does it make you tick when..... - Page 3

cashman · 23-08-2005, 23:19

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Originally Posted by harwood red

2 deliveries, 2 different blokes, both very nice lads and couldn't be more helpful, carrying the shopping in. I also use tesco.com, asda is my preference but they haven't started home delivery in this area yet!!! Delivery varies from £3.99 to £5.99 depending on when you want it delivered but just think of the hassle your saving and monetary wise I'm not being seduced by things I don't really want as I just order the things I need

only fault with that for me is they dont deliver your petrol and i fill up at tesco every monday morning lol

Tinkerbelle · 23-08-2005, 23:21

I have to say I'm a very patient shopper when I'm on my own I love it

BUT when I take the other half with me .... he rages permanently about people getting in his way and swears rather loudly! I get really annoyed cause I know I'll have to kick their arses for him if they start

lol!

junetta · 23-08-2005, 23:22

Oh dear, Cash, maybe the day will come when the big petrol thingy will deliver to your door x

shiny gem · 23-08-2005, 23:23

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Originally Posted by Tinkerbelle

I have to say I'm a very patient shopper when I'm on my own I love it

BUT when I take the other half with me .... he rages permanently about people getting in his way and swears rather loudly! I get really annoyed cause I know I'll have to kick their arses for him if they start

lol!

lol...yeah i used to have one like that...i ended up leaving him at home, it was much easier!!

junetta · 23-08-2005, 23:27

I stay home now and send 'im indoors! He can spend ages looking at tins of peas etc. I would rather go in, get it and get out! We had such a row in Gateway's one Xmas, I shoved the trolley out of the way and drove home. He had to walk. Xmas was a bit hungry that year. He still moans about it now.

Tinkerbelle · 23-08-2005, 23:29

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Originally Posted by shiny gem

lol...yeah i used to have one like that...i ended up leaving him at home, it was much easier!!

and ................... another thing

we spend ages looking at DVD's and Playstation games for him then he sighs and tuts and sulks if I stop to look at anything

Neil · 23-08-2005, 23:29

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Originally Posted by Margaret Pilkington

do you think Tampax would work just as well....?

Not really. Some of us are married.

shiny gem · 23-08-2005, 23:33

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Originally Posted by Neil

Not really. Some of us are married.

doesnt mean your happy to pull a box of tampax out in public!! youll buy em coz you love your missus and youd rather not test her when she says she will nail your arse to the door if you dont...

Neil · 23-08-2005, 23:41

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Originally Posted by shiny gem

doesnt mean your happy to pull a box of tampax out in public!! youll buy em coz you love your missus and youd rather not test her when she says she will nail your arse to the door if you dont...

Nope, I will buy them because it does not bother me. Why should it?

Bazf · 24-08-2005, 00:00

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Originally Posted by Neil

Nope, I will buy them because it does not bother me. Why should it?

Got to agree two daughters and a wife you soon get used to buying femine products.

jpest1 · 24-08-2005, 00:06

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Originally Posted by Neil

Nope, I will buy them because it does not bother me. Why should it?

I totally agree. It has never bothered me at all. I was brought up right. If my mother can come with me to buy condoms (when I was very much younger) why should it bother me to buy sanitary products for women?
Slightly off thread but only following on

garinda · 24-08-2005, 00:12

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Originally Posted by Neil

Not really. Some of us are married.

Romps and all the other G.O.B.'s use Li-lets!!!

[Sorry Romps, I don't really know.]

jpest1 · 24-08-2005, 02:58

Going back to thread. I have found a brilliant way to get round Asda, complete with trolley.Wait till about 8pm, that way the refreshment dept is still open but spend 6 till 7.55 in the pub. People look at you strange when you crash into their trolley but soon back off when they smell the booze. hehe.

jimmi5bellies · 24-08-2005, 08:54

FPMSL @ Tampax

Put some FemFresh in as well

jambutty · 24-08-2005, 09:29

Supermarkets are an evil necessity and I suffer them with British stoicism.

It all starts in the car park. There is rarely a disabled parking space because some are taken up by vehicles not displaying the blue badge. The Blackburn Asda at Grimshaw Park has ATM machines near the disabled parking. “I’ll only be a minute” is the response that I sometimes get when reminding the illegally parked driver. Most times it is usually some uncomplimentary remark ranging from “Mind your own business” to “Go and occupy the cemetery you old goat”. In spite of many letters to the Asda management they will not go out and tell the offender to remove the car. All they do is put a piddling little flier on the windscreen but only when reminded of the offending vehicle. I have my own, which are much more to the point and highly visible to passers by.

Inside I suddenly become invisible and take my life in my hands, as trolley pushers are never looking where they are going because she has seen something on a shelf that she might want to look at or wonders if she should buy it. If she doesn’t crash into my ankles, she stops with the trolley across the aisle practically daring someone to push past. People charge out of aisles into the main thoroughfare without looking. “Sorry I didn’t see you” is a frequent response as the collision sends me spinning out of control down the aisle. OF COURSE YOU DIDN'T SEE ME, YOU WEREN'T LOOKING WHERE YOU WERE GOING! I wonder if they drive their cars in the same way?

If I see two people having a natter and almost blocking the aisle a “If you moved this trolley a bit further this way, no one can get past” is a comment that brings some strange responses.

Why can’t I buy just two teacakes any more? Now it is packs of 4 or more. BUT I ONLY WANT TWO!!! Packets of bacon or cooked meat are rarely in packs of less than 10 rashers/slices. Supermarkets are not geared for the single person.

Bread! First of all the shelf stackers ram the loves into the shelves with scant regard and in doing so squash the fresh loaf, which stays squashed. Why can’t they leave the bread on the trays that they were delivered in, like they used to? Of course that day’s delivery is always at the back. If I can actually find a fresh loaf and it hasn’t been squeezed to a pulp then the checkout girl grabs it around the middle and what I get is slices of bread with an hourglass figure. “Please don’t squeeze the loaf” to checkout girl usually brings the response “Pardon!” or she looks at me with a quizzical look as she grabs the loaf with one hand and crushes it whilst offering it up to be scanned.

Own brand products are tasteless rubbish with precious few branded goods around any more.

Packing? They haven’t a clue as tins of this and that get dumped on top of squashable items. I won’t let them pack my shopping.

Finally, IF I have managed to find a disabled parking place I find that some clown has parked across my exit point as he stands in the queue waiting his turn at the ATM.

As I said - Supermarkets are an evil necessity and I suffer them with British stoicism.