Monday, December 12, 2005

Badgers

True story: I was in a fancy dress shop at lunch time when this guy walks in. He goes up to the counter and says "Hi. Do you have any inflatable badgers?". The shop assistant replied "No, sorry we don't. I've never even seen an inflatable badger.". And then the first guy left, badgerless. If this hadn't been a true story there would have been a great punchline here.

I was left wondering two things:
1. What on earth did he want with an inflatable badger? Was he putting on a special blow-up version of Wind In The Willows?
2. Why didn't the assistant try to sell an alternative animal? Something more conventional, like a vole or an aardvark. I expect they have a backroom full of inflatable marmosets. He missed a good sale there.
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2 comments:

Sarum said...

And indeed, why inflatable? Would a soft-toy or actual stuffed badger have sufficed?

Many unanswered questions there are.

5:12 pm, December 13, 2005
Hel said...

how strange.
also way too much potential as an opportunity to make jokes about, er, other inflatable things!
maybe it was all a prank? maybe there was a hidden camera filming it all for one of those hidden camera shows they have on tv? could this be the return of jeremy beadle?

1:50 pm, December 24, 2005

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