Preparedness for when

GreyQueen

Enjoy your break, WCS, and may the weather be benign and the yarn be plentiful and bargainous.

A chance conversation a few weeks ago with a shopkeeper pal, drew my mind to something I haven't even thought of for years; mid week day/ half day closing.

Can you imagine, if you're under thirty; shops used to routinely close for half a day midweek. And they sometimes closed half-way thru a Saturday. And weren't open on Sundays at all.

Unbelievable, isn't it? How backwards. I'm not yet 50 and I can remember this, and I've never lived in a particularly pious region where churchgoing was the norm rather than the exception.

And, guess what? Business was still conducted, people managed to make profits, food, clothing, hardware and miscellanous goods were sucessfully bought.

I've decided that my New Year's resolution will be to Shop Less Often. After all, time is one thing you can never save, bank or recover once it is lost.

mardatha

Still have it up here GQ. Some places is Wed half closing, and some is Thursday, and I keep getting it wrong. I can remember a primary school pal living in a village that had one bus on a Wed and one on a Sat...market day and shopping day!

RAS

westcoastscot wrote: »

This is where I get to go to all those stores you always mention, only to realise after 10 minutes what a con the whole shopping thing is. Doesn't take me long to realise that if I've managed without it the other 11 months I probably don't need it.

Oh yes.

And that even if I need it, I am damned if I am going to pay that price for it?

Although I am prepared to pay a premium for stuff in really independant shops.

Then every so often you find something that fills a gap you have felt for a while but not found a solution to?

short_bird

GreyQueen wrote: »

I used to manage the box office of a very small regional theatre. Theatres have a special code if a fire is detected, to alert insiders to start the evacuation. You don't yell FIRE! in a packed auditorium.

The code is Mr Sands is in the building.

If you ever overhear that said between theatre staff, be ready to evac and follow their instructions exactly. Certain rows will have been allocated to certain fire exits, as it takes time to file in and out of a building and if people panic, it may go very badly in an emergency.

Ah, it's a different code at the racecourse I worked at but I've forgotten what it is
I'm another one of those that knows exactly where the fire exits are. One Christmas, I left an event due to the venue being full of tables and no clear path to the fire exit... :eek:

RAS

mardatha wrote: »

Still have it up here GQ. Some places is Wed half closing, and some is Thursday, and I keep getting it wrong. I can remember a primary school pal living in a village that had one bus on a Wed and one on a Sat...market day and shopping day!

Where I am about to head it is one bus on Wednesday and one on Friday, neither allowing more than 2 hours in the local town.

These are amongst my favourite routes elsewhere http://www.stephensonsofeasingwold.co.uk/images/uploads/service-173-174-2012-03.pdf

ragz_2

mardatha wrote: »

Still have it up here GQ. Some places is Wed half closing, and some is Thursday, and I keep getting it wrong. I can remember a primary school pal living in a village that had one bus on a Wed and one on a Sat...market day and shopping day!

Ditto... the village butcher is always closed when I decide I really need some mince... I think he closes half days Monday AND Wenesday.

I remember as a child living in rural wales, if you ran out of something on a saturday afternoon you went without until Monday... at the earliest, sometimes we had to wait for more money to be picked up from town as there were no cashpoints either (we'd have gone very hungry if it weren't for the village shopkeepers letting us have stuff 'on tick').
That was the nineties!

RAS

GreyQueen wrote: »

The code is Mr Sands is in the building.

Some of us have been taking the train long enough to have realised "Will Inspector Sands please go to the Station Manager's Office," does not refer to a named individual.

Butterfly_Brain

I am another who has been laid low this week and because it has turned into a chest infection I am on antibiotics and steroids, starting to feel a bit better today thankfully, where is a good man with a jar of vick when you need him? Bob, Bob better bring two jars there is a large area to cover :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:
I am another with lots of stocks of medicines with plenty of Brandy and Glenmorangie for back up medicinal purposes you understand

Thankfully only a few fresh bits left to get and we are going out to get them on Monday and we can let the celebrations begin

Not too cold here at the moment so we are only lighting the stove rather than putting the heating on, which is great.

westlothianlass

HI all
I'm having a very frustrating time with the site just now, everytime i turn a page after pressing the thanks button it logs me out and doesn't even register that I have left thanks, very frustrating.
So please assume that I have left my thanks for all your posts.
(please add any smiley you want as its not letting me add them either lol , Its a conspiracy I think....)
Hope everyone is well, its been pretty stormy here over the last few days, and the garden is looking worse for wear. Lost quite a few panels from the greenhouse so its looking very sorry fot itself but thankfully the chimney is still standing and the polytunnel has survived.
Hugs WLL x

craigywv

hi over here its half day Wednesday and if we need anything we have to head into town center, blowing a gale here now so heat just on there now, stay warm all