Trying too hard at Christmas

24/12/2008 by admin.

The saddest Christmas scene at Booth’s supermarket on Christmas Eve:

It is busy with well-heeled shoppers. Most members of staff are wearing santa hats but one man, obviously the store dickhead, has gone too far. He is wearing a dress with mellons stuffed down the front to represent bossoms.

“Would you like to feel my melons?” he asks a woman supervisor. “I just thought we’d have a bit of fun!”

Her face drops and he begins to realise that not everyone thinks he’s great.

He is marched off to the manager’s office as she asks: “Well, have you had permission?”

We next see him replacing the melons on the fruit counter (thankfully, we had already chosen ours) and stomping off, muttering and seeking sympathy from his colleagues. Whether they felt it or not, I don’t know but it was a true David Brent moment and seeing someone so humiliated was really quite sad. 

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