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You cannot trust the shops these days
To sell stuff at it's best
You need to check the latest dates
And disregard the rest
That's why you see the people
Burrowing in the shelves
Reaching in there so far back
You think they'll hurt themselves
It's so that they will never find
When they sit down to a meal
They should have ate it yesterday
Or very ill they'll feel. 🙄
Hi Don I worked in a supermarket years ago and soon learnt that, as you say, the best products are at the back. You write your posts in such a comical way about everyday things and I wish I could write like that. You brighten our days when sometimes we feel sad or are in pain thank you and never stop xx
I work in a shop and see people burrowing to the back. Your poem reminds me of a comedy sketch by Spike Milligan I think where he's asleep in bed and wakes up with a start then shakes his wife awake saying, Wake up wake up, the milk goes bad at midnight 😁
(I don't have the comic timing to tell it properly) 😆
😂😂😂 I was a Spike fan and don’t remember than one. One of the few benefits of getting really old is that jokes and books can sound as fresh as the time you first heard or read them. (If in fact you had heard or read them).
Maybe it wasn't Spike, and I'm not sure I did ever see/hear it, or if it's the equivalent of the Boy stood on a burning deck thing, where it's something I've heard of, so long ago or so often, that it feels like something I actually know. 🤔
It sounds very Spike-like to me. 😂
HungryHufflepuff, you don’t need comic timing, you did great
That was a fabulous sketch.
They broke the mould when they made Spike I reckon
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That’s so very true dear Don, another wonderful ditty. Have a lovely day. Xxxx 😘😘😘
Thank you. I think we are all going to have a bright sunny day today. 🤗😘
Morning Mr.D. and your powers of observation are spot on! I've seen shoppers literally burrowing their way through stacks of food to get the sell by date at its max! Great to watch their OH's face.....dying with embarrassment!!
I've seen queues forming behind some old dear ferreting away oblivious of all around them. I don't blame them. I hate shopping so just rush past slinging in the trolley what I want then off. So I often find I've bought some item that would last me a week but with an expiry date of two or three days . Mostly I don't even look for the date.
Yes,I'm guilty of picking up something without looking for a longer sell by date just because that section is under siege by the "reachers"! Plus as you say,then I always have 2 or 3 items that by the time I get round to eating it,OMG 😲 it's best not a good idea to look at that date!!! Oh well,no tummy upsets,so shops tomorrow as usual. (My son goes into the big supermarkets or my best friend but I do try and tackle the smaller sized shops but it's taken me a long time to build up my confidence,wearing my oxygen nose hose,to do this! Sil!y really!).
This is such a superb example of your powers of observation. I've never noticed borrowers but they must have been there. My youngest daughter always checks our fridge for dates, she even wants to throw cheese away, doesn't realise how long it may have been in store maturing.
Master Po,if it isn't too green and it doesn't pong too much i just eat it,tends to be it gets rejected slightly earlier from whatever end,if i have made an error in judgement.
Enjoy that sunshine on the Lancastrian riviera it has even spread to Manchester.x
Quite right Grasshopper, I was more interested in the reaction that the dates had on people than the dates themselves. You are right about the weather too. Hop into that SmartCar of yours and come down to the coast for that pint I promised you. 😀
I am popping out in said smart car as you advise but alas not for a pint but a haircut and food for a very unsmart Scruffy,but the summer is yet young and we shall sup or more correctly quaff from that fountain of ale to be sure. 
x
One of my 10 Life Lessons I Learned from my Cat concerns use-by dates. Some time I should post the life lessons I learned from my cat, with their permission of course 🐈🐱
I think I'd prefer lessons from your sheep. Their laid-back attitude to life would suit me better I think. 🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑 I would have said the ram at one time, but I think I'm past it now.🐏
Happiness is a dandelion and a cuddle 🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑
Perfect. 🤗
New Year Plan.
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