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Entries relating to supermarkets.
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An extended, repeatedly interrupted farewell ritual that never quite manages to end with an actual exit.
Read full entry →The uncertain social status of a relationship too formal for a casual cancellation and too casual for total honesty.
Read full entry →A dining companion who quietly benefits from group bill maths by ordering well above the table average.
Read full entry →A satisfying, slightly competitive act of supermarket bargain hunting timed precisely around store closing hours.
Read full entry →The automatic, near-universal substitution of longer courtesies for their clipped, efficient British equivalents.
Read full entry →A flattering but entirely inconvenient supermarket policy that halts an entire shop over a splash of sherry for the gravy.
Read full entry →A small, satisfying triumph over an incomplete flat-pack instruction booklet, achieved entirely by luck.
Read full entry →A deep, well-earned scepticism about mobile signal bars that never actually correspond to call quality.
Read full entry →A small but genuine victory achieved by an object surviving far longer than any reasonable expectation allowed.
Read full entry →A pleasant but complete lack of understanding regarding how a decades-old doorstep delivery business still functions financially.
Read full entry →The euphoric, entirely luck-based discovery of a discounted item moments before it would have cost you full whack.
Read full entry →The public humiliation of a payment failure witnessed by an entire line of increasingly frustrated onlookers.
Read full entry →A daily, high-stakes ritual of redialling repeatedly in a desperate bid to secure one of three available appointments.
Read full entry →A treasured, wildly outdated pub fixture stuck permanently somewhere around 2009 in both questions and graphics.
Read full entry →The devastating, slow disappearance of hope as a vehicle you needed to catch drives irrevocably out of earshot.
Read full entry →A minor but persistent financial guilt trip experienced weekly at the supermarket checkout.
Read full entry →A stubborn, borderline heroic refusal to abandon outdoor cooking plans despite biblical weather conditions.
Read full entry →A fierce, almost patriotic devotion to a local independent shop over any nearby chain, regardless of price.
Read full entry →A courteous but entirely useless verbal gesture broadcast to a platform of furious, delayed commuters.
Read full entry →A recurring, unresolved national debate about culinary classification that has genuinely been settled in a court of law and still nobody accepts it.
Read full entry →A rare, fortunate encounter with a rail catering service that has not yet sold out of everything edible.
Read full entry →An automatic apology issued by the injured party, regardless of who caused the actual injury.
Read full entry →A lengthy, jargon-heavy breakdown of a football move that ends with everyone more confused than when it started.
Read full entry →The compulsive repetition of a phrase back at someone in a context where it makes absolutely no logical sense.
Read full entry →The dictionary is still being written
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