Reply to: Public shoe shine stations - do you?

[HairyArsedBloke]

It's a bit like having one of those massages in your suit at an airport or having your eyebrows threaded at Selfridges - a complete no-no.

Is that another one of those daft ideas like ear candling?

[wurzel]

In parts of Latin America these "Limpiabotas" just won't leave you alone. So much so that when I'm there I always make sure whatever I'm wearing on my feet isn't shoe-shineable.

[scooterscot]

Would you sit and get your shoes shined at one of those stations while the general public walk past and gawp at how affluent you are?

Has anyone?

There's one in Edinburgh airport, which I use often enough if I'm suited and booted. I like my shinny shoes when stepping into the office.

[OrangeHopper]

On the way to the jubilee through the 'Citi' area?

That sounds about right. In the corridor next to some swish, one dimensional, in-the-wall sandwich bar.

[Jog On]

Saw one in Canary Wharf the other week in the shopping mall. Presumably you would have to pay a banker's bonus.

That's the one that prompted me to make this thread!

On the way to the jubilee through the 'Citi' area?

They have a fashion show down there today

[Moscow Mule]

Like HAB's bath, once a week - whether they need shining ornot

[Mich the Tester]

I'm thinking of starting a similar service for hedge fund managers. For £7.50 I'll pluck little designer frays in their Ralph Lauren jeans with a Stanley knife.

Is that really all you can think of doing with the combination Stanley knife and hedge fund manager?

[thunderlizard]

I'm thinking of starting a similar service for hedge fund managers. For £7.50 I'll pluck little designer frays in their Ralph Lauren jeans with a Stanley knife.

[Mich the Tester]

Saw one in Canary Wharf the other week in the shopping mall. Presumably you would have to pay a banker's bonus.

£3.50?

[TimberWolf]

One near me in the City is £3.

Never used it for fear of looking like a right plonker.

Who cares, at 5 minutes a shine, that's £24/hour, cash in hand.

[OrangeHopper]

Saw one in Canary Wharf the other week in the shopping mall. Presumably you would have to pay a banker's bonus.

[norrahe]

One near me in the City is £3.

Never used it for fear of looking like a right plonker.

Leadenhall Market?

used to be £2.50

[Mich the Tester]

No.

[singhr]

It's a bit like having one of those massages in your suit at an airport or having your eyebrows threaded at Selfridges - a complete no-no.

[thunderlizard]

I would be fully prepared to use one if I was
(a) feeling flush
(b) killing time (e.g. at an airport)
(c) wearing shineable but unshiny shoes.

Those three things have never happened to me at the same time.