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AN INSIGHT
11/24/2019 10:30:33 AM

FESTIVE FUN
Regular readers of this blog will know that I try to keep it lighthearted. There`s more than enough of the other stuff to go round the world many times over and now they insist on having an election very near to Christmas! How dare they? Do they really think that most families want to talk Brexit- I call it Brisket as they`ve been chewing over it so long- while consuming their turkey and mince pies? You know something I bet they do think that.
Just been invited to my first Christmas lunch at the Radisson Blue hotel in Glasgow on Sunday 01/12/19. It`s a Society of Authors event and I always welcome a chance to have a good blether with other authors and memberS of the S.O.A
I plan to be more organised with my Christmas shopping this year. Of course I will not be but I can plan to be can`t I?
My favourite person to buy for is my 9 year old grandson. Kids are easy. They can let you know well in advance what is on their wish list. My grandson is a football - soccer in America - fanatic and also an extremely promising young player so football strips are always on the list. I let you know this in advance so can look forward to another example of my extreme silliness. This silliness happens all year round not just at Christmas as you will know by now. Recently my grandson had his ninth birthday so I headed up to Glasgow city centre on an extremely cold day to get him some presents. Being very cold I put on one of my assortment of woollen hats to keep the lugs -ears in most other English speaking nations- warm. I only discovered it was on inside out when I returned home later in the day. Therefore it had been that way all day. I am going to set a scene for you now. I knew the shop where I could get football strips. It always sticks in my memory because you enter it and go downstairs instead of upstairs.
Being old and set in my ways I normally use cash instead of plastic. I made some purchases and saw after doing so the ideal football strip for my grandson. One of his many favourite teams. The problem was they did not have the correct size on display and I had spent too much cash already. Then I had an utter brainwave. A real plan. I could ask the female assistant to check if they had the correct size elsewhere in the store. While she was doing so I could find a nearby cash dispensing machine and get more cash couldn`t I? So off went inside out hat man to do just that. I fairly quickly found a cash machine and made my way back to the store. Other female shop assistants were busy serving other customers blissfully unaware how lucky they were to be doing so , thus escaping the man in the very odd hat. After waiting for some time I explained to one of these ladies why I was just standing there looking vacant. She gave me a very odd look and hurried by. She must have taken pity on this suspicious looking guy however and returned.
"Excuse me. This football strip? Is it a gents football strip?"
"No, no" I replied "It`s for my nine year old grandson"
"Ah. I see. Well we won`t be able to help you here" she smiled which I thought a bit odd as someone was already doing so on my behalf
"I assure you some other girl was checking it out for me while I went to get more cash"
Another odd look from the lady. She looked around the store and my gaze followed hers.
That`s when I discovered the absence of other men- with or without acceptable hats on- in the store. I had returned to a ladies boutique to collect my grandson`s football strip.
These are the kinds of situations I know I will be facing time and again over my festive season shopping so I can only plan to be organised you see. I can also plan to have absolutely no time chewing the fat about "Brisket!" Oh there`ll be someone to spoil it I know. There always is. I`ll just send him/her round to yours shall I?
Have lots of fun doing whatever your plans are. Best Wishes

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