cringey moment in charity shop.

[Nevergarglebrandybutter]

Here's the scene: town centre charity shop a few weeks ago.

I spy a notice board for sale and think oh that's bloody useful and just what i need to a craft project i'm planning. i pick it up.

Person I don't know.

Person: "oh, you've picked it up, oh never mind"
Me: " yup, too slooooooowww"
Person:
Me:

Then she stood behind me at the til while i bought it and we stood in silence.

Why, why, why must I speak, or go out in public.

I was supposed to give her the noticeboard wasn't I. I wasn't supposed to taunt her about it either. Ah fuck.

To slooooow

:o fantastic :o

I'm rofling at the fact that this happened a few weeks ago and you are still mulling it over. You were obviously deeply scarred by her passive/aggresiveness.

I was in a charity shop the other week and picked up a pair of jeans, great find as its rare to get the combination of right length and waist and only £3. As I picked them up I heard one of the women at the till stage whisper to the other "she has picked up those jeans I was meaning to put aside for my daughter." Did I feel guilted into putting them back, did I heck as like . Although a button has just come off them so I suppose that is my bad karma punishment or too many mince pies.

You have really cheered me up!!

You've made me laugh out loud - thank you

Oh I've had similar cringey moment at my DS's school. I was looking at the artwork and noticed a child's name, can't quite remember but I think the name was Mojo. I was alone and said it outloud in an Austin Power's Dr Evil voice. I got a few funny looks. Posted a thread but cant seem to find it!

Haha

I do remember "Mojo" too

worra Ha! anyway...how does you doing your shopping "pre-empt" anyone? You never pre-empted her...you beat her to the last french stick...you should have shouted "You snooze you lose!" at her!

Reminds me of a thread where an OP was outraged over the girl in the CoOp asking her "Do you want me to break your french loaf in half so it fits in your bag better?"

ha, i had forgotten all about it, but last night i saw the pin board emerge from the christmas clutter and it reminded me. honestly i haven't been stewing for weeks over this.

in my defence the outing was the first for a couple of weeks after being housebound with illness. i guess i forgot how to be adult.

She was too slow. All's fair in love and charity shops.

Really made me giggle.

This thread has reminded me of the time I found a dress in one of those dress exchange agencies.

The woman on the till said: 'I had my eye on this.' I said: 'Lovely, isn't it?'

She wanted me to give it to her, didn't she? Ten years on, that's only just dawned on me.

I'm sorry.
You went to a party as a field of sheep

Am I the only one who has picked up on that?

I'm at your op.

I'm at LBD's and 'field of sheep'.

thought i'd got away with that confession

DH got an invite to a barn yard party, so I made an outfit.

A green strappy dress, beautifully sewn with appliqued fluffy sheep with black felt legs, and flower buttons.

We arrived to find it was a barn dance and the fancy dress bit was that the blokes were in checked shirts with the occasional hat.

But i was a field of sheep.

DH's mexican farm hand outfit was adapted quickly int he car park but it was too late for me.

Can just imagine in the car. "save yourself...it's too late for me"

"You snooze you lose"

The field of sheep is utter genius, and sounds like a bloody good fancy dress outfit too!

In her first year at uni my friend went to a fancy dress party as a sheep. That was fine, because it was indeed an animal fancy dress party. Unfortunately when it came doing the walk of shame, at 8:45am, past five different primary schools, nobody else was dressed for an animal fancy dress party. She was still dressed as a sheep...

Especially when someone said about her being one legged.

She's probably giggling away at home at the moment.

I would probably look at you a bit but then I'm rather slow in this kind of situation, but I'd laugh about it with my mum at home...

oooh the walk of shame dressed as a sheep. ouch.

wonder if she wore the outfit all night?

I heart this thread :o

Remind me not to go sales shopping with you lot, incase I get stabbed, elbowed out of the way of the last french stick/girls jeans/party dress.

I believe it came off for a few hours... Apparently the charming young gentleman gallantly offered her his tracksuit bottoms to put over the top of her hotpants covered in cotton wool , but her top half would still have been sheep-esque, so she decided to just embrace the sheep-ness.

Reminds me of the time I picked out 2 white scarves. Undecided which to get I put them against my dhs face to try them out as it were. After I "tried out" the first one I hung it on a rack next to me then tried out the 2nd one. The second the first one left my hand a woman grabbed it and made off with it. I said to my dh looks like I'm having option number 2 then. We did laugh about it as I said my dh must have been a good model. They were women's scarves btw.

my supergirl outfit didn't come off.