Today I was hoping to go hit the sales and shop for some bargins,
however I was deeply dissapointed that most of the stores were closed
due tue Boxing day beeing national holliday. Hmm, the previous two
christmasses I spent in the UK, all shops were open on boxing day as
early as 5 am. I guess when the coorporations decide that its better
to close the store than have a early sale, you can say that the
society is entering the socialistic era and the well beeing of the
employee is before the proft.
I was really surprised to see signs posted all over Woolworths which
by the way is gone bancrupt and is closing down, saying the Woolworths
will not tolerate any abuse, verbal or physical, towards is employees.
I wander what have I missed in the UK in the last year.
After luch, we went to the local theater to see the Christmass panto.
Panto is a play that actively involves the audience and its quite
satirical. If you want clearer definition, please google it.
The thing that strike me as odd was the fact that it began on time,
and that during the entire performance not a single cell phone rang
and noone tried to do any bussiness deals during the play. I guess we
have a lot to do.
The second thing I learned about Englad is that there is no such thing
as jaywalking and that you can cross the street whenever you like.
This is a first hand info from my brother in law who is a policeman so
please don't try to prove me wrong. Even with all these pedestrians
crossing wherever they want, the Brits still have smooth trafic.
When I asked my brother in law whose fault is it if a pedestrian gets
hit by a car and killes he said that a full investigation is launches
to determine who's fault it is.
My oppinion is that in the UK you have a greater chance of beeing hit
by a car when you exit yours or any house onto the street rather than
crossing a bussy intersection. I've been here for 6 days and I still
must learn that cars are coming from the oposite direction.
My cousins got Nintendo Wii for christmass. That thing is great. I
think I'm gonna try to smuggle one across the border one of those.
Johnyy said he got a Wii board stashed upstairs so I'm sure we'll have
a skiing match one of these days.
The evening will continue with drinking British wine, which I must say
is lot more potent than the domestic one.
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Petar od Blackberry