I've just spent a thoroughly demoralising hour trying to buy clothes on Oxford Street, I should really have learned by now that they just don't have stuff in my size, but I'm always an optimist... The really frustrating bit was trying to find a pair of size twelve shoes in M & S. They have this little system where the top shelves are labelled 'Sizes 11-12', the next shelf down is labelled 'Sizes 9-10' and so on, this is in departure to their usual strategy of putting the largest clothes on the lowest shelf - thus making all the big people bend right over to search through them, which is a stupid way round if you think about it. Anyway, I wandered into the shoe department and was delighted to see that all the top shelves were full - "Plenty to choose from!" I thought to myself. However, fifteen minutes of wandering round examining all the shoes on the top shelf revealed that all those shoes on the '11-12' shelf were mostly size 10, with a few 11s and one pair of ugly (brown) 12s. If they'd just organised the shoes liked they claimed I could have saved quarter of an hour of becoming increasingly annoyed (I may even have devoted that time to buying more stuff). To compensate I had to leave the shop immediately and spend an hour wandering round bookshops instead...
Oh, and afterwards I
bought all my clothes online...
