New shoes
You know when you buy new shoes they usually have all that paper stuffed inside?

When I was about 5 and being dragged out for new shoes, for some reason someone (my parents, the shopkeeper, didn't really care at the time) hid a paper bag of sweets amongst it all and got me to take the paper out. Imagine the giggly surprise of a 5 year old discovering sweets inside those new shoes.

23 years later and I still subconsciously look for it and find myself disappointed that there's only paper inside, every time I buy a new pair.
(Cloudane, Tue 6 Jul 2010, 15:18, 6 replies)

Get someone
to sneak a mousetrap and a couple of stanley knife blades inside the next ones you buy.

Instant cure. Also, you will not have any trouble with a new Iphone.
( Not Pineapple anymore, Tue 6 Jul 2010, 15:21, closed)

Aww that is sweet

( sandettie light vessel automatic New Twitter - @bollocksreally, Tue 6 Jul 2010, 15:26, closed)

I find myself wondering...
...how many pairs of shoes you buy per year as a result of this early experience?
( Olembe Refuses to write in this space, Tue 6 Jul 2010, 15:58, closed)

One every couple of years maybe
Male - girly male, granted, but not quite girly enough to be finding excuses to buy lots of shoes ;)
(Cloudane, Tue 6 Jul 2010, 16:08, closed)

And ever since seeing The Godfather for the first time a good number of years ago I always check toilet cisterns for handguns when I'm in bars and restaurants.
(Benzyl, Tue 6 Jul 2010, 16:15, closed)

It's always worth a look
I was on holiday in Prague a few years back and my mate found a 5000 Czech crown note (which I think was worth about £120 at the time) under a cistern lid in the toilets of a posh restaurant / hotel in the Old Town Square.

I'd love to know what it was doing there but it didn't seem like a good idea to ask too many questions!
( ElParrot, Tue 6 Jul 2010, 21:16, closed)