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November 22, 2008 |
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Grocery Propaganda!
FOUND by Julie
in Rainbow Foods in Minneapolis, Minnesota
I found this sitting on top of one of those automated talking coupon machine things that starts talking at you once you walk in front of it. It truly is scary!
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We collect FOUND stuff: love letters, birthday cards, kids' homework,
to-do lists, ticket stubs, poetry on napkins, telephone bills, doodles -
anything that gives a glimpse into someone
else's life. Anything goes...
I took a walk a few months ago, and I passed this yard with a dog in it. The dog came charging out at me as I passed; it was barking like mad. It scared the crap out of me (figuratively), and I told it so after I realized that it was trapped by an electric fence.
I did not leave a post-it on it, though.
Are those coupon dispensers like in grocery stores? We used to have them around here, but I haven't seen them in awhile. I remember that kids used to go up and down the aisles taking the coupons out of them for fun. Maybe the machine should have told them not to do that.
I hope the machine spat out a free toilet paper coupon for our frightened shopper. That'd be rude to make someone crap and then not offer them anything to clean themselves up.
It would have been better if this was found on a mirror.
@Just me in my house;
that's what the coupon it's self is meant for.
they are printed on quilted two-ply tissue
Cleanup on aisle 4!
Once I was in a mall, and I had just eaten at the food court. I walked over, put my trash in the bin, and it said to me, "Thank you!"
It surprised me so bad I screamed like I'd just been assaulted.
At a car park I go to, there are some ticket dispensers which are monitored by security cameras. You can press a 'help' button on the machines and speak to the people on the other end of the cameras. Once, a little kid was fiddling with all the buttons on the machine and it suddenly said, "Stop! You're tickling my tummy!" The look on the little one's face was a picture!
Last night I went over to a friend's, and she was expecting a bunch of people. I was the first one to show, so we were just talking in her living room. A few of our other friends showed up and after a while we got into real conversation. Suddenly, two of our friends jumped out from behind the couch we were sitting on and screamed at us. I was startled so terribly. Apparently I wasn't first to arrive as I'd thought.
A "thing" that scares the crap out of me: http://foundmagazine.com/comments/3741
Look! They found my reaction to that damned b lue flying monkey sombitch.
haha, i hate those things too for the same reason. imo, the finder should have left it there. it speaks for all of us.
thus the management at the Roadrunner Market asking them to not park their piece of shit there...
i HATF THiS THiNo! Scaved the CRAP ouHa me too.
I've yet to encounter one of these "things" in Kentucky. Now I dread the day.
A talking coupon machine? What?! I've never heard of such a thing! What does it say?
Apparently, the Rainbow Food Store chain in Minnesota has a reputation for intimidating its patrons.
http://www.foundmagazine.com/find/2235
Nowadays more and more inanimate objects are talking to us, so you better get used to it. Around here, there's a gas station where the pumps start speaking to you after you begin to pump your gas. Of course they're only trying to sell you stuff being sold inside the store, so it's more annoying than scary.
All these talking machines remind me of futuristic Sci-Fi movies from 20 or 30 years ago where everything talked, seems reality has once again caught up to fiction!
When I was in junior high school, I walked around the end of an aisle in a Winn Dixie and ran smack into a guy in a six-foot-tall Twinkie the Kid costume. It scared the creamy filling right outta me.
Please don't park your piece of crap here.
Mngmt
Roadrunner
What's really scary is when I buy a chicken pot pie at Rainbow foods on Lake Street in Minneapolis and after I take it home and bake it in the oven for 40 minutes at 425 degrees it starts talking to me. Why does it have a face?
I bought chicken from the Rainbow on Lake Street once. It didn't talk to me though, it was just rotten and rank when I took it out of the package. I learned a valuable lesson that day. When buying meat - always go to Cub! Rainbow has always been kinda shady to me. I only go there when I am already in the neighborhood and need a thing or two.
And you're really going to make me divide 454 by 2 at this time of night?
It's sort of sad when you think of it that this guy(?) was all alone and didn't have anyone to share the experience with and thus resorted to leaving a note. next time just call me up and we'll laugh about it, k?
I do so love to terrify unsuspecting grocery shoppers. Oh, I almost forgot: StarKist canned tuna is 39 cents off. Bwahaha!
Flargy, FTW!!