Trolley 235

Two trolleys captured in the passage, snapped from a distance because the bright sunlight was making things a bit difficult. With interesting pixel effects on the screen of my laptop, particularly around the trolleys and the slats of the seat in front.

One trolley from Waitrose, the other from M&S, wheeled as one, so scored as one. No problem wheeling them together, despite their being slightly different sizes.

The young man, not visible left, who waited while I snapped, was very puzzled by the whole business and so I tried to explain to him that it was a pensioner's version of trainspotting. He did not look terribly convinced, so I went on to observe that it was wasteful to leave expensive bits of equipment lying around the streets of Epsom. He did not look terribly convinced that trolleys were expensive either and did not believe that they might cost £100 or more. I suppose that was as far as he was concerned they were things left lying around supermarkets and so without value. I saw little point in trying to explain that the cost of replacing all the lost trolleys got added to the price of his fish fingers.

I was reminded of the chap in TB who could not or would not see that cash points were expensive bits of equipment too, bits of equipment which had to be paid for, one way or another. And given the current custom that banks no longer levy transaction charges, at least not on personal accounts, they either had to charge for cash at the point of delivery or to reduce the rate of interest payable on deposits. Something had to give. While my chap was quite firm that it was his money and it was quite wrong for the bank to charge him for either keeping it or letting him get at it.

All of which is clearly saying something about the standard of education in our sink schools. Perhaps Europe will be better off without us and our continual moaning.

Reference 1: https://www.equip4work.co.uk/. The price here for something which looks similar is around £150, including VAT.