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Date: 27 September 2008 10:44:39
I don't want to turn my blog into a "moaning about work" corner (not all the time, anyway) so all I'll say is: it's been a much more tiring and stressful week than I was expecting, but I'm doing my best, and they can't ask for more than that. Well, they can ask, but they won't get it.
In other news, I was in town a few weeks ago and noticed a pound shop which I hadn't seen before. Now, of course the idea of a pound shop was traditionally that everything in it would cost £1. Then somebody realised a 99p shop would be an even better idea. And then came the 98p shop. And I'm sure sooner or later someone will open a 97p shop, and then where will it end? (Some friends and I used to have a similar discussion regarding Gillette's razor adverts; first came the four-blade razor, then the five-blade, then the six-blade... "Now shaves closer than ever, the new Gillette 239-blade razor!")
Anyway, this pound shop wasn't strictly a pound shop. The first clue was in its name: 'Pound Or 2'. OK, I figured, so presumably everything they sell will be £1 or £2, or possibly some price inbetween. Then I noticed something in the window - a T-shirt emblazoned with a cardboard sign reading, "SALE - NOW ONLY £5".
So now I'm somewhat perturbed. Not only can I not go into this shop and do my friend Mark's favourite gag - repeatedly asking put-upon shop staff "excuse me, how much is this please?" - but my confidence in what a pound shop actually is has been seriously undermined. By that logic, isn't every shop a pound shop?