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I'm not being weird thinking this is a bit odd, am I?

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MrsChemist · 20/01/2011 18:17

Went to the shop to pick up some bits, and when the lady was packing my bag she asked me if it was ok to snap a baguette in half so it would fit in the shopping bag. She then added, 'or you could have it sticking out of the bag,' in a tone that seemed to say that letting it stick out would be pure madness.

It's not angered me or anything, I'm just wondering if it's odd for shop staff to essentially, cheerfully offer to damage shopping for their customers.

I declined, and put it under my pram. She seemed a tiny bit put out that I didn't take her up on her practical offer.

It was weird, right?

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mincenmash · 21/01/2011 09:33

ha ha ha ha! That's got me laughing, aren't people funny. What else would they offer to snap or fold just to get it in the bag.

Mendeleyev · 21/01/2011 08:31

A Petard is an explosive thingy used in battles. If you set it off too early and you were next to it when it went off, then you would be lifted up or hoist by the blast.

TheSkiingGardener · 21/01/2011 07:48

I was offered this service once. I declined with a WTF look on my face. The beauty of a baguette is it's length.

snort at cucumber snapping

EvelynTension · 21/01/2011 07:20

It's not quite 'do you want the hanger' is it.

Watch your cucumbers, next time.

EvelynTension · 21/01/2011 07:11

LOL

yes that's weird. It reminds me of the time I was told to prepare the baking potatoes in a restaurant and remove any little bits...I was so thorough that they were covered in tiny holes.

the chef had to make them into soup

Giraffes, hoisted by one's own petard means basically you have been given enough rope and do the obligatory thing with it...trip yourself up in other words.

giraffesCantDirtyDance · 21/01/2011 07:07

what does petard mean? Never heard that word before.

PurpleOne · 21/01/2011 06:00

snap my baguette and I WILL KILL YOU

echt · 21/01/2011 04:26

This is not AIBU, but YANBU. I'm going for lots of last posts at the moment.

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MrsChemist · 21/01/2011 03:57

Snapping one's own baguette sounds to me like a more modern version of hoisted by one's own petard.

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HopingForAZoo · 21/01/2011 02:49

Am hooting loudly with laughter at this thread.

Truncated baguette
Penne into cous cous

So funny.
I would think she was quite odd indead and probably wouldn't be ably to make it away without her seeing me snort laughing.

minigoof · 20/01/2011 23:36

Anyone think 'I snap my own baguette' sounds like a feminist statement. Thinking of having T-shirts printed...

cat64 · 20/01/2011 23:30

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Heroine · 20/01/2011 23:28

I think this is cool I love kooky shop assistants they make me feel all warm inside..

ChippingInSmellyCheeseFreak · 20/01/2011 23:25

I 'snap my own baguette'.... sorrry am I the only one thinking this sounds, well, like.... dodgy!!

Woman was bonkers!

mommmmyof2 · 20/01/2011 23:22

you could always break the dog in two so that it fits in your bag! sure the check out girl will be more than willing to give it a go

nickschick · 20/01/2011 23:09

Get real how can you carry a baguette under your arm a small dog in the other and smoke a benson and hedges gauloise .....and look chic? youd look like some dodgy bird whose had her cataracts done = and where would you leave said small dog whilst you purchasssssed your baguette.

AngeChica · 20/01/2011 21:51

You must carry your baguette under your arm, wearing an LBD, kitten heels and shades a la Audrey Hepburn, looking a bit sulky, maybe carrying a small dog under the other arm and smoking a Gauloise... Instant chic, non?

mommmmyof2 · 20/01/2011 21:45

This is a really funny thread, I have no idea why she would even ask you

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MrsChemist · 20/01/2011 21:42

You know what makes it all worse? I incirrectly stored my shopping under the pram and the middle of the baguette got squashed

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PassionKiss · 20/01/2011 21:28

It's literally never occurred to me to snap it in half - but now I'm thinking, have I been a fool - is snapping the more sensible way of transporting the baguette

DH always eats the end of it on the way home and gets crumbs all over the car

ilythia · 20/01/2011 21:25

How bizarre is that

lal123 · 20/01/2011 21:22

Unquiet dad - and the green bits from carrots too

LittleWhiteSnowWolf · 20/01/2011 21:18

Oh that was just what I needed, even though it hurts to laugh and makes me cough. Will never be able to buy a baguette again for fear of laughing.

UnquietDad · 20/01/2011 21:14

Everybody in every American TV drama ever who has "just been shopping" will have an armful of brown paper bags, one of which has a baguette sticking out of it. Have you noticed that?

IAmReallyFabNow · 20/01/2011 21:11

The bit I had was very nice.

DH has com home with jelly and nuts for me today .

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