Some customers are excellent at delivering put-downs towards me when I pathetically try to engage them in conversation: ‘Oh pray, pretty mistress, if you will forgive the intrusion pretty mistress madam, this slave is most admiring of your socks, madam?’ ‘Tch!... No talking, dirty slave! Can’t you see I’m busy?’ ‘Sorry, madam.’ The pretty customer-mistress is busy working on her laptop high above me as I lickshine her boots My lowly task is to concentrate on tasting where she has been But I soon move to the uppers of her boots It is here that I get a good view of her fabulous socks... ...including the creases in her socks! I decide to verbally compliment the customer-mistress on her superb socks ‘Oh pray, pretty mistress, if you will forgive the intrusion pretty mistress madam, this slave is most admiring of your socks, madam?’ ‘Tch!... No talking, dirty slave! Can’t you see I’m busy?’ ‘Sorry, madam.’ I shut up and continue to lickshine her boot top... ...though I ca...