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posted by [personal profile] bugshaw at 11:28pm on 22/05/2006
I went to the Campus shop, and stocked up on 4 bottles of Diet Vanilla Coke and 2 packs of chocolate-coated Sesame Snaps. Brought them to the till. Cashier said "Doing the office run, are we?"

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posted by [identity profile] frandowdsofa.livejournal.com at 10:41pm on 22/05/2006
Oh right, that would be an office with about, oooh, 2 part-timers in it then.

Our office Friday morning bacon butty run just about fills a small van.
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posted by [identity profile] tanngrisnir.livejournal.com at 10:47pm on 22/05/2006
You should have been there when we did the pizza run for the Move-In workers at Interaction. ;o)
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posted by [identity profile] ex-lark-asc.livejournal.com at 12:21am on 23/05/2006
I remember the time I went into the local post office depot just after the strike a year or three ago, and asked on the offchance if there were any parcels for me. The wizened, gnomelike counter guy disappeared into the bowels of the warehouse, and I waited...

... and waited...

... and waited...

... and then a voice bhind me said "Over here!", and I turned round to see him wheeling an entire trolley piled high with packages.

"Been on Ebay, have we?" he said...
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posted by [identity profile] bugshaw.livejournal.com at 10:01am on 23/05/2006
LOL!
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posted by [identity profile] ang-grrr.livejournal.com at 05:57am on 23/05/2006
I assume the response of, "Mind your own business you wizened service troll" remained unsaid.
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posted by [identity profile] bugshaw.livejournal.com at 10:12am on 23/05/2006
No, they're nice people in the shop. The stoical look of shame I gave as I said "No, they're all mine" (I have such a cross to bear) did rather crumple her, though.

And it's nowhere near like the incident in Tesco's where I bought a Pregnancy magazine, the cashier congratulated me, and I said "I'm not." Her face was a flick book of emotions, from embarrassment to aghastness that she might have inadvertently deeply hurt me through drawing attention to some tragic yet invisible reproductive dysfunction I might have. (I'm being charitable in ascribing her assumptions - she might just have thought "OMG, I saw how big she was but it's just FAT!!!")
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posted by [identity profile] aardvark179.livejournal.com at 09:47am on 23/05/2006
I think we're all missing the important point here. I thought they'd stopped selling Vanilla Coke, or have they just stopped selling the full fat version?
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posted by [identity profile] bugshaw.livejournal.com at 10:04am on 23/05/2006
They seem to be phasing it out. It is still available in a few places, so I stock up where I can. The campus shop is one (for 500ml bottles); Morrison's in Woking is another - 2l bottles and they're on special offer at the moment! We visited [livejournal.com profile] major_clanger's Mum in Woking at the weekend, and I now have 15 bottles (about which I feel rather embarrassed).
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posted by [identity profile] the-magician.livejournal.com at 02:18pm on 23/05/2006
... that probably explains why the Tesco sign says "buy two bottles of Coke (any variety except Vanilla) and get a free World Cup glass".

I now have two World Cup glasses! (and four bottles of Diet Coke)
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posted by [identity profile] bibliofile.livejournal.com at 02:34pm on 23/05/2006
Don't be embarrassed. I haven't been able to find any Vanilla Coke anywhere--though I've been looking in quantity at supermarkets, not single containers in small shops.
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posted by [identity profile] bugshaw.livejournal.com at 03:29pm on 23/05/2006
I could offer to bring you some if I win TAFF (plug, plug), but I can't guarantee I wouldn't drink it in the airport on the way over :-(

I could bring crystallized violets - they're nice in Coke.
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