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Would it be considered Sad if I purchased one of those old woman shopping trolleys?

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MissusWoman · 21/10/2004 16:53

In Barcelona you see young people wheeling their little oldwoman shopping trolley things around all over the place, but would I get funny looks if I bought one to use here?

It would be so handy for shopping at the market

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DelGirl · 21/10/2004 18:34

errr, nope! Would the suitcase not do you? I got a fantastic one from Dubai for a fiver! Maybe missus lou could get you one from Thailand or failng that bring you back one of those whatchmacallits, you know the bike with the bloke and the little cart at the back.

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MissusWoman · 21/10/2004 18:35

of course, i just need a personal rickshaw!

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DelGirl · 21/10/2004 18:35

You could just about get away with that I suppose. God, listen to me, Trinny fashion guru no 2, I think not!

codswallop · 21/10/2004 18:35

theres an old guy near her who uses a pram to push his dog about in

DelGirl · 21/10/2004 18:36

thats it, a rickshaw. I've seen them in convent garden. Just go and chat one up of a saturday morning and tell him to drop you off at waitrose

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MissusWoman · 21/10/2004 18:36

If I had the necessary skills to make them in trendy fabrics I bet they'd sell like hot cakes

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MissusWoman · 21/10/2004 18:37

one of dp's best friends is a rickshaw driver, he had christian slater in the back of his rickshaw the other week

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DelGirl · 21/10/2004 18:38

Just get an Animal rucksak or summit

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MissusWoman · 21/10/2004 18:38

i don't know where old women buy them from - argos perhaps?

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DelGirl · 21/10/2004 18:39

Well, there you go. Cheaper than a minicab and you could pay him in beansprouts

iota · 21/10/2004 18:39

I think my mum , who is in her seventies, got one from Argos.

DelGirl · 21/10/2004 18:39

Sport/surf shops. Don't suppose there are many in your neck of the woods though

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MissusWoman · 21/10/2004 18:41

snmum, you can actually buy special trolley bags for sewing machines here

trouble is they are hideous

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DelGirl · 21/10/2004 18:41

Just forget the trolley and get dp/dd/ds to carry everything instead

DelGirl · 21/10/2004 18:41

oh dear!!!

Branster · 21/10/2004 18:43

so Louis Vuitton don't do one yet???

DelGirl · 21/10/2004 18:46

I think they might you know. I bet that's what they must use in Barcelona. come to think of it mmissuswoman, I may have seen them in Perugia.

lou33 · 21/10/2004 19:02

get lars to schlep you about on his rickshaw mw!

redshoes · 21/10/2004 19:50

I have seen some trendy ones here in Brighton - one of the school-run mums has a glossy cow-print one...

DelGirl · 21/10/2004 19:54

spotted one for you here missuswoman

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MissusWoman · 21/10/2004 19:56

cool dg, i've emailed them to ask what the shipping is on it!

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DelGirl · 21/10/2004 19:58

you haven't, have you ?

DelGirl · 21/10/2004 20:00

you can get a matching tote purse and bottle holder too. Very convenient for your Evian lol

lou33 · 21/10/2004 20:00

mw that is HIDEOUS!

WideWebWitch · 21/10/2004 20:32

Surely it would be sad. but maybe they've got so old fash they're trendy again?