the checkout conveyor panic
A disastrous logistical failure at the till, resulting in bread being crushed beneath six pints of milk and a melon.
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Food, home, shopping, travel, weather and the routines of ordinary life.
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A disastrous logistical failure at the till, resulting in bread being crushed beneath six pints of milk and a melon.
Read full entry →The exhausting, bicep-burning fight against a rogue supermarket wheel that desires only to crash into the frozen peas.
Read full entry →A catastrophic domestic landslide caused by hoarding cheap takeaway tubs without any structural integrity.
Read full entry →An intense telepathic beam directed at a 17-year-old employee, begging them to clear the red flashing light above your till.
Read full entry →The utterly foul, lazy act of burying biological waste beneath heavy appliances instead of bending down to pick it up.
Read full entry →A terrifying gallery of smoking patrons whose mere presence completely eradicates your ability to steer a vehicle backwards.
Read full entry →A completely pointless vehicular flex designed to assert dominance, saving the driver approximately zero seconds of journey time.
Read full entry →The reckless, faith-based maneuver executed by drivers who are too lazy to turn their heads before merging at 70mph.
Read full entry →A brightly colored array of mechanical cries for help that the driver completely ignores due to sheer financial terror.
Read full entry →The instant, sickening wave of fear that washes over you when your road rage is directed at someone capable of destroying you.
Read full entry →A dangerous display of ego where two commuters would rather trade paint and destroy their vehicles than let the other person go first.
Read full entry →A tragically flawed mating ritual where you attempt 'banter' but accidentally attack their deepest insecurity.
Read full entry →A sophisticated pantomime performed in restaurants to trick the waiter into thinking you possess an ounce of culinary knowledge.
Read full entry →The agonizing internal debate over whether to aggressively highlight that you only ate a side salad, or just eat the £80 loss to avoid looking cheap.
Read full entry →An uncomfortably prolonged physical restraint masquerading as family warmth, usually deployed at Christmas.
Read full entry →A panicked, disorganized clawing of personal items from the counter to avoid holding up the queue of glaring shoppers behind you.
Read full entry →A purely theoretical commitment to eating only kale and running 5k, instantly destroyed the moment a coworker brings in doughnuts.
Read full entry →The deeply satisfying, instinctual delivery of a flat-palmed strike to a 50L sack of potting mix.
Read full entry →The agonizing public embarrassment of wrestling a metal spider that has violently snapped inside-out during a storm.
Read full entry →A densely packed, infinitely expanding mother-bag that houses sixty other crumpled supermarket carriers from 2014.
Read full entry →The soul-destroying realization upon entering a sticky-floored establishment that there is no seat, no paper, and the door doesn't lock.
Read full entry →The grim anticipation of a freezing house and a decimated bank account upon discovering a fault in the central heating mid-January.
Read full entry →The ultimate household treachery discovered when you have already sat down and realized the previous occupant was a lazy monster.
Read full entry →The humiliating process of proving to a teenage employee that you didn't steal a 20p loose carrot.
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