The Sweet Service Award goes to the City of Cape Town, for its Cleansing team coming specially prepared last Sunday to clean up the glass pieces from a Camps Bay Drive balcony which had landed on the opposite Victoria Road pavement in Camps Bay due to a gale-force South-Easter. They brought a canvas sheet and placed the glass on it, and then lifted the glass into their truck, as it was a danger to have the glass lying there over a busy good weather weekend. Coming on a Sunday morning and so quickly after the incident happened deserves a special applause, made possible via Councillor Nicola Jowell.

The Sour Service Award goes to Checkers in Sea Point. I have found their cashier staff to be rude on most shopping trips, but rarely shop there, sometimes popping in when I’m in the Point Centre anyway. I was looking to buy cat food and did a price check on Google, surprisingly finding the best price for Whiskas pellets as well as gravy sachets at Checkers compared to Pick n Pay and TakeaLot.  As happens so often, the price of the box of sachets at the till differed to that on the shelf, so the cashier sent her packer to the shelf to get the price tag, without giving her the box to take along. She returned with the incorrect price, so I had to go back to the shelf with her to get the price tag which I had seen. Then she had to wait for a Manager to correct the price in the till, the whole exercise taking far too long and greatly irritating everyone in the queue behind me. There was no eye contact or apology from the manager.

The WhaleTales Sweet & Sour Service Awards are presented every Friday on the WhaleTales blog. Nominations for the Sweet and Sour Service Awards can be sent to Chris von Ulmenstein at chrisvonulmenstein [at] gmail.com. Past winners of the Sweet and Sour Service Awards can be read on the Friday posts of this blog.

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