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Original poster

To wish that a Stranger would give me unsolicited advice

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Jemima232 · 08/06/2019 12:02

Having read a lot of threads this morning about HVs, retired dentists and Random Strangers giving unwanted advice about fizzy drinks, I am devastated that this has never happened to me.

Why have I been Left Out?

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Jemima232 · 09/06/2019 22:35

@SingingLily

I suppose my sister was massively at fault for offering her family tinned mince in the first place.

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Jemima232 · 09/06/2019 22:38

And BTW @SingingSeahorses

The police will be at your door soon. MNHQ gave me your address.

Sothere

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CreakingKnees · 09/06/2019 23:12

Oh God. We're all done for! I can't go to prison, I've got work in the morning 😭

( hides under the duvet )

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Jemima232 · 09/06/2019 23:15

@CreakingKnees

There will be plenty of work for you in the prison kitchen.

(Just a bit of unwanted advice)

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CreakingKnees · 09/06/2019 23:32

Prison kitchen you say? I suppose I'll be able to make some hooch so I can get drunk in my cell to pass time on with having a access to sugar and things 🍻 😁

DSHathawayGivesMeFannyGallops · 09/06/2019 23:37

@SingingLily - thank you Grin. If it helps, friend and I are both ex managers, so our customer service aura is obviously VERY strong and clearly suggests being highly competent! Wink

SrSteveOskowski · 10/06/2019 00:22

I'm Irish. We talk to EVERYONE!

I do find it strange when I'm in the UK and have to keep remembering not to engage anyone in a bit of chat.

CreakingKnees · 10/06/2019 00:42

To be fair, I wouldn't mind being approached and given unsolicited advice from a hunk of a bloke.
It would have to be over the frozen peas' though so I could climb into the freezer to cool off afterwards. 😛

Downunderduchess · 10/06/2019 01:31

I've been told more than once by random people to "smile"! I was perfectly happy at the time I just didn't realise I should convey this by walking around with a grin on my face so as not to upset people. My bad.

Exhsuatedmuch · 10/06/2019 02:29

An elderly lady once barked at me that my daughter should have a coat on as she was shivering in the chilled aisle of sainsburys in just shorts and tshirt.. My response was simple.. Yeah I told her that too but she insisted and a kids gotta learn somehow...she huffed and walked off to sniff melons

SingingLily · 10/06/2019 08:19

I have plenty of experience of managing prison kitchens, CreakingKnees, and you are most definitely not suitable to work in there. If there's one thing my workers know, it's the difference between carrots and stolen purses. Plus you know way too much about how to make hooch.

Jemima, kindly keep your unwanted career advice to yourself!

CreakingKnees · 10/06/2019 08:44

Bugger Sad
My life is one big failure. I never get unsolicited advice, i don't know the difference between a carrot and a purse and i can't even drink my jail sentence away. Sniffs.

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Jemima232 · 10/06/2019 11:45

@CreakingKnees

You need to understand that working in a prison kitchen is a great privilege.

Not all inmates are considered suitable. And certainly not those who might concoct hooch from the left-overs. This is wildly irresponsible behaviour.

Certainly, inmates who confuse purses with carrots have been refused parole before now.

It's really up to you.

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Jemima232 · 10/06/2019 11:47

And some prisoners have (historically) put toilet brushes in the prison dishwashers

……...which is also wildly irresponsible...…….

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CreakingKnees · 10/06/2019 11:52

Um, well couldn't i just serve my time in a nice open prison? I could tend the vegetable patch. @Jemima323

( and make vodka from the potatoes )

I won't leg it or put the loo brush in the dishwasher, honest. Grin

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Jemima232 · 10/06/2019 12:14

@CreakingKnees

There are no "nice" open prisons.

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managedmis · 10/06/2019 12:17

I'm another one.

Why did no one give me advice on the long haul flight with my rampant toddler who didn't sleep for 24 hours? Tell me what to do?

StreetwiseHercules · 10/06/2019 12:34

As a man out and about regularly with young children, I have a lot of comments and unsolicited advice, mostly from middle aged women. As they get bigger, it see it starting to tail off.

Have never given a negative reaction but have wanted to tell more than one to fuck off.

theruffles · 10/06/2019 12:35

I once had an elderly lady tut at me in a restaurant and tell me to put my DD down and stop fussing over her. She knew because she had 6 kids of her own. DD was 4 weeks old and was having a feed...

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Jemima232 · 10/06/2019 12:38

@managedmis

Obviously, on a long-haul flight, you should consider the needs of everyone on board and not your child's.

So next time you have the nerve to go on holiday, make sure you only travel five miles from home and do not inconvenience paying passengers on an aeroplane.

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MrsArabin · 10/06/2019 12:41

I have nothing to add - I'm another one with a resting bitch face and am barely acknowledged by strangers, let alone given unsolicited advice.
But I just wanted to say thanks for this thread - I haven't laughed so much at an MN thread for months.

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Jemima232 · 10/06/2019 12:49

@MrsArabin

How very dare you laugh at my thread?

You sound like my sister who told me my suitcase was too big who often comments adversely on my lifestyle choices. Bah.

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CreakingKnees · 10/06/2019 12:56

Sits meekly in the corner for fear of incurring @Jemima323 wrath.

( while trying to figure out why i unwrapped a bag of carrots when my OH said he was going to buy me something nice in 24 carrots for my birthday )

MrsArabin · 10/06/2019 12:58

Shock I have never commented on the size of people's suitcases.

Perhaps I should start...

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Jemima232 · 10/06/2019 13:03

@MrsArabin

Meet me tomorrow at Glasgow Central Station (Platform 1) and you can see my suitcase for yourself. I can't say fairer than that, really.

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