An Everyday Story Of Yorkshire Folk......

[askyourgran]

About a month ago I went shopping with my daughter and Gdaughter, who likes to look around Primark. While we walked around I picked up two packs of bed socks (2 pr of bedsocks per pack) that would do for stocking fillers. When I got home I took them out of the huge paper carrier bag and put them with some other presents to wrap in a BHS bag. Yesterday I took out the various small gifts to sort out, to find the socks still had the security tags left on them. I explained to OH that I'd left the receipt in the Primark bag and binned it, but I would ring up Primark and ask what to do. He went bonkers said they'd think I'd stolen them, (apart from all this they had a Dorothy Perkins label on the socks showing the price, in the BHS bag!) So I'm stuck with four pairs of bed socks with security tags on and no receipt. Now comes the Victor Meldrew #ll moment. OH goes to the shed comes back with pincers, a hammer and a chisel and sets to with one pack of socks. He got it off! I now have two pairs of socks one with a great hole in the top of one sock and the other with no toes in the other pair. Fortunately he stopped there, now I only have 2 pairs of bedsocks with a security tag on. Any suggestions?

[humbersloop]

yes,ayg

in future remember you can allus tell a yorkshireman but you can't tell 'im much

gets souwester

[gness]

I have no idea, Gran....but you've made me laugh....☺☺☺

[237SJ]

I`ve taken stuff back to shops in the States (Old Navy which is a bit like Primark) because they have left security tags on. They were completely understanding and removed the tags. I would go back to Primark. It was their mistake and a shoplifter wouldn`t be so brazen as to go back with stolen goods.

[anneasquith]

sent OH back to the shed, and lock him in.

[tonyav]

Yeah, those security tags are buggars to get off.

[askyourgran]

Ann that's the best answer so far!

[paddywak]

No help at all aog but I was in Tesco the other day and noticed my niece who is a manageress in conversation with the police. She told me latter that they'd got a guy in to fix the security tag removal devices to lengths of securing wire.He'd been bent over fastening one end and somebody walked off with two of the new devices.

[seekeerz]

Knit some, like I'm doing now xx

[phleb]

I would go back and buy another 2 pairs then with that reciept take the others back to have tag removed then go back and exchange the extra pairs for something else.

[mallyh]

can't you get the bag from bin or was it dustbin day

[lady-janine]

are you gness in disguise?

[choux]

gran, may I ask what you have bought your OH for his present?

(I hope it is a 'good' un, lol)

[DTCwordfan]

that's easy, choux, she's got him security tags.

[askyourgran]

Thanks for your suggestions, I've never knitted socks or gloves before, and certainly not in time for Christmas seekeerz. Alas the bin men had already been before I started wrapping up. The second part of this saga went much better, MrAsk cut through the tag with some scissors without damaging the second pack of socks at all, so he has redeemed himself. I've sewn up the partly demolished pairs to use for myself. The spare sets of security tags that I have acquired are going to be wrapped in christmas paper for the man himself as suggested. The moral of this story is.... it doesn't take a sledgehammer to crack a security tag, but it helps to crack a pair of nuts....

[anneasquith]

is he still in the shed ?

[gness]

"Crack a pair of nuts"!!!! Oh Gran...you didn't did you?....☺

[tonyav]

Oh gawd, Tony winces.

[askyourgran]

He's locked himself in ann, I have the sledgehammer. On second thoughts I need him to take me to a hospital appointment on Tuesday.. perhaps i ought to let him come back in.