Re: We did manage to raise eyebrows at Boots one time
More likely the shopkeep was thinking on the lines of "third time today..."
(I grew up down the road near Scarborough, and the goth fest was always a brilliant laugh... Especially when an 80 something year old starts enquiring to a friend where she aquired her fishbone corsett and if it was possible to provide her details on the tailors of my shirt).