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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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hornbag · 13/01/2006 14:26

I like to think (naive I know) that maybe all their other meals are delivered by meals on wheels and the bizarre supermarket shop is for extras (but I know what you mean )

bakedpotato · 13/01/2006 14:24

Hornbag -- you've just wounded me by prompting sudden memory of elderly person in vast supermarket
All he had in his basket was a tin of pease porridge and dog biscuits
[sob]

hornbag · 13/01/2006 14:18

ggglimpopo -I'd love to say it was a 3-speed, multi-coloured ostrich feather tickling stick (or something equally as unusual or bizarre) but I'm afraid it wasn't -I've been trying to remember but a lots happened since then.

Beetrootfultoyourself · 13/01/2006 13:44

pmsl cod..

pottytrainingcod · 13/01/2006 13:34

did i ever tlel you about dh and the stalker in sainburys?
evry time he went off to get soemthign , someone was putting something weird in his trolley
he kept haveign to replace melons ands nappies ( etc pre kids) and in the end every time he left h ti he tired to sneak back aroudn the aisle to see who was o doing it
no one we knew ever owned up

but theres Selly Oak for yo

pottytrainingcod · 13/01/2006 13:32

hornbag that is really funny

ggglimpopo · 13/01/2006 13:26

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twirlaround · 13/01/2006 13:25

Words cannot express how much people interested in these need to get out more

ggglimpopo · 13/01/2006 13:24

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ixel · 13/01/2006 13:22

Someone left a bottle of HP sauce in the trolley for me the other day...

hornbag · 13/01/2006 13:19

Forgot to say that I also love looking at the contents of other peoples baskets/trollies at the checkout .
You get some very bizarre combinations - eg the old man with dozens of tins of cat food and 8 loaves of bread. Always wonder what the story is behind it

hornbag · 13/01/2006 13:17

Another mum at school once found one of my shopping lists.
We were chatting in the playground after school and I mentioned that I'd had to pop into town to buy 'x' and she added "oh did you get 'y' and 'z' too?" I was gobsmacked and wondered how on earth she knew what I'd bought .
Turned out she'd picked up my list in the car park and read it before popping it in the bin. As the first item was something unusual she twigged when I mentioned it.

cupcakes · 13/01/2006 13:16

I love other people's shopping lists. I don't keep them (am not completely mental) but have to read them. Dh thinks it's most odd. I do get quite excited when I get one in my shopping basket. I'm very nosy.

BearintheBigBlueHouse · 13/01/2006 13:10

Being genetically unable to multitask and having had my synapses rendered virtually impotent by 4 years of sleep deprivation, I live life by my lists - generally shopping one side (we're in the store 5 days out of 7) and to dos on the other. My greatest fear in the world is dropping my list and someone finding it, reading it and/or sharing it with the world, here or on that other site. I'd rather lose my wallet.

That said if I find anyone elses, I'm posting.

tamum · 13/01/2006 13:01

Bum, I had one today. Sorry. It's the first time I have ever noticed one, too.

pottytrainingcod · 13/01/2006 13:00

tiny gang welld one
go di am old hat

pottytrainingcod · 13/01/2006 13:00

not a single one! in town

TinyGang · 13/01/2006 11:56

You are not alone Cod. Have a look here , it's quite funny

Janh · 13/01/2006 11:47

When the kids were small if I found someone else's list I'd suggest buying the things on there instead of ours - they always looked shocked but thrilled!

carly82 · 13/01/2006 11:16

ooh i have to tell this one! I went shopping on monday and in the bottom of the trolley was a list and being nosy (although i prefer the term naturally inquisitive!) i had a look. Nothing unusual to start the old loaf of bread, dozen eggs etc etc..... as i went to throw it away i noticed something was written on the back it went something like this, "thank you so much babe for getting this stuff, as a treat if you get back home by three i will be led in bed wearing nothing but a smile (and other rude contents)........" i was so but coldnt help wondering if they ever made it home by three

Cabe · 13/01/2006 11:02

Oh Lordy! I'll be looking out for them now

pottytrainingcod · 13/01/2006 10:49

lol we can hvae a sub thread of odd shopping juxtapositions

NomDePlume · 13/01/2006 10:48

There's nearly always a left over list in the trolleys at my local Tesco. Once we found a shopping list dropped by our next door neighbour, first on the list was Slim Fast, 2nd was Jammie Dodgers !

pottytrainingcod · 13/01/2006 10:47

ok we need whizz too
am off into ttown in a mo so will keep my fishy eyes out

pottytrainingcod · 13/01/2006 10:47

ok we need whizz too
am off into ttown in a mo so will keep my fishy eyes out