I don't consciously flirt much...
but apparently I flirt just enough.

When I go into a store and need help from someone, I'm unfailingly polite, respectful and friendly to them- after all, I'm asking them for help, aren't I? And if the person I'm asking happens to be female, they'll often respond very favorably. As a result, the stores I commonly go into have a number of female employees who always smile back at me and are more than happy to help me with whatever I'm doing.

The only problem with this is that if I show up with my girlfriend in tow, holding hands, I get some startled looks and she gets the Paddington Bear Stare. Thereafter the formerly friendly female employees somehow can't quite hear me or see me asking them for help...

Bugger.
( Wanderer, Thu 18 Feb 2010, 13:13, 34 replies)

Shops.
They're called "shops".

Even in America.
( Je suis un vagabond is an unfunny, up your own arse middle class knob, Thu 18 Feb 2010, 13:15, closed)

That depends on the size.
Over here a "shop" is a small place, about the size the the downstairs of the average house. A "store" is a huge place with long aisles filled with merchandise that you walk through with a shopping cart. It's like the difference between a "boat" and a "ship".

The coffee place is a shop. Tesco is a store.
( Wanderer, Thu 18 Feb 2010, 13:21, closed)

No it's not.
It's a shop.

Whether or not you chose to refer to it correctly is your problem.
( Je suis un vagabond is an unfunny, up your own arse middle class knob, Thu 18 Feb 2010, 13:22, closed)

Apparently I've wandered into one of those weird British things.
It's okay. You call it a "telly" rather than a "television".
( Wanderer, Thu 18 Feb 2010, 13:26, closed)

Fucking racist.

( Spleep Shit, or get off the internet., Thu 18 Feb 2010, 13:28, closed)

This.

( Je suis un vagabond is an unfunny, up your own arse middle class knob, Thu 18 Feb 2010, 13:29, closed)

Really, his kind make me sick.

( Spleep Shit, or get off the internet., Thu 18 Feb 2010, 13:30, closed)

and they have no respect

( Je suis un vagabond is an unfunny, up your own arse middle class knob, Thu 18 Feb 2010, 13:32, closed)

They come over here
post on OUR internet, and just expect us to put up with it. It makes you want to vomit.
( Spleep Shit, or get off the internet., Thu 18 Feb 2010, 13:34, closed)

It's not like you can even rubber band a dickie bird they're Darren Daying.
Scum. Subhuman scum.
( Je suis un vagabond is an unfunny, up your own arse middle class knob, Thu 18 Feb 2010, 13:39, closed)

pssst
it's trolley, not cart
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Thu 18 Feb 2010, 13:28, closed)

Everything is British.
Johnny is just too lazy and stubborn to behave properly.
( Je suis un vagabond is an unfunny, up your own arse middle class knob, Thu 18 Feb 2010, 13:29, closed)

English, actually.

( Larry Vest One day at a time, sweet Jesus, FFS., Thu 18 Feb 2010, 13:42, closed)

It's definitely called a store if it's run by a Quatermaster
Cause there's a song about it.

Beyond that I'm not sure.
(WarneMarsh My priority for frivolity begets quality jollity, Thu 18 Feb 2010, 13:29, closed)

Actually
I think you're right.

Shit.

Bloody quartermasters!
( Je suis un vagabond is an unfunny, up your own arse middle class knob, Thu 18 Feb 2010, 13:32, closed)

+R
That's because it is for storing things.
If it sells things it is a shop.
( Larry Vest One day at a time, sweet Jesus, FFS., Thu 18 Feb 2010, 13:43, closed)

Oh, no
A store is a place you store things in.

A shop is a place you shop in.
(Vice Admiral Sir Charles Cockbrush KCB MBE DSO, who is finding it increasingly difficult to log into b3ta.com wants to duck your aunt and kick your puppy, Thu 18 Feb 2010, 13:52, closed)

Wish I had said that.

( Larry Vest One day at a time, sweet Jesus, FFS., Thu 18 Feb 2010, 14:11, closed)

a ship is a form of boat
you twat. Btw a twat is another word for cunt. You vagina.
( disasterprone "Pyjamas caused the Holocaust", Sun 21 Feb 2010, 15:19, closed)

Your girlfriend is obviously a known shoplifter.

(PsychoChomp, Thu 18 Feb 2010, 13:20, closed)

Nah.
She's just very curvy with long curly black hair just starting to get silver streaks in it. She kinda stands out a bit.
( Wanderer, Thu 18 Feb 2010, 13:23, closed)

so like
a badger
(NuffMuff fucks shrubbery, Thu 18 Feb 2010, 13:29, closed)

Pffft.

( Je suis un vagabond is an unfunny, up your own arse middle class knob, Thu 18 Feb 2010, 13:29, closed)

Best reply.

( Spleep Shit, or get off the internet., Thu 18 Feb 2010, 13:30, closed)

ha ha
proper office pasty everywhere guffaw


PS No wonder they're staring, those fuckers carry TB
( @><|= w0nu!) or cunt to my friends, Thu 18 Feb 2010, 13:37, closed)

Hey
Not all americans have TB just because the majority do you can't label them all with the TB stick
(NuffMuff fucks shrubbery, Thu 18 Feb 2010, 13:43, closed)

It's not TB stick
It's 'septic'
( snee held his breath since, Thu 18 Feb 2010, 14:23, closed)

My badger's gonna unleash hell on your ass. Badgertastic!

( Wanderer, Mon 22 Feb 2010, 21:31, closed)

ahem
r girlfriend is are op irt
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Thu 18 Feb 2010, 13:29, closed)

Nicely done
Took me a while to get it tho
(NuffMuff fucks shrubbery, Thu 18 Feb 2010, 13:31, closed)

cheers
I've not done a convoluted strikethrough for a while
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Thu 18 Feb 2010, 13:32, closed)

Perhaps you shouldn't take your girlfriend with you
into brothels
( @><|= w0nu!) or cunt to my friends, Thu 18 Feb 2010, 13:36, closed)

You complete bastards...
Just read all these replies and got busted for laughing.
( snee held his breath since, Thu 18 Feb 2010, 13:46, closed)

so, then, another septic
with no idea about language and a badger for a girlfriend. Well, either a badger or an old lady with a cheap dye job.

I'm so glad I'm not a yank.
( disasterprone "Pyjamas caused the Holocaust", Sun 21 Feb 2010, 15:17, closed)