HAS anyone else walked into a shop and felt they had entered a Monty Python sketch?

I did – I entered an out-of-town shopping area in Banbury. The shop in question was Boots. I asked for a pack of disposable gloves.

“Yes,” said the assistant with a smile. “We have a pack of a hundred.”

“I will have them,” I said.

The assistant shook her head and replied: “You cannot have them, they have been ordered by someone else. You will have to order for more gloves.”

I tried to explain that in a shop when you requested goods you expect them to be in stock.

She replied: “We have sold out of all disposable gloves.”

I thought of the Monty Python sketch where a cheese shop had no cheese for sale.

GLYN LIMMER, Roosevelt Road, Long Hanborough