I know of people so desperate that they have picked up cigarette butts off the street in an attempt to get a couple of drags, or drink the dregs of other people's beers at parties. And I have turned up my nose at them.

But last night, I was craving chocolate so badly if I'd had enough petrol in my car (and a new battery) I would've woken the kids and gone to the 7-11.
Imagine to my joy when I found a square of chocolate down the back of the recliner which wasn't even too linty! it was marabou orange crocquant - which I remember buying THIS year, (so it wasn't even that old!)

Fauxie said:

...I should be feeling some degree of disgust, guilt or self-loathing, but I am cool with it.

how desperate have YOU been?

charlottegelin said:

Well, about cigarettes I've never picked them off the street, but I have feverishly looked through a bag we had on the balcony that we tipped the ash and butts in to try to find one I'd only half smoked.

Fauxie said:

so you know the feeling HA!

charlottegelin said:

Yes. Yes, I do.

Bob Saget's sucked dick for crack!

theVelvetRoper said:

I don't even know who that is

charlottegelin said:

I do this all of the time. Of course, I don't drink strangers' drinks. They are always in my group. I even finished off Muse's beer when we went to SF.

charlottegelin said:

Nothing wrong in what you did ..I have been known to pick up loose change thats lying on the street just to buy my fix of chocolate on the day B4 payday whan i am always skint!!!

doggonewalkies said:

You should always pick up loose change! As if one is too good to do it! I remember many a time when they turned the lights up at closing time, on my hands and knees scouring for coins. I collected $40 one night! It paid for the entire nights drinks!

charlottegelin said:

$40 worth of loose change as in coins? Even if they were all quarters that would mean 160 coins! How could people even move around in that place without slipping on a few of them?

retina said:

no, 2 x $20 bills

PS I tried a Ballerina biscuit on Sunday, for the first time!

charlottegelin said:

charlottegelin said:

Was it as orgasmic as it was for me?

retina said:

it was OK, not love at first sight I'm afraid, I did like those dammsugare/punschrulle things though

PANDURITO said:

on sticky beer soaked carpet no less,

charlottegelin said:

Really? They're usually an acquired taste. It took me a few years to learn to like them but now I love them.

It's funny that people still call them dammsugare more than half a century after the type of vacuum cleaner that they resemble were taken out of production.

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charlottegelin said:

I recently had to look for my car key on the floor of a dark movie theater.

I'm sure new lifeforms were emerging down there.

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retina said:

I found a recipe for them on the internet and attempted to make them, bloody impossible to roll up, they crumbled to bits. tasted exactly like the bought ones though!

retina said:

it's ok when you are drunk, then you don't mind as much