Lobster wrote:
Huge wrote:
This is the essence of it. If you're repeatedly asking for "one of
those little doohickeys that screw onto a thingummybob", they'll twig
straight away.

... or "a length of wood 3 inches by 2" instead of "some threebitoo"

Pish. I was in at a place a while ago, about to talk to the yardman,
when some old bint zoomed in and said "I want a piece of wood". On
asking for further details (we were both almost cracking up) about
size, etc., she said "Oh, about that big", pointing to some scrap
resting up against a bin. He gave it to the (and wrote a ticket).