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  • ME5SENGER_24@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    That was amazing!! Just wish we got to see the final image of the BIL on the veranda, broken and surrounded by 23 bags of rice

    • Overland@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      It’s not the same, but this all reminds me of ‘A House for Mister Biswas,’ which one reviewer on Goodreads describes as “more than 600 pages filled with the bickering, moans and wailing of a large Indo-Trinidadian family.”

      I love stories like this. Humans are so funny.

  • fibojoly
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    1 year ago

    That was hilarious, thank you! I must admit I’m morbidly curious as to how one orders a truck of rice by mistake…

    • Piemanding
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      1 year ago

      I’m assuming it’s a single pallet and the shop owner told the warehouse to send the minimum order amount. BIL probably thought it was just a few bags.

  • Master
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    1 year ago

    700 ish bags of rice? and he only bought 24. lol

    • InfiniteStruggle
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      1 year ago

      Massive success tbh. Imagine Havin to deal with 700 fucking bags of rice. Those sacks also looks to be 50 kg wholesale sacks meant for ration shops and godowns so thats likely 35 fucking TONS of rice.

      EDIT: They’re actually 100 kg sacks, so 70 tons.

        • mindbleach
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          1 year ago

          “Somebody needs to go back and get a shitload of onions!”

      • Master
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        1 year ago

        “Final terms: 23 bags, one bottle Old Monk, one bottle scotch*. Everyone is exhausted”

        The whole point of this set of twitter pic conversations was the negotiation to not have to buy the whole lorry worth.

    • appel@lemmy.ml
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      1 year ago

      Can you recommend one for a first time Palahniuk reader?

      Edit: well shit, so far no consensus :)

  • Neato@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    Wow. Do they do truck-loads of rice as Cash on Delivery there? If he didn’t pre-pay, can he just refuse delivery and not pay? No idea what verbal contract laws are in place.

    • emergencyfood
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      1 year ago

      These sorts of deals are usually based on trust. You might pay beforehand, on delivery, or later. But cancelling / not paying will tank your reputation.

    • wahming@monyet.cc
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      1 year ago

      Imagine BIL getting sent out for rice every day and coming back empty handed after this incident

    • toynbee@lemm.ee
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      1 year ago

      Kind of reminds me of " A Man Called Ove" or, in movie form, “A Man Called Otto.”

    • ki77erb@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      Yeah I’d love to know the conclusion of the story but when that popped up I immediately didn’t care anymore. Fuck Tumblr.

        • southsamurai
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          1 year ago

          It wasn’t showing the other images in my preferred app.

          Took me a bit to figure out they were even there. But I swItched apps and finished it, thank you :)

        • ki77erb@lemmy.world
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          1 year ago

          For some reason on my computer it would only let me see the first one but on the app I can see the others. I’m a little slow. Lol

      • southsamurai
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        1 year ago

        Try a different app. The images are in the post, they just aren’t showing right for some reason.

  • teruma@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Those look way bigger than thw 50lb bags I’m familiar with. Are those 100lbs? 200lbs?

  • LolaCat@lemmy.ca
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    1 year ago

    This post has more twists and turns than a roller coaster lmao, great post!