Our Local Romanian

[mrs_overall]

As far as I am aware, we have just one Romanian woman in our small town and guess what....she sells the Big Issue.
Yesterday I was browsing in a shop when she came in and began chatting to the shop owner. They were both moaning at the cost of the fees at the private school their kids go to. It turns out she has four kids at the said school.
I think I followed the wrong career path!

[Svejk]

You mustn't say anything against immigrants on AB, MrsO. The SJW's will be after you. Anyway, she might have had 3 jobs(say, begging and pick-pocketing, as well)

[douglas9401]

The Big Issue was set up to give homeless folk something to do and help them get back on their feet.
I find it hard to believe that the founding principles are being adhered to if someone with four kids at a private school is selling it.
She may just have been chatting as a distraction whilst other things were going on.

[1ozzy]

So what career path did you follow Mrs.O?
Just so I don't make the same mistake ;-)

[1ozzy]

Apart from wearing "marigolds" and slapping people that annoy you with a handbag full of bricks, of course.

[aelmpvw]

international supermodel ozzy, what planet have you been on? :-)

[1ozzy]

My own little planet Aelmpvw.
But I do try to keep a breast, of things.

[sandyRoe]

Perhaps the locals are afraid of her and did deep into their purses and wallets when she offers a Big Issue. They'll remember an early unauthorised incomer who landed in Whitby. Dracula was from Romania/Transylvania, wasn't he?

[-Talbot-]

Maybe she was just being sarcastic?

[Sipowicz]

"Listen to them, the children of the night, what music they make!"

[ummmm]

Must have been Talbot. There's no way she could send 4 kids to private school by selling the big issue, especially in a small village.

[Retrochic]

wow she would have to sell 48,000 copies a year (that's 131 every day of the year) just for the fees for school -I'm guessing around £15K per child per year). At least you can't accuse her of coming over here just for Benefits.

[murraymints]

perhaps she was just talking big ?

[Ann]

//She may just have been chatting as a distraction whilst other things were going on//

Totally agree Douglas. This happened to my elderly Mum a few years ago, two Romanian Big issue sellers asked her about the sizing of English clothes and being the helpful person she was, tried the skirt up against herself to show the length etc and put her bag on the floor for a couple of seconds right at her feet. When she left the shop she found her pension she had just withdrawn from the post office opposite had been taken in her pension wallet. It was all captured on CCTV but they never sold Big Issues in our town again and the police said they didn't get them - it happens all the time apparently.

[mrs_overall]

Murray, she wasn't talking big - it was obvious the two women knew each other through their kids being at the same school.....and being a nosey git I casually quizzed the shop owner after the Romanian woman had left.

I too understood that the Big Issue could only be sold by the homeless.

Oz, in answer to your question - international supermodel, philanthropist and all round good egg

[1ozzy]

// international supermodel, philanthropist and all round good egg//

I like my eggs runny ;-)

[murraymints]

I think big issue can be sold by anyone that has at one time been homeless

[mrs_overall]

Murray...I think I qualify! There was one time when we sold a house and there was a delay in completing on the new one, and we had to stay with friends for 3 nights as we were homeless!
Where do I sign up?

[murraymints]

lol xx you can always kip down in my shed !

[mrs_overall]

Awwww, thank you.....as long as you don't use it as a store for all your bottles of broon.
Talking of broon, I was idly wondering this morning why is it I love Branston pickle but loathe broon?

[murraymints]

broon rools ok !