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How to feel like a GIRL [message #50467] Mon, 25 June 2012 20:29 Go to next message
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How to feel like a GIRL


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Re: How to feel like a GIRL [message #50468 is a reply to message #50467 ] Tue, 26 June 2012 00:16 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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I noticed with some dry interest that two of the fallen trees had taken out quite a bit of their fence.

Sometimes you get to see poetic justice in action. The resulting satisfaction is a perfectly healthy response. Smile

Those trolleys must be mandated by law at all garden centers, farm stores, and building supply centers across the universe. If you ever get a good one, that, say, steers, someone has clearly made a mistake. At least your own wheeled conveyance was on good behavior and transported you, hellhounds, and compost without a glitch. Good for Wolfgang!



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Re: How to feel like a GIRL [message #50469 is a reply to message #50467 ] Tue, 26 June 2012 03:57 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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What, no strapping, fit, garden centre staff to help their paying customers lift heavy loads into their cars?? Surely that should be basic customer service.

But at least, hurrah for Wolfgang's continued good health. Smile



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Re: How to feel like a GIRL [message #50470 is a reply to message #50469 ] Tue, 26 June 2012 12:10 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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CathyR wrote on Tue, 26 June 2012 08:57

What, no strapping, fit, garden centre staff to help their paying customers lift heavy loads into their cars?? Surely that should be basic customer service.

But at least, hurrah for Wolfgang's continued good health. Smile





'Basic' can cover quite a large territory, from places where the staff know what they're doing to places where the fact that they opened the shop is all the service you need.

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and then I had to ROLL the freller first to the till and then out to Wolfgang in the alpine car park.


One would think that, given that there are more garden centres than just about anything else around here, one would be able to find parking somewhere closer than 1/4 mile away. Fascinating, that.

I'm so very glad Wolfgang was up to the challenge. And hope someone helped you unload when you got home...
Re: How to feel like a GIRL [message #50471 is a reply to message #50467 ] Tue, 26 June 2012 12:44 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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I nearly had a heart attack on your behalf - I saw mention of Wolfgang in the first paragraph, and then, scrolling down to read a footnote, the words "nothing happened".... I am so glad they did not refer to a car starting (or not!)

Those garden centre trolleys are horrible beasts. Worse even than the grocerty carts with one wheel which always insists on trying to go off on its own.
Re: How to feel like a GIRL [message #50473 is a reply to message #50467 ] Tue, 26 June 2012 17:49 Go to previous message
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I've often done the same with large sacks of dog food.

Hoorah for Wolfgang!
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