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Man orders apples online, gets apple Iphone instead
Well, Nick James from Twickenham was just as stunned when he saw a brand new Apple iPhone in his grocery bag. He had just ordered some items from one of the branches of Tesco, UK’s multinational groceries and general merchandise retailer. The 50-year-old was asked to look for a surprise in the bag by the supermarket’s staff. Not thinking much of it, Mr James was expecting an Easter egg or something along those lines. But he was soon ‘shocked’ to discover the iPhone SE in place of the apples that he had ordered.
According to The Mirror, Mr James said, “I was half expecting the surprise to be an Easter egg or something – I was a little bit shocked, to say the least.”
The gift to Mr James was a part of the retailer’s week-long “super substitutes” promotion in which Tesco Mobile is giving away free iPhones, AirPods and Samsung devices.
The man soon shared the happy news on Twitter. Tagging Tesco and Tesco Mobile, he wrote, “A big thanks this week to Tesco and Tesco Mobile. On Wednesday evening, we went to pick up our click and collect order and had a little surprise in there – an Apple iPhone SE. Apparently, we ordered apples and randomly got an Apple iPhone! Made my son’s week,” he wrote.
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A message in a bottle launched by visitors to Newfoundland’s Bell Island was found washed up on an Irish beach nearly 13 years later, after apparently crossing the Atlantic Ocean.
Kate Gay said she was walking a Dingle Peninsula beach this week when she spotted the wine bottle with a sheet of paper inside.
Gay showed the bottle to members of Creative Ireland NeartnaMacharaí during a meeting at her house that evening, and they broke the bottle open.
The note, written by a couple named Brad and Anita, was dated Sept. 12, 2012. The letter described the couple’s day trip to Bell Island.
There was a phone number on the letter, but there was no answer when group members tried to call.
The Maharees Heritage and Conservation group posted photos of the bottleto social media on Monday, and within an hour group members were messaging with Anita.
Group member Martha Farrell said Anita reported that she and Brad had married in 2016 and are still together to this day. -upi.com
A Spanish woman who has been collecting egg cups for over 50 years earned a Guinness World Record when her collection was tallied at 15,485 items.
María José Fuster recruited two witnesses to help her tally her collection at a community center in her hometown of Campo, Spain.
Fuster’s collection includes multiple patterns, colors, designs and even novelty cups bearing the images of characters including Superman, Betty Boop and Garfield.
Fuster maintains two blogs related to her hobby — one to catalog each piece, and one to list the names of the people who have donated egg cups to her collection.
Some of her most prized egg cups, about 1,143 of them, are currently on display at a local museum.
-upi.com
