The English (don't know about the rest of the UK) are great at panicking whenever "shortage" is mentioned, and create an even greater shortage by panic buying. At Christmas, when the shops close for a couple of days, people buy enough food for at least two weeks, as they seem to think the shops might never open again.
Then there's the mention of a price rise in petrol - that results in long queues at petrol stations just to save a few pence on one tank of fuel, and in some cases on just a few litres. Last evening I went to my local supermarket to find a very long queue to the petrol station part of it. Remember yesterday morning it was anounced that the average price had risen to 82.2 pence a litre. The supermarket had taken advantage of this and had a big notice announcing 5p off per litre of petrol, which accounted for the queues. But what the drivers obviously hadn't noticed was the very small print at the bottom of the notice "when you spend 50 pounds in store". From the store car park, I could see a couple of arguments going on at the pay booth. The store was also in the process of putting security guards out in the queue to make sure the motorists knew the conditions for getting the 5p off. Jean in Poole To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
