The Mystery of the Appearing Shopping

[sally_maria]

Yesterday morning I opened my curtains just before 9am, to find that someone had left two full carrier bags tucked just inside our garden wall. We investigated, and found food from Waitrose, new saucepans and other kitchen equipment. It had rained the night before, and they weren't wet, but at least the food must have come from Cheltenham, not here.

Baffled, we left the bags out, assuming their owner would come back for them, but no sign so far, they are still there.

Someone could, I suppose, have got off the early bus, struggled bringing them up the hill and left them for later, but you'd think they would have been back for them within 24 hours...

Comments

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

That ... is very strange,

[sally_maria]

Yes, it is. At our old house we had somebody's stolen briefcase dumped behind our hedge once, but this is a small wall, where anyone who happens to look in the right direction can see it.

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

Could it be a mysterious benefactor, wanting to make sure that you all get a good meal? Or a guest expecting to arrive shortly, wanting to make sure that they get a good meal? ;-)

[sally_maria]

It did strike my mind that it might be somebody who was expecting to cook when they got where they were going, but there's a lot of pasta in there for one meal. It would keep paupers like us going for at least a week. ;-)

[chainmailmaiden]

My first thought was dumped stolen goods. Used to happen in our garden sometimes when we lived near Sainsbury's in Walthamstow. We also got wallets and handbags too.

[sally_maria]

Yes, that makes sense in that location, and our old house was on a main road. But here they would have had to bring the stuff the best part of 8 miles over the hill from Cheltenham.

I suppose it could have been left for someone else to pick up, and they didn't get to it for whatever reason, but there are plenty of places within a few yards of here it could have been left much less conspicuously (There's a field on the other side of the road.)