View Single Post
  #273 (permalink)   Report Post  
Posted to rec.food.cooking
Cheri[_3_] Cheri[_3_] is offline
external usenet poster
 
Posts: 14,609
Default OT - sort of - Avoiding false grocery charges


"Ophelia" > wrote in message
...
> "Cheri" wrote in message ...
>
>
> "Gary" > wrote in message
> ...
>> Janet wrote:
>>>
>>> In article >,
>>> says...
>>> >
>>> >
wrote:
>>> > > The last time I was in the UK I went by bus from Heathrow to
>>> > > Cirencester and it was as if every tree had been decorated like
>>> > > Christmas trees with plastic bags.
>>> >
>>> > That's crazy. What's going on with that, we have plastic bags
>>> > but they aren't flying around.
>>>
>>> Most of the British Isles are in the atlantic so windy weather is
>>> common.

>>
>> Not to mention, you UKers must be pigs, tossing bags out
>> everywhere in order to see:
>> "every tree had been decorated like Christmas trees with plastic bags"
>> LOL
>> I live one mile from the same ocean and it's windy often here.
>> No bags in trees crisis here. I'll be looking for them though.

>
> I live across from a high school, so I do get some cups, wrappers etc. in
> my
> yard...but have never seen plastic bags in trees, though I have seen
> toilet
> paper in trees. ha ha
>
> --------------
>
> lol I used to see wrappers between the shop and the school where I used to
> live and it became a real mess. Someone complained to the school and I
> never saw any mess after that.
>
> I can't say I've ever seen toilet paper though .. maybe it was because I
> was living in a shopping centre ... ;-)


LOL, and a fine shopping center no doubt. ;-) Someone toilet papered my
trees a few months ago, but it was low enough that I was able to reach it
and remove it.

Cheri