The Odd Find

Discovered on the way to the supermarket today.  I have no idea what these are - maybe for applying plaster or smoothing cement?  No idea.

"No idea" could certainly applied to a parent at the Supermarket.  We recycle bottles and glass there.  There's 1 machine.  And there's a queue.  And we all jusrt want to get on with our shopping. And the parent thought it would be absolutely fine to pass every bottle singly to their darling offspring, lift said offspring up so the little poppet could s-l-o-w-l-y put the bottle in the machine.  Then put the offspring down, get the next bottle, give it to the lovely poppet, lift the lovely poppet, let the lovely child s-l-o-w-l-y put the bottle in the machine.  And because they were so slow, the machine thought they were finished after every bottle and printed off the deposit voucher.  The growing queue behind them made no impression on them whatsoever.  

They had to be avoided for the rest of the shop.  They were seen blocking aisles all over.  It must be quite something to be only aware of yourself.  I wonder if they trained or they were just born clueless?