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@mespilus
Halfords never let you down in letting you down:
ordered two each
700 x 18-23
700 x 25-28
29 x 2.10-2.30.
Counter service agent, also the mechanic assembling a landscape A4's worth of bikes.
disappears into the back/storeroom, and emerges without the 18-23.
Terminal prints out full order,
refuses to allow amendments,
then prints a third receipt/invoice, very nearly now reaching to the floor.
As I was paying cash, and this was the credit terminal, we moved a metre across the counter,
and a fourth receipt was printed off at the cash terminal.
South Ruislip Halfords is about 20 minutes away by bike, the round trip and frankly poor Counter Cabaret took 58 minutes.
Let's hope the inner tubes are the rumoured upthread quality.