Tuesday at Newquay Circus Fields;
Beverley Arnett Do they allow dogs!!
Beverley Arnett Oh right, we went today and was refused entry, we had 3 well behaved dogs on a lead, and a miserable old man showed us up in front of everybody and told us we could not come in and who did we think we were taking 3 dogs to a car boot! I would expect this in park ect! We had spent 2hrs killing time to come to the car boot too! We were very disappointed and a embarrassed as though we had done something wrong, maybe you should tell all your staff that dogs are allowed! And maybe employ non abusive staff!!
I must react to this message left on Facebook! I am the alleged ‘miserable old man’ which I find offensive and your last line is bordering on the ridiculous “And not employ abusive staff” We do not employ abusive staff! I am not abusive, I am dead straight I say it like it is! No large dogs=no POO! Amongst the hundreds of people who arrived for the Car Boot Sale (remember it is a CAR BOOT SALE not a dog show) the lady complainer arrived with three large dogs on leads and I said that I would not allow you to bring them into the selling area as it was packed with people. Amen.
The absolute majority of our customers don’t want dogs at all at their Car Boot Sales which ruling is most successful at MITCHELL and at two Rugby Clubs Falmouth & Penryn. After the lady and her THREE LARGE DOGS left a debate started that we should ban all dogs from all of our locations and I believe in 2016 we will make it a permanent feature of our sales NO DOGS allowed!
I stand tall in my efforts to run the Car Boot Sales and the only regular problem we have is DOGS, DOGS, and DOGS!
I quietly told you that the three LARGE dogs would NOT be allowed in front of my staff who can absolutely witness that I was not in any way abusive and you accepted what I told you so why exaggerate the truth, the ‘miserable old man bit’ well if that is how you wish to describe me that’s fine by me (you got the old bit right)So, you can have a problem about ageism and I will have a thing about people who show off by wanting to parade three dogs around my Car Boot Sale, that’s fair!
I run the Car Boot Sales for the masses not just one exaggerating offensive dog owner who resorts to an unfair attack through the dreadful FACEBOOK pages simply because you did not get your own way Madam.
However, to protect the absolute majority who HATE dogs at Car Boot Sales from THURSDAY a new rule will apply at Newquay that NO DOGS are allowed in the selling area and you Beverley can claim credit for that because it will make a ‘miserable old man’ and the majority of my customers very HAPPY. Enjoy the rest of your holiday dear!!
Geoff.
The incident happened whilst the Prime Minster, and wife Samantha, were on holiday in Polzeath, Cornwall.
Kath Legest, manager of, The Splaan Pasty Shop, said: “Mr. Cameron and wife came into the shop and ordered a box full of pasties and cakes, presumably to take home with them, but I can’t be sure of that.
“Anyway, after a friendly chat about employment in Cornwall, with myself and Tamara, who’s been working in the shop for over a year now, Mr. Cameron took the box from the counter, turned to Tamara, and said, ‘well thank you very much, me ansum…’ That’s when she said what she said. I was forced to suspend Tamara there and then, although I suppose, I can see why she said it.”
Ex-employee, Tamara Pendavas, 19, said: “I don’t know what happened really. Just before leaving the shop Mr. Cameron looked me in the eye and said, ‘thank you very much me ansum’. Something in me just snapped. ‘O, fu*k off I said.
“Now of course I’m this legend. Everyone keeps knocking on my door and asking for my autograph. Mother said I should get one of those selfies printed, and sign them, a tenner each.”
An on-line petition has since been launched, reaching 3,000 signatures in just 2 hours, calling for The Splaan Pasty Shop to give Tamara her job back.
Geoff Says;
Yo, what about this story my lovers, that total knob rot Prime Minister blokie tries to be humorous with a Cornish young Lady Tamara Pendavas (proper Cornish name) by calling her ‘me ansum’ and she tells him to ‘Oh fuck off’ what a splendid lass to speak her mind. Let’s face it if you are going to be rude in three words that Cameron can understand then ‘fuck off’ should hit him right between the eyes. I often get the urge to tell some of our ignorant customers (men) to FRO and on the odd occasion I have thought it and suddenly the words come out loud of my gob and I feel so much better for it.
Facebook has been alive with support for the lovely young lady who has been sacked for her indiscretion and they all want her reinstated, just to rock the boat a little bit more for Tamara and in her favor I would be happy to give her a job and, we would pay her well above this rotten Governments ridiculously low National minimum wage. FFS!
Anyway, Tamara is working away in this pasty shop and in walks this posh knob rot Prime Minister Blokie who buys up nearly all the stock and he is gobbing away to all and sundry whilst Tamara is ignored, as a parting thought he talks down to Tamara by calling her ‘me ansum’ with his pox-ridden Eton College accent and Tamara’s immediate ‘flash’ reaction is to say “Oh, fuck off” Brilliant!!
And, this is the first time he has ever done what a member of the public has told him to do so he walks straight out of the shop immediately FFS!! RESULT!! Tamara, well done my lovely. But the manageress then tells everybody “I was forced to suspend Tamara” for speaking three words FFS!
Why sack her for speaking her mind? The twat PM on hearing her say ‘fuck off’ should have immediately given her a seat in the ‘House of Lords’ amongst all his other cronies for her bravado and for saying in those three chosen words exactly what’s on her mind FFS (and half the country’s) or are those positions reserved just for brown nosed up yer bum type plum in god type rich B’stards who suck up to Cameron and his effing Tory wuusers bribing for a Lordship but they people don’t really GAF for anyone else apart from themselves!
And, let’s face it how many times have you said ‘Oh fuck off’ recently, I do it every pigging night when I am searching for something to watch on the frigging telly FFS!!
Bottom line;
Tamara me ansum, you were a bit naughty but in my world you had balls to be so bold and if you were my grand-daughter I would be dead proud of you cos I cannot stand the sight of Cameron either and every time he comes on my telly and thousands of other peoples tellies we all shout “Oh fuck off” FFS!!!
Wow some of you complainers have gone through the roof with your complaints about the Circus Fields ground conditions ruined by the Scott May alleged stunt show! You are furious that the grounds have been churned up so badly making it impossible for us to conduct our Community Car Boot Sales in safety.
Quite right! they have been your fields since the mid-nineties to enable you and thousands of other buyers and sellers to earn from selling your items and the actions of Scott May knows no bounds, it seems he is determined to use the fields again according to up to 30 complainants who wish to resist his presence on the Car Boot Fields.
His event is on Sunday and if you are local to the fields can I ask you to register a verbal complaints on behalf of thousands of our customers for his unjustified assumption that we would just accept the damage done to our leasehold fields.
I have taken up your complaints with Kingsley Village our Landlords in the hope they will CANCEL this weekends advertised Stunt Show that should not go ahead in the Interest of Ground Conditions and Public Health & Safely.
We are in the height of the main Holiday season and this August weather has ruined most outdoor activities particularly those that operate on grass fields so as operators we have to be very careful not to ruin these grasslands that provide a most important part of people’s lives and their livelihood. Such is the case with Car Boot Sales we have to take great care not to operate on a soaked field because it could spell the end of a season as vehicles struggle to get out of a mud drenched field reduced to slime. We have been operating since 1989 and have run up to 10,000 sales in that time up to half a million sellers and millions of buyers but we have never run a Car Boot Sale that has done untold damage to a field such as the Newquay Circus Fields have suffered at the expense of gross incompetence and stupidity of one man Scott May and his alleged Daredevil Stunt Show that has haunted the also alleged Newquay Entertainment scene for far too many years.
I agreed that his stunt show could share the grounds whilst the Circus was in the other field but once the Circus had gone his show would move to the Circus areas.
CAR BOOTS CORNWALL has looked after that land for near 18 years and customers will know how good the fields looks because CBC pay for the grounds to be kept in pristine condition for our customers who have relied on us to provide them with the opportunity to run a small business by selling their own property which is supported weekly by thousands of buyers who flock to these very important Community gatherings. Over the years countless small businesses have been established by regulars who absolutely depend on the Car Boot Sales as part of their income so it is important that they earn money for the entire season.
Due to the heavy rains in August it has been necessary for me to CANCEL two Car Boot Sales to protect the grounds for future days which represents a serious loss to the people who depend on our events going ahead but they understand our reasoning’s for those cancellations.
I inspected the grounds and was left in no doubt that it would be in the interest of Public Health & Safety not to use the grounds which were becoming sodden and we could ruin the field for the rest of the season.
On Monday (our day off) I received three phone calls asking if I had seen the state of the fields at Newquay left by Scott May. My immediate reaction was to go to Newquay to discover that his vehicles had ripped great chunks of grass and mud slices from the entrance gates right up to the top of the field making the entire field absolutely impossible for and vehicles to go into the field until the rains stop which could be up to 14 days! The gates were locked by us on our last Car Boot Sale Tuesday 19th August and as we left we noted Scott Mays advert directing his public to the gates of the Circus Field so I was content that the Car Boot Fields would not be used, so against the agreement Scott May blasted his way into the fields with his heavy stunt vehicles knowing full well that those vehicles would rip up the fields yet he still went ahead and he has ruined those fields for countless members of the Community who rely on our twice weekly Community Car Boot Sales.
What irresponsibility, what Gross Ignorance and what a selfish act and what a kick in the face to my customers, sincere apologies for those people who cannot earn their weekly wage because of the actions of a complete egotistical and brainless TWAT! Remember the name Scott May-avoid the show!!
Tuesday 18th August.
Sellers had obviously seen the weather forecast over the next few days so decided let’s go to Newquay Car Boot Sale cos the rest of the week looks crap but you cannot rely on the BBC they get forecasts wrong all the time wrong-footing the public into making wrong decisions. They are more concerned at promotion that Carol woman going to be on ‘Come Dancing’ which I thought was against the law?
Yesterday was a privilege to run such a busy crowded Car Boot but there is always one person who wants to spoil your day and today was no exception, however once we had reached 250 sellers I decided that with the huge amount of buyers cars that there would be ‘NO MORE SELLERS’ which I know is disappointing but I have to consider public safety first before over-filling the selling area. We had told several sellers ‘sorry we are full’ who accepted there was no space available. A young lady arrived and would not accept what Bob was telling her ‘no more space to sell’ she demanded entry and once in the field drove like an idiot to the top creating an absolute dust bath all over the arriving buyers. Truthfully it looked hilarious seeing all these tourists being covered in a sandstorm (the beach has come to you) but understandably ‘they were not amused’ however the driver lady (her passenger said nowt) started ranting at me and I told her ‘I am BARRING you for reckless and careless driving’ “I did nothing wrong” she shouted asking the crowd of buyers “Was I driving recklessly”? About 20 of them who were dusting themselves down FFS shouted at her “YES you were” Result! BARRED!
Now then, whilst ranting at me I could see the rage in her face and noticed she was extremely good looking as she screamed her annoyance at not being able to sell, I love to see a woman lose control of themselves and be unreasonable (I am so used to it) they become more attractive than their usual looks as their temperature rises and whilst she is gobbing it off but I cannot condone her next move which was to rev her car up and raise even more dust over the assembled crowd and race round the grassed car park blasting her horn and screaming some crap or other, I am forced to see the funny side of this wonderful incident created by one woman FFS as she sped to the main gate where her car was photographed by one of our security team.
Pretty woman, stupid woman could have caused an accident that could have ruined people’s lives by being ‘out of control of her actions’ Pretty woman, stupid woman could have wrecked her own life forever so I can only assume she was high on drugs but I hasten to add not Cannabis, people who smoke ‘the weed’ don’t behave like that. They very seldom ‘lose it’ they are normally cool calm and collected happy and content and good looking, bit like me really! Every dog deserves its day, so I will show her car in the picture but not her picture because all of my life I have been chased by women who just want to be in my company for a short time and this beautiful young lady was no exception. Let’s face it if I hadn’t of been there with all of my other thousands of followers she would have absolutely no reason to be there and this bullshit should really piss the blokes off FFS!! I am writing this in my office (the shed) its Friday and its 4.00am and it’s absolutely pissing down outside, I’ve had a self-medicating spliff or two and a diluted rum and coke, my pains are disappearing, my dog is stoned and snoring and I am listening to some beautiful Enigma music, I am content with my life I have a lovely wife and I am as happy as a pig in shit (life for us two is going to get a whole lot better for us two very, soon but that is another story) I get great fun in writing these blogs which my lovely readers enjoy with the exception of her indoors.
Back to reality;
The queues to sell started with the Market traders one man in a white van who had wanted to go in early but said ‘I am not paying the extra £5.00 to go in early because I am a personal friend of Geoff’s’ he argued his point with Bob who asked him to move to the other queue. Bob won the day by the ‘the white van’ man driving off, good riddance. I don’t have personal friends and if I did have I would not expect them to try to blag a cheaper way in to the car boot sale than everybody else. Stupid sod whoever he was.
This season is different to previous seasons there are more moaners and groaners about and quite often my teams are the target of spurious and unjustified complaints, if you are going to complain then please be sure of your facts however let me assure you that I protect and stand by my teams 100% Even if they get things wrong I will stand by them (and kick their bum later) They get an exceptionally good hourly rates of pay in appreciation of their good work and services as team members, this year’s teams are without doubt the best and most loyal ever. They are brilliant fun to work with and some of they are enjoying their first ever work experience with the somewhat fickle public, they are a young team and I love em all, pick on them and you pick on me my lover, don’t go there!!
We are delighted with the success of Penryn Rugby Club Car Boot Sales on Sundays despite the fact that it has rained on most weeks however the events that went ahead have gone down well with the locals buyers and sellers enjoyed the revived atmosphere just like in the old days when the sales were at the Motor Auctions grounds which is now several very pleasant buildings housing the University Students who also attend the Rugby Club Car Boots on Sundays at 1.30 pm
The Club Committee were concerned in the initial stages that our traffic may damage the two training fields which has certainly not been the case, you can go to look at the grounds two day later and you would not see signs that we have been there. We must ask all buyers to accept that parking is limited so why not park up in Asda do a bit shopping and nip across (mind the road) to the sale about 3 minutes’ walk from Asda or park on the Kernick Industrial Estate where there is ample parking. Penryn Car Boot Sales were the first ever in Cornwall so I am reliably informed, they were good days with absolutely incredible bargains but the owners were a bit indifferent to the public and Richard who used to park cars was an absolute bastard in making you park within one inch of exactly where he wanted you in such a limited space, we often see him at the sales sadly I report he has had both legs amputated through his illnesses but he is still a cheery happy person and we like him a lot, the old sod! Do you remember Kenny or Honour the egg lady or Darky Dell or Tony & Janet & what about Julie all of them great Cornwall characters many of them enjoying retirement doing nowt, lazy buggers?
There are 3 Car Boot Sales on August Bank Holiday MONDAY with FALMOUTH Rugby Club at 10.00 am TRURO at 1.30 pm and PENRYN Rugby Club at 5.00 pm come along to all three and you will be have spent the day in the fresh air buying or selling bargains galore however one word of warning! I go around the stalls whilst the buyers who are looking for that elusive bargains, I hear potential buyers ask “How much is that please” sometimes I am stunned at the high prices being asked for some items for what I would respectfully describe ‘junk-crap’ that also stun the customer who could probably buy the same items brand new for less FFS! Please don’t overprice your selling items, nowadays if you buy something new for say £100.00 and you decide to sell it at a Car Boot you will probably be lucky to get 20% of what you paid which is twenty quid, if you get more then good for you but if you overprice your stock you will find at the end of the day you pack it all up your car and take it all home, you cannot blame the buyers for not buying, nor me nor my teams, just yourselves my lovers!
Did you see the overweight old blokie walking around with two equally over weight long haired Alsatian dogs and his equally overweight wife also with an equally overweight long haired Alsatian dog who had parked in the bottom field after arriving late for the start of the Car Boot who they were fuct with the exercise of just walking from their car up to hill. These dogs looked frightening to kids and WTF does he have to bring them to a boot sale for. Next I get a report that one of the dogs had shat in front of one of our regulars stalls but fat bloke and his fat wife and his fat dogs had gone telling Bob on his way out that ‘this car boot is crap’ my attitude is “No sir, the crap is just driving out of the gate, drive on” he probably would have stopped his car and got out his three fat bastard Alsatians to bite my frigging legs and I have got shorts on FFS!!
Anyway one of our most regular sellers Welsh Babs was the unlucky stall holder where the dog had shat put some cardboard over it and the public had trodden the box and the poo down to a pulp and every time someone walked across the cardboard the smell of warm poo emulated and wafted all around Bab’s stall and I thought that was hilarious payment for her acting ‘stuck up’ towards me at times which I probably deserves cos I am always winding her up. Seriously darling it couldn’t have happened to a nicer person. We are proud of her ‘our Babs’ she is in her early 80s and makes so much effort to get out there and enjoy her boot sales, she is one of 3 life members who get a free to sell stall any time they like. Besides Babs there is Nurse Gladys Emanuel (well at least that’s what I call her) and our Phyllis who has not been seen for a while but anyway all three of them keep in touch on their mobiles with occasional rude texts and naughty pictures to each other. Love of em! X X X
Thursday 20th crap weather and from our early morning weather reports from members of our teams also details of ground conditions I decided to cancel Par Market which if it had gone ahead sellers would have had drenched stock in no time. Newquay was different because the ground conditions on the run up to the selling field was muddied up so I cancelled in the interest of Public Health & Safety, this safety precaution cancellation pissed a lot of people off as well as ourselves. Decision made. Sorry!
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Today’s email;
Name: Dee
Email:
Subject: Dog’s exclusion
Message: It’s a shame that families with dogs are being excluded from some of your organised carboot sales. I always bring my dog along with me when I come on holiday to Cornwall with my husband and kids who like me love nothing more than spending their holiday money on picking up a few bargains. It’s a pity therefore that none of us are now able to come along this year as we are unable to leave our family member in the car. Also, I bring my dog along with me as she is part of our family, and not an exhibit for a dog show. Yet again, it’s both the irresponsible dog owners who don’t pick up after their dogs and the anti-dog/family that ruin it for others. I’ve always found the people in Cornwall family friendly. I just hoped it would have stayed that way. Kind Regards
Dee
Dear Dee,
Firstly, I want to assure you that you will always find the people of Cornwall family friendly but there are times we just love our own company that much that we are inclined to keep ourselves to ourselves and tell the rest of the world outside to sod off which might appear snobby and rude and indifferent but we just like turn everything off and enjoy living our own lives. However you will not find a friendlier atmosphere than most of the Car Boot Sales in Cornwall so welcome and we hope you have a lovely holiday and that you have brought plenty of dosh (and poo bags) to spend on the magnificent bargains at all of the South West Markets and Car Boots.
Thank you Dee for your contribution on the everlasting subject of dogs at our Car Boot Sales and I accept that a dog is part of a family and it’s nice to bring them on holiday but from my studies dogs do not like Car Boot Sales that much. The majority of people coming to Cornwall who bring their dogs can certainly exercise them at their holiday locations or the caravan parks before you leave in the morning where they can have their pee and poo in peace (anywhere apart from my locations)
Respectfully, may I ask what happens to your dog whilst you are all out to work or shopping in town centres or you are having a family meal in a posh restaurant or you all decide to go to the cinema or theatre my deario? The pooch cannot come so it has to stay away and it won’t know what it is missing because its brain power is not thinking ‘WTF am I missing’ more like ‘if they have all gone out then who TF is going to feed me’ or if someone doesn’t come quickly I am gonna ‘do a runny dump’ on her new carpet FFS.
I love your sentiments Dee and I do get the impression you were near to tears, so let me put your mind at rest but first I find it difficult to call our dog ‘a member of our family’ a member is entitled to vote mine can’t even talk yet the stupid mutt?
Here we go,You are not allowed to bring dogs to Mitchell which is the Landlords ruling.
You are not allowed to bring dogs to Penryn or Falmouth Rugby Club because they are sports grounds.
At the moment you are allowed to bring dogs to Truro (but not in the cattle pens areas) (because if there is any cow poo laying around your dog will scoff it in no time)
Newquay Circus Fields dogs are not all that welcome but tolerated by me and our teams and at Wadebridge (strictly on a lead- fitted with personal doggy butt plugs) and Lanhydrock dogs are welcome.
But at Par Market there is a very special ‘doggy enclosure’ to die for that I have called POOLAND! Just on the right of the car park entrance there is a large enclosed doggy doo-doo grass field and dogs absolutely love it cos to a dog it is like heaven, where else could a dog find so much stinking and honking clues and messages that are in the poos and the pees shat everywhere for your pooch to investigate.
Your dog will adore POOLAND like it’s a ‘sniffer’s paradise’ it’s like a special doggies doo-doo dumping ground ‘let it drop, and let it plop, this is it, let’s have a shit’ and there are hundreds of amazingly good stinky poopy doggy smelly arsed messages left over many years discharged at the foot of the trees from countless dogs rear ends of all shapes and sizes revealing; are they are on heat or not? are they well or not? do they smell sexy or not? or have they had ‘it all taken away or not’ or not? Do they have balls or not? Are there any virgins droppings to investigate or not? have they ‘had it’ recently or not? and what sort of menu are they on as they dump their dumps upon the ground but it will all have your dogs besides themselves ‘quivering and tinkling and tingling its own sweet stinky poop messages’ from the first tree to the last FFS!
And, and as an added treat your dogs can munch away like dogs do at millions of the rabbit poo droppings liberally spread in Pooland for free FFS. And if you dog gets really turned on by any particular doggy doo-doo odour it can roll in the grass and get covered in crappy pappy poo to take home with them in ‘your’ car FFS!
They will enjoy the Par Market Doggy POOLAND so much that much that you should really consider a family outing to Par Market (bring loads money for the bargains) say on a Wednesday when the Market is open also every weekend so you can take it in turns to go to the Market whilst the others say ‘let us treat the dog to POOLAND’ “Yap shouts the dog, I will go along with that cos they even provide poo bins and bags so I can empty my bowels and bladder and crap to my hearts content! and everyone in the family has had a lovely day and bought some bargains and doggy bones as a treat from Par Market!!
Bottom line:
And, and when you all meet up and you become a family again you pat and stroke your dog and say ‘did you have a nice time then pet’ the dog will be so totally content with all that fussing, the more the merrier cos you will be carrying and spreading all of those doggy doo-doo smells from ‘sniffer’s paradise’ with you on your hands and your clothes and when you all get in your car it starts sneezing FFS, lets all go home shall we? No wonder the pigging dog keeps coming up and sniffing you FFS!!
And at the end of your day some of you let your dog ‘come to bed’ with you and I know of at least two of our customers that let all three of their dogs go to bed with them and under the covers FFS and you wonder why TF you wake up in the middle of the pigging night scratching your googlies or yer arse FFS!
Yuk, to letting yer dog sleep in yer bed unless it’s a Chi Wawa of course. I know that’s not how your spell it but I have been up since three with pains galore but two spliffs later I don’t GAF! My darling missus says that I say FFS too much, with the fondest of love to my Lou I say ‘go about your business woman at least I can spell FFS! So I don’t GAF, FFS! But I do love you darling but not yer hot flushes FFS.
Seriously, CBC is 26 years old and I would love to have the balls to say NO MORE DOGS but there is another more serious problem that I would like to tackle first and that is people selling on a stall and smoking to their lungs content and it is the height of bad manners! If you see a seller standing at a stall and they is smoking then ‘walk on by’ do you really want to buy something that has been brought to sell in a stench filled car and take it into your home? It is also offensive to your neighbouring car booters having the smell of two poisons Nicotine and Tobacco wafting in theirs and their customer’s faces and young children’s directions.
Take a look into a Marmite jar my lovers and just imagine that it is the tar scraped from the inside of a dead smokers lungs, don’t do it my lovers if you love your life and your husband or wife and your kids and the rest of the family. They cannot afford to lose you and you cannot afford the fags FFS so “Stop now, if you don’t buy them you can’t smoke em you”
At the end of each car boot sale our teams pick up litter (not your rubbish please) and amongst the selling spaces it is amazing how many cigarettes people smoke and stub their wet fag ends out onto the grass, that is almost as bad as spitting FFS. Some smokers come to our boot sales to sell items and it is not unusual to find up to 30 fag-ends at one stall which I believe would cost about fifteen quid, what people do with their own money is their business but if they are abusing their own health at the expense of blowing smoke into my customers surroundings and treating farmland as an ashtray then I must listen to the genuine complaints. Dog ends-Dog poo! Same difference but bloody offensive FFS!
My one picture is of a butt plug modelled of that complete full time total knob-end and grossly offensive American arsehole Donald Fart- Trump who has absolutely no respect for women. He is an ignorant shit-hence the butt-plug.
Donald Fart-Trump recently spent time in hospital having an arsehole transplant but the new arsehole has rejected him?
Apparently they have sold out of the Tony Blair and George Bush ones known as ‘the bomb-bum boys’
I am not rude, I says it like I sees it please or offend so let me paint the picture and you can be the judges” Newquay Circus Fields Tuesday 12th August 2015
When I arrived for the Car Boot Sale the field had been set-up and the early sellers who pay five pounds extra had been shown to their selling spaces and were displaying their stalls amongst the earlies was a large white vehicle with three adult lady persons in the car. I started parking the other sellers at 11.30 and when I got to the third row a seller that I was parking told me “there is a complaint from the queue of buyers that two women are walking around the stalls” With a further 12 rows of sellers to park I did not have time to find the 2 women and our staff were all busy supervising the car parking and other duties. When I was on the seventh row two ladies appeared and they were more than obviously looking around the stalls which is totally against the rules as NO-ONE is allowed to look around until the horn goes for the sale to start. I do not see a lot of fun for our buyers who know the rules and for them to Q religiously and wait until the start of the sale only to see two biddies wandering around taking a look at what is on sale. I asked the ladies “Do you have a stall here” which they tried to ignore and on the third attempt they replied ‘Yes’ “Then go back to your stall” ‘No’ the elder biddy said who looked furious that I should give her such a direct instruction “You are not allowed to wander around the stalls until the sale starts, now go back to your stall” I said nothing more, nothing less no rudeness just straight to the point, these ladies were breaking the rules. Amen!
I carried on parking and thought nothing more about the incident and the sale duly started on time. A great atmosphere prevailed with over 150 sellers and over 2500 men women and fids enjoyed the good summery weather with thousands of bargains on sale. A perfect day, but in the life of Car Boot Sales you always get someone who want to spoil the day and today was no exception.
Jamie, one of our team members came to me saying ‘there is a lady who wants to see you, she wanted to know who you were and she says you were very rude to her’ He replied with surprise at her accusation ‘He is not rude to customers, I find that hard to believe’ I went to the stall and there were three women two of them were the ‘wanderers’ ready to give me a piece of their minds about me telling ‘them go back to your stall’ “You were very rude to me” the old biddy said ‘No I was not, I told you that you should not have been walking around the stalls’ “Even my husband doesn’t talk to me like that” she rabbited on and on in a most irritable granification style and she certainly was not prepared to listen to my defence so no point in hanging around especially as the other ‘wanderer’ tried to wade into the conversation.I could see in her face she was not speaking the truth merely backing up the old biddy who had probably got out of the wrong side of the bed and probably does every day. I asked myself ‘is she related to Griselda’?
Now then, I believe their action to ‘go in with the earlies’ was premeditated because why were there three of them to set up a stall where most single women or blokes can set their stalls up within the allotted time when the rules clearly state only 2 adults allowed per car to set up the stall. Because quite simply they had a plan that the third person would set up the stall and the other two would ‘go and have a look around, a butchers hook so to speak’ because I spoke to some of the neighbouring cars and they two who started to ‘have a look around’ were told by at least two other sellers ‘You are not allowed to look around’ but they chose to ignore that advice similarly they tried to ignore me.
Bottom line; Wot a ‘load of old handbags’ It has been very difficult for me to write the above and be very polite (for me) without using the occasional FFS or I couldn’t GAF or to end up with GFY which is also an abbreviation of my name Geoffrey =GFY or GeoFFS = FFS!
The worst thing about being a grandfather is having to live with a grandmother FFS!
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