The Detectives (TV Series)

Thicker Than Water (1995)

Sakuntala Ramanee: Cashier

Quotes 

• Cashier : Sorry to have kept you, what can I get you?

  Dave Briggs : Erm, I'll have six of these please.

  [Briggs puts six cans of lager on the counter] 

  Cashier : Oh, you do know that with every three you buy of those, you get one free?

  Dave Briggs : Really?

  Bob Louis : So, we've got six, but we get two more free?

  Cashier : That's right.

  Dave Briggs : Go on then, Bob.

  [Louis puts two more cans on the counter] 

  Bob Louis : Hang on Dave. We've got eight cans, right?

  Dave Briggs : Yeah.

  Bob Louis : If we buy another one, we can get three free.

  Dave Briggs : That's true.

  [Louis puts four more cans on the counter] 

  Dave Briggs : Erm, we'll have nine cans please, miss.

  Bob Louis : And these three are free.

  Bob Louis : Great this, innit?

  Dave Briggs : Hang on, we've got twelve cans, right? Well threes into twelve goes four. We should have four free ones.

  Cashier : So, you want to pay for twelve, and have four free?

  Bob Louis : Well, if they're free, yeah.

  [Briggs puts four more cans on the counter] 

  Dave Briggs : [Briggs pulls Louis off to the side and asks quietly]  How many do you make it now?

  Bob Louis : Sixteen.

  Dave Briggs : If we buy two more, we get six free ones.

  Bob Louis : We only came in for six.

  Dave Briggs : We've got 'em for nothing.

  Bob Louis : Hey, with the money we've saved, we can buy six more.

  Dave Briggs : Blimey, you're a genius... Excuse me miss.

  [Louis puts six more cans on the counter] 

  Bob Louis : [after leaving the store]  Dave, what I can't work out is if we've just saved so much money, why is it I've only got 78 pence to see me through the rest of Christmas?

  Dave Briggs : It's called Supply Side Economics, trickle down, it's all to do with the EMU.

  Bob Louis : Still, it is Christmas.

  Dave Briggs : Yeah. Hey, and what do you need money for anyway? We've got everything we need for the next week here in our hands.

  Bob Louis : Bird with one leg, seventy six cans of lager.

  Dave Briggs : All I need now to make my Christmas complete, would be World Peace, and an electric screwdriver.