Dan Fixes Coin-OpsI'm getting on a plane to go and visit my family in England tomorrow, which is nice :)
But I had to go clothes shopping, boooooo
Some people buy clothes for fun. I buy clothes when I look at myself and go "Gah shite, me bloody clothes have all worn out ffs" and tbh buying more clothes is seldom, like, an exciting or interesting affair
My idea: CLOTHES SHOP FOR DADS
You roll up at the facility, drive over to the JEANS hut. Dinnerlady-type in her wee hole says "What size luv," you go "thirrehfourthirrehtwoluv" while making a mental note to go easy on the pies so you can get back to 32/32, she goes "Right you are luv, tenner alright?" and chucks you a bin bag full of dead blokes' jeans that aren't too far gone and you give her a tenner and you're done, move on. T-shirts next.
T-shirts are more complicated, your jeans were the simple one to ease you into it. Pull round to a bloke eating a pasty. He asks "Size," you go "Medium or large depending y'know," he nods, "You wanting colour, drab, black or mixup?" you think about it a moment and go aye, go on then, "Mix it up mate, colours and drab," he goes "Plain or wi' shite on, plain's two quid extra," you're sure as hell not gonna advertise some bugger else's T-shirt business on your body, so you give him twelve quid and he hands you Bin Bag 2.
There's a pub on-premises that'll do you some chips or a pasty and you can watch the JCB sorting out the clothes while you drink your pint and furtle through your bags to see what you've bought.
It'd be brilliant. Buying clothes would have nae stress at all, plus if you ended up wearing shite and looking a bit of a muppet you could just go "Aye well it were in the bag weren't it" and everybody'd nod and go aye, fair do's
tim@ifixcoinops this has significant similarities with my clothes shopping process.
If I have 5 minutes spare and I see an op-shop (aka thrift shop, charity shop etc depending on local dialect), I pop in and grab whatever long-sleeved checked button-down shirts they have in kind-of-medium-large. Hard to go wrong as long as it has a phone pocket and isn't made of the stuff that creases when you look at it funny.
Pants are harder because I have a fat arse. But they last forever and you only need a few pairs. Longer visit to the op shop required for them.
That's pretty much what I wear every day. If my checked shirt is tucked in, I'm dressed up. If it's out, I'm off the clock.
When my shirt rack gets a bit full, I take an armful back to the oppy. It's basically a rental service.
There have been times when I've got home with a new checked shirt and realised it's one that I used to own and took back last visit.
If I have 5 minutes spare and I see an op-shop (aka thrift shop, charity shop etc depending on local dialect), I pop in and grab whatever long-sleeved checked button-down shirts they have in kind-of-medium-large. Hard to go wrong as long as it has a phone pocket and isn't made of the stuff that creases when you look at it funny.
Pants are harder because I have a fat arse. But they last forever and you only need a few pairs. Longer visit to the op shop required for them.
That's pretty much what I wear every day. If my checked shirt is tucked in, I'm dressed up. If it's out, I'm off the clock.
When my shirt rack gets a bit full, I take an armful back to the oppy. It's basically a rental service.
There have been times when I've got home with a new checked shirt and realised it's one that I used to own and took back last visit.
Justin Farrimond@timpaton @ifixcoinops 😆 😆 😆
Mark Burton