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To not understand what was going on

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dealer · 10/05/2011 20:24

I'm a delivery driver. Today I stopped in a road which had several deliveries. Another van was already there, it was sign-written as from the business in the next village which I know supplies peppers to major supermarkets.

I saw a man get out of the van with some 3-packs of peppers and started to knock on doors. When people answered he handed them a pack of peppers. If no-one answered he tucked the pack behind a plant pot or wherever, as if he were delivering phone books. No-one that answered the door looked surprised, just opened the door and took the peppers. Annoyingly, no-one I was delivering to was in so I couldn't ask them. When I ended up at the same door as this man I attempted to chat, but it became apparent he had a speech problem and I couldn't understand him. He seemed friendly, and smiled and waved as he moved down the street.

So, have I missed some pepper distribution scheme? It all just seemed most odd to me

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CoteDAzur · 10/05/2011 22:12

Maybe the delivery man is a dealer of hard drugs on the side but hides his package under a few peppers so as not to be suspicious when knocking on so many doors. This would explain the lack of surprise and conversation, not to mention the hand snaking out from behind a door Grin

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dealer · 10/05/2011 22:13

Definitely peppers, in the 3-pack from tescos, could also see a large box of loose ones on his passenger seat, but he didn't seem to be using the loose ones.

Also there are pictures of big peppers on the side of his van.

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CoteDAzur · 10/05/2011 22:14

Zukie - That was also the plot of a recent film called Wicker Man starring Nicolas Cage.

CloversMama · 10/05/2011 22:15

One night I was at home with my then flatmates. There was an unexpected knock on the door. When we looked through the spy hole, there was a man standing there holding a giant salami. We were a mixture of confused and concerned so we hid in our pantry, venturing out a few minutes later to find that the man was gone and the salami was on our door step. We then began to worry that it was poisoned or contained some kind of explosive so we phoned the local police. Six hours later, they turned up and took away the salami. Six and a half hours later the man knocked on the door again. Buoyed with wine induced confidence, this time we opened the door. The man was simply a door to door salesman and had come to collect payment for the salami. We had to explain that we had spent our money on wine and that the salami was now with the police.

CoteDAzur · 10/05/2011 22:16

LOL @ delivering tennis balls Grin

MadamDeathstare · 10/05/2011 22:17

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CoteDAzur · 10/05/2011 22:17

LOL@ salami story, too Grin

Thank you, OP, for this hilarious thread.

zukiecat · 10/05/2011 22:19

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PurveyorOfBaloney · 10/05/2011 22:20

purplehonesty and Cloversmama - thanks for a good laugh when I wasn't expecting it! Grin Grin

EduStudent · 10/05/2011 22:20

Were they properly mixed? Was there an uneven distribution of colours in the pack?

Were they the packs with more than one green pepper, which no one in their right mind goes near?

ratspeaker · 10/05/2011 22:21

Are peppers the new pampas grass?

So mrs from no 32 is teeming up with mr from no 10 as they both have 2 green and one red pepper

SlightlyJaded · 10/05/2011 22:22

Cote it was a remake of the original Wicker Man.

Marking my place. OP please get to the bottom of the Silent Pepper Distribution.

itsabiggywhatdoidonow · 10/05/2011 22:24

obviously, missning peppers for what ever reason, from veg box delivered yesterday.

sound of reason of course, but much preffer some of the other explinations.

Grin at slight irony of ops name

TotorosOcarina · 10/05/2011 22:27

if you go there regularly just ask tomorrow what it was about when you deliver.

She3po · 10/05/2011 22:28

My dh is a fruit and veg man, mixed peppers go down very well with our customers. Never left them in a plant pot though!

NerfHerder · 10/05/2011 22:29

It's rare for an OP to actually admit to being a hairy arsed trucker... Wink

StealthPolarBear · 10/05/2011 22:31

PMSL at FISHMAN

Was it JasonThunderpants do you think? Conducting an experiment?

thenightsky · 10/05/2011 22:32

The fish man round here is merely a cover for cheap fags and vodka. You ask for 'fish' in a certain tone which can mean vodka or fags.

He says 'fish?'

You say, 'oh yes fish fish please'

Vodka is handed over, wrapped in white plastic.

TaffyandTeenyTaffy · 10/05/2011 22:36

Well he'd better now come here touting his free peppers - or he'll be sent packing with a flea in his ear (and probably a trio of peppers somewhere unmentionable!). If I buy said mixed pepper packs DH always wants me to make fajitas and its the one thing I HATE cooking - such a faff, all that chopping!
Grin

starrychime · 10/05/2011 22:40

Hehehe, reminds me of the episode of Peep Show where two dodgy young blokes turn up looking for some 'lunch' - euphamism for hash, unknown to Mark who shouts to Jeremy "there are some CHILDREN here wanting to have LUNCH with you" (or something like that) - laughed out loud at that too Grin

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dealer · 10/05/2011 22:52

Yep, my name does sound a bit dodgy, but it's an acronym of my family's names (in age order).
No way could at least 6 or 7 immediate neighbours all have been missing peppers from their shopping recently, and he was still going when I drove off
I will ask people if I ever see them, it's a no-one in - leave everything in the shed/garage/greenhouse area. Surprisingly several pepper recipients were in.

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budgieshell · 10/05/2011 23:04

monday - apple day.
tuesday - pepper day.
wednesday - carrot day.
thursday - peas day.
friday - all other shopping delivered today.
Thank god for friday.

NanAstley · 10/05/2011 23:05

Ah, this thread reminds me of the old days of MN when I would be reading threads with tears literally running down my cheeks at laughing so much.

dealer you simply must get to the bottom of this.

FreudianSlipOnACrown · 10/05/2011 23:09

The wicker man is one of my favourite films (I refuse to watch the remake with Nicholas Cage!) - am loving the idea of a giant pepper man :o

Maybe there is some theory about apocalypse in this town and peppers are there to redeem the locals when the day of reckoning comes?

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