ShopliftingWhen I was young and impressionable and on holiday in France, I followed some friends into a sweet shop and we each stole something. I was so mortified by this, I returned them.
My lack of French hampered this somewhat - they had no idea why the small English boy wanted to add some chews to the open box, and saw it as an attempt by a nasty foreigner oik to contaminate their stock. Not my best day.
What have you lifted?
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chthonic, Thu 10 Jan 2008, 11:13)
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Snow peasHeard this yarn on the radio once. Who cares if its a porky because the theory is nice.
The story goes that some clever chap went to the supermarket checkout with a bag of snow peas - big tray of them for sale, fill your own bag etc. Protocol in these parts is for the honourable checkout person to put said goods on the scale, key in the per kilo price, and a charge is assigned accordingly.
Thing is though, now that the lowest value coin around here is 5 cents, there is this practice of rounding either up or down to the closest 5 cents depending on the value of the item.
Apparently snow peas, when put through this process individually, weigh so little they are rounded down... to zero cents.
Yay, free snow peas. Button mushrooms might work too.
Or, it might be bullshit :) Give it a shot and let me know how you go...
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enoughblueskyforsailorstrousers, Mon 14 Jan 2008, 8:27,
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Surelythe till rounds up/down at the end of the whole shopping transaction. So you'd have to buy each snow pea as a separate purchase?
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