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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