Popped into B & Q today, hoping to buy a plywood off-cut (to make a bird-table for son Chas’s garden). I went to a guy busy cutting wood to customers’ requirements to see if he could help me. I didn’t need a whole sheet, just something about 15x20cm. He grimaced and said he’d been told not to sell off-cuts any more; they had to go into the skip round the back. That just seemed so wasteful.
I gave him a sob story about all the songbirds that would starve to death if I didn’t get my bird-table finished, and that did the trick. He gave me what I needed - no charge - and even escorted me through the checkout. So a big thank-you to the guy in B & Q… and a big raspberry to B & Q management…
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