A nineteen year old apprentice who was confidently informing me last week that he knew everything about resale value despite currently owning nothing in his possession that could technically be…
I used to think that all you needed from a pair of sunglasses was for them to look decent in the shop mirror. Bought eight or nine pairs thinking that…
There was a man on the 87 bus two Tuesdays ago wearing a wool scarf wrapped around his neck so tightly it appeared to be strangling him. Both ends were…
Bought a “women’s oversized sweatshirt” off a market stall in the Bullring two years back, seven quid, looked exactly like every other sweatshirt on that stall, and the bloke running…
Buttoned up a charity shop blazer wrong three times before I clocked what I was actually doing. Kept doing the top button, hand going to the left side out of…
My sister asked me to grab her a pair of trainers off a shelf at work, said she was a size six, and I stood there like an idiot doing…
The bloke in the running shop actually laughed when I asked to try a men’s 8 instead of a women’s 9.5, not unkindly, just because he’d clearly had this exact…
Stood in the queue at the self checkout in Primark last month, three pairs of briefs in my hand because the old ones had gone see through at the seams,…
Stood in the queue at the shop on the corner, the one I’ve decided is mine even though the volunteer who does the Thursday restock has never once learned my…
Dean, the apprentice I work with, turned up on site with a watch that cost more than his first van and spent the whole tea break telling anyone who’d listen…