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do you ever find left over notes in shopping torlleys or elsewhere? i

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codnotamod · 13/01/2006 09:40

i am vaguely intrigued by these as identified in teh times
"Discarded notes are rubbish to most people, but not for worldwide subscribers to Found, which reprints them. The magazine?s publisher, Davy Rothbart, gets bundles sent to his office in Michigan. Laura Kwerel, a radio producer in Washington, was ?overwhelmed? after reading one issue. ?I realise now,? she says, ?that there is more humanity in a discarded grocery list than in a thousand-page novel.? Some people need to get out more. "
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MaloryTowers · 14/01/2006 19:49

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cod · 14/01/2006 19:45

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Cabe · 14/01/2006 19:44

In my experience Waitrose in Kiddy was frequented by sad middle aged bachelors looking for mummy cooking substitute food (most of which they bought just past the sell-by date)
Unsavory IMO

Cabe · 14/01/2006 19:41

Am very disappointed not to have needed to shop today!
Cod interesting I'm doing Sociology at Warwick uni... could this be the subject of my dissertation next year do you think?

fullmoonfiend · 14/01/2006 19:39

In my town, Waitrose shoppers write on vellum with gold ink and they only write lists like:
1: Lovely, lovely little nibbley things
2: Champers
3: Greek Olives for Jocasta's packed luncheon
4: Tin of Spam for the Au Pair
etc
Sigh, I collect their cast-off lists as I stand with my nose pressed against the windows....

cod · 14/01/2006 19:25

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fullmoonfiend · 14/01/2006 18:27

ps. I always write 'nice ham' on my list if dh is doing the shopping

fullmoonfiend · 14/01/2006 18:26

Ye Gods - dh is at supermarket as we speak - with my list wot I wrote!! Must ring him NOW and tell him on no account to leave it in the trolley! I'm insecure enough already without worrying wot some random stranger is thinking/deducing from my ill-scribed, disorganised and frankly, not healthy enough, shopping list.

Tamz77 · 14/01/2006 17:25

I used to do proof reading for a guy and one morning I happened to catch a glance at a list he had written of things to do. However it was quite freakily detailed, went something like this:

  1. Leave house
  2. Walk to library
  3. Enter library

...and so on.

I don't often write lists but when I do, often write them in that special language I share with ds, eg chocolate is 'la-la', olives are 'la-las', humzingers are 'haw-haws'. We know what we mean!

Whizzz · 14/01/2006 16:21

Along the same lines really - overheard mobile phone conversations....

Today I heard a woman answer her phone and say

Hello....in the kitchen.....no, the cupboard....no....behind the tea bags, right..bye!

which I thought was mildy amusing

NomDePlume · 14/01/2006 15:56

lol cabe

NomDePlume · 14/01/2006 15:55

it was in the trolley, i only spotted it once I was half way up the first aisle.

Cabe · 14/01/2006 15:53

Love love love this thread!
NomDePlume - I sense this may be a masculine list maker... so precise (anal even) 200g Baked Beans - now what woman would have the time or inclination to specify how many beans she wanted in grams?????

madmarchhare · 14/01/2006 12:27

just plain old ham?

cod · 14/01/2006 12:02

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wankeebagels · 14/01/2006 11:59

somo oen on a diet imo
the cheese is not good dieting

NomDePlume · 14/01/2006 09:45

I went to Tesco last night and found a list in my trolley, actually put it in my pocket so I could transcribe it on here . .....

..... Here we go, list is written in pencil on a piece of lined ringbound notebook/jotter paper. Any typos are the authors and not mine !

Water (x6)
Bread
Pitta Bread
Beans (x5) 200g
Milk 2 pints
Cheese (Double Glocs)
Kitchen Roll
Deodrant
Soup (x4)
Ham
Crisps(x2)(wotsits/mccoys)
Lemonade
Cream
Paper
Cabbage
Greens
Celery
Tomatoes
Cucumber
Bananas
Oranges
Grapefruits (x3)
Carrotts

Fascinating reading, i think you'll agree

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suedonim · 13/01/2006 22:52

I don't often find lists but there was a dirty nappy in a trolley I was about to use, recently. But from now on, I shall start leaving my lists behind - I usually find them screwed up in my shopping bags the following week. My list is generally other people's requests as I keep most of my shopping list in my head.

madmarchhare · 13/01/2006 22:37

He got his whole arm stuck in the gap between the back rest and base of the fold down seat.

Fire service called, but 'handyman' turned up with bolt cutters which did the trick.

Mercy · 13/01/2006 22:34

bolt cutters?? please explain!

madmarchhare · 13/01/2006 22:27

DS ate mine last week (this was the week before he had to be cut out of the trolley with bolt cutters).

Me and supermarkets dont go.

Maybe this is my way forward to a happier shopping experience.

moondog · 13/01/2006 22:26

lol at that letter (inappropriate I know but what bizarre juxtaposition..)

madmarchhare · 13/01/2006 22:25

eh?

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