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AIBU to have laughed out loud in Tesco

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Sallystruthers · 01/12/2023 13:49

After putting the tree up last night I nipped to Tesco to grab a bottle of wine to toast the start of the festive season. Whilst in there I decided to grab something for breakfast…

Then I realised I was walking around with wine and sausages and other customers MUST be thinking “oooh she’s got a good weekend planned with her wine and sausages!” and chortled out loud to myself.

Wanted to explain myself to the cashier but felt the retelling of a mumsnet thread would not be of interest to them at the end of the shift.

Sometimes the best threads just come back to you at the most inopportune moments 😀

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Sallystruthers · 01/12/2023 14:15

Peachypeaches · 01/12/2023 14:11

I once just had 3 bottles of champagne, a bottle of whiskey, a Christmas cake and some peanuts in my trolley. A very dapper older gentleman asked if he could come home with me!!

😂noted for future shopping trips

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PumpkinSpiceKatie · 01/12/2023 14:16

Cashier looked down at my stuff (much wine, many crisps) and said 'oooh have a nice party!'

I was not having a party.

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Sallystruthers · 01/12/2023 14:17

PumpkinSpiceKatie · 01/12/2023 14:16

Cashier looked down at my stuff (much wine, many crisps) and said 'oooh have a nice party!'

I was not having a party.

A party for one 😀

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Frazzledandfried · 01/12/2023 14:20

Sallystruthers · 01/12/2023 14:14

Did she start a thread about it recently? 🤔

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How funny! No this was years ago! Weird tho. Nice to know its not just us that come out with that sort of thing 😅

saltinesandcoffeecups · 01/12/2023 14:21

I once walked into my surprise birthday party with a literal armload of cucumbers. I’m really not sure who was more surprised, me or the guests!

In my defense it was harvest time so there were piles of random veggies all around town free for the taking from overzealous home gardeners and I was poor uni student who was excited for actual veggies to eat. My poor boyfriend at the time who tried to talk me out of taking them had to walk in behind me knowing what was about to happen!

Notjustabrunette · 01/12/2023 14:27

A friend of bought a cucumber, meal for one and a bottle of and had the same thought.

AInightingale · 01/12/2023 14:27

Remember being in Tesco once prior to one of those school World Book Day events, my son was going as Burglar Bill. I bought a packet of paper eye masks from the party section, also black duct tape and binliners for something else I was doing, that was it. Only struck me afterwards of wtf that must have looked like at the till.

NonPlayerCharacter · 01/12/2023 14:30

I swear I'm not trying to be a twat but I truly don't get the joke. What were people supposed to be thinking about wine and sausages?

mindsetchange · 01/12/2023 14:31

My ExH went to the shop - and only bought a packet of condoms and a roll of black pudding. Didn't realise how bad it looked until they were on the conveyor belt, and the old lady in front gave him the side eye.

GreenhouseGarden · 01/12/2023 14:35

I once bumped into my son’s teacher with vodka, coke and cucumber in the trolley. I’d forgotten to buy them the first time round Tesco.

I managed not to point out that the cucumber was for the g&t that was already in the car.

OldTinHat · 01/12/2023 14:35

I once had an events company as a client. They ordered 60 bottles of wine and a packet of condoms!

Dibblydoodahdah · 01/12/2023 14:37

When I worked in Tesco on the checkouts it was the men buying a bottle of wine, a box of chocolates and condoms that made us laugh!

ReadingSoManyThreads · 01/12/2023 14:44

Frazzledandfried · 01/12/2023 14:07

My sister saw a man with some wine and some sausages in his basket once and literally said exactly that out loud to him 🤣

Is your sister the one who posted this on MN not that long ago? That's why this OP has quoted it. Many commentators here haven't read the thread so didn't get the humour in this post!!

ReadingSoManyThreads · 01/12/2023 14:45

NonPlayerCharacter · 01/12/2023 14:30

I swear I'm not trying to be a twat but I truly don't get the joke. What were people supposed to be thinking about wine and sausages?

There's a link to the thread this is relating to on the first page of this post. It's just a funny quip that happened recently!

BeaLola · 01/12/2023 14:47

Last year I was stocking up for various Christmas things eg drinks for street party , mulled wine for work event, drink for Christmas to new year events we were hosting so there were a lot of bottles and the till lady sort of commented in a slightly sarcastic way about weren't we having any food for Christmas , I must have looked a bit blank and she gestured at the alciohol and said something along the lines of "it must get merry on Christmas Day" - I realised then what she had meant and I said " oh no this isn't for Christmas ... it's to get me through the week !" - she snapped her head down and started whisking the bottles through on the conveyor belt as if her life depended on it Grin

JumpingDizzy · 01/12/2023 14:49

saltinesandcoffeecups · 01/12/2023 14:21

I once walked into my surprise birthday party with a literal armload of cucumbers. I’m really not sure who was more surprised, me or the guests!

In my defense it was harvest time so there were piles of random veggies all around town free for the taking from overzealous home gardeners and I was poor uni student who was excited for actual veggies to eat. My poor boyfriend at the time who tried to talk me out of taking them had to walk in behind me knowing what was about to happen!

😂😂😂

These are making me howl

NonPlayerCharacter · 01/12/2023 14:51

ReadingSoManyThreads · 01/12/2023 14:45

There's a link to the thread this is relating to on the first page of this post. It's just a funny quip that happened recently!

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Ah, thank you!

I'd have understood if she'd been buying Kleenex, lube and cucumbers, but wine and sausages seemed pretty tame! Even if you were thinking of filth, the sausages would need to be frozen and you'd want to work fast...

YeahIsaidit · 01/12/2023 14:54

Check out people generally don't notice what you have in your trolley, they just scan it and don't give a shit. This thread is stupid

XmasStag · 01/12/2023 14:55

I saw a snippet of Shane McGowen yesterday and his laugh was so funny, he always made me laugh. I know it's sad he died but his laugh had me laughing so hard. I wasn't laughing at him dying but it was his laugh.

Underwatersally · 01/12/2023 14:57

I remember once going to buy some drain unblocker for my bath once when my children were at their dads because I didn’t like using it when they were in the house at the time as they were little and then I saw a plunger on the same aisle and realised I’d been meaning to buy one for ages.
I think got paracetamol and definitely got a funny look going through the checkout with a toilet plunger / drain unblocker and paracetamol 🙈

ticktickticktickBOOM · 01/12/2023 15:02

NonPlayerCharacter · 01/12/2023 14:51

Ah, thank you!

I'd have understood if she'd been buying Kleenex, lube and cucumbers, but wine and sausages seemed pretty tame! Even if you were thinking of filth, the sausages would need to be frozen and you'd want to work fast...

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I can't imagine getting drunk and sticking a either a frozen or flcid sausage up yer mufti would have much of a desired effect to be honest.

uinl · 01/12/2023 15:08

NonPlayerCharacter · 01/12/2023 14:30

I swear I'm not trying to be a twat but I truly don't get the joke. What were people supposed to be thinking about wine and sausages?

Same here. Though I can guess what the OP is getting at but I don't think any eyebrows would be raised. Why would anyone think that.

JustParkAngryFace · 01/12/2023 15:11

I bought a load of massive sanitary pads and a few jars of prunes once. It was only when I got to the till I regretted not throwing in a lettuce. Prunes for MIL, sani pads for me

OuiOuiKitty · 01/12/2023 15:14

Sauvblanctime · 01/12/2023 13:52

Unless it’s cucumber and Vaseline

yabu

A young guy ahead of me in Aldi last night bought just Vaseline and one of those big Toblerones. It did strike me as an odd combination.

CrunchyToes · 01/12/2023 15:18

I was in the queue in Asda years ago and the sales manager from my work joined behind me so we had a quick chat then I paid for my stuff and left.
It was when I got home I just started laughing cos all I'd had in my basket was a bottle of wine, a tub of vaseline and some batteries, all for very innocent purposes but I gave me a right chuckle when I realised 😂