In the same job as the girl who thought that Manchester was in London
I worked with a girl who had had a very privileged upbringing. Her dad had been the ambassador to Japan so she had grown up in Tokyo and been privately educated. She was actually really nice and not at all daft, just slightly unworldly.
Her folks thought that it was important for her to work for a living even though they were loaded.
Because of this she used to work where I worked during the week and then on the checkout at Sainsbury's on a Sunday.
This was in the early days of loyalty cards, before nectar cards, and Sainsbury's had their own one. When you reached enough to have £5 off your shopping the checkout person would tell you. If you didn't want to then you could save them up for other rewards.

One day she said to me, 'I don't understand why people take £5 off their shopping, they could save them up and have £50 of a skiing holiday'.
I honestly couldn't explain to her that some people couldn't afford the rest of the costs of a skiing holiday.
( Mrs Entity is in hiding., Fri 4 Mar 2011, 22:41, Reply)