Groggster

By Groggster

Model Fencing

....or should that be Fence Modelling? More of which later...

I had to head into town today to transfer some money from my savings account. I won't name my savings provider (but it rhymes with earwax - and their ears certainly seemed to be blocked to anything their customers are saying!) but I wasn't particularly looking forward to another encounter with their in branch staff as on my last visit a few months ago they almost went out of their way to be uncooperative to the point of rudeness.
I wanted to carry out exactly the same transaction for the same amount as on my previous visit a few months ago but was met with an almost instant refusal even though I had exactly the same paperwork as before and had proof that they had carried out the exact same transaction the last time.
I protested to the member of staff but she refused to budge and suggested I use their app (I don't have a smartphone), their online banking (I don't have an online account and don't want one) but that grudgingly she "would see what I could do" if I could provide my account card (they've never provided me with one). Clearly getting exasperated with me (shouldn't that have been the other way round?!) she then just gave me a phone number on a post-it note for their "savings team" (to source an account card or carry out the transfer over the phone) - was that not the representative of whom I was standing in front of at that precise second!! Then she just stared at me and said "thank you for your visit"! I muttered "thank you for nothing" under my breath and stormed angrily back out on to the street. AARGH!!! I'm definitely going to raise a complaint about their almost total lack of customer service.

By the time I met up with my brother I was still irritated, exasperated and really rather despondent so we decided to go for a 'Spoons breakfast and an early pint to try and lift my spirits and then attempt to get our blip images for the day.
My main image was taken outside one of the main department stores in the town that is currently closed for an extensive refurbishment and has this towering model based advertising hoarding outside surrounded by fencing and other building paraphernalia. I just liked the contrast between the glamorous poses of the models and the utilitarian metal fencing. My first extra was taken through a a gap in the structure of a lime green cherry picker parked in the front of the store - and surely every model wants their close-up too!
My last shot was captured just as we walked back to the car and although it has nothing whatsoever to do with the theme of the other two images it just made me smile (for the first time in the whole day) because it's not that often that you get the chance to get a rhyming image - a wheelbarrow arrow! :-)

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