Not Bliss And On The Scrapheap...

[gness]

I have Slendertone products and buy from them fairly regularly.....
I received an email asking me, as a valued customer, to take part in a survey for them...rarely do this but it'd be short enough to do with a coffee.....

First Q. Male or Female.........Female.
Second Q. Age.........67.

Thank you, said the next page....and whoosh the survey was no more ........ :-(

So I decided to do it again but this time knocking forty years off my age......I got the whole survey..... asking my thoughts on a new product that I could just be interested in......:-)

I will compose an email....an amusing email....to Slendertone asking why they don't want the opinion of a 67 year old who is fit and vain and willing to spend money and effort on keeping her waistline and flat tummy.......and they should remember some of us oldies are the ones with cash to spare... ;-)

Fast forward to the gym.....I'm standing in the corner changing into my outdoor clothes feeling sprightly after a good session when the instructor calls out.....

Gness...do you want me to fetch you a chair so you can sit down to put on your shoes?

I shuffled out slowly calling....See you Friday if God spares me...... :-(

[shoota]

Wouldn't happen to a redhead...

[gness]

You been chatting to Shoota, Cupes?!....x

[murraymints]

Had me confused too !! Lol...
I have one of those doodahs but can't work it out...lost the book...do they work ?

[sunny-dave]

Looks like your eyes are shot too .... :+))

[shoota]

Lol.
Look again.
It's Cupids day Valentine...

[albaqwerty]

oooh, Dave!! careful......

[gness]

OH,SHOOTA!!!!!

And to make it worse I thought Dave was referring to my waistline and tummy when he said my eyes were shot........he's still recovering from my phone call........but he did suggest I look at names and not avatars......

Yes, Minty.......I'm happy with mine....... :-)

[shoota]

Snitter, snitter...

[Patsy33]

These people know nothing gness! x

[sunny-dave]

A small titter ran round the room ...

[woofgang]

Gness, with the slendertone thing, it may be the way that its being packaged and advertised?

[gness]

Indeed, Patsy......I felt like doing a cartwheel out of the gym.....if I could cartwheel..... :-)

It's a new vest type thing, Woof.....rather than the belts.....they must think I'm too old to struggle into a tight figure hugging vest...... :-(

Small titter?! You were wetting yourself, Dave.....especially when you kept saying....It's Shoota!!! It's Shoota!!!....and I kept asking how Shoota know about my waistline and tummy!

[sunny-dave]

Revenons à nos moutons ...

I too have been discriminated against when attempting to fill in surveys ... one whiff of old git and suddenly they are not needing my input.

I now have an alter ego "Max Varadero - a metrosexual LGBTQ with astonishing income and interesting proclivities" - every dog and his frog seem to value Max's opinions ... oh how I laugh as I fill them in ...

[gness]

Good idea, Dave.....I now need a new name to go with the new twenty seven year old me.........x

[shoota]

M'phys....?

[shoota]

B'mish...?

[gness]

Oh no never!!!!....... Jameson maybe?....No.....I will mull......x

[shoota]

S'wicks...?

[gness]

No.......that has too many rhyming words..... :-(

[sunny-dave]

Shovehorn o'Gorblimey

- it looks better in the Gaelic -

Siobhan o'Gaughblighmich