Wednesday 28 February 2007

What's all this about?

OK, guess we should explain the title of this here blog thing. Basically this blog was created by two idiots,who have nothing better to do in their time at university other than go to Sainsburys and do pointless ideas like this. This blog unlike many others wasn't created to record the life of the individual writing, it was, however, created to document two individuals and their deaings with one man. This man, who for his own sake, and to prevent us getting sued for infringing certain legal issues, we shall call Cliff works at a local supermarket and is an unintentional comedic wonder.

The name Cliff is no accident. This wonderful man first came to our collective attention when we independently reached the conclusion that he resembled the character of Cliff in the classic 80's comedy 'Cheers'. From these humble beginnings our relationship with this man has blossomed into, well... a relationship. Of sorts. Once we knew there was a man at our local supermarket with something a little bit different, we made sure we kept an eye out for him; and if he was on a till, we would go to that queue- regardless of length. It became immediately clear that Cliff was a remarkable man in more ways than simply resembling a televisual postman. Even before he began to recognise us, he would treat us with a wide smile, and remark on various items of shopping. Over the next few weeks, he grew to recognise us, and, dare we say, enjoy our little visits. This feeling was entirely mutual; no matter what mood held us as we entered the supermarket, we would leave elated, smiling, laughing, and ready to spread joy to all. Transferring his friendliness, humour and sheer wonderment into words is no easy task. Examples of his remarks do not do complete justice to him. An exclamation of "waffles?!" or "cheese?" can still reduce us to helpless laughter. Perhaps over the coming weeks you will begin to understand. At this point it should be made clear that we are not stoners, stalkers, or starved for attention. Really. We are often bored, with time on our hands, and perhaps a little too fascinated with 'interesting' or 'eccentric' characters in our locale.

Expect frequent updates of our adventures with this man, plus more of the established backstory. Such classics as "naughty boy!", "steamed glasses!" and recurring japes over the amount of money we owe him. And possibly a photo! If you're lucky.