not the same ...
but a young and naive Rob walked into a Sue Ryder charity shop. "Mrs Ryder I presume..." Within a few seconds I wanted the ground to swallow me up.
( rob You should follow me http://twitter.com/robmanuel, Tue 21 Oct 2003, 20:59, archived)

hehehe
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(Icouldsleepforever, Tue 21 Oct 2003, 21:01, archived)

Not the same either
But I once went up to one of those animal cruelty stalls in Camden and asked the bloke how much his posters were.
(mister nice guy, Wed 22 Oct 2003, 9:38, archived)

And Another Thing !
Those
Cancer Research Shops.
There's never any cancer research going on in them.
Just old ladies trying to flog second-hand tat.
( The Mighty Gusset Has updated his profile, but only a little bit !, Wed 22 Oct 2003, 11:26, archived)

Not necessarily.
I saw a 118 shirt in one. (as in 118 118)
(HanaBizzle, Wed 22 Oct 2003, 16:28, archived)

me too
I walked into local sandwich shop 'Al Fresco' and asked to speak to Al...
(Che Grimsdale More fridge-magnet than babe-magnet, Wed 22 Oct 2003, 14:10, archived)

along the same lines
during a GCSE town survey, I went into an easy listening shop called Pomp & Circumstance, and asked if it was a sole trader, run by partners Mr Pomp and Mr. Circumstance.
(Jambo81, Sat 25 Oct 2003, 4:27, archived)