magnetic personality
So who’s not inspired by dchurch this week? Enjoying his posts reminded me of some other mischief. I use the self scan tills at tesco. They are handy and infuriating in equal measures, I have lost the rag with 'item does not scan' or however they word it more than a few times. However they do have some perks - a ten quid jar of black truffles popped on top of a bag of spuds fools the scales every time - similarly I find all my mangos and avocados cost the same as baked potatoes these days. Deftly chucking an item on the belt after it has been 'cleared' after repeated failed scans by the nice checkout lady often results in having that item for free. This works particularly well if you are a regular, spend a lot, and know a lot of the checkout bints on chatting/distracting terms.

Anyway one day I get home to find my new copy of Batman Begins still has the RFID tag inside. in case you dont know what that is

A few weeks later my missus returns home from tescos - "sorry I'm late spimf, I had to go through all my shopping to find what was setting the alarms off, this happens every bloody time these days, I think I must be really magnetic or something"

Silently I unzipped the front of her handbag and removed the RFID strip I had placed there weeks before.

Bloody women - no sense of humour.
( spimf ™ is whoever you want him to be, Wed 26 Aug 2009, 1:14, 1 reply)

This happened to me
with Wallace & Gromit: Curse of the Were-Rabbit.

I had no such creative genius and snapped the case apart to get at the DVD-y goodness.
( Rookie You'll have to speak up, I'm wearing a towel, Wed 26 Aug 2009, 14:56, closed)