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[–] [email protected] 73 points 2 years ago (1 children)

That was amazing!! Just wish we got to see the final image of the BIL on the veranda, broken and surrounded by 23 bags of rice

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago

I feel duped! Where is that picture!

[–] [email protected] 46 points 2 years ago (1 children)

This was the most compelling thing I've ever read

[–] Overland 7 points 2 years ago

It’s not the same, but this all reminds me of ‘A House for Mister Biswas,’ which one reviewer on Goodreads describes as “more than 600 pages filled with the bickering, moans and wailing of a large Indo-Trinidadian family.”

I love stories like this. Humans are so funny.

[–] [email protected] 36 points 2 years ago (1 children)

That was hilarious, thank you! I must admit I'm morbidly curious as to how one orders a truck of rice by mistake...

[–] [email protected] 26 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I'm assuming it's a single pallet and the shop owner told the warehouse to send the minimum order amount. BIL probably thought it was just a few bags.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

Looks more like a single container

[–] [email protected] 35 points 2 years ago (2 children)

700 ish bags of rice? and he only bought 24. lol

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Massive success tbh. Imagine Havin to deal with 700 fucking bags of rice. Those sacks also looks to be 50 kg wholesale sacks meant for ration shops and godowns so thats likely 35 fucking TONS of rice.

EDIT: They're actually 100 kg sacks, so 70 tons.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Still got stuck with 2.4 tons lol. Guess that'll last them like a week

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

"Final terms: 23 bags, one bottle Old Monk, one bottle scotch*. Everyone is exhausted"

The whole point of this set of twitter pic conversations was the negotiation to not have to buy the whole lorry worth.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)
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[–] DaCookeyMonsta 30 points 2 years ago (1 children)

"We are all here"

Sounds like a Palahniuk novel.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (4 children)

Can you recommend one for a first time Palahniuk reader?

Edit: well shit, so far no consensus :)

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I recommend Haunted. One of the first short stories is very interesting.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Haunted is amazing but the short story "guts" has scarred me for life.

[–] DaCookeyMonsta 2 points 2 years ago

Honestly I only read Fight Club and that was two weeks ago.

So I guess that one.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

Obviously go for guts for maximum slap in the face. I also liked the time travel one.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Wow. Do they do truck-loads of rice as Cash on Delivery there? If he didn't pre-pay, can he just refuse delivery and not pay? No idea what verbal contract laws are in place.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago

These sorts of deals are usually based on trust. You might pay beforehand, on delivery, or later. But cancelling / not paying will tank your reputation.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

Imagine BIL getting sent out for rice every day and coming back empty handed after this incident

[–] kemsat 15 points 2 years ago (1 children)

This would make a hell of a 90 minute Netflix movie.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago

Kind of reminds me of " A Man Called Ove" or, in movie form, "A Man Called Otto."

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 years ago

This story was just what the doctor ordered. Thank you for posting this.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 years ago

Man I need that image of man on verandah

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 years ago

This post has more twists and turns than a roller coaster lmao, great post!

[–] teruma 12 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Those look way bigger than thw 50lb bags I'm familiar with. Are those 100lbs? 200lbs?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago (1 children)

100 kg, so a little over 200 pounds.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 years ago

So thats 70 tons of rice the OP's BIL nearly got stuck with.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 years ago

I need a smoke after that.

Fuck that was a great read.

[–] OldManBOMBIN 11 points 2 years ago

Holy shit I'm fuckin' dying

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 years ago (2 children)
[–] ki77erb 10 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Yeah I'd love to know the conclusion of the story but when that popped up I immediately didn't care anymore. Fuck Tumblr.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Why don't you read it here on lemmy then?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago

It wasn't showing the other images in my preferred app.

Took me a bit to figure out they were even there. But I swItched apps and finished it, thank you :)

[–] ki77erb 5 points 2 years ago

For some reason on my computer it would only let me see the first one but on the app I can see the others. I'm a little slow. Lol

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Try a different app. The images are in the post, they just aren't showing right for some reason.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago

I could see my brother doing this.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

What a ride!

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