Photography
After a branch of Sturdy Foot Attire the Chemist mucked up processing my pre digital age disposable camera holiday snaps I asked to see the Manager.

The last 3 photos were just after my hol when I took a few pics of a violent road rage incident in a big traffic jam (bloke got punched in the face through his closed window for starters,then it got really violent). There were loads of witnesses to this, and when I told the constable plod that I had some photographic evidence he was delighted but suggested I get it processed and drop the pics into the local nick as he doubted I'd ever see the holiday snaps again if he took them.

Nowadays you teenagers would just point your phone at them and make a jaypeg to upload on a moving picture station or something.

The manager went a kind of pastel green colour when I told her that as I'd told their processor assistant that the film wasn't finished so they neededed to take a bit of extra care when sticking it in their machine (and had gone on to make the photo lady write this all down on the huge envelope) that I would humbly suggest she gets onto her firm's lawyers to assess their position on destroying police evidence and might also like to consider awarding me some compensation for the loss of my memories (I'd been VERY drunk the las few days of my hols and was relying on them pics to piece it all together).

I was really seething but said all this very slowly and quietly.

20 mins later the Manager came back, read a carefully and beautifully scripted apology on behalf of the firm then proceeded to offer to get their legal bods to write to the police explaining why they weren't getting the pics and then said "erm, take anything you like from our store as a sign of goodwill".

So I went and picked up a £250 "Spa Experience" with a free bathrobe, made sure I got a receipt then went straight to another branch and got a cash refund.



Length? 18 months and I hope he got bum-raped on a regular basis.
(riffjedibaby almost 1,000 chickens, Wed 8 Sep 2010, 21:47, 1 reply)

A "£250 "Spa Experience""
Is that like a Honda Accord?

I cry shennanigans!
(SatchmoR No, mummy, don't put knitting needles in my ears!, Thu 9 Sep 2010, 11:43, closed)