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🐗 CURMUDGEONS' CORNER 8 - room for the peeved and cantankerous too🐗

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  • FairygirlFairygirl Posts: 55,117
    Hostafan1 said:
    Fairygirl said:
    Maybe their waistlines are more important than their bank balance @Hostafan1 :D
    they could take one of the packs out and give them to a neighbour, or the food bank?
    Aye right.... ;)
    It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....



    I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
  • Lizzie27Lizzie27 Posts: 12,494
    I'm feeling very curmudeonly tonight - I've somehow managed to mislay the key to a rat bait box I was re-filling this morning. Put the box on the outside table,  opened it with the key, put the bait inside, shut the lid and put my hand down for the key - which wasn't there!  We have searched high and low for it but still can't find it......grrrrrrr
    North East Somerset - Clay soil over limestone
  • SuesynSuesyn Posts: 664
    We had to go into town to the bank the other day and two young men were indignantly protesting surprised that Burger King was shut. Obviously they had been living under a rock for the last 9 weeks. 
  • Pauline 7Pauline 7 Posts: 2,246
    Lizzie27 said:
    I'm feeling very curmudeonly tonight - I've somehow managed to mislay the key to a rat bait box I was re-filling this morning. Put the box on the outside table,  opened it with the key, put the bait inside, shut the lid and put my hand down for the key - which wasn't there!  We have searched high and low for it but still can't find it......grrrrrrr
    Lizzie. It's not in the box by any chance is it?
    West Yorkshire
  • KT53KT53 Posts: 9,016
    Does the Co-op not display the price/g on the shelf label @KT53 ? I always used to check these details back in the old days when I was allowed to go shopping. I got an A in 'A' level Pure Mathematics ** years ago so I notice these things  :D 

    Yes they do herbaceous, and I am good enough at maths to work out the unit price.  It just seems ridiculous to have such price variation, and variation in pack content too.  If I was of a cynical disposition I might even think it was designed to mislead.
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    I often find it's cheaper to buy two small packets of rice than one large packet.
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • herbaceousherbaceous Posts: 2,318
    Cynical is good @KT53 and it might be a misleading offer but I'm cynical enough to wonder (having had a few encounters with young checkout staff) if their GCSE was in Media Studies  :D 
    "The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it."  Sir Terry Pratchett
  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,889
    Lidl this morning: Guy in front paid for his shopping, as he walked away, the checkout guy called out,
     " 'Scuse me mate"
    " I'm NOT your mate" he called back.
    " You've left money on the till"   
    he came back , snatched up the money and said " I'm STILL not your mate" 
    Makes working in retail so rewarding .
    Devon.
  • FairygirlFairygirl Posts: 55,117
    My T shirt [two metres, p****]  arrived today @Hostafan1. I suggest all people who have to work with the great unwashed should be issued with one as part of their standard uniform.
    My daughter  [and most of the staff where she works]  is fed up with people just pushing past her to reach stuff, as though they don't exist, or are disposable or something   :(
    It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....



    I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
  • KT53KT53 Posts: 9,016
    Fairygirl, I understand your daughter being fed up, but I was in my local supermarket earlier.  It has arrows on the floor to aid traffic flow.  That didn't stop a member of staff pushing through people in the opposite direction with a trolley full of empty boxes.  The separation is required both ways.
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