Under The Counter stumbled across the world’s most inconvenient convenience store the other day.
He didn’t literally, as it’s nailed to the side of a mountain in China for one thing. For another, as the Auld Boy is so scared of heights that Mrs UTC has to get the Christmas tree out of the loft every year, the likelihood of him shinning 120 metres up a sheer cliff face to visit it is as remote as his beloved Hamilton winning the Champions League.
As more eagle-eyed readers will have spotted, the approximately 12sq ft store benefits from a healthy passing trade made up mainly of rock climbers.
The store specialises in food-to-go. To be perfectly honest, it only sells drinks and snacks. Think more bottles of water and packets of crisps rather than Costa coffee and Rollover hotdogs though. And you can forget about buying a lottery ticket or paying your gas bill there.
It’s worth seeking out if you’re on a budget though – a bottle of water will set you back the equivalent of 24p. The last time UTC paid 24p for a bottle of water, the Champions League was non-existent.
Just like Hamilton’s prospects of winning it.
