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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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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

Cabe · 13/01/2006 10:42

Cliche's a bit harsh Cod!

pottytrainingcod · 13/01/2006 10:40

i tend to chuck em but now will look hard

pottytrainingcod · 13/01/2006 10:39

oh really?
AM A CLICHE THEN.

Cabe · 13/01/2006 10:38

There was an article on Home Truths about this some 4months back or so... I was intrigued. Haven't found any discarded lists since though

pottytrainingcod · 13/01/2006 10:33

lol
y ou se eitn eh minutae of these notes there is enldess fascination

if i was a chck out aassitant i d spenda ges llokign at peoples groceries

ggglimpopo · 13/01/2006 10:31

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fuzzywuzzy · 13/01/2006 10:09

Not a note but when I worked as a sales girl, a handbag was returned, when going through the handbag to see if it was OK to put in the sales, I found extracts of a diary.
The woman's boyfriend was cheating on her, she took him back, than she found him at it again, then she thought she might be pregnant by him, and then she went to do a test and.....the pages ran out...there were about three neatly written pages screwed up at the bottom of the bag. The other sales asisstans and I were fadcinated (in my defense I was 18 at the time).

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codnotamod · 13/01/2006 10:03

oh god
think i will s tart collectign them

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Enid · 13/01/2006 09:53

I read a fantastic one of these ones in the Readers Digest. Someone found it in a book at the library it went soemthing like:

To Do In The Future
Learn to speak French (book classes)
Lose 10lbs
Book trip to Himalayas
Get back in touch with boyfriend from high school

Today
eggs
baking powder
oven chips
cough medicine

SoupDragon · 13/01/2006 09:50

You sad, sad, old fish

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codnotamod · 13/01/2006 09:48

no one
just me in my sad life then

6 eggs
flour
bacon

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codnotamod · 13/01/2006 09:41

ok i hav now new challenge
next time you find a note meant for someone else or a shopping list in your trolley you are to hold on to i tight ans report in

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