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    The epic search for....chalk

    You know, considering I live on the South Coast of England, with all it's chalky cliffs, you wouldn't have thought it would be so bloody hard to find some chalk. I recently purchased a dartboard with a cabinet that you can keep scores on, so I went out in search of some chalk in the town centre. I tried half a dozen stationers and spent over an hour looking for something I eventually found, not white however, multicoloured, and it cost me 25p. I couldn't believe the trouble I had to go to in order to find it. Seriously in Southampton, I could find a hooker faster than I could find some chalk!!!!!

    So has anyone else had difficulty finding chalk? Or anything else that you considered to widely available before you realised you needed it?

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    There are times I am very happy to be an American. This is one of them. I can name at least 5 places in town off the top of my head that I am SURE have chalk for sale.

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    Staples has nice big boxes of chalk, pens, paper, and anything else I could ever want.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Winged Sorceress
    Staples has nice big boxes of chalk, pens, paper, and anything else I could ever want.
    The real question, though, is do they have staples?

    Ahaha, I crack myself up.

    Ok, sorry.

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    Quote Originally Posted by RSL
    The real question, though, is do they have staples?

    Ahaha, I crack myself up.

    Ok, sorry.
    They do!

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    Quote Originally Posted by RSL
    The real question, though, is do they have staples?

    Ahaha, I crack myself up.

    Ok, sorry.
    I'd be worried if they didn't.
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    I have a piece of chalk in my car. I don't know where it came from.

    I once had difficulty locating an Atlas. I've got one now, though.
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    i grew up in dorset and you couldn't move for chalk, did you buy any chance check the ground.
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    Ha, no I didn't check the ground but then Southampton is concrete heaven so I probably wouldn't have found any there.

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    Where they sell school/office supplies, they are bound to have chalk here. I'd just have to cross the street and I could buy chalk if I needed.

    And then there is Death

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    You can find chalk at ANY arts and crafts store.


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    I have stacks chalk in my house along with pencils, staples, stencils, rulers,A4 paper, coloured pens and pencils. I stationary.


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    You can find chalk at ANY arts and crafts store.
    Maybe where you come from bub.

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    Go into a school and steal some. Tell them you need it to stop racism. If they object, you can scream "RACIST!" at them and they'll have to do whatever you command.

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    ahhhh southampton! thats where my family live!
    i sell chalk at work!! just go to the Focus in southampton and demand that you have some!

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