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
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