taking it to The Man……well, kinda
as a young whippersnapper, got bought (for the time) a quite flash Sony Walkman off mum and dad for xmas (flash when everyone else at school had pikey personal stereo’s off the market.) Said walkman promptly knackered itself within a couple of months, prompting me to take it back to Currys from where it had been purchased. After a number of botched repairs, I was told if I wanted it refunding I had to go back to the Stockport branch where it had been bought from. (and not knowing any different as a kid, doing as I was told.)
get to the Stockport one, explain what had happened , and ask for a refund….. as it was £19.99, gave the till monkey a penny and asked for two £10 notes….. got handed two twenties. Result!
Went straight up to the proper Sony shop in altrincham, and bought the next model up.
A few years back was working in a very posh hotel in Manchester, which coincidentally was (at the time)part owned by Granada. So between that and being just over the road from the TV studios, we’d get endless z-list ‘celebs’ giving it the full ‘do you know who I am?’. One particular highlight was the coronation street staff party – no limit on orders from the bar, and no one had to pay, either. Which led to us doubling up on all the champagne orders - at the end of the night we took two cases of Piper home each. Which was nice. I also once charged a bunch of coked up big nobs from the studio £120 for a plate of sandwiches between six of them. Perhaps in future they’ll listen to the bartender when it’s four am and he says the bar’s not open.
Length? You’d better believe it, baby.
(tjn whizzing on the electric fence of life, Mon 19 Feb 2007, 19:33, Reply)