Went shopping in Aldi today with DP and DS to pick up some bits and pieces, and as we get to the checkout I notice that DS is sans dummy.
Cue action stations and an all-out scouring of the whole bloody store to find it while DP sorts out the packing and the loading of the car.
I checked the trolley twice, crawled up and down every single aisle, asked every member of staff I encountered if they had seen it, questioned the people on the checkouts and then crawled around the whole store again.
Assistant manager comes over and asks why I'm on my hands and knees in her store, and I tell her that I'm looking for DS's dummy, that he's very bloody awkward particular about the type of dummies he uses and if we have lost this one then we only have one left. I write down my home number, mobile number and my parents' home phone number just in case the other two are unavailable. I write my name and a description of the dummy on a piece of paper and jibber jabber calmly and eloquently explain that it's imperative we have it back, so if she could have the cleaners keep an eye out I'd be very grateful.
I go back outside, plonk myself in the car... and DP holds up his dummy.
It was in the sodding trolley all along.
