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Original poster

to be miffed that I was robbed by an old lady?

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LadyOfTheManor · 03/02/2011 21:24

I had to pop into Lidl today to get some German gingerbread for my sister (yes justification is needed).

I wasn't going to bother with a trolley but my ds was being a fidgety monkey so I got a pound out and headed toward the trolley park.

An old woman was just taking her bag out and said, oh you can have my trolley.

I thanked her, gave her my pound and went in.

When I came out I plugged the trolley back into the line of trollies, and a euro, yes a EURO, popped out.

That menace tricked me, and I have lost about 30 pence.

Do you think it was deliberate? I bet she'll be laughing at me at her coffee morning tomorrow.

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LadyOfTheManor · 03/02/2011 21:25

Biscuit before anyone else gets there.

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FabbyChic · 03/02/2011 21:26

Save the Euro for future trolleys.

AnyFuleKno · 03/02/2011 21:26

save the euro and do it to another old biddy next week

karma innit

mercibucket · 03/02/2011 21:27

Ah that's Lidl for you - poor quality of old ladies

thelibster · 03/02/2011 21:27

How old is old? It could be that she was given a euro in her change somewhere and didn't even notice it wasn't a pound coin maybe?

TmiEdward · 03/02/2011 21:28

Yep, save the Euro and use it next time you need "German gingerbread". Then you can play it forward!

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LadyOfTheManor · 03/02/2011 21:28

About 60.

She didn't have a walking stick or glasses so I don't believe she was impaired.

But the Lidl is near to the ferry port to Ireland so perhaps it was smuggled in. You just can't tell from looking at them eh?!

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Beamur · 03/02/2011 21:29

I've been stiffed in exactly the same way - also by a friendly looking old lady!!

Eurostar · 03/02/2011 21:29

My local Lidl has sadly been out of gingerbread since late December

FabbyChic · 03/02/2011 21:29

60 is not old! An old woman! I thought she was going to be in her eighties!

ConnorTraceptive · 03/02/2011 21:29

Switch to aldi although Last week a drunk man told my five year old son football was for pussy's.

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LadyOfTheManor · 03/02/2011 21:30

There's obviously a gang of scammers going around. We need to get on top of this.

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AtYourCervix · 03/02/2011 21:30

i'll bet she was an illegal scrounging benefits too. ol fucker.

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LadyOfTheManor · 03/02/2011 21:31

Oooo! Connor! Shock well well !

60 is old(er) than me. She may been 65. She did have grey hair.

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JaneS · 03/02/2011 21:34

I bet it was my mum.

Sad

I do try to keep her in check ...

CupcakesHay · 03/02/2011 21:37

Ha hA - LOVE IT! Smile

Maisiethemorningsidecat · 03/02/2011 21:39

The very fact that you think a woman in her sixties is old means you deserved the karma.

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thelibster · 03/02/2011 21:41

I'm with FabbyChic, 60 isn't old! I, too, was expecting you to say about 80. Well, you've been had, but as you've totally devastated me, I can't say I'm sorry! (Runs away, sobbing, "only nine more years and I'll be old...old...OLD!")

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LadyOfTheManor · 03/02/2011 21:43

I'm 24 so it's kinda old to me. If I was say 35-40 I probably wouldn't class it as old! My point being, it wasn't a fifteen year old with a knife...!!

I bet she does it to everyone, she must make a killing!

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LadyOfTheManor · 03/02/2011 21:43

Sorry if I've made most of you feel like you have one foot in the grave! I didn't mean to!

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AnyFuleKno · 03/02/2011 21:44

old people are EVIL and they must be stopped.

The worst ones are the hat ones, driving cars. THe ones that can barely see over the steering wheel. They will pull out in front of you from a side road without fail.

Ripeberry · 03/02/2011 21:44

Not even one of those keyring coins? They are worth more than an Euro Grin

susiey · 03/02/2011 21:45

could have been worse went shopping with my mum in morrisons
somehow at the baginning of the supermarket we managed to swap our empty trolley for someone elses

they had put in a pound in their trolley, my mum had put a 'Jesus loves you 'trolley token in hers!

was a total mistake but I bet the person who got the trolley token was annoyed!

thelibster · 03/02/2011 21:45

24!!? I've got stuff in my wardrobe older than you! AAARRRRRGGGGGGG!

TheProvincialLady · 03/02/2011 21:46

Save it until the euro is worth more than the pound and you'll be quids in! It'll only take another 30 years (assuming the euro doesn't collapse completely).

Or then again, maybe she has inside knowledge re the value of the euro. She was being kind to you!