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Re: Which Shell set this week?
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lugnet.loc.uk
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Wed, 28 Oct 1998 19:42:17 GMT
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As my Shell card now doesn't work, I will apparently be "compensated"
for the inconvenience. I can't wait to see how many extra points they
give me........
David Till wrote in message ...
> Huw Millington writes:
> > Its #2, the jet-ski round these parts...
> >
> > --
> > Huw Millington
> > http://www.pncl.co.uk/~huw/lego - Home of the promotional LEGO set guide
>
> This weekend just gone I put over 700 miles on my parents car, starting in
> Warwickshire, going down the M40, A46, petrol stop outside oxford. The Lego
> sets had arrived, but were still packed in boxes. However after about an hour
> (Yes, really a whole hour) we were able to talk the attendant into opening
> them. First box, out comes #1. Next box, premium F1 pit stop. Third box Model
> Team Ferrari, and having only put 30 pounds petrol in the car I didnt ask them
> to open any more. However, after 10 minutes figuring out how to enter the sets
> into the till the attendant asked why I didnt just put 10 pounds of petrol in
> for the 3 sets!
> Next day I drove from Hampshire, across to Kent - in that terrible weather.
> Then from a small place outside Chatham (doesnt someone live there?) to another
> small place outside East Grinstead (hello Huw, did you get rained in - I had
> trouble getting through.) Along that road I must of passed more shell stations
> than all other petrol stations combined! I did stop at one, but they only had
> #3. As I got back to Fleet - Hants It was again time to fill up. 30 quid in
> petrol, stock consisted of both premium sets, Ferrari, and #1, #2, #3, no
> restrictions on which you can get as long as you spend the 10 pounds per set.
> Out to Guildford on Sunday, and again Monday, 20 quid more petrol on Tuesday
> morning in Fleet before heading back to Warwick. In one weekend I somehow
> managed to obtain 3 each of #1, #2, and #3, a ferrari, and the f1 pit stop. If
> only my parents would ask me to taxi them about more often.
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| (...) This weekend just gone I put over 700 miles on my parents car, starting in Warwickshire, going down the M40, A46, petrol stop outside oxford. The Lego sets had arrived, but were still packed in boxes. However after about an hour (Yes, really a (...) (26 years ago, 28-Oct-98, to lugnet.loc.uk)
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