HDD Killers

Ah shopping, usually I hate it, today was no different. It started out OK, but then it turned to actual torture. I’m not kidding.

Me and someone called John decided to go get some drinks from Sainsbury’s, it was quite a walk, but in our opinion, worth it. He wanted booze, I wanted Coca Cola. This was the score at the end, John got two boxes (20 bottles in each) of San Miguel, a bottle of Jack Daniels, a bottle of some melon liqueur, two bottles of apple juice concentrate and two 2L bottles of lemon coke. I got eight 2L bottles of normal coke, a bottle or Red Square silver, a Toblerone and some kitchen towel.

It’s safe to say that he spent considerably more than me, in fact the Jack Daniels alone cost more than everything I bought. After aquiring all of this, the primary concern then became carrying it all. We both came prepared though, we both had back packs! We tried (and failed) to put a whole box of San Miguel into his back pack, and in the end had to empty the box and put the bottles in individually (using plastic carrier bags for padding). On top of that went the apple concentrate and the lemon coke. The Jack Daniels and melon liqueur went in a carrier back.

In my back pack I managed to fit 5 bottles of coke, the bottle of Red Square and the Toblerone, then 3 bottles of coke and the kitchen towel went in a carrier bag inside another carrier bag (for strength).

It ended up that I carried his box of San Miguel and both carrier bags because apparently he had to hold his bag on his back to relieve some of the weight on the straps, apparently he could hear them rip a bit as he picked it up.

We decided to take a bus back.

After getting off the bus, he carried the carrier bags back to the hall, then we got the lift up to the third floor from the second, (it’s possible to walk in at the second floor, built on a hill).

It was quite a haul, I think you’ll agree. I have a re-assurence from John that next time he’ll only get one box of San Miguel (yeah right, if they’re buy-one-get-one-free again like this time I think he might change his mind in a hurry). As it turns out, my coke was also BOGOF, which was nice. The first bottle is already gone, currently making head-way on the second. Just a shame that they didn’t sell Vanilla Coke.