Guest 645- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 4,463
1.dogs crapping everywhere
2.people who throw litter on the streets/beaches
3.fly tippers
4.vandals
5.drunks/addicts/charity beggars who stop you for cash/fag/cup of tea
6.the wife when she has a mood for no apparent reason..and gets stroppy
7.loud music blaring from houses or cars
8.people that answer their mobile whilst at the checkout and hold up the queue
9.people who use foul language in front of wife and kids
10.lumpy porridge
Marek
I think therefore I am (not a Tory supporter)
Guest 656- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
- Posts: 2,262
Marek, Melissa post 14 has the answer to your number 6
Terry, i would do it for free
Brian Dixon
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 23 Sep 2008
- Posts: 23,940
people who open there mouths before engaging brain.
Jan Higgins
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 5 Jul 2010
- Posts: 13,895
People who come up to the counter with a £1 item and want it for 50p, or they switch the price tags.
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I try to be neutral and polite but it is hard and getting even more difficult at times.
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My pet hate is minor celebrities that are in the papers for no apparant reson , and people who have more than one biogrophy before there 30 .
Just to update, got away with a ccouple of sweeties and sweethearts, and just when I thought I was home free got a "my lovely". I said that I had a bet with myself that I wouldmnot get called it this time and wastold that they (the nusses) are told not to do itmbut astheyare caring people they cannothelp it. Soprry about typing nhave 3 fingers withnot nfelling!!!
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 62,352
alls well that end well, welcome back poppet.
Hope we never nmeet as now owe you thick ear!!!
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 62,352
you did say your hands were nearly out of action, hence my brave comment.
Terry Nunn
- Location: London Road, Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 4,316
Some others of mine.
Box sets - it's BOXED.
Heard on BEEB this morning - one pence - it's a penny. Gordon What's is name was always saying it in his budget speech.
Polly Evans - Doesn't understand that you can't interrupt on a satellite link, and she's rude.
Ian Palmer - Boring, really boring.
Chris Evans - Ginger, what more can I say!
Terry
Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
MEN again!!!!!! im starting to really dislike them all lately.
Jan #25 - when I was running a charity shop in 19-0-spit we used to get women in with dozens (or so it seemed!) kids and you could see them through the window giving the little dears greasy sausages and other grubby stuff to hold before they came in so that we would be distracted and quantities of stuff would disappear. That was their cunning plan, but we were wise.........!!!!
Guest 641- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 2,335
It's disgusting that so many of our 'visitors' raid charity shops on masse, I personally feel that we should bring back the stocks for such an offence
Plus ca change, Barry - it is 30 years since I ran my little charity shop for Sue Ryder!!
Brian Dixon- Location: Dover
- Registered: 23 Sep 2008
- Posts: 23,940
and public flogging with either a cat of nine tails or the birch.
Jan Higgins- Location: Dover
- Registered: 5 Jul 2010
- Posts: 13,895
Bern #33
For the benefit of our regular suspicious local "visitors" I am no longer tactful and often say to a fellow member of staff in a fairly loud voice so it can be heard,
"watch them they have an open bag" or even "follow them around nice and close". Works wonders especially as the kids understand english even if the parents do not.
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I try to be neutral and polite but it is hard and getting even more difficult at times.
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Guest 696- Registered: 31 Mar 2010
- Posts: 8,115
Jan, I reckon that the people you mention don't even know what a charity shop is, that it has to do with charity, that the income goes to a charitable cause.
They have probably never been told that to rob charity in Britain is a despicable thing that people here do not condone.
I saw some time back a group of them attempting to carry away boxes of items that someone had placed in front of a charity shop in London Road during closing hours, so I stopped and looked.
They said "rubbish", meaning that it was rubbish dumped there. I made it clear that it wasn't rubbish, but a charitable offering.
I doubt they understood one word.
Don't be too charitable yourself! Some will not know, but most will. If you are not shoplifting you don't try to conceal what you are doing.
Jan Higgins- Location: Dover
- Registered: 5 Jul 2010
- Posts: 13,895
Alexander are you trying to tell me that those who have been in the country for at least five years do not know what a charity shop is and that it is illegal to steal in any country.
Most of them understand a lot more than they would have us believe.
They have been seen rummaging through the boxes that get left outside our shop on many occasions, of cause they know it is not rubbish. Some of them are just thieving scum that give the rest of their honest countrymen a very bad name.
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I try to be neutral and polite but it is hard and getting even more difficult at times.
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