Don't you just love...

[queenofmean]

...kids?
This I will admit made my day after my heart quite literally sank...we have a regular customer who has 2 kids who are a bit of a handful and can be rude and cheeky and so on and so forth....fast forward the shoe checking and me having other things to do, I leave them to it hoping they will leave, no mummy strikes up convo with my boss. She say's 'my husband has been diagnosed with diabetes' my boss ' oh (me) is our resident diabetic' youngest child pipes up with 'Are you old?' My boss 'No she's only 24' wee boy turns to me ' that makes you ancient' inside i was howling thinking well if you think I'm a diabetic at 24 and ancient...what category does your dad fall into??

[Buenchico]

Cheeky kids are always the best ones!

When I was teaching I quickly got used to being regarded as ancient by the kids. On my 25th birthday one girl asked me how old I was. I said that I didn't mind telling her as long as she'd give me a genuine guess first. She looked at me (in my formal suit, with a collar and tie) and then across at my friend (the head of drama, in jeans and a sweatshirt) and said "Well I don't know sir but you're obviously a LOT older than Mr Trevorrow" (who I happened to know was 5 years and 5 days older than me!).

So if you want kids to think that you're young, don't dress like an old fogey!

[nungate]

Hey Chris, how are you? I think QOM was actually having a go at this particular family - the staff in the shop where she works have a tendency to "disappear" when this lot approach the door. Today she drew the short straw. I think she should have told the kid that diabetics can also be children as she was diagnosed at 2 - I'm her mum by the way.
How is the cat "luring" going.

[Buenchico]

(With apologies to QOM):

Hi Nungate:
I'm currently feeding something every night but I don't know what it is yet! I put a bowl of food out and it's gone by morning but I've not seen any cats or heard the sniffling and bowl-pushing I normally associate with hedgehogs. So I might be feeding a fox (or even a rat or two!) for all I know! Bowls of food put out during the day remain untouched.

However there is a young black & tabby cat which has suddenly appeared from nowhere over the last couple of days, who allowed me to stroke him/her for the first time this afternoon.

[nungate]

Well that's progress of a sort Chris, however if two certain cats (no names no pack drill - Max & Henry) don't buck up their ideas and stay away from the cables behind the tv and the top of the book case, you may just find yourself with 2 lodgers!! We currently have 2 hedgehogs visiting our garden (seen them both together I thought they were maybe solitary creatures) there's also a little frog who pops up now and again, but for the life of me I have no idea where he might come from as none of the neighbours have ponds! A little (brave) mouse dashes out from under the bench to pick up seeds dropped by the birds and of course last but not least our wood pigeon who daughter named Chris (no idea) who spends most of the day out there, what with the four cats in residence it's like living in a petting zoo! You will either have to sit up all night to find out what is taking the food or set up night vision cameras - won't that be fun?

[queenofmean]

I don't dress like an old fogey I probably dress a lot younger than I should. Said child is a little horror, standing in the shop screaming at me demanding new Geox....as nungate says there are two cats available for adoption at the moment...Tabby in top left is first on the list to be sent packing