The Framers Forum

Yesterday a fellah came into my shop and said 'How much?'
I answered ' for what?'
He then replied ' Picture'

I seem to be having more of these conversations, I might try it at my local garage next week, How much? - what for? - fix

What's the shortest sentence anyone has expected you to understand in your shop, or anywhere for that mater?

A guy walked up to the counter one day, made a shrugging gesture and said 'Wife'?

I hope you called Matron for him

i quite often just grunt at some of my regular customers and they understand

Go to the chippie and ask if they have a piece of fish to fit this batter.

Roboframer wrote:A guy walked up to the counter one day, made a shrugging gesture and said 'Wife'?

I'd have said sure no problem , would you like it wrapping .?

Well Robo, Perhaps as you stock lots of brightly coloured cottons and stuff that he thought it was a multi-coloured swap shop

If he'd asked the question fully "Is my wife here"? we'd still have had no clue - never clapped eyes on him before. What did he expect, for us to line up any women browsing for an ID parade!

Our place used to be a hardware store and it only took us two weeks from them exiting to us opening. About a week later a guy comes in and does about 10 laps of the place before coming up to the counter and saying "You've had a big shift-around haven't you ....... so, where's the fish food"?

We had plenty similar but one of the best was a guy carrying 6 empty 5 gallon jerry cans, two in each hand; one under each arm (the old place used to sell paraffin on draught), turned the door handle with an elbow, struggled in backwards, turned around, gawped, shouted "BOLLOCKS"! and left.

Lol we had a similar ocurance in our Doncaster shop, a bloke wanted to bring back some shelf brackets he'd purchased a couple of weeks prior and couldn't quite grasp it wasn't the same shop.

My old place used to be a hairdressers. Months after I moved in a little old lady came in for some white hairnets. I pointed her downstairs to where the hairdressers had moved to (they moved downstairs to save the lols from having to climb the stairs).
Few weeks later she's in again.

When I was fitting out my present place a mate of mine was helping me. He had a boxer dog. The shop was previously a butchers and still had the white tiles in the window bays at the time. The said doggie was a daft old thing and liked to have a kip in the window on the nice cool tiles (it was very hot weather at the time). Must confess to putting a [1/6 a lb] label in front of him. Didn't have any plastic parsley. Drew a few sniggers from passers by.....

The previous business in our premises called "Beachwood Electronics" and apparently the guy who owned this business could supply, or repair almost anything either electronic, or electrical.

For several years afterwards, people would come in and ask if I still repaired television sets, etc.