Retirement with No Problem

Moored Hungerford, Kennet & Avon Canal

“There is a bloomin’ great hole in it!” Explained Vic this morning.. one of my walking boots he was taking about.. Well I had come back with a wet foot from my walk yesterday.  Darn it!

I jumped on the train to Newbury.. well walking across the countryside in the Autumn needs good walking boots, in fact I had a bit of a disaster yesterday, not only with a leaking boot and soggy socks but my ‘walking coat’ had broken it’s zip.  I thought I would be able to repair it, but it was far too far gone to do that.. so a new coat needed too!

Millets was the best I was going to get for outdoor wear.. but first before I forgot, must get a card for Vic’s birthday.. a modest 99p.. charged 79p.. oh such honesty when I was handed 21p change from my £1 coin.. “No that’s not right, tis 99p that card” she checked.. “Oh thankyou.. hey something really nice is going to happen to you today for that” says she..

I found the coat I needed right away then tried loads of boots on in Millets.. I take a 7 you see, but only sometimes.. sometimes it’s an 8.  Quite annoying really to be so in between.  I normally take a 7 if it’s a man’s boot or an 8 if it’s a woman’s!  So lots to try.. I am sooooo fussy, it must be the right pair.  In the end I got a pair that felt good, but when the guy looked they were odd boots!  Although they both said size 8 (ladies), the American equivelant said size 9 in one boot and size 9 and half in the other! “Oh dear, I have no more, so I can give you a good discount if you take them or I can order another pair”

But hey I needed them now, and I did try them on and pace round the shop.. they were just fine .. “I’ll take them”.. Well they were good boots reduced from £89 to £69 anyway.. “Ah well, spose then I will get the 20% off that I would have got if I had bought them online?”..

But he did better and knocked a whacking great £50 off them!.. then he knocked off 20% of the final bill “20% promotion starts tomorrow.. I’ll give you that too”.. WOW!

I was really chuffed.. Had a while till the train left back to Hungerford, so had a wander round and saw some lovely miniture christmas crackers, well 12 of them actually for what I thought was £1.69.. paid the guy for them out of the odd change I had in my purse, and he gave me back 20p.. “They are £1.49” says he….

I have had an odd sort of day in between two 20p mistakes!!