Asda Whisk - I embarrassed myself...
I can never believe how cheap some of the electrical stuff in Asda is - I actually got a hair drier for about £1.94 recently...

Anyway, this story concerns my little sis - she's the complete opposite to me - organised, pretty domesticated - has cookery books (and uses them!) and she'd bought an electric whisk to use for baking. Yeah, it was cheapo, she was barely out of being a student - you know how it is...

The first time she'd used it, one of the whisk attachments had sheared off somehow, twisting around the other, with part of it flying off and nearly hitting one of her cats (Henry, the other one was called Stanley - she adored her cats!)

In a tiz she rings me up, upset about the near miss, and the fact she can't make her cake! So we go to the mega huge Asda together - she wants to just buy another one, but I'm a bossy big sister (our mum died when we were young, that's my excuse and I'm sticking to it!) so we have a quick look, but no cheapo whisks of the same make are there, only posh ones like Kenwood, and they won't replace with a more expensive mixer.

I drag her up to the 'customer' desk brandishing the weapon of mass self-destruction and explain the situation...

You know that sketch on Little Britain? "Computer says no"...yeah it was going like that...they were refusing refund/replacement, didn't want to know...I was getting more annoyed - I start going on about how it just missed taking poor Henry's eye out - and really laying it on...this goes on for about 5 minutes (I was really seeing red, I hate Asda, I hate being made to feel like they make me feel, I was REALLY hating their cheap shit that nearly took out my cat nephew!), and my sister was looking like she's hoping the ground would swallow her up (she often looks like that when I'm with her...ahem...)

Then this supervisor type hurries up to the desk, does one of those shouty whispers like "what's going on!" and reaches over to switch their tannoy system off!!

The whole debate had been transmitted all over the store - Ha HA!!

We walked away with a much posher mixer - safe for cats and cakes!

yay
( curvylittlegoth heard the voices in your head on, Fri 4 Jan 2008, 12:32, 3 replies)

You have Cat Nephews!
I only have a bog standard Human Nephew :(
(JasperSinister is offering two tickets to the gun show, Fri 4 Jan 2008, 12:39, closed)

only not any more
Henry got killed in a fight and Stan ran away.

Slimtallgoth is half man half cat tho - which is nice...
( curvylittlegoth heard the voices in your head on, Fri 4 Jan 2008, 13:53, closed)

Excellent!
I did the same for a friend once, although I convinced the staff that he was in fact, mentally retarded. Said friend had the brains to actually stand there gurning whilst I was doing this.
( jim_bob can herd cats., Fri 4 Jan 2008, 20:05, closed)