Back in my schooldays, I had a saturday job in a Watford department store where I attended the needs of the town's DIY-ers. Many of the staff there were 'resting' actors - the local theatre was run by Jimmy Perry, who was later to co-write Dad's Army, Allo Allo and It Ain't Half Hot Mum - and the level of dodgy banter around the place was considerable. Indeed, Are You being Served? was very largely based on memories of that store. (We had our very own Captain Peacock, pinstripe suit, moustache and carnation buttonhole, the full works.) There were Mrs Slocombes in every department.
So when Janet Mullen (she of Dr Finlay's Casebook) confided in me that a lady had come up to her one day in haberdashery, asking where she could get felt?, she had been less than professional in her response. We weren't supposed to giggle at the customers, but fortunately this one was prepared to make an exception for her because she was famous. Happy days.
BJ
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Anyone go back that far? A few of us left I believe.
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