RIP Round Pound Coin 1983 - 2015

[Mr_P]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-35115685

To qoute Dave Gorman

What about the supermarket trolleys ????

 

[lurker]

As a pound must now be worth what a three penny bit was worth (when it existed) it sounds quite appropriate

 

[woodpig]

What about the supermarket trolleys ????

I've got a trolley dolly.

http://true-brands.co.uk/pocket-tools-s ... -tool.html

 

[mseries]

What about the supermarket trolleys ????

For Morrisons a Euro or 10 Franc coin works, not in Sainsburys though. Waitrose don't ask for a deposit and I can't remember about Tescos. I don't shop at Asda any more.

 

[woodpig]

Tesco and Sainsburys locally don't require one but Lidl does.

 

[RogerS]

What about the supermarket trolleys ????

For Morrisons a Euro or 10 Franc coin works, not in Sainsburys though. Waitrose don't ask for a deposit and I can't remember about Tescos. I don't shop at Asda any more.

I wish I could fathom out how Waitrose's trolleys stop when you try to push them past the 'line'. As far as I can work out, there's no difference in the pavement surface. Magic ?

 

[NickWelford]

Our waitrose trollies can be pushed well away from the store, down several roads to where I left the car with all the carrier bags in .........

 

[Racers]

I have a thick washer in the car to use in supermarket trolleys.

Pete

 

[bugbear]

I have a thick washer in the car to use in supermarket trolleys.

Pete

You can buy tokens that fit the trolleys.

They normally cost a pound. #-o :-s

BugBear

 

[Racers]

I have a few that where free with my gym membership!

Pete

 

[NickWelford]

You'd think that artisans of our calibre could produce some wooden discs that would work......

 

[morfa]

I have a bottle opener which also has a round end on it which works fine on most trollies.

However I've stopped going to the supermarket about a year ago and just get it delivered now. A delivery pass means it's £1 per delivery.

 

[Bm101]

Had that awkward situation at lidles the other day where the old couple in their 90's were doddering about at the trolley stand and i was returning mine.
3 minutes later.
'Would you like this one?'
Old fella gives me a pound. Then he starts looking at at the pound I'd put in my trolley to make sure I hadn't wedged something else in there. Couldn't help smiling (discreetly, of course). It was human nature in a nutshell.
'Ohhh! Simple solution!' 2 Second delay. 'Hoooold on a minute! Where's the catch?'
When he'd reassured himself it was a real pound coin in there he smiled at me because he knew that I knew what he'd been thinking. So I looked him in the eye, deadly serious and bit the coin he'd given me like a pirate and looked at it with suspicion.
And fair play to him he laughed like a delighted baby. Good man.
Sometimes people are brilliant.
Made me smile for the next 10 minutes.

 

[mseries]

Had that awkward situation at lidles the other day where the old couple in their 90's were doddering about at the trolley stand and i was returning mine.
3 minutes later.
'Would you like this one?'
Old fella gives me a pound. Then he starts looking at at the pound I'd put in my trolley to make sure I hadn't wedged something else in there. Couldn't help smiling (discreetly, of course). It was human nature in a nutshell.
'Ohhh! Simple solution!' 2 Second delay. 'Hoooold on a minute! Where's the catch?'
When he'd reassured himself it was a real pound coin in there he smiled at me because he knew that I knew what he'd been thinking. So I looked him in the eye, deadly serious and bit the coin he'd given me like a pirate and looked at it with suspicion.
And fair play to him he laughed like a delighted baby. Good man.
Sometimes people are brilliant.
Made me smile for the next 10 minutes.

If I was less honest I'd accept the pounds offered to me for my trolley that contains my 10F coin in the slot

 

[Bm101]

Lol! That's the way to international criminal notoriety!

 

[ColeyS1]

Had that awkward situation at lidles the other day where the old couple in their 90's were doddering about at the trolley stand and i was returning mine.
3 minutes later.
'Would you like this one?'
Old fella gives me a pound. Then he starts looking at at the pound I'd put in my trolley to make sure I hadn't wedged something else in there. Couldn't help smiling (discreetly, of course). It was human nature in a nutshell.
'Ohhh! Simple solution!' 2 Second delay. 'Hoooold on a minute! Where's the catch?'
When he'd reassured himself it was a real pound coin in there he smiled at me because he knew that I knew what he'd been thinking. So I looked him in the eye, deadly serious and bit the coin he'd given me like a pirate and looked at it with suspicion.
And fair play to him he laughed like a delighted baby. Good man.
Sometimes people are brilliant.
Made me smile for the next 10 minutes.

That made me chuckle


Coley

 

[Bm101]

Good. We need more smiling. It's easy to forget. :wink: