What a rotten weekend with the heaviest of rains drenching all of our locations during the week you can see by the pictures of the rain sodden and puddles galore ground on the car park at FALMOUTH Rugby Club what the sellers and buyers had to contend with. However 37 sellers and a lot of support from locals and the Falmouth students bought loads of bargains and a great atmosphere but one complaint from a seller about the tactics of one buyer spoilt the atmosphere. I watched as the lady dealer held on to a really nice picture and a decorative bowl so no other buyer could look whilst she had got the seller to agree to selling them both from over thirty pounds to twenty five pounds (a bargain) but the determined lady ‘mithered’ demanding a further reduction to twenty pounds and to get rid of the buyer the seller eventually agreed. Later the seller and his charming wife felt they had been ‘ripped off’ and once again the complaint was about the same person we have had constant complaints about. It is not my job to referee the tactics of buyers and sellers but I absolute know the picture and bowl will be sold on eBay for a good profit which rather takes the piss out of the seller’s original generosity. I need feedback from other dealers on this matter so I will report further however these tactics spoil the reputation of our Car Boot Sales and take away the friendliness and reputation of our regular dealers, is it time to ‘name and shame or ‘bar’?
Saturday was completely lost to the weather and although the Farm Machinery Sale went ahead at TRURO the hero auctioneers and their teams went home absolutely drenched after dealing with over 3000 lots whilst we lost MITCHELL and WADEBRIDGE because of the dreadful ground conditions. I inspected the fields at MABE on Saturday deciding to transfer the Car Boot Sale to TRURO. If we had used MABE we could have ruined the fields for weeks ahead a risk I was not prepared to take so TRURO it was!
Lots of gossip here with Rosie going to have her operation on her shoulder caused by her activities as a POLE dancer in the bedroom whilst hubby Gordon took the pictures. Rosie is off to Hayle Hospital for an operation but doctors are concerned to put her under the anaesthetic because the last time she was anesthetised the language was unbelievable? But the gossip of the day told to me by Auntie Julia is about our Orli who has been missing for a few weeks anyway she turned up at Truro looking magnificent and tanned and slimmed down to a size below 16! I am reliably informed she could be ‘with child’ that is risking things a bit at her age of 44 says she? Others are saying she could be going to the ‘trouble down below ward’ or even worse the ‘take it all away ward’ so her and I may be in at the same time because I am going in to have an estimate for a Strapadicktome! I doubt if I will get anything done, I just like the nurse who does the estimates!
You cannot be sure of SHELL so Go to SAINSBURY’S!!
Did you notice that the SHELL garages in Truro and Playing Place were closed over the weekend which must have caused a huge inconvenience to hundreds of motorists so let’s try bloody ASDA to join huge queues because they have massive building works at their petrol/diesel station at Penryn! No sod it let’s go to SAINSBURY’S at Truro or Helston where you can get served straight away and you can use your NECTAR cards, the prices are competitive and the staff are always so much happier especially Mrs Chintuck at Helston?
I was reprimanded by TORY rinse Midge for my DING DONG bit about her dead friend Thatch the Snatch however the feelings over boiled today at Truro with most observers condemning the apparent cost of £12 million quids to bury the old Dame. I bet brown nose Cameron waits for the cameras to be on his ‘fizzog’ (face) to shed just a little tear of his absolute insincerity! Apparently Lady DING DONG’S last sentence was “One has become dead” or in Geordie speak “One has kicked the friggin bucket” Hah!
Finally, you always get one who really makes your day, Mr Iva Small-piece and a gobby regular announced about me ‘here come the richest man in Truro, he’s loaded from the money he makes at the Car Boots’ WALOBs! Today our takings were about five hundred quids less 4 staff, less travel, less signs & Public Liability and I suppose he thinks the Landlord gives us the use of his land for nothing? Brainy you are not, dick-head you are! Things are so bad I am thinking of signing on again; however we do more for CORNWALL with our Community Car Boots and events in all weathers than Cornwall Council or any other organisation in the South West, just build us a large indoor alternative venue to the alleged Hall for Cornwall?
Lovely to see you all today, thank you for your support my lovers!
So, who was the Falmouth dealer?
Geoff
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