The busiest Cobbler in the World
Having just bought a beautiful art deco house, a few things needed fixing. The floor boards as lived on, aged and full of secrets as they were, needed desperate attention.
Ripping up the first two boards revealed an old shoe box lying amongst the cobwebs and dust.
Treasure I thought, but no, just a safe keeping of old receipts. Why it was hidden- no idea but there amongst the pile was a shoe repair docket. From 1958! Now as luck would have it, the shop was still there, passed down from father to son through five generations.
Out of strong curiosity I decided to find out whether or not the shoes had been collected or not.
The old man looked hard and long through the glasses perched on the end of his nose, at the docket.
"Hang on I'll go and have a look". Four or five minutes past before he returned to tell me " they would be ready next Thursday"!
Stumble It!
Ripping up the first two boards revealed an old shoe box lying amongst the cobwebs and dust.
Treasure I thought, but no, just a safe keeping of old receipts. Why it was hidden- no idea but there amongst the pile was a shoe repair docket. From 1958! Now as luck would have it, the shop was still there, passed down from father to son through five generations.
Out of strong curiosity I decided to find out whether or not the shoes had been collected or not.
The old man looked hard and long through the glasses perched on the end of his nose, at the docket.
"Hang on I'll go and have a look". Four or five minutes past before he returned to tell me " they would be ready next Thursday"!
Labels: Shoes-repairs-cobblers-fun- humour-rumaging
Stumble It!
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