Ouch...

Why are DIY stares like film sets for 'Night of the Living Dead'? Is it only OAPs who actually maintain their house/garden anymore?

Conversely, why are there always schoolkids running the place? The girl at the till looked not a day over 14, and the guy I asked to direct me to the coach bolts looked like he'd just made the transition to grown-up pants. And as for the whereabouts of coach bolts, well I might as well have asked him to locate Area 51 on a map of South Wales.

Warming to this theme, here's my whinge for today.

I went to Homebase. Asked some little boy in short pants with a name label (presumably in case he gets lost) where's the bathroom shelving - Upstairs he points.....so I trudge with my other goods up these immensely steep stairs that seemed more like the north face of the eiger - dropped my stick twice - another slightly older 'worker' stood watching from the top, when I finally huffed up to the top looking for an oxygen tank, he says in a whiney nasally grating little voice "There's a customer lift over there"......Gggggrrrrrrr, thanks chaps!

Ooooh, another whinge today too!

Went to starbucks, she puts my card in the wotsit but I had to strain to lean over to tap me pin in, I was loaded down with bags and stick too, I tried to take it out of its holder and she grabbed it and said Ooohhhh you cant do that, its fixed! Well, it wasnt but it was on a very short wire, so as I struggled I politely asked "What would you do if a person using a wheelchair wanted to pay by card?" and she said "Oh thats no problem, we do it for them" --- "They TELL you their pin number????" -- "ummmm,, well no actually -- I THINK we still accept signatures for paying"......another GGGGRRRRRR......!!!!
Next time, I am going to take my wheelchair and pay by card again, just to be arsey!!

Moan moan moan....

Well you could access the places ok, it was after that they were rubbish

Something that really winds me up is old farts moaning about the staff in B&Q, Homebase and Halfords. Maybe they only just started work, or maybe they are a little slow. Anyway at least they have actually got a job and aren't hanging around in the park drinking and doing dope. Give the kids a break people......





(yeah, my tongue just punctured my cheek)

I didn't, but they should choose a different word for it really.

Bet they train that out of the kid pdq. Helpfulness in the service industry just makes everyone else look bad.

As for the tables, yeah they just shove as many as can humanly fit in there, more tables there are the more money can be made, mind you usually find that they in those fours and 2 or 3 per table are unused. Odd really. But then I hate coffee anyway