Mike works in Hamway's Hardware Store in London, along with Kenny, Steve and Rex. Kenny is smug, worldly and somewhat overbearing, Steve, a student, is a trainee, and Rex, the boss, has a juvenile obsession with sex belying his late-middle-age years and 40 year marriage. The four relax at the nearby (next-door-but-one) Nice Day cafe, staffed by Mike's girlfriend Anne and the blowsy Julie. The hardware boys endure an antagonistic relationship with their customers, being keen to deal with the professionals who know what they want but brooking no sympathy for the DIY ditherers they regard as time-wasters. Their conversations stray into laddishness but Mike tries, unsuccessfully, to rise above...