https://community.betfair.com/horse_racing/go/thread/view/94102/30475955/years-ago-i-was-a-betting-shop-manager-on-national-day-read-thisI was a one man band in a very busy betting office in the centre of Nottm in the 1960s.If I was lucky I was allowed a Saturday "helper" to get the betting slips in order .No television , no tea or coffeee machines, no carpet or comfortable seating ,https://community.betfair.com/horse_racing/go/thread/view/94102/30475955/years-ago-i-was-a-betting-shop-manager-on-national-day-read-this?post_id=544303875#544303875Good point Barrowboy..Some of the ex Betting Shop Managers posting on here though should be taxed to pay for those of us that took a few bets...Feck me I never managed a shop that took less than 10 000 slips a week before I retired...(six days)SomeSun, 12 Apr 2015 15:39:44 -0500https://community.betfair.com/horse_racing/go/thread/view/94102/30475955/years-ago-i-was-a-betting-shop-manager-on-national-day-read-this?post_id=544303613#544303613surprised the ambulance chasers havent got a nice little earner going claiming compo for old BO office workers suffering illness from passive smokingSun, 12 Apr 2015 15:23:56 -0500https://community.betfair.com/horse_racing/go/thread/view/94102/30475955/years-ago-i-was-a-betting-shop-manager-on-national-day-read-this?post_id=544303551#544303551I feel sorry for the asylum seekers in the flat above...They had fled for their lives from war torn Barbados only to die in a hail of bullets from their own countrymen...Sun, 12 Apr 2015 15:19:43 -0500https://community.betfair.com/horse_racing/go/thread/view/94102/30475955/years-ago-i-was-a-betting-shop-manager-on-national-day-read-this?post_id=544303405#544303405It was South London posy but not Peckham.Sun, 12 Apr 2015 15:07:34 -0500https://community.betfair.com/horse_racing/go/thread/view/94102/30475955/years-ago-i-was-a-betting-shop-manager-on-national-day-read-this?post_id=544303155#544303155Sounds like they were on the 4... the coffin box !Sun, 12 Apr 2015 14:51:55 -0500https://community.betfair.com/horse_racing/go/thread/view/94102/30475955/years-ago-i-was-a-betting-shop-manager-on-national-day-read-this?post_id=544303153#544303153burst out laughing when i read that slippy...where ws it ..peckham ??Sun, 12 Apr 2015 14:51:44 -0500https://community.betfair.com/horse_racing/go/thread/view/94102/30475955/years-ago-i-was-a-betting-shop-manager-on-national-day-read-this?post_id=544303129#544303129Slippy, fair enough, can't trump that !Sun, 12 Apr 2015 14:50:36 -0500https://community.betfair.com/horse_racing/go/thread/view/94102/30475955/years-ago-i-was-a-betting-shop-manager-on-national-day-read-this?post_id=544303097#544303097halcyon days, my local Coral shop was subject to an armed robbery about 10 years ago. Two blokes came in with shotguns, both fired a shot into the ceiling and people were still trying to put bets on with the shop full of gun smoke, half the ceilingSun, 12 Apr 2015 14:48:04 -0500https://community.betfair.com/horse_racing/go/thread/view/94102/30475955/years-ago-i-was-a-betting-shop-manager-on-national-day-read-this?post_id=544303085#544303085Homme, you twangin' again ?....Sun, 12 Apr 2015 14:47:19 -0500https://community.betfair.com/horse_racing/go/thread/view/94102/30475955/years-ago-i-was-a-betting-shop-manager-on-national-day-read-this?post_id=544302989#544302989I can remember when I worked for the worst payers in the world...Stanley Racing..A shop caught on fire in Salford and the fire brigade arrived and the punters were still in the shop placing bets..Priceless...Sun, 12 Apr 2015 14:42:05 -0500