captain_spalding said:

roughbarked said:

ChrispenEvan said:

write a list. I have paper and pen by the computer where I write my shopping list as I remember stuff I need. I can then go to the shops content in the knowledge that I won’t forget anything. Of course this relies on me remembering to take my list.

It is almost always the last part that I have trouble with.

Ha!

Just few days ago, i went to Coles, and got some things, about $140 worth.

At the checkout (self-service), i realised that, while i had brought the shopping list, i hadn’t brought my wallet.

I had to ring Spalding Jr., who was having a day off, and ask him to bring my wallet to me. We only live a couple of streets away.

So, i was a prisoner of Coles for a little while.

Spalding Jr. gets there, and produces his bank card from his wallet. But, because it was over $100, the checkout wanted his pin number.

Which he doesn’t remember, because her normally pays for things by waving his mobile phone. The mobile phone he had not brought with him.

I’d brought my phone (no electronic pay on that), but not my wallet. He’d brought his wallet, but not his phone.

Off he goes, to get either or both of my wallet or his phone, while i served a second term with Coles.

Longest check-out ever.

I have a little routine, almost like a Catholic making the sign of the cross , of tapping each pocket for wallet – keys – phone before I step outside and lock the door.

Ever since I locked myself out of the house in my early 20s and ended up getting my house-mate’s Dad to come around with a spare key. That was a bit embarrassing. So I came ip with a new process.