I want to nominate Go Fixings as a business I admire.
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Why? I hear you ask. Well I'll tell you.
Go Fixings sell every type of nut bolt washer and screw imaginable, usually in large quantities to tradesmen.
When I go in there I know beyond a shadow of doubt that I'm more trouble than I'm worth, but they still do everything the can to help me.
Take today for instance. This was my shopping list.
Two rawl bolts about as thick as my little finger, well I don't really want rawl bolts, I want those bolts that look like rawl bolts but instead of a bolt they have a piece of threaded rod that you can put a nut on.
The man behind the counter measures my little finger then walks down one of several isles that are stacked to the roof with shelving. He climbs a ladder, retrieves a box, brings it to the counter, extracts my two bolts, jots the size and price on to a piece of paper and then replaces the box.
Next I ask for 4 two and a half inch 6mm bolts with wing nuts and fixing washers. If he notices that I am using imperial and metric measurements to describe one bolt he doesn't mention it, instead he visits three more isles and climbs his ladder twice.
Do you have any one and a half inch, 6mm bolts with nylock nuts and flat washers? I inquire. "Yes sir" he says enthusiastically, How many would you like?"
"Er, two please".
He tracks these down.
"Thank you sir, will there be anything else?"
No, That's it, how much do I owe you?"
He tots up my purchases with a pencil.
"That will be £2.15 Sir, call it two quid for cash".
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