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I was shopping at Morrison’s supermarket the other day. The five things I bought (fresh salmon, tea bags, 2 baguettes and beetroot) would easily have fitted into a basket, but I was too lazy to carry the stuff and took a trolley instead.

When I made my way to the checkouts I found that there was one with barely a queue. Ok, the sign there said “Handbaskets Only”, but then again, there were only five items in my trolley. Surely the “Handbaskets Only” line’s raison d’être was to serve customers with few items, a quasi-express checkout.

When I approached the checkout, the young woman behind the till immediately laid down the law by almost shouting “Handbaskets only!”. I told her that I only needed to pay for five items, but she replied that no trolleys were allowed.

Not willing to go to a different, longer queue I took one of the baskets previous customers at that line had left, put the five items into the basket, then moved them from the basket onto the conveyor belt. Once I had paid, I took the trolley, put the bags into the trolley and left the supermarket.

This little bit of comedy brought to mind Darwin’s “On the Origin of Species”. There is also a German idiom that perfectly describes what happened here: “Die Rache des kleinen Mannes” translated: “The revenge of the little man”.

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Yeah, I had totally forgotten that I had a flickr account.

So I had a look through the thousands of photos in my private collection and uploaded some (7) of them.

Update: I have now included a Flickr Badge within the right sidebar. I tinkered around a bit with it to integrate it a bit better into the overall look and feel of the page. What do you think?

Take a look!

Oh, before I forget, I would normally agree with Nico, regarding the shopping, and eating pasta sauce without pasta if I had forgotten the pasta, but forgot the meat, and that makes it a whole different story.

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Just this afternoon I went to our local supermarket to do some shopping.

I bought potatos and onions for dinner, pastrami and corned beef for breakfast and some cookies for my sister who is working so hard.

But I forgot the damn minced meat for tonight’s dinner, Spagetti Bolognese is nothing without the mince. So I have to go again.

I hate shopping, and just about the only thing I hate more than shopping is going shopping again because I forgot something the first time round.

Oh well, they say if you haven’t got it in your head (or on a list) you have to have it in your legs (or car, mhuahahaha).

Grumble. I am off.

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