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Dont you just feel awful
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When you lose someone elses things? My girlfriend left her purse here the other day, and my mum threw it in the rubbish, and the binmen have been today, I mean any other day, it would have been fine - but it had to be bin day. Which is only once a fortnight! And if mum had thought, rather than the one off chance she didnt, she wouldnt have thrown it away. Yet once again, fate arranges a seemingly implausable sequence of events, each one as unlikely as the last, until ultimately the worse possible case occurs.
I feel so shit
I feel so shit
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though in future i just might, just incase
A purse as in the actual wallet, rather than the bag that has all your bits and bobs in it (you Americans confuse me with your different terminology ).
I borrowed a jacket from a mate to wear on a night out and lost it in my drunken idiocy, whoops! Luckily she's a very forgiving (and rich) person
Mr. ShyBoy, I believe you need to apologise to your mum .
So a purse is the wallet thing, what do you call the purse/bag/whatever thing?
UK handbag = US purse.
Little_one summed it all up, to be honest I wouldn't even call my (American) "purse" a handbag...it's just my bag. The confusion :crazyeyes
I've never looked inside a McD's bag before binning it either, so your Mum is entirely blameless (aren't they always?). On the bright side, at least there wasn't a huge wad of cash in there or something...you'd be [even more] gutted!
You, (and anybody else i guess too)
How do you pronounce bag? long a or short a? I say it with long a but apperantly thats "a minnesota thing" everybody laughs at me here for it!
tap - short a
late - long a
yellow - short 5, long o
The best way it was ever described to me was if thevowel sounds like the actual letter in the word, then its a "long" sound
I say all of them with the long a. bag, hag, sag, tag, fag, slag. everybody in IL says it with the short a too though
Yes but that's the entire point, she didn't find it. She found a McDonalds bag, which is what she binned, inadvertently binning the purse with it.
Can't blame her for this one.
even if i knew it wasn't, i might bin it anyway to teach its owner a lesson. i'm going to be a horrible mother.