August Bank Holiday weekend! What a wonderful weekend with great weather and on offer thousands upon thousands of BARGAINS provided by over 500 Car Boot sellers stalls at our locations for the Bank Holiday weekend. Huge success for Mitchell for a record day everyone was happy apart from the moaners who could not take a bit of sun after the piss poor weather we have had recently Oh God they moan on I wish this bloody hot weather would stop Give it a break missus we have had two days of sunshine and some of you miserable old booters think Oh shit we’ve got another bloody heatwave after 2 days? Deal with it FFS! Gossip, but true did you know they there twins George and Leroy (fictitious names to protect their real identity) well one of them George (the heavy one) bought a very valuable rare antique gun rifle scope for twelve quids at one of our Car Boot Sales and it sold recently for well over one thousand pounds on eBay, its as though he doesnt have enough money already that there George? Bank Holiday Monday started with our Falmouth Rugby Club 10.00 am Car Boot Sale with 70 plus stalls and lots of buyers including all the regular locals but holiday-makers who according to some of the sellers they spent well Falmouth is a nice location with a great happy family atmosphere. Jewellery stalls sell very well with competitive prices however if you are reluctant to sell your jewellery because you do not know how much to ask for I can give you the names of very reliable dealers who are willing to give you valuations on any jewellery you may wish to sell. Monday starting at 1.30 pm for our traditional 27th year Bank Holiday Monday which was a huge success in the heat of the day enjoyed by over 120 sellers and up to 2000 men women and hundreds of happy kids getting there weekend treats of second hand toys. We started our first ever Bank Holiday Monday at St Columb Major at 4.00 pm and I admit my stupidity of changing my mind from 5.00 pm as the plan for lots of the sellers from Falmouth and TRURO was to sell at 2 or three locations ending up at St Columb. Sorry my mistake but all future Bank Holiday Mondays at St Columb will be at 5.00 pm giving time for those to do three Car Boot Sales on Bank Holiday Mondays starting at Falmouth at 10.00 am then onto TRURO for 1.30 pm start then on to St Columb at 5.00 pm, happy days! The sellers at St Columb 25 in all sold very well indeed with several stalls taking well over £150.00 loads of buyers turned up to support and yes these events will be a very popular for next year, first Bank Holiday MONDAY at 5.00 pm is Easter! I arrived at St Columb Major to be treated with all the other people to a FREE spectacular Red Arrows Air Display going through their aerobatic routines over the skies and flight paths used normally by the in and out flights of Newquay Airport. Brilliant display and free to watch. I kidded some people that I had paid for the Red Arrows Display Team to perform for my customers to celebrate our first Bank Holiday Monday Car Boot Sale at St Columb Major and only 25 sellers turned up and now I am in serious debt FFS! You couldn’t lend us a few quid could you please? At the start of the sale the aisles were crowded with buyers and our story starts with a very nice man and his very nice wife and their very nice son who buy a boxed DVD game for £4.00 from a lady stall-holder who was the first seller to arrive. They pay the £4.00 and as they walk away from the stall they open the box and hey presto there is no game in the empty box! They return immediately to the crowded stall and say to the lady stall-holder There is no DVD game in this box, can we have our money back Certainly not says lady stall holder No I will not refund the family come to ask me where they stood for a refund. I accompany them to the lady stall holder whose attitude is way over the top as she absolutely refuses to refund! Madam, you will refund because you had a duty of care towards your customer to prove they are buying what they think they are paying for, you should have opened the box to prove the DVD was in the box, the trusting customer should also have looked into the box but the onus is on you to refund your customer. The lady stall holder got very close to accusing the family of three of stealing the DVD which in my opinion was stupidity. Eventually the stall holder slammed the refund into the fathers hand telling me she was never ever going to do another one of your car boot sales again well there yer go, shit like that happens in the real world!! Shortly after this incident I drove home leaving manager Jo-Jo to close up the sale, I had briefed her about the DVD but back at St Columb things were hotting up as the lady stall holder not content with my decision for her to give a refund storms up to Paul (Rock on) (who parks cars) who she mistakes for me (should have gone to Spec savers FFS) and the poor sod is just sitting in the catering area having a well-earned cup of coffee and a burger when her starts up Now then, do you want to finish that or do I start now? Rock on Paul nearly falls off his chair he looks at the ranting woman and he thinks WTF is she on about FFS! Fortunately manager Jo-Jo comes to the rescue and tries to calm the lady down who was incandescent with rage With the greatest of respect this lady was certainly of no size to argue who towered above Jo-Jo but Jo-Jo stood her ground saying if you want to take this up with Geoff then do so but I am not authorized to give you a refund. Further abuse followed liberally assisted with eff words when Dave the catering manager tried to intervene (standing behind Jo-Jo) to stop the abuse towards Jo-Jo. Lady stall holder was equally abusive to effing Dave so with a very effing irate stall-holder lady swearing revenge towards all of effing Car Boots Cornwall and our effing customers and effing manager Jo-Jo so everyone had heard enough effing abuse for one day and them all went home to effing bed FFS!! Jo-Jo phoned to brief me about what had happened after I had left St Columb Major, Dave also contacted and told me of the gross offense the very irate stall holder lady had caused. So to sum up the now aggressive lady stall holder and the missing DVD incident has involved accusations of theft against I believe an innocent family of three really nice people on holiday here in Cornwall. She had been unacceptably rude and offensive to other people during the entire incident refusing to accept her sellers responsibility to legitimately refund a customer. I reserve the right to complete this story but I will not identify the lady stall holder who knows I will write this blog however to my utter amazement she telephoned me at 9.00 pm in a very distressed crying state to say that When I got home I found the DVD it was in my stock and I am so ashamed of my behavior today and I do apologise to your managers for my rudeness and to the family who I thought had stolen the DVD, I am truly sorry, I would have phoned earlier but I have been crying my eyes out ever since I found the DVD and I am so ashamed of my behavior, I am so sorry She then cried some more but I did get the impression her apologies were genuine. What I seriously admired about this lady was that after all of the humiliation she had caused by her rudeness and accusations to others she now has the BALLS to say I got it wrong, it was my fault, I am truly sorry Her sobbing and confession was so sincere her nearly got me sniveling as well but what an absolute rarity it is in life to get a full on snotting and sobbing apology from a woman It was my fault and I am so sorry from a woman? Never!! I mean with us men if we is wrong we always admit it and most of the time when we are not wrong we always apologize just to keep the peace even if we was in the right in the first place so to speak WTF? Dogs; We have decided to have an open policy on dogs being allowed at our Car Boot Sales our main problem is that it is not the dogs fault if the owners do not have the courtesy and common decency to pick up the crap that their dog has just deposited in our selling fields therefore at Mitchell DOGS are allowed into the three parking fields but they are NOT allowed into the selling field this ruling may be relaxed on Thursdays. At Newquay hundreds of our customers are on holiday and they bring the family dogs with them with the rest of the family to Newquay Car Boot Sales on Tuesdays, so far this season most people have got poo bags and have dealt with any dogs who have dumped inside the selling field. At St Columb I have allowed dogs to be in all areas but it is the duty of the dog owner to ensure you have poo bags If any of our buyers or sellers see any persons allow their dogs to crap-shit-dump-turds onto the field where you are trying to sell or buy without the dog owners cleaning up the warm poo please let one of our team know asap but some of your outspoken people will demand clean up that crap your dog has just shat There are so many kids around and babes in pushchairs, dog owners show some respects please!! And finally, dont look bored when you are selling at any of the Car Boot Sales it is such a turn off to potential customers who firstly look at your table then you, some of you are using your mobile as a distraction to your boredom is huge turn off. Pretending to talk to someone who is not there is a good one but it is rude and crude you is no dude! The biggest turn off is smoking tobacco and nicotine and blowing the poison chemicals at your potential customers which is sinful! I quite often get the whiff of a sniff of de herb when I am told they are smoking de weed over there! Peace and love. Legalize Cannabis like America giving millions of dollars into Community projects and lets save all of these countless and painful deaths through smoking death cigarettes which costs our NHS services billions. Be nice to your customers in advance, before you leave home pack up and bring some real BARGAINS be nice to each other and ensure you are looking after what is yours as there has been a spate of petty stealing from stalls involving an adult passing back an item to a 5 year old child to steal? Regretfully, trust yourself and the person who has just paid you, by the way, put your valuables at the back of your stall to save you coming up to one of our team sniveling but saying Someone has just stolen something from my stall when I wasnt looking Well there you go your security on you stall respectfully is crap. Deal with it!! Geoff X
