Bit of an odd couple
It was on a school trip to the Tower of London in about 1985. It was drawing towards the end of the day, and a few of us were heading back to the bus. As time was getting on we hurried ourselves along to the point of running. All of a sudden, there was an almighty shout of

"DON'T RUN!"

It came from a figure in red we'd just sprinted past. Yes, we got a bollocking from a Beefeater. Whenever I see one of them now on the telly, that's all I can think about, along with that sick feeling in my stomach and the hot face I had from the telling off.

It's odd though, the tellings off you get as a kid can really affect you. A rather stern assistant in Texas Homecare told a three year old me off for pointing at the paint tins with a rather fierce "Don't Touch". Weirdly, for a number of years, I was a bit scared of shop assistants, which was probably quite useful for my folks ("Don't touch that or the man will tell you off.")
( milkybarnick is calming down Boris on, Thu 7 Feb 2013, 20:26, Reply)