I hate

Henry Price building……a Hall of Residence at Leeds University where (in 1988) all the cleaners and maintenance guy pushed their stuff around in shopping trolleys liberated by students.

using fake pound coin tokens

Didn't even get one from a charity?

Flounce incoming!

When pressed, Henry told us that the Tesco nearest to his university halls has introduced the mini trollies during his second year. It was situated at the top of a long but shallow road, so they would liberate them in the middle of the night, using fake pound coin tokens, and race them down the hill, whilst completely shit faced.

Back in the mists of time we used to race normal (pre-racing) trolleys around the car park (now the site of the Hilton Cambridge City Centre) at the back of Lion Yard shopping centre in Cambridge. If you got the speed just right you could wall ride down the spiral exit ramp. If you got the speed wrong it was ... painful.

Cart lovers. If you've not seen this, then you should

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zi-f_J6hV-g

Possibly my favorite documentary

I was once using a found trolley for moving things from upstairs LMNH to the basement which meant walking down the street a bit. Immediately got stopped by a cop asking if I was homeless. I know, cool story.

I used to do this with 6 trollies slotted together down the ramps in the Queensmere car park in Slough. If you stood on the under chassis holding the front and rear handles you could lean backwards. If you got it right you could lift the opposite wheels off the ground and make left-hand turns all the way down. 1976 Tesco trollies obviously.

Time zones.
Meeting requests come with ET or PT or some other unhelpful acronym.

Use UTC, Universal is in the fucking name

Daylight savings lol

Quit being wanky and just use the place you're talking to or from.

Sorry realised it's others not you!

I have never understood why people take their small kids to the supermarket when they have a partner, seems like unnecessary purgatory. When mine were small one of us would go and one would stay at home with the kids.

Day out innit. The boring fuckers.

We're currently in that comedy period where the clocks have changed in some countries and not others just to keep you on your toes.

Fantastic excuse to fuck off random meetings towards the end of the day though...

Sometimes some mummies and daddies wants some downtime or time off from whining hateful children. So their other half will take the kids for an hour to the shops for a bit of respite. A bit like all the Mcdads getting burgers with their kids

Half the meetings I am involved in are actually at some ludicrously unsocial early hour in America (to annoy them) but actually over my lunch break (to annoy me)

I like moaning, but reality is it could be worse for me.

Surely taking them to the park would be better all round

Yes, but there's a rubbish selection of groceries at the park.

Most of the time I took my daughter to the supermarket is because we'd be doing a whole load of stuff during the day. Go to the park, come back via the book shop, cafe stop, drop something off at the post office, supermarket to buy food for later that day, etc.

Other times it's as others have said, to give your partner a break from childcare.

Also gives potential for "No Orlando, put down the papaya." and other classic #waitrose quotes.

Working overnight batch, having to deal with the fallout of Brazil and their silly clock changes. And some twat, without fail, kciking stuff off two hours out, because they got the time change the wrong way round. Fun times.

This time slot is so Asia can be on the call when they should be doing family time.

Educational value too? Seeing food variety and sources, learning about nutrition, human interaction, budgeting etc etc. Loads of potential!

Alternatively, have a massive tantrum and be pacified by chocolate that has to be paid for at the till.

Of course, fucking of course but if there's shopping to do you can kill two birds with one stone.

What kind of meeting request system doesn't convert to recipients' local time?