Many of our regular customers in the shop wear what is loosely termed "Country Attire." This may consist of a filthy pair of John Deere overalls, or ancient Wellington boots over waterproof trousers, or rigger boots and moleskins. A lot of them wear shooting breeches, as they are involved with one of the local shoots. Many customers are keepers, or beaters, or even guns on the shoots, so it makes sense.
Last weekend I was at work, serving a very elegant lady. She was in raptures over the local honey, and the fact that we sell part-baked baguettes. As I packed her stuff and took her money we chatted about this and that. Whilst this was happening, one of the regular customers came in, and I handed him his newspaper from beneath the counter. He smiled and said thank you and walked away.
I apologised to the lady for having interrupted our conversation, but realised she was staring in wide-eyed amazement at the departing customer, who was walking back to his car.
"Are you alright?" I asked her.
"I'm fine," she said, then she laughed. "Did you see his TROUSERS?"
I glanced out of the window at the chap, who was sporting a fine pair of tweed breeks, which probably cost a fortune.
"Um. Yes." I looked at her, she was still laughing.
"I didn't think anyone actually wore clothes like that!" She was genuinely amused.
I asked her where she was from.
London.
Mmmmhmmmm.
2 comments:
Much better than the vast number of people who wear their pajamas to the shop.
LOL :-D I worked as the secretary to the factor of 2 large estates and my boss was coming back late at night from a shoot. It had been pouring on an off and his suit was soaked so he took most of it off and cranked up the heating in the Discovery. Explain that when you get pulled over for speeding...
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