today I dared to go out of the house, to Warrington town center. seing as though I live here, that shouldnt be a big deal, but I am a social recluse. It was quite scary at first, mainly because the infamous “chavs” were out in force along my road and If you so much as look at one you will get a new face, in a bad way. there are several quite interesting facts and statistics I could give you about crime and stuff like that in warrington but I wont. That would be boring. so I’ll tell you what I did instead.
Walked there,went into the pound shop and bought a cool silver alien money box thing, highly useless but I’m into random stuff at the moment. then I went to look at old woolworths. nothing much had changed apart from it was totally empty, ripped to the guts, Savage beasts have ransacked the place type empty. I
After that trip down memory lane I went to the mall. I bought a game from game exchange that slighy resembles fantastic contraption, it was only £14.99 and it is actualy quite good. I also went and looked in the windows of various shops and I had to force myself not to go in because I knew I couldn’t afford any of the stuff in there. that is a very hard thing to do when you have £7 in your pocket that you can’t spend because you have to save it. this may not make sence at the moment. but hey hey. I went to mega value pound land (or somthing along those lines) and bought 3 cans of red kola, which acording to wikipedia is hard to find outside of scotland and I went to wilkinsons and purchaced 3 cream eggs for a pound, because It was the best darn offer I’d seen all day.
On with the story, after that I went into poundstretcher, aka “home of the devil woman” and tried to purchase a bottle of Red X energy drink similar to the ones I had purchased several days ago from several major supermarket. after browsing the shops inferior, and rather cheap and tacky stock, I proceed to the checkout only to find that there was no-one there despite all four displaying “next customer please” messages. I waited a while and , eventually , devil woman emerged from the staff office where their seemed to be allot of nothing productive going on. she glanced at the item that I wished to purchase and without an apology for the wait while she finished her coffee or any customer service she plainly proclaimed “you got any I.D?” in the most annoying voice I have ever heard. I did not have any I.D on me because I myself was not aware that energy drinks containing caffeine as red bull and relentless were age restricted products. when I declared my lack of age Identification she sauntered off to the little office again without so much as a word like sorry. It was at this point that I realised that there was not a single member of staff on shop floor, the atitude to work was so lax that a man who had brocken a box of lightbulbs (acidentaly, I must add, for the dignity of the man) was left to pick up the tiny peices of glass on his own. I don’t actualy know if the staff were even aware of the fact that the floor was covered in shards of glass.
Affter this terible service I walked to lidl where I purchaced a packet of ham and a can of energy drink from a man who I think waas involved in either 1) some sort of staff training or 2) some kind of game with his freind, this involved one man with a trolley trying to sneak things through a checkout situation by several means such as buying 2 cans of tomatoes and hidding the lables of some similar looking cans (containing higher priced stuff) in the tomato box so that when the man on the checkout scaned in one can of tomatoes then entered a multiple Item he would count all the expensive cans as less expensive tomatoes. the man of the checkout was not fooled though. he quickly served me without a glance at what I was buying, just a glance at the display, exact change, off you go.
I decided to procede to to sainsburys. I got potatoes for my mother like she had asked, then proceded to the energy drink section, because I wanted another can for later seing asthough my brother was (and still is) having a sleepover with his freind, who I can not name for reasons of child protection. I took my spuds and single 250ml can of blue bolt energy drink to a self checkout and as I scaned it in I felt like kickibg that machine, because It came up with “age restricted product, confirmation needed”. As you can probrably anticipate, along came an official checkouty person and denied me confirmation, so me and my spuds left in the direction of home.
by the time I was browsing ASDA I was so disheartened with my energy drink situation that I baught a packet of “energy drink” and a packet of wine gums (my one weakness) and went home. the “energy drink” powder I baught contains no caffeine, tastes like orange and has a warrning on the back “psp22 energy has ben designed to drink as a sports for use before, during, or after intense activity and is not recomended as a simple beverage”, as far as I can tell it’s just 97% carrbohydrate but If anything interesting ocurs from drinking 3 cans of bright red cola, an energy drink and this Ishal blog about it.
Lessons I learnt today:
1) some people are just horrible
2) shops can be run badly
3) I would, overall, rather have stayed in bed
