Hmmmmm, I live 2 minutes from a Co-op, 3 from a little Sainsbury so it's usually a lust for Jaffacakes at 11pm that tips me out late at night 😳
That brought back some memories Don. I grew up in a family of shopkeepers and my poor Dad worked every day of the year except Christmas and Boxing Day and three Bank Holiday Mondays in the year. how we looked forward to Thursday afternoons when he took us to the hot brine baths with the cake shop on the way home.
Most shops around me took Tuesdays. Started the week Monday half day closed the following day, made on sense to me. Others took Wednesday and I could never remember which was which. I always seem to chose the wrong one. 😡 Thursdays made more sense.
Oh lord! You've just brought to mind the sheer desperation of running out of ciggies on early closing day. Had to wait for the 'offy' to open, too shy to go in the pub by myself even if it did add an extra 20 mins to my walk. It seems somewhat ironic that as a smoker, daily exercise was a necessity - in order to get my fix but now.......it's sometimes just a bit of a chore to go out for no particular purpose.
I'm glad I just got the tail-end of shop counter service when the shop keeper had to collect everything from behind the counter. I prefer self service supermarkets where you can go at your own speed, fast or browsing.
Though wish the good old days of retiring at 60 was still here!
I miss the chairs that shopkeepers used to provide for their customers. I didn't need them then, now that I do they've gone. (Must be a rhyme there somewhere.)
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