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At
least once a week a random customer will come in and ask me if this is a new
shop. Not so strange, you may think. Except this has been happening for almost
five years. The conversation often goes something like this:
“Are
you new here? You must be new here.”
“Not
really. We’ve been here for almost five years now.”
“No.
That can’t be right.”
“Er,
well yes, we have.”
“You
weren’t here the last time I was in town.”
“When
was that?”
“A
few months ago.”
“Um,
yes. We definitely were.”
“Oh.
But I haven’t seen you before.”
“You
haven’t? OK….. Well... er.... I’m sorry about that, but we were definitely here
then”
Sounding most put-out: “Oh.”
Awkward pause……and we’re off again:
