Elite 11+ shopping and chat thread part 2½

Sarahdol75

TrulyMadly wrote: »

I knew your dad was ill Sarah but hoped OH was ok now. This has to be about the 7th or 8th time hasn't it. His throat must be so sore. I know we've spoke about this before but can he get a second opinion? Or is there another consultant he can see. You must both be worn out with it all;)

Yes he is fed up of it all, we have seen a different doctor, and this is the one that has found lumps somewhere else.

cjj wrote: »

Sorry to hear this Sarah. Hope your looking after yourself. Thinking of you xxx

Thanks I am trying to, my mum is not coping, and doesnt drive, so I am picking her up to take to hospital, and then take home again.

TrulyMadly

Sarahdol75 wrote: »

Yes he is fed up of it all, we have seen a different doctor, and this is the one that has found lumps somewhere else.



Thanks I am trying to, my mum is not coping, and doesnt drive, so I am picking her up to take to hospital, and then take home again.

Aren't hospital visits totally draining? It can take up a full evening and it wipes you out emotionally when it's someone close who is poorly. Then when you aren't there you are just wondering constantly how they are and keeping an eye out for other family members.
Meanwhile you feel you have to keep everything else running smoothly....and remembering to eat:o

Anon

Help!

I bought "a few" Dr O this evening of all three flavours (missing out on the Dr O print voucher as I forgot to print it ). Anyway, three flavours, all separate receipts - two appear as Buttercream and one as Home Baking - which is which please, as I need to upload by midnight :eek:.

Edit - ignore me, panic over, from the time of the receipt Gingerbread must be Home Baking as I ran back for it after the others .

Many Thanks

Anon

HILLBERN

Anon wrote: »

Help!

I bought "a few" Dr O this evening of all three flavours (missing out on the Dr O print voucher as I forgot to print it ). Anyway, three flavours, all separate receipts - two appear as Buttercream and one as Home Baking - which is which please, as I need to upload by midnight :eek:.

Edit - ignore me, panic over, from the time of the receipt Gingerbread must be Home Baking as I ran back for it after the others .

Many Thanks

Anon

yes that's right home baking = gingerbread:)

davemorton

TrulyMadly wrote: »

Email from Dr Oetker on the buttercream icing

Thank you for registering your details with us and for sending your receipt as proof of purchase. We are sorry to hear you were not entirely satisfied with our buttercream style icing. As promised we would like to give you your money back and hope that you continue to try Dr. Oetker products in the future.

Please enter the redemption code shown in the email we sent you into the box opposite. Once you have submitted your code you will be asked to enter your bank details

Can you only claim for that once, as two different flavours have 'try me free' (or whatever) on them?
I was in teskies tonight....and forgot to check the tuna, but thinking I might work late Wed, then go to teskies so I am out of the house for all the door knockers. :cool:

Tinyshoes wrote: »

The car park was right next to the dock and this big boat was parked there. :eek:



I did wonder if it was the one DM arrived back on. Don't think you would get me on that multi storey thing on the high seas.

Was on a different one, but been on that one. Is lovely, wish I was back on one now.

Anon wrote: »

Help!

I bought "a few" Dr O this evening of all three flavours (missing out on the Dr O print voucher as I forgot to print it ). Anyway, three flavours, all separate receipts - two appear as Buttercream and one as Home Baking - which is which please, as I need to upload by midnight :eek:.

Edit - ignore me, panic over, from the time of the receipt Gingerbread must be Home Baking as I ran back for it after the others .

Many Thanks

Anon

:eek: You mean there is another voucher I could have used that TM didnt inform me about, I think I need to get her sacked, or at least disciplined!!

Savvybuyer

wendyak wrote: »

Morning Savvy I have decided that many of us have certain autistic traits and I certainly relate to the supermarket trip as my heart was pounding and I felt anxious as I approached the big store to look for tuna- was it the crowds, the noise, other people's lack of direction and speed or the possible trouting - I cannot say .
One thing is sure, it wasn't enjoyable and it was compounded by the revelation that their freezers defrostedwasting thousands of pounds worth of food and the staff don't even care about doing a good job. Luckily I was able to come home quickly and escape other people's Sunday afternoon entertainment- shopping ugh!

Hello everyone!:)
I've decided the opposite recently and that in fact there are certainly people that are on the autism spectrum and people who are not. You can't be autistic if you are not, as there are real aspects that amount to a disability, although maybe it is semantics again (especially with me:rotfl:) as you can have traits of something even if you do not have that something.

Anyway, I was going to call this topic a day for now (I could tell you about my visit to a supermarket today and how the customer in front of me, second in the queue, me third, was not moving forward at all and kept me waiting behind, showed no awareness to me that they were even aware I was behind (at a reasonable distance) as it was obvious they were making huge amounts of eye contact repeatedly with their baby in the trolley seat they had, as well as chatting to and eye contact with someone who was presumably a relative at the other side. Oops, I've now told you:o - may as well now add that last time, after we (me and my relative who happens to have an autism condition) were kept waiting in one venue for ages and ages whilst everyone else in turn got attended to and then came back and attended to all the other people again - seemingly didn't realise we were there despite several different members of staff passing us back and forth at least five times in total, I went and looked up the body language I should apparently be making to indicate we are there. I tried it the next time - still didn't work:(: I suspect either I have not got the movement quite right or else I have some other body language, inadvertently, that is saying the total opposite. I know, from something that happened in my workplace several years ago, that non-autistic people can tell the body language of someone even if they are at the far end of a room ages away from them - one of my colleagues once turned round and said to another member of staff far away at the other side of the building - "you look [such and such thing]" and they said "yes I am" - I wondered how did the first person do that?).

Ignore my last stories now:rotfl:. I should be saying that, for those of you who have left but are waking up and reading this in the morning, who have become used to reading a story from me, I will confound you as I don't have one this time. However, I've now ruined that:doh::rotfl: (not even a surprise now if I do that tomorrow night:(:laugh:)).

I don't mind people chatting. It's just that they were there, behind the first customer, not keeping the queue moving forward enough and leaving my goods, on the divider, whizzing ahead of me, whilst the customer behind me was kept even farther behind by me not being able to move forward because the person in front of me seemingly so engrossed in chatting and looking at the baby they could see nothing else:(. Just - potentially frustrating even though not really their fault. Actually though - it ought to be. People seem to want me to make efforts to communicate with them, and 'socialise' properly, but I think people generally ought to make efforts to see if anyone else is around them stuck behind them waiting whilst they are engrossed in chat with others. I don't think they notice me if I am autistic (which I am) and I'm not even sure that people are even capable of doing such a thing:eek:. I think if people were 'forced' to make the effort, they wouldn't be able to make conversation and would lose track, on having to focus on things their brain normally filters out. Sorry if this comes across too harsh:rotfl: - it's just that... I doubt whether you have capacity to do both (and that means YOU, almost everyone else here, most likely, as it's because of most people's neurology). Not your fault. Then again I do seem to have to make extra efforts as I mentioned before that I have always been making that now seem more recently to be compensating for my disability (and therefore, whilst I have that, I don't appear that disabled). I'm not bitter (or twisted:rotfl:) anyone - and I don't have very low views of "most people" (non-autistic people) - I'm just telling it the way I am encountering it.

I do see things differently now that I am aware that I am autistic and now that I know about the existence of such a thing as body language. I am now looking at it aware of that. Also though I could trick non-autistic people sometimes:rotfl:. As nearly everyone else will know, there is such a thing called "joint attention", of which I was unaware until two years ago(:rotfl:) - yes, already at the age of over forty, and, when in M sometimes, I would be looking at a particular item, focusing on it as interested in it (as if an anthropological study), usually because it was too dear and I was ruling it out, and then someone would come along and look directly at it as if with me and if I stared at the item long enough, they'd take it and go and buy it:eek: because, it seems possible to me now, they thought it must be good as they thought I was considering on buying it:rotfl::rotfl:. The vast majority of people are influenced by how things are presented than anything else - the reality of something (the fact that it costs well more than any equally valid and suitable alternatives) is irrelevant, it is how it is presented, the impression, the emotion, nothing to do with rational sense or buying items that are best value. I would not actually be tricking people - though I noticed they seemed to be easily tricked by themselves, I would just, at times, happen to be staring at the item bexause I was in thought about it and not trying to influence them at buying it. Non-autistic people are so gullible:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:. Sometimes. It's actually us (autistics) that can be naive and take things sometimes on trust. I suppose at least I learn, eventually, not to do so. Mind you if there were no "gullible" shoppers around that didn't pay full price, we wouldn't have any bargains for us:money::T.

Picasso7

TrulyMadly wrote: »

What are we all doing with this?

I'm not happy with Wilco and don't need anything from M&S

Can I order toilet rolls from Boots?:rotfl:

Hello everyone

Visitors over the weekend so I may have missed the tuna. Will go looking tomorrrow. I think I was too timid in S. At the very least we get 10% off if it's a 200 voucher so I don't know why I didn't just go for loads of store cupboard stuff. Next time! But I did spend just over £40 and got 3900 points back, including some wombles and people in front of me in the queue without Nectar cards. Not as good as others but still good. And there is another Virgin train offer so the points are accumulating nicely. Anon, thanks for your help re the forthcoming double up. I realised I'd not replied though I had meant to do so.

TM, I've tried Wilko again and when I picked up the last order I told the girl to ensure it showed as picked up and I did get an e-mail, so I've tried again with one of my accounts. And I did Superdrug and deodorant with the other.

Could someone help me with the link to the icing try me free please? I found your link TM but it only went to terms and conditions etc and I couldn't find the form to fill in. Thank you in advance

Savvybuyer

Sometimes I get the urge to correct things - in fact I do all the flamin' time:mad: (not literally though):rotfl::

https://www.quora.com/What-is-common-sense-compared-to-logic-or-rational
"Common sense comes to you without any effort and within no time."

I think 'speak for yourself' (although it is being addressed to me) - it's just not accurate:mad::mad: - it should be "comes to most people without any effort..." etc. (And, even then, it is that person's own common sense and not anyone else's, which may be a very different answer.)

It seems I have got rational sense instead of "common" sense:rotfl::rotfl:.

You may know the story I have about common sense... the judge in a murder trial who once sent the jury out asking them to use their "common sense" in reaching the verdict. Foreman (I think it was factually a man) returns a few moments later and had to ask the judge what they meant by "common sense" - obviously different members of the jury seem to have had different ideas and probably were disagreeing over the verdict. So, it's not always common sense! The other side is that clinicians sometimes say people who have Asperger's have a distinct lack of common sense. The problem is that's it's not common sense - different people have different valid views, that we've considered and thought about, but we can't make a decision as to which one of them to choose (as they are all valid viewpoints). Most people just plump for one thing - that they have thought about, and haven't considered or even imagined the other options, so they just go for the one thing that came to mind and it usually works alright.

The problem with common sense is that it is "not so common" - attributed to Voltaire (yes I did have to look that up:rotfl::o). So, never try to justify anything to me by claiming it is "common sense". It isn't sense to me. And always has me asking "what 'sense' is it that is 'common'?":rotfl::rotfl: And then... "is that just what you claim it to be, rather than having any evidence to show that to be true?":p Of course, we just can't really work that way can we? Imagine if everyone worked that way - life would just grind to a halt!

I just... have no clue have I?:o:rotfl:
Best way to be sometimes though. But not always.

Of course, I know all this when writing it down. Done the theory. The problem is I can never do it when it comes to doing something in practice. In an actual situation... it's gone!

The way you turn me off - or, rather, have me challenging from the outset what you [that is, anyone, the global 'you'] are saying - is by starting off with a claim that isn't correct*, in all circumstances. Most people seem to believe it and then just accept anything else that follows along the same lines thereafter.

*or at least, isn't correct in my view

Savvybuyer

Anyway, I'm off!! See you later again:wave::wave:.

diluvsdiscounts

pandoraskids wrote: »

Yes, I was very relieved I spent most of Thursday & most of yesterday checking his progress & fretting :rotfl:


There was one solitary pack on the shelf yesterday so I asked if they had any more. Nice young chap said they should have a case & went out the back to have a look but he came back empty handed. I have to get petrol today so will check again x

Glad you've had a lovely time (apart from the car issue ) x

pandoraskids wrote: »

Loads of tuna here today Di - on normal shelf and on end of aisle


It's the 3+1 free in brine you need - scans at £1
All others scan at full price x

Thank you, I'll hopefully get there tomorrow