A Drink
“I was going to buy a drink but they wouldn’t take a card…”
- Girl, student bar, Cardiff.
“I was going to buy a drink but they wouldn’t take a card…”
- Girl, student bar, Cardiff.
“Surname?”
“Thomas.”
“Christian name?”
“Err, what do you mean?”
– Bank teller & customer
“Did you feel that? Woof! Someone just came in. Woof! Right over my head. That’s been happening a lot lately. Did you feel that?”
– Woman feeling a ‘presence’ enter a New Age shop, Brecon.
“No, no, you must follow the yellow line. Going that way is just wrong.”
- Lady shopper, Ikea.
“You can say ‘Orange’ as often as you bloody like, you’re not having anything orange in your bedroom!”
- Father to daughter, Ikea.
“You did beat off a couple of men to get that job didn’t you?”
– Jane Garvey (Woman’s Hour presenter), BBC Radio 4.
“Hugh Baxter, we call him ‘Chewy’, ‘cos it sounds like Chewbacca when you say his name fast.”
- Passerby, Swansea.
“She’s training in the pharmacy… to be a farmer.”
“A pharmacist?”
“Yeah, a pharmacist.”
- Mother & daughter in shop queue.
“Cake? Yes please – and make sure it’s the biggest piece.”
- Overweight mother to daughter in self-serve cafeteria.