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As it said in the supermarket half an hour ago above the checkout that I assumed would be the fastest to use. Until I realised that the woman two in front of me had 3 Baskets. Should I be annoyed, or is she just being clever and following the letter of the law.

(How she carried 3 baskets I have no idea).

― Pete, Wednesday, 26 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

What were you doing in the supermarket in the middle of the afternoon? You should have hit the woman with the nearest blunt object.

― Emma, Wednesday, 26 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Er - shopping (ask a silly question. For Glastonbury!!!!).

I kind of admired her bare faced cheek and knew that if I bought it up she would say that she had baskets. In some ways with my merely singular basket I was breaking the rule.

― Pete, Wednesday, 26 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I kind of admired her bare faced cheek and knew that if I bought it up she would say that she had baskets

Dan Perry to thread...!

― Tracer Hand, Wednesday, 26 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

You've done his work for him, Tracer. Carry On Glastonbury.

― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 26 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I was going to ask Ptee about the state of his basket after seeing her bare-faced cheek, but then I remembered that I didn't want to know.

― Dan Perry, Wednesday, 26 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I think if a stranger in a checkout line made a point of admiring my cheeks, bare or not, I'd probably claim I had a case of the baskets as well, just to keep them at bay. Especially if they were stocking up on glowsticks and granola. (I assume glowsticks and granola form the basis for English music festivals.)

― Tracer Hand, Wednesday, 26 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

We don't do granola in this country and glowsticks are so 1997.

― Pete, Wednesday, 26 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Since my knowledge of English music festivals is so very 1994 I was trying to project forward a few years. But it looks like I only got halfway. Anyhow this raises the question: what's in YOUR basket Ptee Baran?

― Tracer Hand, Wednesday, 26 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

It does say baskets plural.

― Graham, Wednesday, 26 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I'm still fretting over how she managed three baskets at once.
Was it One In Each Hand, plus One Kicked Along The Floor in a sort of Footballer's-Dribble-Type-Way?
Or One In Each Hand plus One On The Head à la Carmen Miranda?
Either way, plucky lass.
I like to see a bit of spirit in the aisles at - where was it? - Tesco?
It doesn't sound the sort of mischief they'd get up to in Waitrose.

― C J, Wednesday, 26 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

When I was a checkout chick, these cheeky pedantic ("but it says basketS") rule bending swine were the bane of my life. The signs should say "Ten items or less or fuck off".

― Madeleine, Wednesday, 26 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Perhaps it was Steve N's 3-handed Swedish girl from the wolf whistle thread.

― felicity, Wednesday, 26 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Ten items or fewer.

― MarkH, Thursday, 27 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Thankyou

― Matt, Thursday, 27 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

What about ten items of EACH sort?

― Maria, Thursday, 27 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

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