And now, a sillier post.
Today at work, Heather (my coworker at The Whale Museum) and I decided that there should be a World Diversity Toilet. Any time you get tired of someone, just flush them down the WDT and send them to another part of the world! That way we can mix up our peoples allll over the place
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Strip clubs...I only went into one and from what I can gather it's mainly sexy outfits and underpants and if you want to see nakedness you pay for it. Porn stores.... They're around but if you ask where they are no one will tell you. Porn is a bit of a stuffy issue there.
Poundsavers....our equivilant to the 99cent store.
Toilet paper....the stuff with the puppies on it is the BEST. And sometimes they give you little presents when you buy a 12+pack :)
Holidays are a big thing. Wayyy more holidays than here. I had a hard time getting used to the work ethic there. I 'worked too hard'. My typical day at work went thus: Morning prep: 7-8am Open@8 1st tea around 10. 2nd tea around 12 Lunch around 2. 3rd tea around 4...close shop at 6...home...pub by 9. Drinking till 12 (bars close at midnight). Home by 2am. lather rinse repeat.
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Think that rain sequence in the movie Forrest Gump. It'd rain and rain and rain and rain and then suddenly it'd stop. And it's windy as hell there. WINDY WINDY WINDY hence the suggestion for scarves, 2 pairs of mittens, long underwear hats.... I never had much use for an umbrella so if you're like me....hats. lots and lots of hats. Or a jacket with a big hood. And still have an umbrella cos sometimes the rain is weird and comes sideways or up from the bottom.
Kids are super cute and curious there and they have filthy little dirty mouths. I've had rocks thrown at me before so I just pick rocks up and throw em back. Little fuckers. It can be like kid mafia sometimes but just keep walking. When in doubt just keep walking. Don't look anyone in the eye especially if you get scared or pestered by drunks.
If you feel unsafe at all you can always find and ask to walk with couples. I would walk home from my 2nd job at the pub at 1-3am right up night club alley where drunk scary people liked to hang out and I learned that if it was one of those nights it was safe to find a couple and ask if you can walk a ways with them. I've never been told no and in most cases they insist and are the first to ask you to join them for safety.
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Tipping...non existent. Don't bother. You'll just look more like a tourist. In bars...it's good to tip if you've got a large group or if you're really nice....you can say "have one for yourself" which means the bartender can take whatever they drink in monetary equivilent from your change. I drank stella so I would tip myself 3-4quid. Sometimes the bartender will just take a tip from your change anyway so if you catch that you can get bitchy and ask for your change. And then go to another till next round if you're at a busy bar.
Customer service we're accoustomed to here...non existent...just get used to waiting a lot. Lots and lots and lots and lots of lines for everything. It's just the way things are....
More questions? I'm just shooting whatever comes to my head....
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