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This is so bizarre...

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PistolWhipped · 01/09/2014 20:22

DP just returned from Tesco having bought a 12.5g box of Amber Leaf tobacco. When he tore off the cellophane and looked inside the box he found no tobacco and precisely seven sheets of toilet paper and 2 two-pence pieces! What the devil is going on? We're just sat here, open-mouthed, staring at bog roll and coppers. Has anyone got any idea what could have happened at t'factory? Has anything like this ever happened to you? Where's our baccie?! Confused

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Pensionerpeep · 02/09/2014 19:49

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PistolWhipped · 02/09/2014 20:27

Pensioner! I thought you were about to say you soiled yourself! Grin

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iklboo · 02/09/2014 20:51

Maybe it's someone who's REALLY zealous about encouraging people to give up smoking?

kernowgal · 02/09/2014 20:58

Nowt to add but you have me crying with laughter.

juneybean · 02/09/2014 21:02

I love this thread.

PistolWhipped · 02/09/2014 21:09

Ugh. I just know I'm going to end up fantasising about sex with the Tesco turd tonight Sad

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FreeWee · 02/09/2014 21:32

Actually lol'd several times AND pressed pause on Sky+ three times to share the thread with DH. High praise indeed. Daily updates please!

NerfHerder · 02/09/2014 21:36

This thread is hilarious!

Thanks for making me Smile

wooldonor · 02/09/2014 21:40

Did you also buy some lager and go to the paper with your best sad face Grin

www.chroniclelive.co.uk/news/north-east-news/mystery-newcastle-man-finds-stock-7693005

PistolWhipped · 02/09/2014 21:45

Blimey! Fancy finding no booze in yer cans. I'm starting to obsess about being compensated. It's ridiculous. I remember not so very long ago it was reported in the national newspapers that someone had found half a mouse - HALF A MOUSE! - in their Topic. They got summat like half a million quid for the distress caused - they should've been round my gaff last night when DP had no cigs Grin

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LoofahVanDross · 02/09/2014 21:51

def a thread for classics, am howling Grin

Olga79 · 02/09/2014 21:56

Careful you don't get arrested...

Man arrested for fraud after Tesco sells him clay lump instead of Ipad for £470

PistolWhipped · 02/09/2014 22:00

I'm sorry but 'Colin' deserves to be incarcerated looking like that. He looks like a slightly more erudite version of that creature in the basement in The Goonies.

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thenightsky · 02/09/2014 22:27

I got compensated for a worm (live and wriggling) in a fresh orange.

It was Waitrose though. Hmm

PistolWhipped · 03/09/2014 09:14

Thenightsky, I went all funny in the soles of me feet when I read that.

Late last night I emailed Tesco detailing the 'switch' explanation suggested by JT International and asking them what they propose to do about it. I will come back and let you all know what they say

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PistolWhipped · 03/09/2014 19:39

My reply from Tezzers:

'Dear you,
I’m sorry to hear there wasn’t any tobacco in the box of Amber Leaf you purchased. You mention the box contained toilet paper and coins, which is very strange.

We would need to investigate this with the supplier. In order for us to do this, could you please return the product along with your receipt, to store at your earliest convenience?

Once you have done this, the store will send this off for investigation and you will be contacted.

Thanks again for contacting us and if there is anything else I can do for you, please reply to this email. Alternatively, you could call us on 0800 505555/0330 123 4055, quoting reference number: 17437699, where my colleagues will also be more than happy to assist.

Kind regards

P. Niss
Tesco Customer Service'

This was my reply:

Dear ___,

Why would I have kept the receipt for a box of tobacco? No-one keeps receipts unless they are like those smelly, eccentric hoarders off the telly whose hallways one cannot enter thanks to sixteen-foot-high piles of piss-stained newspapers and Tesco receipts dating back to 1937. Similarly, I have not saved the toilet roll sheets; there were seven of them and I just happen to have evacuated my bowels four times since the 'switching' incident (and I blame that entirely on Tesco's own curry sauce, which tasted like cat shit and gave me ring sting).

So, I will be sending neither the receipt nor the toilet roll for your inspection and, before you ask, you won't be seeing the two 2p coins either - they are currently resting on the eyelids of my nan, whom I believe to have been killed by your curry sauce.

Thanks for absolutely fuck all,

Lily Allen (yes, the real one).

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LiberalLibertines · 03/09/2014 20:24

Grin hoping against hope you really sent that Grin

PistolWhipped · 03/09/2014 20:26

Yes. I really did.

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LiberalLibertines · 03/09/2014 20:30

Then I think I've fallen in love with you a little bit Grin

PistolWhipped · 03/09/2014 20:33
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3luckystars · 03/09/2014 21:41

There's no way half a mouse would fit into a Topic. If it did, then some other poor fucker must have eaten the other half and didnt get a penny.

SheWhoDaresGins · 04/09/2014 08:15

**

Ha ha ha

Pistol that reply real or not is fucking hilarious, they are currently resting on the eyelids of my nan, whom I believe to have been killed by your curry sauce completely finished me off Grin

LiberalLibertines · 04/09/2014 09:26

I'd love to be there when they open that email, you should get a ferry load of fags and wine at least, and free orgasms for life

minkymuskyslyoldstoaty · 04/09/2014 09:39

brilliant, i have also got a girl crush on op now.

Nirvana1979 · 04/09/2014 09:39

I have proper laughed at this thread. Definitely one for classics!

I found a razor blade in my bowl of Cornflakes when I was 10. I don't think my parents even complained.

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