Recent content by Midnight Toker

With a name like Veggiepatch, you must be.

I drove to Melbourne from Mildura on Monday and stopped for a coffee and a snack at Swan Hill around 2pm. All the cafes were closing. I'm not a café dweller; I'm not knocking or criticising Australia, and I can't get worked up about or offended by café opening hours, BUT I was surprised.

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When I lived in England I bought a supermaket trolley from Aldi for only one pound! It should have been great for me as I only lived down the road and I could wheel it home. The very first time I used it, it broke down as I was leaving the car park and it wouldn't move another inch. Grrrrr. You...

I'll not be going there. I'll certainly already be flagged on their system.

Why did you add the comment 'Your' to my post, Marni?

That is horrifying.

You beat me to it Rob44. That is exactly what crossed my mind when I was reading all the "if you've got nothing to hide ... " comments. Not just Australia, but the UK and other governments used to bang on about introducing ID cards. You never hear about it now, because now we all carry around...

Surveillance marni, surveillance.

Maybe, but the business plan of all large stores is to put the small stores competing against them out of business. And they've achieved it. Now we have the duopoly of Coles and Woolworth, charging whatever they like as they have no competition. Even their prices are almost identical. Except...

MIC.M, Thanks for your message, but I think that you may have accidently replied to the wrong person. I haven't made an even remotely umempathetic comment. You may wish to reconsider your not so empathetic comment about my 'brain fog' too. Don't worry though, it's easily done. This thread and...

Andrew, I can assure you that retailers have no right to search you or your bag, They would not be able to obtain a 'warrant' to do so either. They may refuse your entry in the future or not serve you. They can call the police, but unless they have strong grounds to believe that you have...

Thanks for letting me know I'm wrong, Alex. I'm not wrong; I do exactly what I described. I don't make a big deal out of it either. When I leave a shop, I just smile at the staff member and walk out. If the staff member asks to search my bag, I ask politely, "Do you think I've stolen...

Well done for sticking up for the lady. When I leave a shop, I just smile at the staff member and walk out. If a staff member asks to search my bag, I ask politely, "Do you think I've stolen something?". I then walk off as they stand there in silence.