Petrol shortages and panic buying
A few years ago when the tanker drivers were on strike, people went mad with panic buying in the shops to the point that anyone seen piling up their trollies was seen as a huge anti-social bastard hoarder.

So, there I was in Asda, doing the weekly shop for a family of four with all our usual purchases. It was as I put twelve pints of milk in the trolley (as you do), that I became aware of a whispering around me.

"Look at him," the proles said, pointing. "Fucking panic buying."

People pointed, stared, whispered to each other. Somebody actually said out loud that I "ought to be ashamed".

Fuck it, I thought, the house is virtually bare, and the shelves were well stocked. I piled the trolley as high as it would go, and it came to over a hundred quid. Then, with even the till operator and the usually cheery Asda greeter giving me the skunk eye, I fled.

The next day the tanker drivers went back to work.
( Scaryduck LIKES EGG, Thu 14 Jun 2012, 14:24, 4 replies)

A hundred quid
of milk?
(Samantha Bricks Better half done a poo on, Thu 14 Jun 2012, 16:21, closed)

Only £100?
A couple of weeks ago the wife and I managed to spend £70 and the goods barely covered the bottom of the trolley.
( K2k6 has a proper job these days, Thu 14 Jun 2012, 18:19, closed)

12 pints?
Do you bathe in it?
( monster munch person, man, woman... camera... TV?, Thu 14 Jun 2012, 19:24, closed)

Well at least your divorce means you're now saving money on supermarket shopping.

( Fucking hell Jeff I am not a robot, Thu 14 Jun 2012, 20:54, closed)