Are you gambling on a slot?

Perhaps I should have tried someone else.
I have got a slot for Friday but really wanted one for Wednesday so I could make birthday boy a special dinner and pud.
Never mind, he should be old enough not to be upset!

YAYY! I've just been on our Iceland site, loads of free slots for Mon,Tues,Wed. SO I'm going to feast like a king queen tomorrow lunchtime
Joy unlimited! I've been eeking out my supplies since lockdown, but that stuffed chicken I'm going to roast tomorrow...can already smell it. THANK YOU ICELAND!Boo sucks to Morries and Sainsburys

Yes I did wonder about the shopping because supermarkets are supposed to be operating under strict safety rules and the only stories I have heard about them not doing so is on GN.

Of course, you can never trust other customers to do the right thing!
I do find this shopping online stressful.

Flour WOODMOUSE?

Are you an eternal optimist?
Good luck.

I've chanced subs too and got a couple of strange things.
However, having just managed to get another slot, I have requested No Substitutions for my Bombay Sapphire.

Never even been given the chance of watching the revolving wheel!

Never been lucky to get a Sainsbury slot despite lots and lots of attempts. We are 70+ but not eligible for a special slot. we're both healthy but are trying to self isolate.

Had a couple of deliveries from Morrisons (nearly 3 week wait for both). Two click and collects from Asda (10 day wait) and now getting a Waitrose delivery (10 day wait) next Friday.

Main problem is never being able to get some essentials. Also on day of collections and deliveries, some items out of stock and some substitutions not suitable. I've chanced subs a few times (wished I hadn't).

Tomorrow for first time since lockdown I am going to Sainsbury's (closest supermarket) during 70+ hour to do a shop for veg and fruit which we have very little. Whilst there I'll hopefully get some bread, flour, pasta, rice and tinned items.

Radgie definition - a violent or aggressive person. I wonder who you are referring to.

MawB, are you REALLY surprised? As they say in the NE, GN members are a bunch of radgies.

Hahaha Gabriella, is it really so hard to NOT offend someone on a daily basis?

I tend not to, unless it's deliberate. And that depends on my mood.

This thread is rapidly going from the surreal to the ridiculous - and to think all that started it was the frustration of not getting a Sainsbury’s slot ???

4 Tesco slots have appeared for tomorrow evening ?

I think it is more a case of GabbyG chill

Wow! Yet I have seen programnes which have featured women and men stealing from employers to fund a lifestyle behind their normal means.
Even bank staff. It beggars belief that these people who are trusted by their employers to administer the accounts, find ways of fiddling the books. More and more of them are women. ?

MawB chill.

I see these are topics about which one has to be über careful not to offend.
Gambling
Drink
Drugs
Mental Health of any kind
Speech or illiteracy
Disabilities
Colour
Race
Religion
Wealth
Weight
Money (too much or not enough)
Being healthy
Shopping habits
Acquisitions
+++
Hmm...??

My neighbour, a middle aged lady at the time, went to prison for theft from her employer. She stole money from the company to fund her one armed bandit addiction. She went into therapy, got over her gambling but later died from alcohol which she had previously never touched.

The pun was incidental, not dreamed up to be funny.

Parsley3
Can you read?
I rang 111 to ask whether the NHS was treating over 75s as vulnerable and asking us to stay indoors, as many websites and media outlets gave various conflicting advice supposedly from scientific sources.
I got a call back when a senior nurse was off her shift. Ok?

As you say, a serious problem which will have probably impacted his whole family.
Not to be treated as a joke is it.

MawB

^Many people are slot machine addicts
Really? hmm
I don’t know any^

Because you don't know any doesn't mean there aren't. I know a young man who went to prison because he stole to finance his slot machine habit.
I still don't mind GabriellaG54's pun. Could you give her a break!

There is a big difference between going for solitary exercise and walking round a shop, re catching the virus. I think it was Callistemon who wondered.

Given that gambling is an addiction which causes a huge amount of distress, is it right to joke about it in a (feeble) pun in connection with supermarket shopping?

GG54! You rang 111 to ask about shopping slots?????
You surely did not do that. That would be ridiculous and irresponsible behaviour.

I'm with you there GrannyGravy13.
Recent events have pushed other items off the news pages but in many cases (so I've read) it's a hidden obsession. One can neither smell nor actually see the habit but when debt letters arrive, cards are declined and borrowing reaches astronomical amounts, families suffer. Sadly it's both sexes who start with the easy route in via slots and being able to play in your own home, online, it can go unnoticed until...one day. ??

GabriellaG54 the quick and easy gratification of slot machines in betting shops and online has in my opinion got totally out of hand, ruining lives and in some case causing suicide.

After reading this message late last night, I had a quick look at Tesco online click and collect ( to leave deliveries for those who really need them) and there were none available three weeks ahead, none two weeks ahead but there were two slots free for next Sunday - so I grabbed one quickly!

I did a huge click and collect order last Friday so will only get fresh things I need for the week ahead plus a few treats or items my local Coop don't stock. It will save me from struggling around the shop with my walking sticks!

So thanks for this post reminding me to look.

Blimey! I'm so glad that pun has been explained.

I was going bug eyed looking for it.