Maudlin Mccan and Keyboardman
reminded me of my all time favourite little pet hate. The one thing that both drives me crazy and yet secretly amuses me at the same time.

People abandoning items in supermarkets.

It drives me crazy because it's so rude and lazy. Why not put them back where you got them? No-one else ever picks these items up either, as they have been stained with the foul mark of rejection. My friends have realised how furious this makes me and now point such items out.... one of them sent me a picture from her mobile phone of a pair of slippers in a FRIDGE in Asda. It had "saw this and thought of u" under it. I almost pissed myself, but secretly wanted to drive down and move them.

However.....

It always fascinates me, the odd places you find these things. I mean.... finding an abandoned pie next to the slim fast you could understand, but slippers in a fridge? What was it about Muller fruit corners that made someone think "to hell with comfortable indoor footwear!"? Razors in the fresh fruit? Potato scones abandoned next to pots.

It always makes me feel a bit like I'm in a shit version of CSI trying to understand these little crime scenes.
( baw__bag contains traces of nuts on, Sun 4 May 2008, 17:06, 4 replies)

my wife does this
And I hate it! *click*
( SteamedCleaner, Sun 4 May 2008, 17:40, closed)

Next time I change my mind in the supermarket
I'll try to put the rejected item somewhere funny.

Slippers in a fridge .... brilliant.

Have a click for making me laugh out loud
(TheWeeWitch hasn't been here much recently .., Sun 4 May 2008, 18:06, closed)

I work in a supermarket part time
in the refrigerated goods section, some people seem to think that it's fine to dump frozen stuff in the fridges, even when there's a large open freezer on the other side of the aisle! Someone seemed to repeatedly do this with the same item on the same day for weeks in a row. I mean why the fridge? does it make them feel less guilty that it will defrost and become unsaleable slower?

*breathes again*
(sailorspoon started wiping his own arse from, Sun 4 May 2008, 20:07, closed)

I also work part time in a supermarket
We actually have to get people off their jobs to go round with a trolly picking up the dumped items and returning them to where they belong everyday.

What a fucking waste of time. Just walk back round the corner to where you picked it up you lazy little shit.

We regularly end up wasting food because it has been dumped and found several days later hidden away out of date (which is purchased now could end up with the shop having to pay a fortune and the person responcible for said item losing their job) or dumped out of a chilled area for goodness knows how long so we have to waste it for health reasons.

I once found a packet of pigs ears for dogs in the baguette stand....
( vix0r was not Matthew on, Sun 4 May 2008, 23:17, closed)