Spot the regular being served in the queue at the Vauxhall news-stand:
“Four-pounds-please-thankyou”
“Two-pounds-seventy-please-thankyou”
“Hi-how-are-you-eighty-pence-please-thankyou-have-a-nice-weekend”
“Three-pounds-please-thankyou”
Rest assured that I managed to squeeze in a ‘fine-thanks-and-you-too’ in response, without of course either breaking stride or interrupting the vital flow of commerce. And that’s exactly as it should be – the niceties attended to with no actual waste of time.
have-a-good-weekend-one-and-all-thankyou.
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7 responses so far ↓
flighty // September 28, 2007 at 5:18 pm |
Sounds like you’ve got it down to a fine art.
A good weekend to you too!
Style » Passing the Time of Day, London Style // September 28, 2007 at 5:25 pm |
[...] Seraphine wrote an interesting post today onHere’s a quick excerptSpot the regular being served in the queue at the Vauxhall news-stand:. “Four-pounds-please-thankyou”. “Two-pounds-seventy-please-thankyou”. “Hi-how-are-you-eighty-pence-please-thankyou-have-a-nice-weekend” … [...]
disgruntled // September 28, 2007 at 5:28 pm |
not as fine an art as the news-stand guys have, though!
huttonian // September 28, 2007 at 8:21 pm |
Who is Seraphine? A alter ego of disgruntled? Or Great Minds blogging alike?
disgruntled // September 28, 2007 at 8:54 pm |
I don’t know … some wierd site that just takes excerpts from blogs and republishes them. As though there weren’t enough crap on the internet…
blue soup // October 1, 2007 at 10:17 am |
I love that I don’t even need to order my breakfast in The Cafe that I visit every morning anymore. I just walk in and they go: “Hello darling, two brown to go?”
*contented sigh*
disgruntled // October 1, 2007 at 6:12 pm |
Haven’t quite reached ‘darling’ stage yet, although the odd bit of jokey banter is creeping in at the edges.