Page 68 - Phonebox Magazine September 2016

Christmas Reminders and More
WDavid Pibworth
ell here we are again, Only 16 more Sundays and it’ll be Christmas Day again. Blimey...whooooooosh...
where did that time go?
But anyway, before you have to go Christmas shopping and all of that, there is BOFF. That’s the Big Olney Food Festival in case you didn’t know. It’s on for two days on the 10th and 11th September at the Market Square... Market Place...or that Market Square Place as I like to call it to keep every beggar happy. Have you noticed how cross some people get if you call it the Market Square. It’s hours of fun calling it that on facebook. You could talk about a mass murder happening on it and the thread would end up about it being called the Place and not the Square. It is one of those things that doesn’t bother me greatly as I know what area people are talking about whichever name they call it.
That’s not to say I don’t get irritated by other minor things. Today I popped into a garage
to get a drink and clearly parked outside on the forecourt as the man in the shop watched me get out and walk in. I bought my drink and he said “Any fuel today sir?” and I said “Well what do you think? You’ve watched me drive in here and park outside, walk in and pick up a bottle of Lucozade – two bottles infactasitwasonofferfor£2fortwoof them – and walk up and offer to pay for them. Now then, do you think that while you turned your back for ve seconds, I nipped to the pump, stretched the fuel line out 30 feet to my car and lled it up, and managed to get the line back to the pump without you seeing anything slightly suspicious?”... as a matter of fact, I didn’t say that, I said “No, not today”, as I know that they’re told to say that, even if they clearly know the person hasn’t had any fuel. Why they’re primed to say that I have no idea as I’d imagine if you were going to nick fuel, you wouldn’t be in the shop buying two small bottles of Lucozade on special offer.
“Have a nice day” is the other phrase that drives me bonkers. If someone said it and meant it, then I would have no problem at all,
but they don’t. They put on this ghastly smile and say it. It’s, in part, the fault of the USA who seem to have brought in meaningless verbal diarrhea. I had a friend who was visiting the
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