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What would be your immediate thought?

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HelmutFrontbut · 03/02/2019 13:05

I was recently in a charity shop, poking around as one does. A female customer paid for a hold-all and left. The woman working there remarked to her colleague 'She's been in every day this week and bought a hold-all each time'.

I said (joking) 'Oh, I bet she's murdered her husband and is trying to dispose of the body parts'. The first woman looked horrified but the second said 'Ooh yes, that's what I'd think!'

I've asked friends about this and they were all ConfusedShock Clearly, I am a psychopath and need to get back to my part time job of torturing small animals ie only giving my cats Dreamies once a day Grin

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PattiStanger · 03/02/2019 13:42

Rookie mistake buying all the holdalls from the same shop, if she's planning something criminal she needs to be shopping around Grin

Bunnybigears · 03/02/2019 13:42

My first thought would be she was shop lifting.

MitziK · 03/02/2019 13:47

Planning a bank robbery?

Got to carry those notes in something that isn't traceable to credit card receipts...

TSSDNCOP · 03/02/2019 13:48

Blimey Op, how many bank robberies are there in Liverpool?

Gotthetshirt23 · 03/02/2019 13:50

Filling them in A Kondo style clear out ?
They will bring them back full !

SuperSuperSuper · 03/02/2019 14:23

Mandy Jordache! I love a retro soap reference, me.

Round here, a refugee project is asking for bags and suitcases for asylum seekers who are moving from hostels into housing, often elsewhere in the UK - they've accumulated some possessions in the hostels but have no means of carrying them from A to B on the bus or train.

MrsMartinRohde · 03/02/2019 14:26

I'd wonder if she has Alzheimer's. my grannie got into her head that she needed teapots and bought one every day despite having cupboards full of them. Also marmalade and a particular type of raincoat.

iklboo · 03/02/2019 14:38

Mandy Jordache, for the uninitiated.

What would be your immediate thought?
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HelmutFrontbut · 03/02/2019 16:09

TSS it was Post Office robberies I witnessed a lot of. Anyone who lived in Lark Lane in the 90s will know what I'm talking about ShockGrin

Bank robberies are more common where I live now actually, mostly carried out by guys on mopeds who get caught after 25 minutes. I'm thinking now that the shifty woman in the charity shop was just planning a boring old robbery rather than disposing of a body Grin

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pepperjack · 03/02/2019 16:30

Bank robber
Needed for the cash and gold bars

RangeRider · 03/02/2019 17:16

I'd have suggested wheeled cases would be better for bank robberies - especially with gold bars. It would take ages trying to drag several holdalls outside to your getaway car. And as for getting them in the boot. The police would be stood there laughing at you.
I'm now thinking to stash guns in for burying in fields.

elephantoverthehill · 03/02/2019 17:28

'Expect she works for Which? magazine and is testing the holdalls for longevity.

halfwitpicker · 03/02/2019 17:29

Wasn't mandy innocent? I remember her crushing the pills with a rolling pin

halfwitpicker · 03/02/2019 17:30

You lived in lark Lane?!?

I was on Smith down

halfwitpicker · 03/02/2019 17:31

Brookside fan + Lark Lane reference = thinking surruptious holdall buyers are criminals

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HelmutFrontbut · 03/02/2019 17:44

Yes in the late 90s, Keith's and Marantos were our favourites Grin Never went to Smithdown though, that was ruff 😉

Totally wondering about Mandy now, did she crush the pills? Shock

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HelmutFrontbut · 03/02/2019 17:49

It's the old scouse suspicious mind, never goes 😂

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