Great news one and all, I'm going on holiday in two weeks. All-inclusive to Crete for a week. This will be my third holiday this year, a personal best, no less. I've never been all-inclusive before so this will be a new experience for me, this place we're going to has a bar in the pool which you just swim up to and, basically, your uncle's name is Bob. Sounds bloody brilliant to me.
So, yesterday, after booking the holiday we went to Tesco. Did a bit of a serious shop, our total spend was about £130, but the wine rack is now burgeoning and we'll hopefully have enough food to last us until we go on holiday. Then it's only one week when we get back from Crete until pay day. Oh yeah, it's all been planned out.
There are these effervescent multivitamins I like to buy from Tescos, I really do. I saw them yesterday and they had been reduced from £0.98 to a snicket at £0.24 a pop. This is them:
Now, to complicate matters Tesco were also running a buy 3 vitamin products and get the cheapest free; and I had opted into this little deal. Not wanting my £0.24 effervescent to interfere with this I put them through separately at the till. The till operative ran my effervescents through and it came to £4.44, over what I was expecting to pay, but without really thinking about it I pulled out a Jacks Alive and handed it over. I was then duly handed my £0.56 change and receipt, which I immediately scanned for errors. Sure enough the silly old fish wife had managed to put through 6 plain croissants at a hefty £0.50 each peach plum pear! Well, I can't tell you how annoyed I was.
I told the till operative and was told, in words not dissimilar to these, "there's nothing I can do about that now, you'll have to get a refund at customer services". How rude, I thought, and off I went to the customer services stop. I gave the lady there my receipt and started to explain what exactly happen to me, when this rather scum like rag tag of a woman waiting at the cigarette kiosk piped up. "If your working the tills then you should come and serve me, I was here first" she barked at the customer services executive. "Sorry mate, but I was here first", she croaked at me. Oh fucking great, I thought, what a charmer.
The customer services lady served her the fags, 20 Benson's it looked like, whilst listening to the woman complain about waiting at the ciggie kiosk. Then another customer came and stood at the ciggie kiosk and she blurted out "I wouldn't wait there, mate, you'll never get served". To compound matters the poor customer services executive had to log into the till and it was taking a while. Please refund me, that's all I could think.
Well, my turn came and I started again. I passed over my receipt and explained my situation, the woman looked a little shell shocked from her previous encounter and she got my refund from the till and handed me a Rocket and an Alan (that's a fiver and a pound between you and I). I couldn't believe my luck. All I can think is that she saw that 6 croissants had been put through and had just got £6 out because of that. I took my winnings and made a quick exit, I had to get out as soon as possible before she could realize her error and make a recall. It was just the best.
In effect, you see, Tesco paid me £1.56 to take 6 effervescent vitamin tubes off their hands. They paid me.
Edmund Honda
CaucasianMale
swim-up pool bars are, in short, the badger's nadgers. Only been at a hotel that had one once, and i've been thoroughly disapointed by their conspicuous absence at every hotel since.