Plenty of shoppers again this weekend.
Since I blogged about the nuisance of kids rollering on those there shoes with wheels on I had noticed a decrease in the amount of children coming in wearing these perilous contraptions; I guess after being requested not to come in to the store rollering most people were heeding the advice....but now!!.. xmas over and I reckon every child over five must have been bought a pair as it seems like it's anarchy in the aisles once more with every other child making an entrance as if they were in competion.
I requested a male parent to advise his child that it was not a good idea to enter the store rollering full pelt into the crowded foyer but the response I got from his 'Da' was "he's a kid!.. what do you want me to do they are attached to his shoes"
The child looked up and said "I can push the wheels in dad" but he ignored him and ushered him into the store ignoramously.
I felt my blood boil and I followed on for a few steps protesting that any-one with any sense knows it is dangerous to go whizzing down the aisles in a busy store.
The child did start to precarously walk on his wheeled shoes so I left things there as this guy was not going to concede.

A little while later about 5pm another odd occurence happened.
There I was in the foyer chatting to the young male member of Security staff (about the perils of rollering in-store, as it happens) when a respectable middle-aged man came in and said that in the car park there was about £50,000's worth of Range Rover parked up with the door wide open, the engine running, the keys were in the ignition and a mobile phone and wallet had been left on the passenger seat.
The Security staff went to investigate and sure enough it was exactly as the customer had described, they waited for a few minutes to see if any-one returned (maybe the driver had dashed to use the ATM machines).. but no
One member of staff stood guard whilst the other took down the car number and put a message out through the in-store tannoy system for the owner to go to the Customer Service desk.
A good ten minutes must have past and the porter who had been assigned to stand by the vehicle was getting very disgruntled..."I don't know why we should be bothered" he said "if they can't be careful then why should we care? and besides I want to go and have my tea-break, i'm not standing here for much longer."
Just as I was in the process of finding some-one else to take over Range-Rover watching duties, the Security staff member arrived back and reported that a la-de-da woman had eventually responded to the call and simply said that she wouldn't be long and that as her husband didn't like shopping he had taken the opportunity to have a nap and was asleep in the back seats
We were all bemused by this as it was impossible to see into the back seats as the windows were blacked out and it was difficult for us to see from the front windows too...at that we all walked away and left the car with the keys still in the ignition and the phone and wallet on the seat.
This lady's husband must be a sound sleeper as we made quite a lot of commotion around the car in the pitch blackness, and the car park was heaving with cars coming and going at 5 in the afternoon..but..there hadn't been a movement from within..strange