Mundane facts about your day...

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Gramaisc

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I enjoy motorway driving when I'm on my own (Too much moaning about traffic jams and messing with the heating controls by hubby when he comes along !).

Wanted to be a lorry driver when I was younger , but my parents wouldn't lend me the money to do the HGV1 lessons. Don't think I'd be able to get up into the cab nowadays ! (Once had a lift off a lorry driver friend to work at GEC. Gave everyone an eyeful as I climbed in , and out again outside the works gatehouse, as was wearing a pencil skirt and had to hitch it up around my waist to get my legs up the steps :embarrass: :lol: )
Pictures or it never happened....
 

staffordjas

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I'd be lost without my handbrake. How do you do a hill start without one ??? Hubby drove me back from hospital in his works car a few years ago, and the handbrake was a button on the dashboard. Held the refuse lorry up for quite a while on Westhead avenue as the button wouldn't release!
 

Tilly

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I'd be lost without my handbrake. How do you do a hill start without one ??? Hubby drove me back from hospital in his works car a few years ago, and the handbrake was a button on the dashboard. Held the refuse lorry up for quite a while on Westhead avenue as the button wouldn't release!

No handbrake, no button, the Mercedes has a spirit level which automatically engages the brakes if it tilts when stationary

Rather like clenching your butt cheeks when things start to slide
 

Cue

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No handbrake, no button, the Mercedes has a spirit level which automatically engages the brakes if it tilts when stationary

Rather like clenching your butt cheeks when things start to slide

Love hill-stopping in cars (or whatever they choose to market it as), makes life so much easier.
 

BobClay

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Today I am spending 4 hours paying the penalty for speeding.

Are you doing a "Speed awareness course ?" I did one of those three years ago and was astounded at how little I knew of the Highway Code. I was done by a speed camera on M5 roadworks at 4am in the morning, 58mph in a 50mph section.

When I passed my car test .. (the Highway Code doesn't apply to bikers as we all know) … the HC was a pamphlet, a few pages, some road signs and braking distances and Robert's yer father's brother. Now it's a f****** novel longer than War and Peace. :eek:
 

PeterD

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Are you doing a "Speed awareness course ?" I did one of those three years ago and was astounded at how little I knew of the Highway Code. I was done by a speed camera on M5 roadworks at 4am in the morning, 58mph in a 50mph section.

When I passed my car test .. (the Highway Code doesn't apply to bikers as we all know) … the HC was a pamphlet, a few pages, some road signs and braking distances and Robert's yer father's brother. Now it's a f****** novel longer than War and Peace. :eek:
All of my family and all my close circle of friends have done it, all of them became like reformed smokers and bored me with little known things about driving. I hope I dont become that. That said since I was caught I put the limiter on in my car all the time, particularly on motorways.
 

age'd parent

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No handbrake, no button, the Mercedes has a spirit level which automatically engages the brakes if it tilts when stationary

Rather like clenching your butt cheeks when things start to slide

That must be what my citroen relay van has, it never rolls back when I stop at the newport rd lights, and I've noticed a slight hesitation on pulling away.
 

staffordjas

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When the engine switches itself off too it can be very disconcerting.
Experienced that for the first time with courtesy car ( Hyundai I30). Thought it had broken down when I stopped at the traffic lights on the way home and the engine cut off.



Discovered the reason sons neighbours cat was so interested in my car and green wheelie bin behind it..... As I was leaving I pulled the green bin further up his drive ready for collection day. Something shot out from under it, and made a dash for his black bin.. Puss was then on guard by the black bin, so I moved it to see what it actually was.. Either a massive brown mouse, or baby rat :o
Made its way under sons gate into his back garden and I assume hid behind his little shed. Left puss cat watching it from the shed roof .

Now just hoping just a lone one caught earlier in the nearby allotments and fields and just brought back by puss to play with :hmm:
 

littleme

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Had the bestest of best days, good news for our family, fun chats with the loveliest of friends (you know who you are Flashing Chickens!) a trip to IKEA (bought a wok), then the news that middle child has got his graduate job with RBS - 35,000 applied for the job and only 12 applicants succeded...

MASSIVE proud mum moment!

:bananafunk:
 

Lucy

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Experienced that for the first time with courtesy car ( Hyundai I30). Thought it had broken down when I stopped at the traffic lights on the way home and the engine cut off.



Discovered the reason sons neighbours cat was so interested in my car and green wheelie bin behind it..... As I was leaving I pulled the green bin further up his drive ready for collection day. Something shot out from under it, and made a dash for his black bin.. Puss was then on guard by the black bin, so I moved it to see what it actually was.. Either a massive brown mouse, or baby rat :o
Made its way under sons gate into his back garden and I assume hid behind his little shed. Left puss cat watching it from the shed roof .

Now just hoping just a lone one caught earlier in the nearby allotments and fields and just brought back by puss to play with :hmm:
You're never more than about a metre from a rat.

There was a dead mouse on my patio this morning. Not convinced the cat can catch anything, and I didn't have time to move it before I left for work.
 

staffordjas

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You're never more than about a metre from a rat.

There was a dead mouse on my patio this morning. Not convinced the cat can catch anything, and I didn't have time to move it before I left for work.
I stopped throwing apple cores out for the blackbirds, after seeing an apple bobbing up and down in the flower border .Then realised it was a big rat sitting munching away on it.It scuttled away through a small gap under the back fence, and not seen it again since.
Son has seen the neighbours cat with a mouse in its mouth before now. It seemed intrigued , but not quite sure whether it should actually pounce on this little creature today. There's ponds in the countryside just a few houses away as well. Was wondering whether could be a vole?

Just glad it didn't make a dash for it the other way and up inside my car :lol:
 

Carole

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Had the bestest of best days, good news for our family, then the news that middle child has got his graduate job with RBS - 35,000 applied for the job and only 12 applicants succeded...

MASSIVE proud mum moment!

:bananafunk:

You must be over the moon, and so proud.
Well done to your son and big congratulations.
What a fabulous achievement. X
 

staffordjas

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Had the bestest of best days, good news for our family, fun chats with the loveliest of friends (you know who you are Flashing Chickens!) a trip to IKEA (bought a wok), then the news that middle child has got his graduate job with RBS - 35,000 applied for the job and only 12 applicants succeded...

MASSIVE proud mum moment!

:bananafunk:
Congratulations and a big well done to your son @littleme :) . You must be such a proud mum , that it such a big achievement out of so many applicants ! So , so pleased for him :)
 

Gramaisc

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So, I kicked* a bottle of wine through the landing banister rail, hard enough for it to fly across the stairs and hit the far wall, then bounce down the stairs, hitting about five steps and being brought to a halt by the substantial steel trestle that was at the bottom of the stairs. It hit the trestle right on the edge, and very violently, but didn't break.

I might buy a lottery ticket.






*Accidentally.
 

Tilly

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So, I kicked* a bottle of wine through the landing banister rail, hard enough for it to fly across the stairs and hit the far wall, then bounce down the stairs, hitting about five steps and being brought to a halt by the substantial steel trestle that was at the bottom of the stairs. It hit the trestle right on the edge, and very violently, but didn't break.

I might buy a lottery ticket.






*Accidentally.


Lottery tickets don't bounce , you'll be disappointed
 
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