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Come Inside... => The Snug => Topic started by: Nick on May 28, 2009, 01:46:35 PM
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Our village shop is adequate but hardly overflowing with stock. Newspapers, sweets, milk, a few cans of beans, the occasional loaf.
The guy who runs it is selling. It has been bought and will shortly become a Paki shop. IN conversation with a sceptical fellow local I remarked that this was a good thing. It would be open for longer and would have a much bigger range of stuff. I went on to add that the current owner (a neighbour of mine) had done little with it and clearly couldn't be arsed to work the necessary hours or to restock the place. Good riddance.
Pity he was standing behind me at the time Banghead Banghead Banghead Banghead Banghead Banghead Banghead
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Our village shop is adequate but hardly overflowing with stock. Newspapers, sweets, milk, a few cans of beans, the occasional loaf.
The guy who runs it is selling. It has been bought and will shortly become a Paki shop. IN conversation with a sceptical fellow local I remarked that this was a good thing. It would be open for longer and would have a much bigger range of stuff. I went on to add that the current owner (a neighbour of mine) had done little with it and clearly couldn't be arsed to work the necessary hours or to restock the place. Good riddance.
Pity he was standing behind me at the time Banghead Banghead Banghead Banghead Banghead Banghead Banghead
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You're right tho - Paki shop will be open on Xmas day and everything... happy088
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Our village shop was sold out to McColls. They squeezed im more shelves mainly to add alcohol, fitted new tills that require everything to be scanned in when purchased, Withdrew support fot the local primary school (raffle prizes and the like) refused to display and sell the parish magazine, changed the name to 'Booze Busters' with posters advertising cheap beer and alienated the staff and customers by inefficient management.
I'm with your sceptical fellow local on this.
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Time will tell. The Paki is a one man band. Having spent years in London with Paki shops all over the place I always found them dead useful in those late night munchy panics and suchlike. And the leaseholder is not going to countenance any Booze Buster stuff or whatever
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What with that and a Curry House next door ~ you'll prolly get a rebate on your Council Tax when the neighbourhood gets valued downward a band.
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Yes, it brings the village 'ethnic' poulation to as much as, um, 2.
Stupid fooking word ethnic. Christ, I am ethnic. We all are!!
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Village shop? rubschin:
noooo: 24hr Sainsbury's, Ali's cut price Boozerama, Temple of Bacchus (Cypriot), all night garages, in fact everything at any time. Shrugs:
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Not in the country!! We even have an early closing day evil:
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There's something that closes for half a day round here, let me think rubschin:
Ah yes, the teeny local library ::) Something to do with them being open on a Saturday.
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Even the Post Office shuts for half a day noooo:
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Cyprus: Half day Wednesday and Saturday, closed Sunday...
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BM closed most of the time noooo:
ANyhoo, the new village Paki shop will be open all hours
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BM closed most of the time noooo:
ANyhoo, the new village Paki shop will be open all hours
Are you sure it is a Paki shop then...? rubschin:
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A prevous owner was, and still is, known as Arkwright because of his extensive stock, endless opening hours and salesmanship. A mate of mine went in to buy a copy of Autocar once. Arkwright asked him why and the guy came out with a second hand Honda Civic that the old boy was flogging! eeek:
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A prevous owner was, and still is, known as Arkwright because of his extensive stock, endless opening hours and salesmanship. A mate of mine went in to buy a copy of Autocar once. Arkwright asked him why and the guy came out with a second hand Honda Civic that the old boy was flogging! eeek:
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When we first moved in here I went down there one day. I needed cheese, mosquito repellent, some suntan lotion, a newspaper, some beer and some batteries. He had all of them.
I enquired if he knew whereabouts I might obtain a 2-stage ladder.
'Out the back, laddy'
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When we first moved in here I went down there one day. I needed cheese, mosquito repellent, some suntan lotion, a newspaper, some beer and some batteries. He had all of them.
I enquired if he knew whereabouts I might obtain a 2-stage ladder.
'Out the back, laddy'
What were you cooking that day then...? rubschin:
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When we first moved in here I went down there one day. I needed cheese, mosquito repellent, some suntan lotion, a newspaper, some beer and some batteries. He had all of them.
I enquired if he knew whereabouts I might obtain a 2-stage ladder.
'Out the back, laddy'
What were you cooking that day then...? rubschin:
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