To hate it when people try to give you their £1 for your trolley?

[Horriblehistories]

For some reason I dislike doing this. When you're putting your trolley back and people try to give you their £1 and you give them your trolley.

I don't want their £1, I want to keep mine.

It's happened today and the lady gave me 5 20p coins, in exchange for my £1 coin, so essentially I just gave her change. Only now I don't have my £1 coin (which I always keep in my car for the trolley), so I've now got to change it myself back to £1.

Crikey. Do you normally get pissed off at fairly normal behaviour? This happens almost weekly depending on where I shop. I also give people my car park tickets if there's an amount of time worth bothering about left on it.

You are allowed to say "no" and then carry on about your business.

If you don't have a pound coin or a trolley token, you can use the rounded end of a key which also works.

I use a fake pound coin in trolleys, keep it in the car for that very purpose (I'm annoyed I didn't notice it in my change ages and ages ago but there you go). If anyone approaches me (it happens round here too, OP) I just say "oh best you don't, the coin is fake" and that's it, some just say ok, some even thank me! Good phrase to keep in mind?

But if someone gives you change you get a new pound coin !

So what's the difference between a Sainsbury's pound coin or a strangers pound coin

Wow the level of vitriol being aimed at the OP on here is awful

It's obviously just a silly quirk she has. I have similar ones, although I won't name them on here in case I get bile and vitriol poured on me too.

Sorry @Horriblehistories that you have had to tolerate some of the shit that has been thrown at you on this thread. Hope you won't be put off posting. This is the reason I rarely post new threads to be honest, and if I do, I change my username.

Vitriol? Nope. Just folk totally confused by such nonsense.

I asked a guy in Lidl the other night as I thought it was €2 coin it took and I only had two 1's. He said he had a trolley token so couldn't but then double backed and said I was welcome to his token as he had another at home, I said no thank you but he was so lovely to offer, really made me smile.

I love trolley/coin swapping, makes me feel good cause it's only nice friendly people that do it

OP thank you for this thread it really made me giggle

Jeez, this actually bothers people?

I would be with you OP. There is always the possibility that they are trying to get rid of fake coins. Ok many people are just being polite/ nice etc, but if you did want to get rid of fake coins then what a good way to do it. They reckon that there were fifty million fake £1 coins. If you knowingly try to spend it then you are committing an offence. Much safer to swap with unsuspecting member of public over a trolley. The new ones are supposed to be counterfeit proof - for now.

Yes...those sneaky fake coin toting shysters, lurking in supermarket car parks waiting for their opportunity to diddle shoppers out of a pound.

Ha ha Pictish we all need to be on high alert for those fraudulent fiends, they are just waiting for us unsuspecting Shoppers, they literally have pound signs in their eyes!!! £££

😆 Pictish - that's just what I thought.

I shop online... No need for trolleys, coins and a big bonus it means limited contact with other humans

I have to agree with the OP. I think it annoys me because I've accepted coins before which have been warm and makes me wonder where they've been. In a sweaty hand? In a pocket near sweaty bollocks?

I have ishoos

HorribleHistories YABU, what a ridiculous gripe!
However, IABU too, as I have exactly the same gripe . It right gets on my nerves when people ask this, so now I use a token . I get a perverse joy to not have to accept their grotty pound. I'm weird yes, but I don't care

I am one of those £1 givers

And love it if someone offers me £1 for my trolley once finished packing into car

Means I don't have to walk across the car park

Tho

I would always want £1 coin - not 5 x 20p

I have a £1 that stays in my car for shopping trolleys so wouldn't swap it

Once df spent it

We had words !!!! 😂😂

Wow the level of vitriol being aimed at the OP on here is awful

Jesus Christ, overdosed on the drama pill haven't we?

Pyongy I don't have an ugly soul, so do fuck off.

I was referring to my soul, not yours. But I disagree with your belief that you do not have an ugly soul based on you telling me to fuck off.

Holy crap.

People are really upset by this?

I shop at my local Aldi quite a bit. The trolleys take a quarter (25c - US).
Not once have I ever seen anyone greet the offer of a quarter for their not yet put back trolley with anything but a 'thank you' and both parties getting on with their lives. Even the old lady who was clearly a beggar offering to bring people's trolleys back to the bay for them was always given the trolley.

And this is the car park where I once witnessed a domestic altercation where one person ran into another with a car...

VERY highly-strung bunch
This, with bells on.

This thread has been most enlightening.

I never knew there was such a thing as tokens for shopping 🛒.

How have I missed this??

You sound lovely and kind and generous OP. You don't want to swap a £1 for a £1? If you have a token, fair enough, say you've got a token but blimey God forbid anyone asks you for something else slightly more annoying to you.

I love this thread!

I then leave with the same happy feeling I get when I have managed to give me carpark ticket to someone so that they don't have to buy one

Humpf. Our miserly council has just changed the system so you have to put your reg no in. So we can't do that anymore :(

This is a true MN thread.

The level of grief aimed at the OP far outweighs her angst at pound coin and trolley swappers.

I now need to buy a tin of corned beef to pick a shopping trolley lock and get a french 20c coin. Small problem as they now use the Euro, shall have to wait for Frexit.

I use a token. How do you all keep a stash of pound coins? Between the tooth fairy, pocket money and the "bring a pound in to school today" scheme, they're a scarce commodity in my household.