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Inadvertently ruining someone's day. Please tell me your stories.

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LadyOfTheCanyon · 11/04/2019 10:08

I was in John Lewis waiting in a queue for the till and chatting to the woman in front of me, who was holding a very small modern matte black swing bin. The sort you'd put in your bathroom if you're a rule breaking maverick Wink

She was admiring it and swinging the little lid back and forth and saying "it's just so chic and lovely! The clean lines of it - it's so modern!" We both gazed at the thing in wonderment together and I agreed that it was indeed the chicest of all bins that had ever been bestowed upon the world.

Unfortunately I was born with two superpowers:^^ the first is being instantly aware of any potential flaw in a plan and the second is being incapable of keeping my fucking mouth shut.

"How do you hide the bin liner?" I asked.
"W..what?"
"The bin liner? If you hoik it over the side of the bin and clamp it in place with the lid you'll have a frill of white plastic round the edge."
"oh, I....er..."
She took the lid off the bin and we peered in. There was no magic bin liner concealing device that we could see.
"Or you could just wash it out every time you emptied it," I said brightly
"Oh no, I definitely use liners!"
"Do they make black liners?" I said hopefully. We had now approached the front of the queue.
"Do you do black liners?" we asked the lady at the till. After a certain amount of hand wringing and pained expressions, she confirmed they did not.

We looked again at the bin. It stared back at us in defiance, £12.50 worth of mute plastic resentment. I placed my hand on the lady's arm in solidarity. She shook it off.
"It's FINE."
"Perhaps if you..."
"No, it's no good. I'll always see the bin liner."

The cashier reached for the bin to scan it.

"No." Said the lady. " I do not want the bin." And she turned and left.

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Palominoo · 11/04/2019 10:28

Simple Human make their bins so that their liners are concealed.

www.amazon.co.uk/simplehuman-Swing-Lid-Bin-40/dp/B00260YJG8?tag=mumsnetforu03-21

Wallabyone · 11/04/2019 10:32

😂

HeyJude81 · 11/04/2019 10:34

😂😂 you have a real talent!

hippermiddleton · 11/04/2019 10:38

No. You made her day, because you saved her from the disappointing realisation that she could see the liner, then from a week of her eye being caught each time she went in the bathroom, then from the irritation of realising she couldn't take it back because it had been used.

would a very large black dog poo bag have worked?

desperatehousewife2 · 11/04/2019 10:56

I absolutely love the way this is written!

Stuckandsad · 11/04/2019 11:00

Elinor Oliphant goes to john Lewis spin off 😂😂😁😁

Melancholymuffin · 11/04/2019 11:24

OP... I love your writing style!
A friend and I are on the keto diet together. Both did a really long work out, really proud of ourselves - we get in the car and she offers me a chewing gum, I decline without even thinking, she has one. When we’re half way home she offers me one again, and I decline saying the sweetners will knock me out of ketosis. She looked at me in total horror - two days of fat burning lost over a bloody chewing gum! Confused I felt awful I’d just declined on auto pilot and not twigged to tell her!

LadyOfTheCanyon · 11/04/2019 12:59

Whilst my superpower is seeing flaws, unfortunately it doesn't extend to coming up with solutions! Big dog poo bags might have been just the thing.
Paliminoo, that bin would have been just the ticket.
Melancholymuffin -grrr! Reminds me of the time I was on a diet and drinking vodka and slimline tonic (or so I thought). My friend later confessed that she had been buying regular tonic because she fancied the barman and didn't want him to think she was worried about her figure! Angry

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pearldeodorant · 11/04/2019 13:06

This really tickled me! I'd say you did her a favour!

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