do you ever find left over notes in shopping torlleys or elsewhere? i

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i am vaguely intrigued by these as identified in teh times
"Discarded notes are rubbish to most people, but not for worldwide subscribers to Found, which reprints them. The magazine?s publisher, Davy Rothbart, gets bundles sent to his office in Michigan. Laura Kwerel, a radio producer in Washington, was ?overwhelmed? after reading one issue. ?I realise now,? she says, ?that there is more humanity in a discarded grocery list than in a thousand-page novel.? Some people need to get out more. "
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and the second is:

Pots
Coffee
Sugar Butter
Milk
Lettuce
Toms
Onions
Spring
1/2 cucumber
1 brown hovis
Lots bread
Ham
Chicken
eggs
Mayonaise (small)
Salad cream
Cakes

On other side

c/cards

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clean paperwork away

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Clean front - c/tree etc

written in a scriggly script (kinda old ladyish) on a thick quality paper.

Lots bread ??

do you think that list has been lurking in an ASDA trolley for ages, and that c/cards and c/tree are christmas cards and christmas tree?
I know that seems a bit far fetched, what with it being February and all.

Maybe it's someone like me who still has a load of Christmas cards waiting to be put in the recycling, and who still hasn't put the Christmas decorations back in the loft.

Like the sound of the 'Pork Pike' on the first list - some sort of surf and turf version of a pork pie, maybe?

You don't have to look at this thread you know.

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I got ever so excited yesterday, found a shopping list in my handbag but not in my handwriting yesterday, and thought of this thread immediately then I realised that 1)it wasn't a particularly amusing or interesting list and 2)I had accidentally picked it up from my friend when I went shopping with her a couple of months ago!

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Got one! My first one. At asda- had to insist on taking trolley back, then sneak it into my pocket with commando style moves

Bread Barms
Baby food
Soap Powder? Lenor
Toms.
Cheese Milk Butter
Dinners
Cover (think that's right) Mattress * Rolls
Lottery

and on the other side, their lottery numbers!

Sorry, other side:

1,3,6,22,23,39

1,3,6,22,23,39 21

at least I think they were lottery numbers, not some lost-type bizarre sequence! Though why the extra no on second line???

i left my note in the trolley today, was boring tho. have prepared a much more interesting one to 'plant', but forgot to take that out. doh.

wheres bear?

Bear?

I've been ill. Really quite ill. Not man ill, but really actually ill. None of us have been well in the den for a month now, but I got it bad and that ain't good. Now the ABs have kicked in I'm at least able to speak and swallow again. I have lost all my Christmas blubber, mind. Try the tonsilitis diet, ladies - hallucinations likely, having to sleep in another room definite, but you do lose weight. At the start of the week I didn't even turn on the Powerbook - how sad is that - so I missed the "don't look at me, I'm shy"-fest. Anyway, enough about me. I'm touched by your concern.

I did venture out to the store y/day as we were out of milk and nappies (never before happened, as I usually run a very tight ship) and saw the assistant manager going along the line of torlleys pulling dead lists out of the little list clips, scrumpling them up and taking them into the shop with him. How am I supposed to keep my end up if he keeps doing that. I almost stopped him to remonstrate or at least ask for the ones he'd got, but realised I was still too weak for that kind of confrontation. Carrying home Nappies (P), Milk x 3, Dinner and Pears (ripe) via the chemist nearly did for me - haven't eaten since the weekend, see (physically couldn't for the first half of the week). But things are looking up and I'm sure I'll be back at my listing weight soon.

Those can't be lottery nos as they're virtually identical - they must be scrambled coordinates. Mmm, interesting.

Did like littlerach's list from last Friday and Soupy's list the same day - what a health freak.

Fedup's a right laugh isn't she?

keep on looking - the truth is out there

you make me larf
i call adn you come - it smagic folks

the other thread to efficient list retrival is the per son who pushes their trolley in sucha way that to get one you have to sort of swirve them adn make an obvious bee line for an empty trolley

threat not thread

awww, bear, glad to hear youre feeling better.

now, can you please start some other innane and witty thread to keep me amused please?? or spice this one up again, not bothered which. this madness is keeping the baby blues at bay you see, and thereby saving the NHS the cost of treating me for PND and my children from a boring weeping mess of a mother

NG -glad you've bumped this thread as I'm about to nip out to get some bits and pieces so its reminded me to shiftily trawl the trolley park again. ( I'm sure they keep a special eye on me as it is )

I just tried NG, but I think I've proved I'm not as funny as I generally give myself credit for

I'm off to Marksies to find some gilt-edged lists. Laters

hey, be careful out there kids. like mr stevens says, its a wild world and these supermarket carparks, well, theyre hives of dodgy activity.
mostly from slightly doolally MNers leaving and picking up notes from each other in a collar up on your trenchcoat kind of way, of course.
will go and plant one or two of my own later. summink to do, innit?

Found a five pound note in trolley in Waitrose the other day, yippee!

I lost a fiver in Waitrose just after Christmas - but I bet it wasn't the same one - mine was a Northern Irish note, monopoly money.

Went to Markses and not a sausage. Well there were sausages - loads of them, some looked really nice, but as I'm still poorly, I'm on a reduced diet, so I left them behind. But anyway, no notes. I'm ploughing a barren furrow round here, hence the madness elsewhere. Sorry.