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A visit to Sports Direct today.

Yttrium

This was the third time ever that I had bought my own footwear. SO MANY PEOPLE IN A CONFINED SPACE! The plan was to find any pair of trainers in size 11.5, pay for them and get out of there! I think I did okay. They were £37.99 which is about £10 more than I was expecting. Reduced from £26,000.99 though, what a deal! The area near the tills was especially chaotic. One queue, which I avoided, had eight people in it. But then it turned out that all eight were buying one item between them so there was a sudden rush of people to that till when they all walked off together. There was some pushing and shouting. I stuck with my chosen queue and concentrated on my breathing.

End of part one. This exciting tale will continue after I've had some dinner.

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  • To be honest with you I stopped my story earlier than expected because I started remembering how awful i had felt in the shop and needed to take a break from writing about it.

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    Former Member in reply to Yttrium

    The whole shopping thing is funny.  I grew up in Bristol and when I was a youngling we used to spend a lot of time in Bristol town centre (before there was the out-of-town-stuff).   It was often very very very busy, so I'm OK with busy shopping centres.  If I want to get stuff I tend to have a good idea what I'm looking for before I go, and I'm like a laser guided bomb - find what I want and then blow out of there.  Where I find things difficult is busy supermarkets.

    My O/H on the other hand grew up in sleepy Weybridge, but she used to work in the Waitrose there which got very busy.  She finds busy supermarkets a lot easier than I do, but she can't cope with the business of shopping centres/areas that I can.

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  • Former Member
    Former Member in reply to Yttrium

    The whole shopping thing is funny.  I grew up in Bristol and when I was a youngling we used to spend a lot of time in Bristol town centre (before there was the out-of-town-stuff).   It was often very very very busy, so I'm OK with busy shopping centres.  If I want to get stuff I tend to have a good idea what I'm looking for before I go, and I'm like a laser guided bomb - find what I want and then blow out of there.  Where I find things difficult is busy supermarkets.

    My O/H on the other hand grew up in sleepy Weybridge, but she used to work in the Waitrose there which got very busy.  She finds busy supermarkets a lot easier than I do, but she can't cope with the business of shopping centres/areas that I can.

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