This Is This

I bought some petrol for the car today. I had a fiver on me, so I wanted to put five pounds in. I overshot it and ended up with £5.09. Bugger.

I went in the shop and handed over my card to a man in his mid 40s, well dressed and of Middle Eastern descent (xenophobe-aphobes bear with me, this is relevant).

“What pump please?”

“I don’t know, that one.” I pointed to my car, the only one in the service station.

“Five oh nine.” He pushed the receipt towards and pen towards me.

Then he started belting out a tune in Arabic rai music style, complete
with wiggle and hand movements, singing “OH NINE OH NINE OH NINE! OH NINE OH NINE OH NINE!”

I chuckled away as I signed and handed back the reciept.

“Have a good day today,” he said.

A little silliness goes a long way.

Footnotes:
A xenophobe-aphobe is a person who is so afraid of themselves or anyone else appearing racist that they any mention of someone’s ethnic origin is a damning indictment of our world and and encitement to riot. Largely wankers, they have too much time on their hands and are noted for worrying about what the words of decent unbiased people infer rather than what they mean. These are just my opinions. If you don’t like them, I have others.

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