Farewell my purple bag
26Took two purple IRK.bags into the grocery store.wirh me today. I left with one. What I did with the other, I may never know. I thought I put the empty one inside the full one, but when I got home it was not there.
I am sad and in mourning. Farewell my little purple friend. I will never forget you.
I do have lots of other IRK bags… But it is still a deep saddening loss.
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Don’t feel too bad-my daughter took one of the them to the pool all last week to carry her stuff and by the end of the week the side pockets had all ripped off. Doesn’t bode well for the quality of the purple bags.
@Felton10 so she tortured your purple bag?
I’m hoping who ever found my bag is treating it nicely and has given it a loving home.
@OnionSoup No more than she abuses anything else of ours when she comes to visit. We got two of them and purple being her favorite color, we knew we were going to give her one of them.
/giphy WHY?
@IndifferentDude it’s a cruel cruel world, and I’m absolutely devastated. I’m wondering if I should hold a grieving ceremony for it.
/giphy sadness
/giphy purple
/giphy purple-bag
@GenWithaG123
/giphy pour one out for the homies
Think of the happiness someone that finds it will experience! You might have just made someone’s whole year!
@GBrunner321 I hope that it has found a loving home. I haven’t broken the news to my kids yet, I’m trying to phrase that the beloved purple bag has run off to live on a farm.
Our secret marketing plan comes to fruition!
@dave during a Mehrathon, is there some complex strategy behind who gets a captcha? An algorithm determines who is more likely to lose a bag at a grocery store and gives them an easier ride? People who seem more competent have to identify pictures with motorcycles in them? Meanwhile the incompetent amongst us get bags to redistribute at the local Aldi’s?
I installed CAPTCHA to save my fellow robots from wasting money on this crap.
@OnionSoup Probably some AI thing in the cloud (which is probably the answer to most “why does this sometimes happen” stuff online these days). We definitely didn’t write any complex strategy, I think it’s just something that comes with a “use captcha to confirm humans” library.
I installed CAPTCHA to save my fellow robots from wasting money on this crap.
@dave @OnionSoup idk if it helps, but I always get one on mobile. Last time I got one (before I got inked) I was on desktop and no captcha.
Please realize CAPTCHA is a fellow robot like you.
@dave @remo28 I was 100% just joking since Dave said losing bags was a marketing device.
If competent people got captchas. Incompetent people would get bags… And lose them at the grocery store.
Beep beep boop boop. (I assume if you failed CAPTCHA you now understand Robot.)
as a grocery store cashier, I’ll just say, call, or otherwise check with the store to see if someone turned it in to their lost and found. you’d be amazed at the amount, and types of crap, err…stuff we find.
usually it sits there for 30 days, after which, either the person that turned it in can claim it, or it gets pitched or donated to someplace like goodwill…
@earlyre I have to go back to get some ingredients for my Tikka Masala tonight, so I was going to ask if it showed up when I returned. Honestly, don’t know if I left it at register, left it in the cart, fell out whilst shopping, or put it on top of car without thinking and drove off. Anything is possible. Didn’t realise it was missing until much later. It could have been a heist and “grand theft, Irk bag” for all I know.
@OnionSoup
Ohhh…tikka…yum yum!
@earlyre @OnionSoup so was it there???
@earlyre @GBrunner321 no. Girl didn’t go look in any lost and found or ask any of her coworkers, she just told me, no, no one had found one.
I didn’t push the issue… They’re never the most helpful store. I wouldn’t be surprised if they just toss anything found out at the end of the night.
@earlyre If you want to PM me your address, I would be happy to send you my new Purple IRK bag. While none will replace your own, it might help ease the pain a little.
@GBrunner321 I never had one to begin with…
while I do like Purple and do not have a purple irk bag,
you want @OnionSoup THEY are the one that lost their bag.
@earlyre oops. thanks for being so honest. i actually have 3 so if you want one, i’d be happy to give you one too.
@OnionSoup I accidently sent this to the wrong person at first. good thing @earlyre is honest! Here is the message that should have gone to you: If you want to PM me your address, I would be happy to send you my new Purple IRK bag. While none will replace your own, it might help ease the pain a little.
@earlyre @GBrunner321 thank you. My post was more tongue-in-cheek about losing my bag than anything else. I do actually have a fair number of Irks bags already. (Including another purple). It was a really nice offer though
/youtube In the arms of an angel
You didn’t notice a cat with stubby legs around, did you? This one has a thing against purple.
@narfcake if that cat has my purple bag, he’s welcome to it.
@narfcake Interesting - my two previous cats loved those rubber brushes, but my current one reacts exactly like Lulu.
@Kyeh @narfcake My cat that died recently hated to be groomed by anything. She is the only cat I have ever had who was like this.
You lost your bag that was a unlucky for you. My bag gifted 4-5 bags saying one is more than enough.
@sasantosh My Wife gifted the bags. Just saw my original comment it doesn’t make sense.
@sasantosh lol… That makes more sense.
… But still very tragic.