It might be doing a cyclical warm-up and self-check routine.
Only in America. Elsewhere, it'll be 311223.
Some (or maybe most) keyboards are made with the keys wedged into a hole, with the bottom touching a rubber pad. It may have worked loose and then been launched by the spring, whereupon it became attached to your clothing.
Or government forms. Ours always stipulate that dates are written 20231231.
Have you checked to see if it's on a level surface? Obvious, I know...
There was a strong rattle of the heavy wooden doors that separate the main body of the church from what is now the office (formerly the door to the porch and tower base), as if someone had given the doors a good hard shove, but found them barred (in fact they were barred, when I finished up, I closed the heavy latch on the doors). It gave me quite a start, I went to investigate (somewhat unnerved as I opened the doors and reached into the pitch black to fumble for the light switch, I must admit). Nothing was out of place, and there was no sign why the doors would have made such a noise. I closed up, turned off the remaining light, and cleared out pretty sharpish!
Perhaps something was angry at the fact you'd had the audacity to look on FTMB and converse with this heathen lot whilst in a holy place.
I did wonder at the time...
About a decade and at about 9pm I was taking cash out from the HSBC cashpoint on the corner of Leicester Square in London and a young East European guy came up to me and asked if I "was looking for the toilets". I immediately sensed this was a distraction technique and that he was getting uncomfortably close to me (and the wallet in my pocket). Told him I wasn't interested and he had the temerity to get upset at my attitude...!
They were probably going to ask you to 'lift' them a bottle of spirits for them to sell on. There's an awful lot of shoplifting going on at the moment (far more than usual) and I'd bet the bags fo shopping beside them hadn't been paid for. I suspect they were going to try to get you to 'bring them just one bottle' - thus making the risk all yours and the profit all theirs, although most shops aren't intervening in cases of shoplifting simply because it's so prevalent and the police (if they come, which they frequently don't) would never be off the premises.
Yep the staff were keeping a close eye on them and without doubt the bags were full of shoplifted goods. That's not being judgemental I hope but I've known the area for decades and I can spot a wrong un from miles away.
In our local Tesco, they've not gone the 'demand to see your receipt' route but they have security tags on the hand baskets and now a regular security guard on the door.
Quite often an alarm goes off when people leave the sainsburys store here and sometimes the wheel will lock up on the trolley as well.
Just started reading your post. As I read the second line "....potting mix into the new pot" I coughed
When I was on management training at our local Morrisons (a period of my life I try to forget, we were taught various techniques to spot shoplifters. That store, like some other supermarkets, is deliberately designed so that when customers walk in, they walk anti clockwise around the aisles. This is mostly done for nefarious sales reasons that are too long winded to explain here. We were told to observe anyone without a shopping basket or trolley who wasn't walking through the store anti clockwise. Potential 'skittish' behaviour. Morrison's used to used a code over the P.A. so if a female was actually spotted shop lifting, we'd hear "CAN MRS WHITE COME TO CUSTOMER SERVICES PLEASE" .. if it was a man, "CAN MR WHITE COME TO CUSTOMER SERVICES PLEASE" .. if instead it was some sort of violent situation, if would be the same announcement but Mrs Black or Mr Black. Then all managers moved in to deal with any incidents. We had a security guard but he was crap and spent half his time chatting up the female staff.
Right, next time in my local supermarket, I'm not taking a trolley or basket, and I'm going to walk around clockwise. I'm sure no-one will pay me any attention since they all probably recognise me anyway. Maybe I'll have to start looking around nervously as well in order to trigger a false alert.
I never walk around with a basket or trolley, just a large bag which I put my purchases in. Have done since COVID. No one from security has ever approached me.
That's precisely what I do
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I've just remembered, when I have arranged to meet my wife in the local Tesco, I can rarely find her quickly - so I end up walking around the supermarket clockwise, looking down each aisle to see if I can spot her; no-one has rugby-tackled me to the ground yet.That's precisely what I do
That's because you haven't tried to pinch anything.
Oh my God Simon, Mrs DT is exactly the same. I call her the supermarket ghost.
Trust me that supermarket workers have a very good idea of who the shoplifters are and who is a normal, confused customer.
