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Old 10-12-2016, 11:19 PM #1
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Default Are you a regular in shops/pubs etc?

Like the staff know your name and order etc?

Starbucks know my name and order as soon as I walk in as i go there once or twice a week
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It's worse when a takeaway place recognises you over the phone and you've never met them.

(Indian accent) Oh hello Mr Marsh from [insert address here] what can we do for you?
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This sounds like the start of a Clint Eastwood movie.
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Me and smallest boy LT spent 20 mins today in the papershop talking football. Thankfully all my shops are local Scottish
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One of my village's pubs and kebab shop yeah ha
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I know quite a few people who own and work in shops and restaurants where i live from going into them over the years but it's only a small town
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Nope, I tend to go to different places all the time.
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Greggs at work lmao

I was off for two weeks and I went in on Monday and she was like "hello stranger! where have you been?"
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I was off for two weeks and I went in on Monday and she was like "hello stranger! where have you been?"
Talk about fat shaming, the bitch.

You should have just said you ate elsewhere.
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i was in nero's but i stopped going as often so they forgot me
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In my corner shop and the local bakery, and some of the shop assistants in Sainsburys, they don't know my name though this is London we have stereotypes to uphold
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Yes our local fish and chips and Chinese are sick of us/love us cause they gave us extra bag of veggie spring rolls or they messed up...
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