Drivel From Devizes: Dateline – Sunday 16th September
2018
Here is our weekly round-up of events from D-Town:
1.
Two
men from D-Town have been relating their experiences of a forty-eight hour trip
to Moscow in March earlier this year.
Shunning the normal tourist-trap attractions of the Kremlin, Red Square
and St Basil’s Cathedral on the advice of a close friend, the two men visited a
series of filling stations, a park, and the house of a typical Russian
resident. They said that they had
originally only planned to stay for 24 hours, but that they had enjoyed their
visit so much that they had stayed on for an extra day. The Russian authorities have reacted with
shock and amazement to the revelation, saying that the account of their visit
was scarcely believable.
2. And an international
row has broken out after a cashier in Morrisons declined to honour a customer’s
10p discount voucher at the checkout, after several verbal warnings that it was
out of date. The woman, who cannot be
named for legal reasons, is a seasoned shopper and has won fifteen Grand Shop
titles in her career. She accused the
cashier of calling her a cheat, and went into what can only be described as a “meltdown”
when the cashier, defending himself from the verbal abuse, declined to accept
not only the coupon, but also her “Match & More” card, thus effectively
denying her several additional frequent-shopper points, and thus a further £5
discount coupon. Shoppers from around
the globe have inundated social media with comments, both pro and con, some accusing
the cashier of “shoppism”. Others have
hinted that the woman had previously been seen in Lidl.
Copyright Andy Fawthrop 2018
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