Speaker 1: First, yeah, welcome friends to the Christian O'Connell show podcast.
Speaker 1: Some shop owners are just miserable, right, they just are,
Speaker 1: you know, and I get it. Maybe that that the
Speaker 1: choices in life, that is what they're the life they
Speaker 1: had imagined for themselves. However, there's no need to take
Speaker 1: it out on us. We just want to come in
Speaker 1: the shop, buy whatever you've got there and go. You know,
Speaker 1: there are some people there. He used to be a
Speaker 1: party shop right back in England and I would always
Speaker 1: have to go in twice a year to get balloons
Speaker 1: for the girls when they were younger for their birthday parties.
Speaker 2: Right, and I think running a party shop is someone
Speaker 2: celebratory chack.
Speaker 1: It was the miserbless man. Right. First of all, I
Speaker 1: write a stank of nicotine in there, right where he
Speaker 1: was obviously hated so much. Right, he was obviously just
Speaker 1: finishing a cigarette, bloody or kids coming off and it
Speaker 1: would never put the cigarette out, even though you know
Speaker 1: it's a legal smoke indoors. You could tell he was
Speaker 1: just having a cigarette. More kids coming in this party shop, right,
Speaker 1: and every one Sunday I had to go in as
Speaker 1: pre arranged. She was going to open up a bit
Speaker 1: early at nine to pick up thirty helium balloons and
Speaker 1: a and a unicorn. And I went in there and
Speaker 1: I had to make small talk with this guy, and
Speaker 1: he was aggressively moody, right, And I said, this just
Speaker 1: been quite a nice thing. I had a nice life
Speaker 1: to do this. And he went not particularly as he
Speaker 1: was thinking, as he was a pink cunicorn that looks
Speaker 1: so innocent being born into the sad, brutal world. I'm
Speaker 1: man there reaking of nicotine, not particularly, not as.
Speaker 2: Good as you think with.
Speaker 1: This big old existential sire as well, particularly filling up
Speaker 1: this pink unicorn bringing it to life. I thought, what
Speaker 1: a horrible existence, being trapped in a party shop with
Speaker 1: his kind of internal processes going on, where he just
Speaker 1: hated life.
Speaker 2: The miserable shopkeeper for us was next door to our school,
Speaker 2: was a service station, so of course you're gonna get
Speaker 2: kids every day going buy chocolates and that sort of thing.
Speaker 2: He hated children, set set up, move out, so he
Speaker 2: put all every day you'd have a different type of
Speaker 2: a four printed piece of paper with new rules up there.
Speaker 1: Yeah, no more than two kids.
Speaker 2: Everybody had to go in alone. So one student at
Speaker 2: a time. Your backpack had to remain outside the store,
Speaker 2: so you couldn't take your bag in, and you had
Speaker 2: to remain in view at all times. You couldn't go
Speaker 2: anywhere with obscure your view from the front counter. He
Speaker 2: said to me once and then I didn't do anything wrong.
Speaker 2: He looked at me and said, I know what you did. Wow,
Speaker 2: we has to put the fear of.
Speaker 1: God in you, Jesus. Was it an old guy he
Speaker 1: was yet?
Speaker 2: No, he was like thirty.
Speaker 1: There was a milk bar where we grew up right,
Speaker 1: and it was an elderly couple that ran it. And
Speaker 1: there again psychos. They hated kids. And I've fod saying,
Speaker 1: you know what, you've been in the game too long. Okay,
Speaker 1: if you're standing in your sixties selling sweets to kids
Speaker 1: who come in and nick half of them, I get it.
Speaker 1: It would drive me nuts after like forty years, because
Speaker 1: kids are after that half the stock has been nicked,
Speaker 1: isn't it? And it was years ago. This is when
Speaker 1: j remember Patsy when they used to have to get
Speaker 1: a ladder and then there were sweets up on top
Speaker 1: shelves and like big jars, so you'd always go in
Speaker 1: and this trick only ever worked once. Go oh the
Speaker 1: sweets on the top there and then that eventually they
Speaker 1: realized the moment they started got anything that was near
Speaker 1: You were just putting.
Speaker 2: Kid with pocketsful and you know what.
Speaker 1: About type two diabetes? All right, so this morning and
Speaker 1: give us a call. Don't name the business, right, I
Speaker 1: don't want anyone getting in trouble or drops to anyone.
Speaker 1: But do you remember, do you still know miserable shop owners?
Speaker 1: There are some, not all of them, some there were
Speaker 1: some really joyful ones. What is it about the people
Speaker 1: that work in post offices?
Speaker 2: The one near us they hate?
Speaker 1: They hate people and parcels the two piece? All right?
Speaker 1: Don't name the business, described the shop and just how
Speaker 1: miserable they are. Great story here from Nigel Christians. A
Speaker 1: kid I went to time zone in Philip Island, asked
Speaker 1: for change for a five dollars in one dollar coins.
Speaker 1: The guy was kind of under the pump, took my
Speaker 1: five bucks anyway, returned it with a huge, slurpy sized
Speaker 1: cup full of one dollars probably about one hundreds worth
Speaker 1: one hundred dollars in coins. He gave it to me
Speaker 1: and then continued rushing around served people. Mem My mate
Speaker 1: slowly walked out and head down the street with our loot.
Speaker 1: He chased me down the road, snatched the one hundred
Speaker 1: dollars slope cup back and said, that's a test of character, boys,
Speaker 1: and you failed. I think about this most days. That
Speaker 1: is the equivalent of you lose Charlie. Good day, sir.
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