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Hmmmm. On Saturday me and the missus were enjoying a well earned day off and went to Cambridge to get some books and assorted bits.

After finishing our cigarettes on Christs Piece and heading towards the bus station, a strange boy came up and asked us if we'd like to buy a trolley... yes, a shopping trolley, like you might find at Tesco or Iceland.

Weird huh?


(And yes, this actually happened, and yes, this is a little jokey thread aimed at one person in particular who may know something about this bizzare incident )

kids these days!
the following actually happened to me the other day:
i was sat in the bus station waiting for my bus home and thought i'd have a bit of a juggle, not having any juggling balls on my i got out a contact ball. a couple of minutes later i spotted a couple of kids staring at the amazing display of skill i was putting on for the public. so i turned to the boy and he looked at me and said "wat're U lookin @?" (words changed to fit how i think he would've written them). i was feeling particularly witty so replied with "I assume you're being rhetorical?" to which his comeback was "wat're U callin me!?". he seemed confused by my laughter that followed.

Lawrence wrote:i was feeling particularly witty so replied with "I assume you're being rhetorical?" to which his comeback was "wat're U callin me!?". he seemed confused by my laughter that followed.

I like that

And you shouldve indeed bought the trolley. With a pitch like that, anyone would buy anything from me. Yes folks it was I who attempted to sell EckoZero that trolley. It was a surreal but enlightening experience.

But seriously, I once sold a box of coathangers that were left outside a shop for a fiver! I kid you not! And it wasn't because I was pestering or disturbing her, it was because of my fine sales pitch! One woman congratulated me and thought I should take up public speaking, and then another just came up to me and gave me a fiver for the box, while laughing.
If only I could get rid of all my trash like this...

Ecko, how did you konw it was ouch-kabibble that was trying to sell it? lol

Buy the trolley for 50p, take it back to Tesco and 'plug it' into the trolley line and hey bingo - a nice shiny pound.

Double your money

Ever though of using a shopping trolley as a coin shell

then take the shiny pound buy a lottery ticket then you could win millions!

Then take your millions to the nearest casino and play roulette.

And hey presto, you're back where you started!

Delude wrote:Ecko, how did you konw it was ouch-kabibble that was trying to sell it? lol

I didn't.

But he PMed me asking if someone had sold me a trolley.
What an opening gambit eh? "Hello EckoZero" "I know you" "Hey. Are you a magician" "You look different in real life" "Is that a real leather jacket?" "What have you bought today then Mr Zero?". All of these would have worked fine... but instead it was...

"Would you like to buy a trolley...?"

Dear oh dear

"You like to meet pretty ladies?" or would you like filthy postcards?