Bob, at 19:25 on Apr 24 1996, you wrote to Bill Grimsley...

BG> Which means that somebody has already weighed them, packed
BG> them, and figured out the price in advance, in order to save
BG> fucking around with some wanker who only wants 20 nails from a
BG> box of 10,000 when the shop's full of customers on a busy
BG> Saturday morning... Give me the poofy little bags any day! 

BL> In the old hardware shops if you only wanted a few nails he'd *give*
BL> them to you!

Nails and screws are still supplied in bulk packaging as well, and whilst I
can't comment on other stores, I do know that Lyn has told her staff not to
charge anybody who wants say a half a dozen of either.  It's damn good PR
actually, and has been proven to pay off in the long term. 

BL> It's better that women like that don't have descendants.

BG> Might have been even better if they'd have no ancestors either,
BG> but one can't help bad luck, I guess.

BL> ROFL! We all have ancestors. It's compulsory.

Yeah, can't help bad luck, I guess.  I actually thought at the time that
this woman was the world's greatest argument in favour of retrospective
abortion.

BG> Re the EFTPOS, I was in our local Coles yesterday, and a really
BG> weird looking fellow in front of me bought a plastic bag of
BG> elastic bands, cost $0.80. And then paid for it with his bloody
BG> Mastercard! Fucking hell, doesn't he realise that there's a
BG> $1.00 transaction fee on that? 

BL> ROFL!!! You should have told him.

Dunno, he looked too much of a scumbag to have owned a Mastercard, and I
actually suspected at the time that it may well have been stolen, and that
he was trying it out at Coles before moving on to bigger and better things.

BL> The checkout-chicks in Jewel seem to be fourteen and they don't
BL> have breasts yet. I think hey use children in the hope that we
BL> won't yell at them so much.

BG> Or to attract the paedophiles. Good business IMO. :)

BL> I always buy my boiled lollies on EFTPOS.

I would too, except that by the time I reach the checkout, I've usually
given them all to the hundreds of kids in the store.  :)

BL> Women don't develop a sense of humour (if any) until they are
BL> 63, and only then for 6 months.

BG> I strongly disagree. I believe you'll find it's more like 7 months.

BL> I think you'll find that only applied to Phyllis Diller.

Dunno, RTL's wife must have a pretty bloody good SOH as well...

Regards, Bill

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