Loo seat

Tell me more about geriatric discount!

Mary

B & Q do 10% off on Wednesdays for over 60s. You have to bring in proof of age and they give you a discount card to present at the check out.

Keith

That is about the size of it. I needed some plaster boards and plaster so I took my Grandad shopping on a Wednesday to B&Q.

Adam

They are not that particular, they are promoting them at the moment.

If you look a bit decrepit they'll offer you one at the till. :-))

DG

And a bloody nightmare it is as well. Every time I have to go to B&Q on Wednesdays its packed full of coffin dodgers! Can't move for zimmer frames, walking sticks and badly dressed pensioners. Takes ages to get through the checkout.

Use the trade counter.

Adam

Thanks, I thought they'd stopped that. Worth considering ...

Mary

Yes - why is he going to B&Q anyway when he's a proper tradesman - who knows everything :-)

Mary

On Thu, 26 Jul 2007 20:23:38 +0100, "Mary Fisher" mused:

......yeah.

There is nothing to consider. 10% off is 10% off. I also got my Grandad to get assistance to help load the van as he suffers from arthritis and I had a hangover. The staff were very obliging.

Adam

But there's a separate trade counter (at least in my local B&Q).

Our local branch doesn't have a trade counter - only in the 'superstores', I think.

On 26 Jul 2007 20:43:27 GMT, "Bob Eager" mused:

The 'Warehouse' versions. ;)

Thats the second time you have said that - what gives you the idea I claim to 'know everthing'?

I went there tonight for 'one or two small items'. Came to 60 quid! They're no longer cheap, and they haven't as good a range. If I hadn't needed them in a hurry I'd have done better with screwfix or tlc.

I nust meander there next Wednesday with my bus pass and get a discount card.

Gets about, doesn't he, your grandad....

With B&Q it would be a positive advantage. It sounds like he would be very good at fending off the busybodies in the electrical and plumbing aisles who accost customers looking for something and when told insist that the customer needs something completely different and usually unsuitable.

The message from "The Medway Handyman" contains these words:

You're such an old grouch! Just think, with any luck, you'll be a pensioner yourself, one day!

He obviously doesn't know not to shop in B&Q on a Wednesday...

With respect, you don't know how he works. I'd surmise that he arrives at a job on a Wednesday, to find that he needs something that couldn't be foreseen.