Am I just a 'Grumpy Old Woman' ?

Lay used as we use lie is another piece of 'immigrant' usage from the States.

I'll join the Bah Humbugs group and GOWs with regard to Hallowe'en overkill.

People talk of austerity and then we see all this money-requiring crap indication of affluence. It does make me wonder.

Sorry - it should have been

This is supposed to be a grumpy thread but I am finding it hilarious. It's cheering me up no end, especially pompa's bucket of water and the proposed bottle-laying session in Sainsbury's!

Thanks everyone

What next? Halloween cards?

It appears to be a big business now and you will also have seen in Sainsbury's, apart from outfits for children and adults, decorations for the house and the garden.

THESE words.

I used to hate dressing up in the Nursing Home at Christmas, I'm just not that sort of person!

But talking about Sainsburys. I was in our local branch yesterday, and at the checkout there was a bottle shaped notice with there words printed on it. "Lay bottles this way" with an arrow pointing in the direction they wanted the bottles.
I said to the lady on the checkout, "if I could lay a bottle, I would be clever".
I know that hens lay eggs, but people laying bottles?

Yes, no doubt, you are a grumpy woman.
Fancy meeting up with a grumpy old man ?

Halloween - Ba Humbug, another money waster from the States.

Mrs. P has persuaded me to buy some sweets for the Trick or Treaters (little does she kno about the bucket of water over the door

I wonder why they did it yesterday and not today if they had to do it at all. I sometimes feel embarrassed on their behalf when they are "encouraged " to dress up.

These shops are getting more and more desperate to separate us from our money.
Nothing wrong with being a 'grumpy old woman', I quite enjoy it!

You are a normal person in a brain addled world.