r/BritishSuccess

A fox attacked our rusty rotary washing line. I needed a new one. A bigger and better one, and quick, cause the missus had a load in the machine and there's no way we're putting the dryer on when it's this warm outside.

Amazon was £90-something quid and with Prime delivery it'd be 2 days...!

Argos was £71 and I could pick it up from Sainsbury's in 10 minutes.

The exact same one. (Brabantia. Very fancy.)

I've not bought anything from Argos in years, but why on earth do I default to Amazon for things when Argos was just so convenient, cheaper, and British?

A minor success this weekend, but one I'll be trying to repeat again.

Went to Asda today to do my Sunday shop for the week. Thought I’d have a peek in the reduced section to see if there was anything

When I look there were 3 whole chickens which were reduced because they were close to expiry. Cool. I’ll have that for my tea tonight and use the leftover meat for my sandwiches for work tomorrow

I grab one and place it in my basket. As I turn to leave I notice a woman who had stood behind me and had an annoyed look on her face. I continued walking but from the corner of my eye I saw her scoop up the last 2 chickens and put them in her trolley

I continued walking and then stop a few shelves down to look at what gravy/sauce I want with my chicken. As I’m browsing I suddenly feel my basket become a lot lighter.

Confused I look and see my chicken is missing. I look up and the same woman is speed walking in the opposite direction towards her trolley. I then see her place the chicken in her trolley

Annoyed I walk over and tell her to give me it back

‘Sorry. No English’ *she puts on a fake confused look and starts to try and push her trolley away*

I move to block the trolley and tell her to give me the chicken back again. She shakes her head

Luckily. A staff member walks up to the two of us and grabs her trolley and says. ‘I just saw you do that. Give him it back, put the other two chickens back and then get out’

The woman tried to argue for a few seconds (odd for someone who can’t speak English), but eventually she passed me the chicken and then took the others back to the reduced section

I thanked the worker and he smiled, nodded and walked off like a hero.

I continued my shop, went home and I’m in the process of cooking my chicken which Im sure a will taste better than usual today

I don’t know how I managed it. Not one Pepsi, walkers, ninja, Qatar, McDonald’s advert. It’s a damned miracle.

Today the US of A will delight in kicking our arse 250 years ago.

Today we sit back, drink our tea and think "crisis averted".

Sugar anyone?

I went and introduced myself, had a pleasant conversation and asked if they could please smoke further down their garden as I have asthma (and also didnt want my plushes to smell).

They were apologetic and moved immediately. I promptly started shaking from the adrenaline surge.

(appt is 10 days away but I still think that's very good service, and I didn't have to phone them)

Thank you NHS and Happy Friday all!

I was working out in the little shed. A blue bottle was really starting to ruin my zen, bumbling around so noisily. Action was going to be needed.

A swallow swooped in and out, and the fly was no more.

Was also delighted by the sounds of them chatting on all afternoon.

Finally did a meter reading for my electricity after a long time, found out I’m actually £800 in credit… needed that 😅

Had some faff this morning ringing various customer service lines as we were all set to move house this weekend but it fell through. All of them were very nice (I love when I get connected to a Welsh customer service line) and ended the call with "I hope you have a lovely day". But I think Thames Water takes the cake with this one:

> Wishing you a joyful day ahead filled with love and laughter alongside your family and friends. Hope you have an amazing day ahead.😊

I'm sat in the waiting room of the dental hospital awaiting restorative surgery.

Bloke near me is watching tiktok on his phone (with sound) ignoring his grandchild.

After a few minutes I say "excuse me, we can all hear that" and he actually turned it off.

Hallelujah!

To the person on the Northern line whose scalp broke my fall during that completely unannounced emergency brake: I am so sorry. I had a pole. I lost the pole. Physics took over. My underarm, fully marinated in 30-degree heat, btw - made contact with the top of your head and we both just had to live with that.

I said nothing. You said nothing. We have agreed never to speak of it. But I will be carrying this to my grave.

Anyway how is everyone else’s heatwave commute going?

My mum and dad bought me a beautiful ruby and diamond white gold ring for my 18th and I treasured it , especially after they died

I then lost it years later after my 50th bday party - gutted !

Today - 16 and half years later and 2 big house moves - Just been sorting out my collection of reusable gift bags - heard a rattle - and there it was!!

It was everything I hoped for and more

Also bonus success for having a cinema that's cheap enough for a family trip in the first place.

My wife ordered her various lotions and potions from Boots. It was about £60 worth.

She was informed by the online tracking that Royal Mail had delivered it this morning and quickly realised it had been delivered to the wrong address.

Naturally she was rather annoyed and upset. Boots said they needed to investigate for 21 days before they could send a replacement out.

We drove round and round looking at the bottom corner of front doors to try and match up the delivery photo to no avail.

Just now a very elderly chap (with very poor mobility) knocked on the door. He had the parcel and had driven 40 odd minutes to deliver it to the correct address.

He said that when he sees his usual postie next week, he’s going to give him a voucher for specsavers - made me chuckle.

Very kind and wholesome. Restored my faith in humanity.

One benefit of the hot weather. My olive tree flowered for the first time, so did my palm tree. My grape vine is doing very well as well as my Jasmine. I did deliberately pick this theme due to thinking the UK would get warmer and my local sandy soil.

If you are reading this, you survived!

Edit - wishful thinking spoke too soon. SOLIDARITY THRU SWEAT!

Just wanted to post about how much I genuinely enjoy travelling on GA.

Their trains are air conditioned and very pleasant to travel on. Their conductors are pleasant and helpful (since they were brought back into public ownership, you can buy tickets on the trains and they're very happy to try and get you as much of a saving as possible). I had to travel from Ipswich on Friday (I know, the heat, I shouldn't have done, but I needed to) and despite issues from the heat they were excellent.

Even when I have to take a rail replacement, they're generally well organised around it.

So yes. Big up Greater Anglia. You're better than GWR. Just a shame train tickets are so expensive.