Trade

[shermarama]

Today I am wearing combats rolled up into shorts, and a t-shirt with a big Tribute (as in the St. Austell beer, though that never stops me singing Tenacious D when I drink it) logo on the front from last year's GBBF. And that's the second time this week this outfit has got me trade discount. Once at the timber merchant's at the bottom of the street buying wood filler, and once at the glazing shop round the corner buying glass. Do I look sufficiently like an ex- or occasional musician to look like one of Brighton's huge crew of tradesmen that are doing this to fund their next album, then? 

I'm going to Comet to buy a freezer next. I bet it doesn't work there. 

Comments

[friend-of-tofu.livejournal.com]

Oh, go you! That's awesome :-)

[shermarama]

I'm still uncertain what to think about it myself, other than that I must be radiating butch at the minute. I'm not asking for trade discount, I just look at the invoice and find out they've assumed...

[blue-mai.livejournal.com]

while looking like you might plausibly be trade is pretty much prerequisite (build and clothing), i think turning up in working hours also helps.

[shermarama]

*grins* Once was Saturday morning, and once was at about 4.45 when they close at 5...

[blue-mai.livejournal.com]

oh well. just on looks then... or did you engage in some chit chat about building stuff? I mean, most people don't buy glass. They get other people to make frames, with glass in, and install it for them. Most people do buy wood filler, however occasional their DIY efforts, so dunno about that. What are you using the glass for by the way?

[shermarama]

Not really chit-chat, no. A bit about the glass and relative prices and weights of nice etched stuff vs. relatively much cheaper moulded-frosting glass. The glass in both sashes of my bathroom window is cracked, and the putty on the frames has about two thirds gone, and the outside is being redecorated at the back this summer, so I'm taking the opportunity to dismantle the window and generally refurbish it. I've taken sash windows to bits before but not done anything with the glass itself, but it looks fairly straightforward, and this is the smallest window in the place so a good place to start. There are a lot of sash windows in Brighton, and they're sort of designed to be DIY refurbishable, certainly compared to yer modern things.

[friend-of-tofu.livejournal.com]

Well, don't knock it if they're doing you a favour!

I would give, ooh, my little toes, at least, to be able to do butch that well...

[pleiadeslion.livejournal.com]

I met you... at Ewan's party, yeah?

[shermarama]

If you mean his party the other week then no, I wasn't there, I don't live in London any more. Although I know him through tube walking as well as other things and we may have met at some point in the past, but I'm not sure.

I have friended you right now on the basis of friend_of_tofu's link to Homo Emo and a flip through the public bits of your journal, I hope you don't mind...

[pleiadeslion.livejournal.com]

Haha :D No that's totally fine, I'll add you back... the private parts of my journal are considerably more boring, I'm afraid.