After all these years of practice Mecannylad thought that Mecannylass would be up there with the best of them ….. a streetwise, savvy shopper.
Not so !
Mecannylass is convinced that the self-service electronic checkout equipment in Tesco Express has some kind of a brain. She was quietly impressed when an obviously underaged customer in front of us was stopped from completing her alcohol purchase. “Eeh isn`t that clever !”
Mecannylass obviously also thought that if these intuitive Tesco Express tills could stop under age kids from buying booze, they would also have the intelligence to allow a rounded mature woman of 49+ Summers, who reaks of Chanel No5 and Morning Fresh, to calmly complete her purchase of 2litres of Bombay Gin and half a dozen bottles of Chablis.
Not so !
“ Now theres a bloody cheek” exclaims Mecannylass, “ putting me in the same class as that nubile 14 year old spotty temptress !? ”
Oh, and, by the way; whilst I`m at it. …. Mecannylass thinks that if a supermarket till can tell your age then a supermarket trolley should instinctively know where your car is parked !
Is Mecannylad just another Townie on a collision course with the countryside? Can he hack it in the bracing air of the fabulous Peak District? Will he survive amongst the farming set and their prize winning friesians? ....... This staunch Geordie carries fond memories from the gritty back streets of 1960`s Tyneside when a Big Mac was nothing more than a raincoat, a joint was only the Sunday roast and going all the way was simply staying on the bus until the terminus.
