Prepping for Brexit thread

euronorris

DigForVictory wrote: »

I was in Go Outdoors recently & saw what I thought was a wheelbarrow on steroids - turns out it's a "fisherman's trolley" - well, a couple of saplings & some rope & you could hitch a pony to it, or fold it out & lay a mattress on it. Made my old radio flyer look like the child's toy it was.

I think I will stick to rucksacks on offspring for as long as I can, then return to the Silver Cross. Miword those things are load carriers. Perhaps not as pretty or as padded as Mamas & Papas, but when confronted with 40 kilos of 'hobby metalwork', the pushchair just couldn't handle the weight. My husband had to try to keep a straight face as I grouched "we should have got a Silver Cross" - well he was trying to bring a semi-armoured deactivated sub-machine gun home. We were the embarrassingly wholly true tall tale of Christmas for several households that year.

My DH has a trolley like that. He is, indeed, a fisherman and it helps reduce the load on your back, as well as the number of trips between car and fishing spot. His one all folds up, and has bags you can attach at certain points also, to add additional carrying space!


My trolley is just the bog standard pull behind. It's not great, but as a short term fix to a short term problem, it suited.


I use a backpack rather than a handbag these days. Far more handy with a toddler in tow, and also for taking lunch to and from work on the days I walk. Doubles as extra storage space for carrying home odds and ends from the shop too (like bread/milk/butter etc). I treated myself to a Mia Tui last year after I passed my exam. It's padded, has a insulated part and lots of pockets and zip area, and a clip for keys etc. I love it quite a lot!

Farway

DigForVictory wrote: »

The other is just how many people realise - 'potentially laden with useful stuff, so target'? Or are they the next best thing to grey hair as a cloak of invisibility - person with trolley must therefore be Old, no further interest?

The latter, plus seems to trigger "doddering old fool" sympathy switch and cars stop & let me cross the road.:)
Win Win


I used a back pack until my balance went south
Andy, I've got a cool bag, so I just bung the frozen stuff in that, then into the trolley

GreyQueen

Stealth Trolleying, love it. I'm a middle-aged woman and, be definiton, naturally invisible anyway.:p:cool:


maryb, my physical therapist said two-wheeler trollies shouldn't be dragged behind a person but rolled along beside your hip. I'd imagine that would be very popular on narrow pavements or crowded precincts but just thought I'd mention it.


As to stealthing with a trolley, say you're out and about with one several times a week. You just become so-and-so with the trolley and no one much notices whether its laden, half-laden or running empty. Therefore, ample opportunity to stealthily move things from A to B.


A woman I once knew told me how she left a violent and controlling boyfriend. He never let her go anywhere alone, including escorting her to and from work. Every weekday, she took about half-a-carrierbag of Stuff with her to work and came home without it. He never noticed she was stealthily removing some of her belongings from their shared home.


When she had enough, she simply wasn't there one day at home time and he never saw her again.


Reminds me of the joke about the guy who was seen wheeling a barrow full of straw out of a factory every night. Security searched the straw every night, convinced he must be stealing something.


There was nothing in the straw on any search - he was actually stealing the wheelbarrows........ :rotfl:

maryb

Thanks GQ, you're right, it is better to pull them beside you. I walk into town on quiet roads so that is what I do in practice. I also have the luxury of being able to shop at quiet times so I don't get tutted at for getting in people's way

But if you want to be a grey woman and fade away into the background a trolley is guaranteed to make you unnoticeable to anyone under 40. When I got my Rolser I was very tempted to get one with a jazzy bag in bright colours but I chickened out and got boring navy

AndyCF

There was nothing in the straw on any search - he was actually stealing the wheelbarrows.......

Pretty sure a few years back there was a case where someone had broken into a warehouse and stolen the guard Alsatian, not the goods within the warehouse just the dog! I don't know how true it is, but it would not surprise me...

Mee

GreyQueen wrote: »

maryb, my physical therapist said two-wheeler trollies shouldn't be dragged behind a person but rolled along beside your hip. I'd imagine that would be very popular on narrow pavements or crowded precincts but just thought I'd mention it.
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I think the general manual handling advice is to push rather than pull...

Mee

I meant Dognapping

Was it the A.R. Whitley Landscapes case?

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/cctv-footage-shows-moment-callous-5602507

GreyQueen

maryb wrote: »

Thanks GQ, you're right, it is better to pull them beside you. I walk into town on quiet roads so that is what I do in practice. I also have the luxury of being able to shop at quiet times so I don't get tutted at for getting in people's way

But if you want to be a grey woman and fade away into the background a trolley is guaranteed to make you unnoticeable to anyone under 40. When I got my Rolser I was very tempted to get one with a jazzy bag in bright colours but I chickened out and got boring navy

I chose a jazzy print for the trolley but which I'd chosen a plain dark colour. If there's ever a second purchase, it will be very plain and boring.

AndyCF

Daft question if one goes shop shop with their trolley, then what do you use to put the goodies in while -in- the shop ? As I can't manage a supermarket trolley and the other one (unless its back-pack mountable or something) , I know the answer here is probably "make sure it is empty before you go in and use that to walk around with" but that sort of feels a bit bad somehow.

Don't think I'd want to leave my own shop trolley anywhere , then again with a small padlock I suppose ti would be OK...

unrecordings

AndyCF wrote: »

Daft question if one goes shop shop with their trolley, then what do you use to put the goodies in while -in- the shop ? As I can't manage a supermarket trolley and the other one (unless its back-pack mountable or something) , I know the answer here is probably "make sure it is empty before you go in and use that to walk around with" but that sort of feels a bit bad somehow.

Don't think I'd want to leave my own shop trolley anywhere , then again with a small padlock I suppose ti would be OK...

There's a chap I see regularly in our local supermarket who gets a member of staff to put his trolley into the supermarket trolley (and out again obviously)