St Peter's at the Checkout, and There Ain't no Two-for-One

[steepholm]

More adventures in queuing. This time I was with my daughter in Sainsbury's. The queue was short, but she urged me to one that was still shorter. I demurred, since we still had five minutes to kill before we could pick up the passport photographs that were being prepared in the shop next door. "Anyway," I said, "I don't mind queuing. I quite like it."

"Ah, how British!" remarked the (English) woman ahead of me.

"We're all just queuing for the grave in the long run," I added, warming to the part.

"I should invite you to my party this evening!" she said gaily. "You'd liven the place up."

I thought of extending the metaphor on the lines indicated above, but before I could gather my wits the conveyor belt moved on, and we with it, to our final accounting.

Comments

Happy Birthday!

[kalypso]

First the therapist, now the queuer... You're clearly on form, and I'm expecting a hat-trick of amused women by the end of the week!

Re: Happy Birthday!

[steepholm]

It's true! And on both occasions it happened in Clifton - a neighbourhood particularly susceptible to my special brand of mordant humour, it appears.

(Thanks for the birthday wishes.)

[nightspore.livejournal.com]

Hilarious. Especially this (inadvertent? an Americanism, anyhow) metaphor: "extending the metaphor on the lines indicated above."

[steepholm.livejournal.com]

I must admit that was inadvertent. Perhaps I have a transatlantic subconscious.

[ashlyme.livejournal.com]

This reminds me a little of my dad - sometimes if you asked after his health, he'd respond, "There's nothing wrong with me that death won't cure."

[ashlyme.livejournal.com]

Also, happy birthday! (It didn't seem quite right to include this with the last comment. :-))

[steepholm.livejournal.com]

Thank you! I've had a quiet one this year - the last one was a biggie - and very nice too.

[steepholm.livejournal.com]

:) Mine was fond of "Life is hard, but it's good practice." A German proverb, he assured me.

[aerodrome1.livejournal.com]

Happy Birthday!

[steepholm.livejournal.com]

Thanks!

[grondfic.livejournal.com]

Belated - Happy Birthday.

[steepholm.livejournal.com]

Thank you - I still have a few minutes left of it!

[gillo]

Inspired by anno domini? Happy birthday, anyway!

[steepholm.livejournal.com]

It doesn't take much to get my mind running on those lugubrious tracks, but no doubt a Burns Night Supper was somewhere in my thoughts, as hosted by Old Nick himself...

Thanks for the birthday wishes! :)

[consonantia.livejournal.com]

Happy birthday!

[steepholm.livejournal.com]

Thank you!

[owlfish]

How good to know that yesterday (today by grace of not sleeping yet) was your birthday; it is/was my half birthday, so a day I can remember rather more things about than most.

[steepholm.livejournal.com]

I hope you enjoyed your 1/2 birthday too!

[heleninwales.livejournal.com]

Belated birthday wishes! Quiet birthdays are sometimes the best kind. I hope you managed to indulge in a little treat of some kind.

[steepholm.livejournal.com]

Thank you. Yes, Belgian chocolates had a memorable cameo role.

[nineweaving.livejournal.com]

Much belated happy birthday!

May this year astonish and delight.

Nine

[steepholm.livejournal.com]

Thank you! I shall try to chivvy it in that direction.