WEBVTT - MINI: Miserable Shop Keepers

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<v Speaker 1>First, yeah, welcome friends to the Christian O'Connell show podcast.

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<v Speaker 1>Some shop owners are just miserable, right, they just are,

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<v Speaker 1>you know, and I get it. Maybe that that the

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<v Speaker 1>choices in life, that is what they're the life they

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<v Speaker 1>had imagined for themselves. However, there's no need to take

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<v Speaker 1>it out on us. We just want to come in

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<v Speaker 1>the shop, buy whatever you've got there and go. You know,

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<v Speaker 1>there are some people there. He used to be a

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<v Speaker 1>party shop right back in England and I would always

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<v Speaker 1>have to go in twice a year to get balloons

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<v Speaker 1>for the girls when they were younger for their birthday parties.

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<v Speaker 2>Right, and I think running a party shop is someone

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<v Speaker 2>celebratory chack.

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<v Speaker 1>It was the miserbless man. Right. First of all, I

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<v Speaker 1>write a stank of nicotine in there, right where he

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<v Speaker 1>was obviously hated so much. Right, he was obviously just

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<v Speaker 1>finishing a cigarette, bloody or kids coming off and it

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<v Speaker 1>would never put the cigarette out, even though you know

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<v Speaker 1>it's a legal smoke indoors. You could tell he was

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<v Speaker 1>just having a cigarette. More kids coming in this party shop, right,

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<v Speaker 1>and every one Sunday I had to go in as

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<v Speaker 1>pre arranged. She was going to open up a bit

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<v Speaker 1>early at nine to pick up thirty helium balloons and

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<v Speaker 1>a and a unicorn. And I went in there and

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<v Speaker 1>I had to make small talk with this guy, and

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<v Speaker 1>he was aggressively moody, right, And I said, this just

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<v Speaker 1>been quite a nice thing. I had a nice life

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<v Speaker 1>to do this. And he went not particularly as he

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<v Speaker 1>was thinking, as he was a pink cunicorn that looks

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<v Speaker 1>so innocent being born into the sad, brutal world. I'm

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<v Speaker 1>man there reaking of nicotine, not particularly, not as.

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<v Speaker 2>Good as you think with.

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<v Speaker 1>This big old existential sire as well, particularly filling up

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<v Speaker 1>this pink unicorn bringing it to life. I thought, what

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<v Speaker 1>a horrible existence, being trapped in a party shop with

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<v Speaker 1>his kind of internal processes going on, where he just

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<v Speaker 1>hated life.

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<v Speaker 2>The miserable shopkeeper for us was next door to our school,

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<v Speaker 2>was a service station, so of course you're gonna get

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<v Speaker 2>kids every day going buy chocolates and that sort of thing.

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<v Speaker 2>He hated children, set set up, move out, so he

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<v Speaker 2>put all every day you'd have a different type of

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<v Speaker 2>a four printed piece of paper with new rules up there.

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<v Speaker 1>Yeah, no more than two kids.

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<v Speaker 2>Everybody had to go in alone. So one student at

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<v Speaker 2>a time. Your backpack had to remain outside the store,

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<v Speaker 2>so you couldn't take your bag in, and you had

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<v Speaker 2>to remain in view at all times. You couldn't go

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<v Speaker 2>anywhere with obscure your view from the front counter. He

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<v Speaker 2>said to me once and then I didn't do anything wrong.

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<v Speaker 2>He looked at me and said, I know what you did. Wow,

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<v Speaker 2>we has to put the fear of.

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<v Speaker 1>God in you, Jesus. Was it an old guy he

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<v Speaker 1>was yet?

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<v Speaker 2>No, he was like thirty.

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<v Speaker 1>There was a milk bar where we grew up right,

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<v Speaker 1>and it was an elderly couple that ran it. And

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<v Speaker 1>there again psychos. They hated kids. And I've fod saying,

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<v Speaker 1>you know what, you've been in the game too long. Okay,

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<v Speaker 1>if you're standing in your sixties selling sweets to kids

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<v Speaker 1>who come in and nick half of them, I get it.

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<v Speaker 1>It would drive me nuts after like forty years, because

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<v Speaker 1>kids are after that half the stock has been nicked,

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<v Speaker 1>isn't it? And it was years ago. This is when

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<v Speaker 1>j remember Patsy when they used to have to get

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<v Speaker 1>a ladder and then there were sweets up on top

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<v Speaker 1>shelves and like big jars, so you'd always go in

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<v Speaker 1>and this trick only ever worked once. Go oh the

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<v Speaker 1>sweets on the top there and then that eventually they

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<v Speaker 1>realized the moment they started got anything that was near

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<v Speaker 1>You were just putting.

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<v Speaker 2>Kid with pocketsful and you know what.

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<v Speaker 1>About type two diabetes? All right, so this morning and

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<v Speaker 1>give us a call. Don't name the business, right, I

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<v Speaker 1>don't want anyone getting in trouble or drops to anyone.

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<v Speaker 1>But do you remember, do you still know miserable shop owners?

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<v Speaker 1>There are some, not all of them, some there were

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<v Speaker 1>some really joyful ones. What is it about the people

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<v Speaker 1>that work in post offices?

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<v Speaker 2>The one near us they hate?

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<v Speaker 1>They hate people and parcels the two piece? All right?

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<v Speaker 1>Don't name the business, described the shop and just how

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<v Speaker 1>miserable they are. Great story here from Nigel Christians. A

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<v Speaker 1>kid I went to time zone in Philip Island, asked

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<v Speaker 1>for change for a five dollars in one dollar coins.

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<v Speaker 1>The guy was kind of under the pump, took my

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<v Speaker 1>five bucks anyway, returned it with a huge, slurpy sized

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<v Speaker 1>cup full of one dollars probably about one hundreds worth

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<v Speaker 1>one hundred dollars in coins. He gave it to me

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<v Speaker 1>and then continued rushing around served people. Mem My mate

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<v Speaker 1>slowly walked out and head down the street with our loot.

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<v Speaker 1>He chased me down the road, snatched the one hundred

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<v Speaker 1>dollars slope cup back and said, that's a test of character, boys,

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<v Speaker 1>and you failed. I think about this most days. That

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<v Speaker 1>is the equivalent of you lose Charlie. Good day, sir.

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<v Speaker 1>Welcome to the Christian No Common Show podcast