Further to my blog Playing the old card, I’d just finished teaching my French student in Notting Hill and was on the bus to Westbourne Grove Tube station.
As I was about to get off the bus, I saw that there was an old lady (in her late 70s, I’d say, if not older) behind me with a shopping trolley, also wanting to get off.
I did my usual thing: got off, turned round, offered her my hand for support, then took hold of her shopping trolley. It was VERY heavy.
As we walked away from the bus stop, I commented on the weight of it, just for small talk socialising. (Yes, it is a sign of getting old when you strike up a conversation readily with strangers!)
She said, in a Slavic accent, “Oh, it’s all bottles of vodka!”
She then said, in a conspiratorial tone of voice, “You know the xx supermarket on Queensway? Well, it offers a discount on vodka on Friday evenings between 6pm and 10pm. Go and check it out! You can save a lot of money!”
I wonder what I might find with the next old lady I help to lift her shopping trolley off the bus…
(London, 2018)
Playing the old card
https://piccola-chinita.blogspot.com/2021/02/playing-old-card-london.html
You know you’re old when… blog series:
https://piccola-chinita.blogspot.com/2011/12/you-know-youre-getting-old-when.html
https://piccola-chinita.blogspot.com/2015/09/you-know-youre-getting-old-when-02.html
https://piccola-chinita.blogspot.com/2015/10/you-know-youre-getting-old-when-3-london.html
https://piccola-chinita.blogspot.com/2018/11/you-know-youre-getting-old-when-3-london.html
https://piccola-chinita.blogspot.com/2020/02/you-know-youre-getting-old-when-4-london.html
https://piccola-chinita.blogspot.com/2021/02/you-know-youre-getting-old-when-03.html
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