“Alright Smiley, I’d like a hundred penny chews please”

I admit, that’s not the start to a conversation you’d expect from a man my age. However, as I was on my way to visit some friends who have young children I thought that nothing would buy their affection quite like bag of penny chews. I can still remember the dizzying sugar rush after consuming one too many myself, the jittery response to so much sugar made me feel like I was developing early onset Parkinsons, though with hindsight, at 19 years old perhaps I should have been beyond cola bottles.

Anyway, I’d asked Smiley – the local corner shop owner – for one hundred penny chews.

“That’ll be two pounds please.” (more…)

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“Alright Smiley, I’d like a hundred penny chews please”

I admit, that’s not the start to a conversation you’d expect from a man my age. However, as I was on my way to visit some friends who have young children I thought that nothing would buy their affection quite like bag of penny chews. I can still remember the dizzying sugar rush after consuming one too many myself, the jittery response to so much sugar made me feel like I was developing early onset Parkinsons, though with hindsight, at 19 years old perhaps I should have been beyond cola bottles.

Anyway, I’d asked Smiley – the local corner shop owner – for one hundred penny chews.

“That’ll be two pounds please.” (more…)

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