In article , Mrs Redboots wrote:
I don't blame you. Wouldn't you have thought they would ask you to
check your bags at the door, as many shops used to do - they were quite
safe, left with a staff member whose job it was to look after them.

When I was a child at Bentalls (Kingston) parents could do the same with
their children - quite a treat being left in this room with all those new
toys. It probably improved everyone's sanity.

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Tony Bryer