Shops and SupermarketsI used to work in a supermarket where the girl on the deli counter cut off the top of her finger in the meat slicer, but was made to finish her shift before going to hospital. You can now pay £100 to shoot zombies in the store's empty shell, haunted by poor dead nine-finger deli girl. Tell us your tales of the old retail experience, from either side of the counter
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Scaryduck LIKES EGG, Thu 10 May 2012, 13:50)
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I am to DIY what Stephen Hawking is to Gaellic Football.With my Christmas bonus, however, I treated "us" to an A1 print of one of my pics (This one for those of you interested), and had it mounted and framed.
Being as it was bloody huge, the framer suggested I use two screws to hold it up, but since behind our bedroom mirror are eight holes from the last time I tried to make two parallel holes, I decided that one metric sized FUCK YOU WALL screw would do the trick.
I proudly returned with my framed picture, and Mrs Vagabond cooed appropriately, and I declared my intent to hang it, and the procedure by which I would do so, and pop off to my local DIY shop to buy a metrically-sized FUCK YOU WALL screw.
Returning home proudly with said screw (it's a tiny shop and he will sell you one screw if you like (settle down at the back)), I take up my drill, and compare my maximum-sized drill bit with the screw size and ...
Return to the shop to purchase a bigger drill bit, from the now slightly-smirking shop keeper.
Returning home, I take my new drill bit, drill the hole, fit the rawl plug and ...
Return to the shop to purchase a bigger screw head, from the now openly-laughing shop keeper.
It took me approximately half a day to hang that picture.
Still, it looks ace.
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Je suis un vagabond is an unfunny, up your own arse middle class knob, Tue 15 May 2012, 13:27,
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Great picture.How did you manage to make it look like you'd hung it straight?
The same could be said for many of your other shots :-) Nice style though.
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If you ask me...You should have kept off the wall. The clues were all there.
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Although I admit I haven't read every post this week...This is arguably the best of what I have read thus far.
Please let me bestow upon you this click. The title alone is worth it, the post is great and the photo is grand - Kudos!
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What's a "screw head"?(, Tue 15 May 2012, 21:00, closed)
I was also wondering this.Does he mean a screwdriver bit for his drill?
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MatJ LOOK, Tue 15 May 2012, 22:50,
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Yes.As stated, I'm not one for DIY and manual labour - I'm terribly good with a camera, though! *minces*
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Je suis un vagabond is an unfunny, up your own arse middle class knob, Wed 16 May 2012, 9:54,
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I like this.It's about screws and screwing...
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DukeEuphoria Comes highly reccomended, Wed 16 May 2012, 13:09,
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