Carrier bag and ID Nazis

Afternoon All,

Bit of a moan today, firstly, I'd written about half my gorgeous blog, and through some freaky Blogger accident, it all went, despite the often saves. :( So expect naughty language.

Anyway, I've got a few things to talk about today, firstly, my local mini-supermarket...Express Supermarket if you will...

How easy is it to put lots of things in 2 seperate carrier bags?

EASY!!!! I used to be a checkout monkey, proud though I am to have served the public in such a great way, I know that it's a piece of piss job. Fucking simples, as the Meerkat on the insurance comparison advert says, simples.

You get to know various tricks of the trade, how to pack bags being one of them. FUCKING SIMPLES! 2, 2 litre bottles of milk, they warrant a bag of their own, not only cos they're heavy, but because they take up most of the space in the bag.

NO. Apparently not. Apparently 2 bottles of milk, 2 litres each, that's 4 litres of milk, can also be crammed in with a bag of sweet and crunchy salad, an onion, a red pepper, cashew nuts and 2 fucking quiches.

I don't mean to swear as much, honestly I don't. But this pissed me off, because I don't drive, and it's about 3/4 of a mile ish to my house from this Express place, that's a long way to walk with 1 carrier bag splitting and straining under the weight and amoutn of shit in the bag. Luckily I had a spare, and my back pack, so all was not lost.

BUT!!! Hark I hear you cry, as I write this and I'm the only one who's read it so far, "Why didn't you ask for another bag?".

I did, but was ignored.

Ig-fucking-nored.

He's NEW! He hasn't even got a fucking shirt. His name tag is a fucking home-made job, and he's already so complacent that he's ignoring customers??? WTF!?!?!?!

BUT that's not to say that they are all like this in there, there are 3 people I can think of who are nice and genuinely friendly, you know those checkout monkeys who you purposfully go for because you know they're nice, even if they have the busiest queue? Better queuing than being served by a miserable bint who, gladly takes the reward point card into their hand but when you hold out your hand to recieve it back....they just put it down on the side. And it's a bit awkward trying to pry the card up off the surface.

Bitches.

Once I thought, I'll catch her out. I'll put the card down so SHE has to pick it up. BUT NO!! She fucking took it out of my hand.

What.

A.

Bitch.

However that's just some of it, I'm 22. I look nearer 30 these days. 3 kids. Full Time work. Walking to and from work (just shy of 2 miles each way) at a Military Establishment.

Sometime I want to buy a couple of bevvies. Have a nice cold lager with my home made prawn curry.

NO!!! NOT ANYMORE!!! APPARENTLY YOU NEED LOOK OVER 25 OR HAVE ID TO GET SERVED IN THIS EXPRESS SHOP NOW!!!

Every little helps? Fuck off.

Bollocks. I mean I look well over 18, quite far over 21, but now it's 25??? "You don't look over 25, you might be under 18." WHAT THE FUCK??? It doesn't make sense. I despair. In this age of recession, I'm being denied a nice cold beer at the end of a long hard week. By people who 1 week ago served me with no questions.

What makes this a particular wrinkle for me is that I don't drive. So I don't carry around a drivers licence. And I'm not gonna take my passport everyday on the offchance I buy a beer.

PHEEEEEEEEEEEW! Rant over.

I apologise. But I'm sure you may have had a giggle here or there.

Anyway, Swine Flu? British troops out of Iraq? Nope and nope.

The most shared news story at the moment on the BBC Website is:

" 'Hot and dry' UK summer forecast "

That's right, we're sharing stories about how the weather is going to be in the summer, in the face of a global pandemic of a potentially fatal bout of the sniffles, and on a landmark day when British Forces withdraw from Iraq.

To be honest I'm smiling from ear to ear. How very British.

I love it, we're discussing and sharing a story about how the weather is gonna be good for bbqs!

"Temperatures are likely to be warmer than average across the UK, topping 30C at times." The Beeb report. "However, they warn that heavy downpours cannot be ruled out."

LMFAO That's right. The BBC with a breaking news story, the summer is likely to be warm, but we cannot rule out heavy rain! Fantastic. Now that is journalism. That is a news story that must be gripping the hearts of the nation.

"Chief meteorologist at the Met Office, Ewen McCallum, said a repeat of the wet summers of 2007 and 2008 is unlikely.

"After two disappointingly wet summers the signs are much more promising this year," he said.

"We can expect times when temperatures will be above 30C, something we hardly saw at all last year." "

So that's what they mean, it's gonna be warmer than the last couple of years, might not be as wet as it was before. Hang on thought what did I read mere moments ago? Can't rule out heavy downpours?

Sounds to me like the Beeb are telling us it's gonna be warmer to put a smile on our faces despite the looming pandemic.

But no, what does BBC Forecaster Laura Tobin say? "It doesn't mean it will be dry. With the heat, we see some very heavy thunder showers and torrential downpours at times."

So the BBC story about the weather is this. It might be warmer, it will probably rain a lot, it might be sunny, but if it is, there will also most likely be rain and thunderstorms as well. But then it might not.

At the end of this news article about the weather, I'm more confused about what the weather will be like.

Anyways, hope you've enjoyed this!

Will speak to you soon!

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