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Asda and Aldi Leaving School at Lunch

posted 8 years ago by Authorised-User
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How do Asda and Aldi get to leave school, they are only in primary school and are allowed to leave the site to go home for lunch?

Even if that is true, how do they fit in commuting to and from home, eating lunch and selling flowers in the space of an hour (or less as it goes in some schools)?

Finally, why do they need to sell the flowers? Can't people just purchase them inside the shop like they normally do?

[–] mrssutherland2013 8 years ago

I cant answer your school question as i too think that's stupid.

However regarding the flowers, I think you've obviously missed the point of the storyline, it was all done in order to steal custom from Tracey so that she could be blackmailed into letting Mary go back to Dev permanently as they believed she had "stolen" her from them.

**cArNiVaLs oF fAyGo**

[–] !!!deleted!!! (20300547) 8 years ago

Where did Dev think they were getting the flowers from? I missed that.
I know they were stealing them from graveyards but presumably Dev didn't know that at first.

The school lunch thing was entirely stupid and made no sense. Don't forget they also had time to go to the kebab shop for a promised kebab during their 'lunch hour'.

I am ANYTHING but a pugnacious upstart

[–] alanbloor 8 years ago

Dev thought they were getting the flowers from the school garden.

And aren't they at Secondary School (or whatever it's called) by now? They have homework and I don't think you get that at Primary School.

[–] greenbudgie 8 years ago

Also Bethany seems to get home for the dinnertime break as well. I think that Dev wanted to encourage a bit of entrepreneurship in his children's flower-selling venture.

[–] Authorised-User 8 years ago

Yes, Bethany too! It's surely not practical when we know that she has to get the bus to school!

[–] Michael71 8 years ago

Yes, Bethany too! It's surely not practical when we know that she has to get the bus to school!

Good point

[–] marktayloruk 8 years ago

I went home for dinner at primary school,took bus ride in lunch hour at secondary.

[–] bigbluecheese 8 years ago

They have homework and I don't think you get that at Primary School.

You should see the homework my 7 year old gets! Even my 5 years old has 100 words to learn to spell this term! Words like 'narrator, 'through' 'laughed' 'Sphinx'! What 5 year old needs to spell Sphinx?!

They cant go home for lunch though - back when I was in primary school in the dark ages I used to go home and not bother going back for the afternoon.

About the flowers though, I cant believe what a div Dev was! His kids were stealing! From consecrated ground!! (is that not a big thing for non Catholics though? My God, if I'd have done that I would have been flayed)

Goodnight, good luck and may your God go with you

[–] marktayloruk 8 years ago

As long as teachers keep inflicting homework on young children and enforcing petty rules,I'm sceptical about their claims to be overworked.

[–] Authorised-User 8 years ago

Good point

[–] greenbudgie 8 years ago

Bethany does better than you. She goes home for dinner and runs around the block a few times and then has a long conversation with her mother in the café.