Slim pickings

SEEKING a pair of trousers in my local M&S, I found row upon row of what appeared to be ‘ regular slim’, ‘slimmer slim’ and ‘slimmest’.

Exasperated, I turned to a member of staff and asked, ‘Haven’t you got any trousers to fit fat old men?’

Affecting not to hear me, he fled to the darkest corner of menswear, skulking there until I left the store, trouserless and no wiser.

MAURICE O’BRIEN, Tilehurst, Berks.