What! Christmas mince pies!

Yes it had to happen, working in the shop I seem to remember that the signal for Christmas items was the old girl asking for brandy butter at the end of October, "I like to get a bit in", she says!  We have however at least 8 cases of the festive mince pies which will have a best before date well before Halloween!  IS IT ME!     

No of course not, we have still 1 day to go for the ParaOlympics and already they are written off in an attempt to cajole people in to the Christmas spirit.  It only begins to bite though when the Christmas Puddings hit the store.  "Do you have an alcohol free one?" I was asked one year and bit my tongue long enough to be told that the daughter was an alcoholic and dare not even have a sniff! as she was an alcoholic! - - sad but there we are.

I believe an ASDA store already has a "Santa's Grotto" but I think that has gone down like a lead balloon!

Our short serving team leader, "lets call her Molly" starts college next week and is still going to be with the store but in a less, "challenging" role - - all the best Molly.  She is being replaced with another colleague, "lets call him Dave", who is a totally unknown individual except that he came to us, lets say, under a cloud.  - - - we  shall see.

I was working away, as you do, and overheard a colleague, "lets call her Sarah" who it transpires is a beautician, however her "makeup" some days appears to be a little, well lets say, "slapdash" saying that her boss, "lets call him Paul" had criticised her colour of lipstick chosen for today, tooooo "red" apparently.  I remarked that the possible reason for this slight might be that he couldn't carry it himself! Mmmmmmmmm.

So there we are a day at the salt mine, no wait, my boss, "lets call her TracEy" is going on holiday for a week from today and the whole place will go absolutely tits  belly up she will come back to unimaginable problems and crisis from the minute she steps back into the store - - - - - - maybe I should volunteer to work a few extra days to enable her return to be a little easier?

GET OUTA HERE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

have a good week off T