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'ROSE DOG

 

 

There's a better class of shopper up at Waitrose

(the 'shibboleth' of haute cuisine's 'quisites.)

Parking bulbous battle-wagons all akimbo;

Their trolleying, my poor oik-brain, defeats.

Gentility demands delicatessen,

My cheese-encounter verifies the rule:

She beat me as a Bwana beats a native

Shouting: "Serving girl - serve me, and not that fool!"

So I waited, out of turn, and sorts, in tandem

Just glad I had no cap I didn't doff,

I took my cheese - my spleen - my lowly status

And sought my little car - a lot cheesed off.

 

There's a better class of shopper up at Wai'rose

They're all top dogs with breeding to a 'T'

But that old dog's noblesse did no obliging,

The bitch just cocked her leg, and peed on me. 

◄ THE GREAT UNWASHED

HELL MANNED ►

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Gus Jonsson

Sat 17th Oct 2009 18:35

Very well done Barry...great lines...


Incidently... I had a dog like that once.... he had pups!
Gus

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Cate Greenlees

Fri 16th Oct 2009 17:17

Clever and amusing.
Cate xx

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Cynthia Buell Thomas

Fri 16th Oct 2009 13:37

Well-turned and highly entertaining. You are just mocking the 'lower class' /'upper class' attitudes, aren't you?

<Deleted User> (5646)

Fri 16th Oct 2009 11:30

This reminds me of the bread queue at Christmas. ha ha.
There's at least one in every store. Believe me it's not confined to Waitrose!

Good one Barrie,
Janet.x

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Tommy Carroll

Thu 15th Oct 2009 22:24

This is good stuff:
angry enough
to let the humour know
it's in a queue!

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