This amused me.

It reminds me of Victor Meldrew and the gnomes ?

My friend asked me to order 2 bags of flossing toothpicks for her from Amazon, each with 30 picks. Neither of us realised that each bag contained 5x 30.... she now has 300 toothpicks

My WI makes up bags of essential items for the local hospital to give to people who have gone into hospital unexpectedly. One of the items is a comb, and one of our members asked her husband to order 100 combs online. He did this, but didn’t check that each pack of combs contained 10 combs.

When (at the start of lockdown no. 1 ) we placed our first supermarket delivery I thought we needed a treat so ordered a pack of hobnob biscuits. Then decided that might not be enough so increased order to two packs. Twenty two packs of hobnobs were delivered. Luckily they keep. but not for long!

oh this is so encouraging for me to see!
I inadvertently ordered incorrectly, and thought it was just me, going nuts! or should I say bananas.

as for the bananas "shortage" I read that all imports (well most) now get subject to this tax, (can`t think what it is called! duh!)
and I wanted to understand who does the tax, apparently, so I understand it is our Government that puts this tax on importing goods to protect our suppliers here

so I do NOT understand why bananas come under this import tax as surely we can`t grow any here!!

I hate conundrums like this...

We had the opposite problem. My son has a banana each day so when going to the supermarket, always used to pick a bunch with 5 in it.
Order online and he went to the bit where you order a number rather than weight. Each week after that, it was a complete surprise as to how many would be delivered - from 1 - 8! We came to the conclusion that they were going by weight some weeks!

Instead of ordering 10 loose mushrooms to go with our steak, I ordered 10 boxes of mushrooms, I gave a lot away and froze some.

Hilarious, although one wonders why the milkman thought you wanted 42 pints!

Lexisgranny, bananas are currently under pressure as there are many less coming in from Ghana. They are having to pay nearly £100 per tonne in duty since the new year and Brexit. They are trying to negotiate an exception but nothing yet. The production from Ghana sells a huge proportion of their crop here and some growers apparently may go bust if a deal isn't sorted soon.

Our son recently did an online order with a supermarket and ordered 5 limes. What arrived was 5 bags of 5 limes. He said he didn't need that many limes for their cocktails.

We have not been in supermarkets since the first lockdown and the last three weeks we did not receive the bananas we ordered with our delivery. Is there a nationwide shortage, or have we been unlucky? (Also missing in action, so to speak are Activia Prune Yoghurts, the layered ones).

Thanks for laugh Grandma70's

On-line order during first lockdown : Ordered 1kg of quite a few things: bananas, carrots, parsnips, sweet potatoes ...

One of everything arrived. Didn't make that mistake again.

I did the same with eggs last summer! I had to go to the shops the same day and buy myself another dozen! ?

So funny . A facebook sewing contact wanted to order 100 pre cut squares of stabiliser, but managed to order 10,000 instead . She was frantically trying to sell them in bundles of 100, because she would never get through 10,000 in her lifetime

DS1 inadvertently over ordered tins of beans when he was younger and had them in every cupboard for a while. Thankfully they were something which kept safely.

Oh that’s classic. Thank you ???

We used to get fruit and vegetables delivered many years ago, when we both worked. DD was a banana fanatic, but we were always left a hand of 6 fruits and not the 6lbs as ordered. We gave up in the end.

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That's hilarious! Especially that they didn't keep enough back for custard!
I managed to order 12 bars of plain chocolate recently, instead of just 1 as I intended. But chocolate keeps much better than milk so I am enjoying munching away my 12 bars...

? - but a shame about the custard!

Thanks for this. A bit of a chuckle amidst the gloom.

That is really funny, what a nightmare to open the door first thing!