My tolerance levels are low today.

I have a perfectly coherent accent - I do not speak Doric, nor any other thicker-than-average dialect. I am articulate and intelligent, which is why I can't stand it when people can't understand me. Perhaps it's my slight habit of speaking faster than normal people, but I still find it rude when people bluntly say they can't understand what I said.

The people that have been in today, have not been normal. Reminds me of a lady who came in looking for long evening gloves. I suggested she tried John Lewis, but the glare and hatred-filled response told me they only sold black and grey. What colour did she want? Fuschia pink. I suggested the internet. I was shot down again - of course the wedding was the next day. How silly of me for thinking it wouldn't have been.

I don't understand what it is about holidays that brings these people out in droves to the shop. My tolerance is really being affected...