Lidl and Public Transport

I have today travelled from Folkestone to home by bus. I haven't been
on a bus for 13 years so thought it would be a novel experience. I
travelled to Folkestone with Mother who was going to give my brother a
lift to go shopping.

"I haven't been to Waitrose since October," I said just as we arrived
at Richard's abode, "I'm always working when you visit."

"Oh Nicky, we're not going to Waitrose," said Mother, "I'm giving
Richard a lift to Lidl instead."

OH. MY. GOD. My lips dried out, I started to sweat and my life
flashed before my eyes.

I am *not* going to entertain the idea of even being seen in a Lidl
store. I questioned mother as to her motives for wishing to subject
my older and more unfortunate brother to the DSS funded world of Lidl
and she explained that he wanted to go there. "Can't you take him to
Tesco or Sainsbury's instead?" No! He wanted Lidl.

She picked him up and drove the car towards Lidl and I suggested every
other shopping establishment in the western world but there was
nothing I could do to change his mind. I asked mother to park near
the entrance of the car park as I needed to depart.

"Nicky, can you get me some Mayfair Superkings?" Richard enquired,
"I'll give you a tenner." I stared open mouthed at him. I never
expected to 1) be in a Lidl car park and 2) have just been asked by my
one and only brother to purchase him MAYFAIR cigarettes. Oh, the
shame.

I told him that I couldn't do it and that I had to go, he asked where
and I told him that I was going home.

"Why?"
"Because I'm not going into that horrid building full of fucking
convicts."

I then turned away from him, walked through the traffic with the wind
in my face to the local bus station. It was full of people that were
obviously mentally ill and I had to verbally abuse some backward
bastard because the **** wouldn't shut up.

I paid £2.40 to be caged up with a load of lavender and wee scented
grannies who were going to Saltwood for half an hour and now I'm
sitting here trying to recover from the events of the day.

When mother gets back home I'm going to have to sternly explain that
should she wish to degrade herself in Lidl at some other time she
shouldn't take the whole family and especially me to be disgraced
alongside her.

 

[Snipped Text]

You could at least have popped in to see if they had anymore of those
binoculars!

 

ginge wrote

That reminds me, I've got to nip down to Tesco for a new bog block.

 

BGN wrote:

<random snippage>

Whilst I understand there are many reasons for wanting to shop at the
big four, and the likes of Waitrose, this:

and this:

are a bit out of line really. Yes, Lidl sells cheap imported food, yes,
this appeals to a certain demographic that you might wish to avoid, but
you're being a bit OTT. I'm surprised you didn't sticka racial and/or
sexist dif in there too.

All IMHO of course. Oh and this:

Just helps prove my point further.

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<nods>

Cream cheese at Asda.

 

<Slaps forehead>

Tap Washers at local DIY... best have a rummage around the garage to see if
I've still got a seat cutter.

 

Ceramic valves are the way forward.

In any case when you need a seat cutter you'll not find one and when you
don't need one you suddenly find two or three.

 

Hey, in my neck of the woods, it's got positively fashionable. Lidl do
great cheese, ham, bacon and choccie, their veggies are good TAAW, and I do
love their weekly tat. The fake Magnums are down to six for 99 pence, too.
The bread's crap, but then so is all super mercat pain.

Ali

Ali

 

The message <>

Sound fellow!

Yes, that scrubs some of the gilt of the gingerbread, certainly. Still...

A man of principle. I admire that.

Usually.

Everyone *I'VE* seen in our local Lidl has appeared to be a normal law
abiding citizen.

Ah. Now really, it's yourself you should have been verbally abusing, and
i expect you knew that, and had to take it out on some poor backward
bastard.

Serves you right. And the lesson was cheap at twice the price.

Well, don't allow yourself to help her with the rather excellent Aussie
Shiraz they keep. That's the dearer one with the go-faster chrome Oz on
it.

I recommend it to the Group.

 

My local Lidl must be the worst in the country, unless something has
happened to it in the last two years.

I don't mind going to Aldi (although I'd rather not) but due to the
location of the local Lidl it's full of the scumbags of Folkestone.

 

[snip]

You want to stop being so damn provincial and melodramatic. As one or
two others have pointed out some of your remarks are distasteful even if
they are only mentioned "as a joke". One day you will be old, one day
you may not have a lot of money and Lidl and the like may be all you can
afford. No one knows what might befall them and how they might survive.

I take the bus to go shopping at Waitrose. Does that make me half a
social inadequate as I assume Waitrose get a tick in the BGN box?

I shop at Sainsburys and Tescos too and have popped into Lidls at
Tottenham Hale for a few bits and bobs. Am I now destined never to live
the great gay urban chic lifestyle that befits someone of my location
and income? Oh dear. <uncontrollable sobbing>

I'm surprised your mother didn't kick you out of the car in the middle
of nowhere.

 

I didn't mean it as a joke. I must be the worst person you've had the
misfortune of ever replying to.

It depends if you stand next to me in the bus station saying "Have you
lived here long? Have you lived here long? Have you lived here long?
Have you lived here long? Have you lived here long? You've lived
here for a while haven't you? Have you lived here long? Have you
lived here long?" I never said that those who use busses are socially
inadequate - I said that most of the people around me were obviously
mentally ill.

I didn't think sexuality was anything to do with it. I'm certainly
not someone that lives a great gay urban chic lifestyle. Why do you
think sexuality is an issue in this?

Do you think abandoning your offspring in the middle of nowhere is
acceptable purely because you don't like what they do?

 

BGN said...

Yes. I've done it before and I'd do it again.

 

In

Sounds like a perfectly valid reason to dump anyone.

Well, as valid as wanting to get the bus home instead of suffering the
unbearable mental trauma of buying cheap cigs in the Lidl.


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They do cheap cigs?

 

Did it change their views?

 

In

I doubt they do expensive ones...


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BGN said...

They fucking behaved in my car after that.

 

I doubt they do any cigs at all if my brother asked me to get some for
him from elsewhere.

 

Exactly. There's a significant amount of shop snobbery spouted on here
by cunts that, quite frankly, should know better.

Lidl is shite at some things and quite ok for others, same as any other
chain.
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