This tale of an M&S worker leaving it until December 24 to buy a discount Christmas dinner is going viral again – and it’s a feelgood festive classic
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I go to the till, expecting this to be the big reveal where it will actually end up costing me my entire month’s pay.
It costs 23 euro.
Now my only problem is that I have about 16 kg worth of food and I’ve arranged to meet my dad 2km away because Dundrum parking is extortion— Richy Craven (@RichyCraven) November 26, 2020
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There’s also no point of ringing him and asking him to come closer because my Dad comes home from work every day and puts his phone in the kitchen drawer & that’s where it stays until he leaves for work the next morning.
Does this defeat the purpose of a mobile?
Yes, yes it does— Richy Craven (@RichyCraven) November 26, 2020
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Anyway. I schlepp this bounty all the way to where we are supposed to meet and I see that he is literally pacing, at 11.00 Pm in December, outside his car.
He sees me and he looks like a husband waiting for his wife’s operation results.— Richy Craven (@RichyCraven) November 26, 2020
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When we went through the shopping bags in the boot of our Corolla I swear I got some inkling of what it must be like to win Wimbledon and then do that thing where you climb the stands to hug your parents.
— Richy Craven (@RichyCraven) November 26, 2020
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He was instantly like “Rich, this is too much. How much did you spend? The whole idea is that this was supposed to cost less!”
I showed him the receipt and we ended up driving home blasting Springsteen the whole way.— Richy Craven (@RichyCraven) November 26, 2020
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Yes, Dad had to start prepping and cooking a turkey at 11.30 the night before but the next day we ate like Kings.
Or at the very least, people from Dalkey.— Richy Craven (@RichyCraven) November 26, 2020
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Anyways, the food was great and the best thing was thatdad made a big deal about me providing it.
Any time someone said they liked something he’d give me an elbow in the ribs.
By the end of the dinner you’d have sworn I’d taken the job as some sort of Oceans 11-style long-con— Richy Craven (@RichyCraven) November 26, 2020
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Anyways, this Christmas is probably going to be a bit shit in comparison so it was nice to reminisce about a better one.
Also, I got a Creative Zen MP3 player which I’m still convinced is the pinnacle of music technology.— Richy Craven (@RichyCraven) November 26, 2020
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Reading over this, we come across a bit like the Cratchetts.
We weren’t needy or anything. We just couldn’t turn down the opportunity for cost-price pork crackling.— Richy Craven (@RichyCraven) November 26, 2020
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Never forget pic.twitter.com/0nnmRMkWEb
— Richy Craven (@RichyCraven) November 27, 2020
And if you enjoyed that, Richy has another M&S Christmas retail story (from 2021) that you can follow by clicking through on this tweet.
So I have another Christmassy M&S story.
— Richy Craven (@RichyCraven) December 1, 2021
Source: Twitter/X/josefoshea and Richy Craven.
Image via M&S