Double-Dipper

That’s what we are in. It’s not a ride at Alton Towers. It’s real life! We are in a double-dipper, otherwise known, amongst professional types and the educated, as a recession. But, I’m sure it is not as bad as they say it is. I was in Sainsbury’s the other day and there was a long queue of customers dying to pay for the krispy crème donuts and triple choice meal deals. There were even people with Double dip cheese and tasty stuff snacks. Maybe I should have taken heed of that subliminal warning and returned my Rudyard Kipling walnut cake to the shelf and picked up a Sainbury’s own brand supa essential everyday taste the indifference value walnut style cake instead and put aside the 57p saving for a rainy day of which we have many at this time. But the store was busy. And, lots of thirsty types had encircled a nearby Starbucks – somewhere all these hot beverages are stoking the economy’s fires. OK, we don’t manufacture things anymore but we probably produce to best takeaway cups and lids in the world.  So, what recession I say?! Oh, and I passed a little Lidl the other day and the entrance was rammed, people were fighting to get in with the people fighting to get out. What double dipper?! However, there is just one problem brewing on the storm cup. If there is another quarter of negative growth, what are they going to call it?