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Please tell me I'm not the only one who doesn't want all my food items presented in a vertical stack in the middle of a huge plate that is evidently large enough on which to present the food PROPERLY.
Quote from: annew on December 06, 2011, 09:33:48 PMPlease tell me I'm not the only one who doesn't want all my food items presented in a vertical stack in the middle of a huge plate that is evidently large enough on which to present the food PROPERLY.You're not Anne. I think most Chefs; most Premier League footballers; all Turner Prize winners; all stars of screen, stage and radio; all politicians; most of the Royal Family; the traffic warden who works in Ivybridge; etc. etc. etc. have their heads so far up their own! they haven't a hope in Hell of seeing.Or am I just getting old and crotchety?
You're not Anne. I think most Chefs; most Premier League footballers; all Turner Prize winners; all stars of screen, stage and radio; all politicians; most of the Royal Family; the traffic warden who works in Ivybridge; etc. etc. etc. have their heads so far up their own! they haven't a hope in Hell of seeing.Or am I just getting old and crotchety?
You could go over to the craft thread and make being crotchety an art!
Is there any wonder the British retail industry is in the state that it is? Two illustrations.I did some Christmas shopping this morning (early for me!!) and went to Marks and Sparks where I acquired a number of bags and then looked for somewhere to pay. On the whole floor I was on there were four tills each with a massive queue of people. I saw one bloke I knew in the queue and he said he had been waiting for nearly 20 minutes and hadn't yet reached a till. I joined the end of the queue and waited......and waited..... and waited. Fifteen minutes past and I had shuffled forward about four paces. A "suit", armed with a clip board (they always have clipboards!) meandered past and I asked if he was part of the management. He said he was the assistant manager. I told him how long I had been queuing and there were those who had waited longer. Well it's Christmas he said, there are always queues. I then asked what he was going to do about it and he said frankly nothing. So, after commenting further about the state of the industry; the lack of a "customer centred approach" (a phrase I find suits make a lot of use of) and why I should queue in his shop for the privilege of spending my own money, I hung the bags over his clip board arm and suggested he might then find something useful to do and put the contents back on the correct shelves..... and went home! On the way home I called in at one of the Sheds. We need a new letter box (the ones that have internal draft excluder brushes). I found one, the only one in the store, but it was to fit a door 35mm in depth, my door is 27mm in depth. I asked a member of staff if they had any to fit narrower doors. No he said we don't stock any because we don't sell many so we only stock the 35mm one (!!!). I asked him if he knew why they didn't sell many, no, he didn't he replied. Might it be because all the external doors you stock are less than 35mm ddep so the one you stock won't fit any of the doors you stock. I didn't know that he replied. So I went next door and consumed a couple of two shot espressos and went home!
