Serves me right?

[artichoke]

When young lads come to the door trying to sell me things, I hate to turn them away (even though I know they are probably run by bullying gangmasters driving them around and taking the cash....). So I succumbed yesterday and bought rather expensive pair of gardening gloves, £10, because at least I needed them. He was very grateful and I wished him luck as he left.

Put them on today, and they are two right hand gloves! Looked up the make, and it appears to be Finnish, by the look of the language ("Odin" 6-6190 HandyMan gloves) with no contact details.

Who would check a "pair of gloves" inside a plastic pack? I will in future.

All I can do is add them to my bag of odd gloves to be used up gradually....... When will I learn to be more hard hearted.....

[artichoke]

[caroline7758]

Oh dear! Hope you are right-handed- it's always those that wear out first with me.

[artichoke]

Good point, thanks, makes me feel slightly better.

I find gardening gloves are like socks, they never match, plus the irritating extra factor of where the thumb is. These looked rather cool until I actually used them.

[Nora42]

no good deed goes unpunished as the saying goes, but I do agree sometimes it is awful to turn those youngsters away it makes me feel cruel and smug.
Nora 42

[artichoke]

You put it so well....I have a large comfortable warm house on the High Street, and cannot bear their beseeching eyes as they stand in the rain/frost, trying to scratch some sort of living. Even if they are cheating me (but how could they know that they are selling something as bizarre as 2 right hand gloves...?) I would like to help them on their way.

[Nora42]

yes they probably don't know that they were packaged wrong but I always want to ask where they get their products from as they are often sub standard and not often cheap - they would be better off trying to sell products of more use - who uses yellow dusters these days?
Nora

[artichoke]

...or ironing board covers, nasty silvery sticky things that are supposed to reflect heat from below the shirt.....sigh

I am such a soft touch.

[Duke Ellington]

I bought a packet of see through dusters once!!

[ACE]

I have a sign on my gate

No Beggars, Hawkers or Lowlifes.
Politicians please use the back gate.

[Yorkshire Lass]

But do they take any notice, Ace  particularly the politicians?