BWS
Once upon a time and all that, when I was at Uni I worked for a major UK supermarket, starts in S, ends in ainsbury's, you know the one.

I was in the bws dept and a lot of the time, as a result of the high-value nature of the stock on my aisle(s) and the poor layout of the area, I spent many an evening chasing drug addicts down the street to take back the latest bottle of Jack Daniels or Aftershock they'd stolen. It was a hell of a lot more fun than stocking shelves to be honest.

Because of the frequency of attempts the store security guard spent most of time on the aisle as well, and fuck me there's some spazzie working for that company. One in particular was my favourite, and it was the only time I actually relished going to work because he was such a trumpet. He looked like a chimp, with the forehead jutting over his eyes, he slouched, smelled funny but man he made me laugh. He was thick as shite.

My favourite chat between us went like this (circa summer 2003):

Him: "if you could have any car in the world, any car at all, what would it be?"

Me: "hmmm, good question. probably a toss up between a classic 60's Ford Mustang or maybes a Lamborghini Countach. Ferrari Enzo maybe? What about you.

Him (without hesitation): "Renault Espace. Definitely"

Me: "pffft. what??? of ALL the cars in the world, you'd pick a Renault Espace? WHY???"

Him: "easy. 7 seats."

Me: "..."

Bless.
(Zutroy started without you, Fri 9 Jan 2009, 4:39, 4 replies)

Remember When You Said...
... You'd Never Buy A Renault?


That ad jumped straight into my head when I got to the end of your post.

You know you want one ;o)

Have a click for now, though.
(Capo, Fri 9 Jan 2009, 7:49, closed)

Ford Mustang.
Damn straight. I'm gonna get one - only about 20k for a good one. More for a mint original, but I'm not that picky.
( gareth_alien will be human again at, Fri 9 Jan 2009, 9:29, closed)

BWS...
The supermarket I worked at was the only one in a 5mile radius that didn't think to put electronic tags on the booze. Fun times.
( willenium Fist bump for verification, Fri 9 Jan 2009, 10:53, closed)

We used
the really sticky stickers. That you could peel off. Then they used the cap thingies, which didn't always fit. Clever stuff...
(Zutroy started without you, Sun 11 Jan 2009, 23:33, closed)