the basement gallery as I was installing the new exhibition. She took a plastic tub of bright green powder paint and started to mix it so that she could ‘cheer the room up a bit’. When I … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged academic, arts, bar tender, basement, breast, chatty, cup, customer, drink, drinks, exhibit, exhibition, film, friend, gallery, job, left, media, men, mix, paint, performance, powder, professional, protect, room, schedule, screening, space, supper, travel, tub, university, wall, world | Leave a comment

A papier mâché model, a lost purse, and a problematic pub food policy (Rousse)

Posted on April 16, 2018 by Dreamaticus

When I returned to work from sick leave I was less than impressed with my new office arrangements. I was to share room C75 with an office mate who had already moved into the room a bed as well as … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged bed, countryside, customer, desk, disgusting, embarrassing, food, handbag, kid, kitchen, leave, lunch, mate, model. pub. purse, money, office, Papier-mâché, pie, policy, reject, sick, steak | Leave a comment

Uninsured charity shop burglar escapes to the seaside by tricycle (Rousse)

Posted on December 3, 2017 by Dreamaticus

I noticed that my donation was still not on display several days after I left it for sale at the charity shop. In fact, it looked like the shop was possibly out of business. I was pretty sure that the … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged 205, accident, bag, barrier, basket, bicycle, break-in, burglar, business, cardigan, cashmere, charity, crash, crochet, customer, donation, doorway, drive, end, field, green, lady, Orange, Peugeot, purple, sale, seaside, shop, sleep, straw, town, train, Tuesday, uninsured, week, window | Leave a comment

Tesco introduces motorised bikes to speed up in-store purchasing (Rousse)

Posted on January 22, 2017 by Dreamaticus

Tesco introduced four-wheeled motorised bikes to help increase in-store purchasing speed. It thus came as something of a surprise when supermarket customers started using the bikes for another purpose: to perform competitive wheelies in the car park. TPR took up … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged beach, bicycle, bike, car, car park, customer, cycle, dune, enthusiasts, Eurocamp, leap, middle class, motorised, park, purchase, resort, sand, seaside, supermarket, Tesco, town, TPR, wheelchair, wheelie | Leave a comment

Birmingham University students play on swings to avoid murder scene (Rousse)

Posted on January 11, 2017 by Dreamaticus

SPC, SH and I stayed in Birmingham at SH’s flat a couple of weeks before the start of our final year at University. Just across the road people were queuing to lay flowers at a murder scene. We tried to … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged accommodation, admin, avoid, bar, Birmingham, breakfast, customer, final, flat, flower, job, murder, play, push, role, scene, staff, student, swing, TPR, uniform, university, waiting, year | Leave a comment

Newsagent exploits his neighbours (Rousse)

Posted on September 7, 2016 by Dreamaticus

I was staying in the tiny estate house that belonged to the family of my school friend KM. They lived next door to a newsagent. I looked out of the window and asked who cared for the patch of green … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged customer, delievry, door, estate, exploit, family, friend, green, house, neighbour, newsagent, newspaper, Next, Patch, pay, school, shop, window | Leave a comment

Princess Anne’s trip to Jenners (Rousse)

Posted on May 18, 2016 by Dreamaticus

I bumped into my old pal Princess Anne (the Princess Royal) in Jenners. TPR and I were there (having arrived by helterskelter slide) to purchase some large electrical goods. The Princess was rather confused by the layout of the shop, … Continue reading →

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Communication for the abused (Rousse)

Posted on November 29, 2015 by Dreamaticus

We were always being told that we were bound to know a woman who was being abused and now we knew who it was in our case: the assistant in the corner shop. She communicated that she needed our help. … Continue reading →

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RyanAir cancels flight then holds customers in airport overnight (Rousse)

Posted on August 1, 2015 by Dreamaticus

The RyanAir flight to London was cancelled and we were forced to stay in the airport overnight until 5:00am. No arguing with NI would persuade the staff to open the doors and let us out – even when I pointed … Continue reading →

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