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5 hours ago, Trackdaybob said:

I know times are difficult and people are struggling. To differing degrees. But FFS, going to the supermarket is not a fucking day out. 

My line in the sand is garden centres.

She suggests going to them when we don't need anything, just for a look, maybe a coffee.

Will I fück, unless actually need something. Garden centres are not a destination.

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41 minutes ago, Sergeant Wilson said:

My line in the same is garden centres.

She suggests going to them when we don't need anything, just for a look, maybe a coffee.

Will I fück, unless actually need something. Garden centres are not a destination.

Stockbridge (in Edinburgh) now has a mini Dobbies in a modern little row of shops (the kind that usually have a Starbucks and general expensive tat. You should take Mrs Wilson for a day trip to visit it. 

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1 minute ago, Shandön Par said:

Stockbridge (in Edinburgh) now has a mini Dobbies in a modern little row of shops (the kind that usually have a Starbucks and general expensive tat. You should take Mrs Wilson for a day trip to visit it. 

It's cafe sells Hotel Chocolat stuff to blend in so if the Sarge is visiting he'll need to remortgage

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4 hours ago, Sergeant Wilson said:

My line in the sand is garden centres.

She suggests going to them when we don't need anything, just for a look, maybe a coffee.

Will I fück, unless actually need something. Garden centres are not a destination.

Kinda related to this, my gf will frequently go to Home Bargains and I will inevitably ask "why, what do we need?" 

She genuinely says "Home Bargains tells you what you need when you get there". 

Absolutely baffling. When I question this madness it is apparently normal for women to think like this. 

ETA she was in Stirling today and she has just told me she bought more than she needed in Lush "because the shop assistant said she liked my hair".   

 

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13 minutes ago, CountyFan said:

Kinda related to this, my gf will frequently go to Home Bargains and I will inevitably ask "why, what do we need?" 

She genuinely says "Home Bargains tells you what you need when you get there". 

Absolutely baffling. When I question this madness it is apparently normal for women to think like this. 

ETA she was in Stirling today and she has just told me she bought more than she needed in Lush "because the shop assistant said she liked my hair".   

 

My wife has said similar about home bargains/B&M to me. It is indeed madness, money pissed up the wall on tat, generally.

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1 hour ago, CountyFan said:

Kinda related to this, my gf will frequently go to Home Bargains and I will inevitably ask "why, what do we need?" 

She genuinely says "Home Bargains tells you what you need when you get there". 

Absolutely baffling. When I question this madness it is apparently normal for women to think like this. 

ETA she was in Stirling today and she has just told me she bought more than she needed in Lush "because the shop assistant said she liked my hair".   

 

How can a shop tell you what you need?

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15 hours ago, Trackdaybob said:

I know times are difficult and people are struggling. To differing degrees. But FFS, going to the supermarket is not a fucking day out. 

It is for me - that's what my life has become so I expect sympathy rather than mockery!

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8 hours ago, CountyFan said:

Kinda related to this, my gf will frequently go to Home Bargains and I will inevitably ask "why, what do we need?" 

She genuinely says "Home Bargains tells you what you need when you get there". 

Absolutely baffling. When I question this madness it is apparently normal for women to think like this. 

ETA she was in Stirling today and she has just told me she bought more than she needed in Lush "because the shop assistant said she liked my hair".   

This has cheered me up massively. She's not wrong about Home Bargains, tbf. I went in with my pal last Friday as she was wanting a candle and I myself spent £14 on stuff. Not stuff that I need but stuff I know I would have bought later on that week, costing more. 

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9 hours ago, CountyFan said:

Kinda related to this, my gf will frequently go to Home Bargains and I will inevitably ask "why, what do we need?" 

She genuinely says "Home Bargains tells you what you need when you get there". 

Absolutely baffling. When I question this madness it is apparently normal for women to think like this. 

ETA she was in Stirling today and she has just told me she bought more than she needed in Lush "because the shop assistant said she liked my hair".   

 

similar to shop owners/assistants giving yer dug biscuits tin an attempt to make you feel compelled to buy something. 

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Kinda related to this, my gf will frequently go to Home Bargains and I will inevitably ask "why, what do we need?" 
She genuinely says "Home Bargains tells you what you need when you get there". 
Absolutely baffling. When I question this madness it is apparently normal for women to think like this. 
ETA she was in Stirling today and she has just told me she bought more than she needed in Lush "because the shop assistant said she liked my hair".   
 
Lush are good at that. My one went in for shampoo once and came out with a twenty quid tub of hand cream, based on about 20 seconds of OTT niceness from the lassie behind the counter.
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Home bargains is my noodle supplier of choice. Koka spicy stir fry, tom yam or massalla flavours especially. They've only had beef or curry for about a month though, the p***ks. 

Also quite happy to buy their imported "brand name" toothpastes for 75p instead of the £3 equivalent from shops that are in cahoots with the big suppliers. If it's good enough for the Botswanans then it's good enough for me. 

I draw the line at the unsuccessful trial confectionery that you never see elsewhere, lime kit kats and the like. 

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Yesterday evening in Dyce, the car park outside of the Costcutter was full, so I get out of the car that she is driving at the red lights and she says "I'll drive on and come back for you once I see a space".  I don't have my phone with me.  She knows this, as she was the very one who said "you don't need it" when we were leaving the house.

I get the booze from the shop and head outside after I'd been in for ~10 mins.  Free spaces in the car park outside the door, but no car.  I stand there watching the traffic in both directions for about 10 mins in the dark, in the cold and in the drizzle with awkward poly bags full of bottles cutting into my hands.  A police car with its sirens turned on passes by, and I consider that she might be dead.  I choose not to believe that, but there's niggling doubt. 

Another ~10 mins go by.  Still nothing.  I consider that she may have driven past, seen no spaces and decided to park at the train station or bank car park nearby.  I wander along and check both.  No sign at all.  I return to the shop area to see that there are still spaces available, but no f***ing car.  Running out of options, I decide to walk in the complete opposite direction to home, only to eventually find her parked up on the pavement of a side road about 300m from the shop.  I open the door and hear her say "where have you been?!".  Needless to say, I was not amused.  

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53 minutes ago, MixuFruit said:

oddly popular in Japan, all kinds of mad flavours.

I don't mind a visit to B&M and the like but its usually just to buy my weight in birdseed, some of the stuff other punters are buying seems mad though.

 

My sister went to Japan and brought me back a pink kit kat (and a wee bottle of sake). I haven't eaten it yet. 

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