Mundane facts about your day: Part Deux.

BobClay

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PAH !! Modern rubbish ...

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Gramaisc

Forum O. G.
I've escaped the heatwave today by going to the cinema because, as we all know, cinemas are the coldest places in the world.
I remember going into WH Smith around 1990, during a hot spell. They had the air conditioning cranked up to eleven and it was remarkably cool - a welcome thing for the few minutes that you would be in there.

But, at that time, there was a till at the bottom of the stairs, right under a vent with the arctic blast emanating from it. Whilst shoppers were wandering about in t-shirts and shorts, the poor woman on the till was wearing a hat, coat and woolly gloves.
 

Gramaisc

Forum O. G.
Having finished tidying his room up for tonight, it's clear from the debris that his mates have been supplying him, too. There's stuff there that is not available on-site.

Of course, whilst I was slaving away, my guest was busy sunning himself.

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Ah, I saw him again yesterday. He still has a bit of a limp, but seems OK otherwise.

He was using the pedestrian crossing outside the school.

Actually, because the crossing is humped, it has a handy tendency to dislodge grain from passing farm vehicles, and he was tidying that up.
 

staffordjas

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WTF ! Had someone's car parked right on our lawn since I looked out at midnight , and the wheels against one of my recently planted bushes :mad:
The neighbours out early with their dogs this morning didn't know who it belonged to.
Left a note on the windscreen when we went out for our walk.
Walking back at the end of our walk , the car was driving out of the road.Flagged it down......apparently a bloke from Zimbabwe over visiting his family , and stayed enroute in an air b&b down the road. Arrived late and couldn't park outside their house, so spotted our lawn and parked on that. "I parked there on the lawn so that I made sure I wasn't blocking you in if I parked on the driveway"
Un-bloody believable 😳 It's our private land!!!! Quite obviously not a public space!
He apologised profusely , but who in their right mind does that???
Been parking our car away from the grass incase it catches fire, then some moron parks right on it.
He was driving with the A4 size note still on his windscreen where we left it under his wipers. Probably unread & staying there until he returns the rental car!

:rolleyes:
 

Gramaisc

Forum O. G.
Someone I knew lived right next to a motorway junction. They often had cars stopping for phone calls, etc. One day, they got up to find somebody parked fairly neatly half-way up the drive and apparently asleep. They presumed that he would be awake and gone before they needed to go out themselves, but he was still there after they'd had their breakfast, so they decided to chivvy him along a bit.

They couldn't get any response and it quickly became apparent that all was not well. In fact, he was dead, having, presumably died on the motorway, at the wheel, and the car just trundling onto their drive, stopping due to the steepness of it, as it was still in gear, with the ignition on.
 

proactive

Enjoying a drop of red.
WTF ! Had someone's car parked right on our lawn since I looked out at midnight , and the wheels against one of my recently planted bushes :mad:
The neighbours out early with their dogs this morning didn't know who it belonged to.
Left a note on the windscreen when we went out for our walk.
Walking back at the end of our walk , the car was driving out of the road.Flagged it down......apparently a bloke from Zimbabwe over visiting his family , and stayed enroute in an air b&b down the road. Arrived late and couldn't park outside their house, so spotted our lawn and parked on that. "I parked there on the lawn so that I made sure I wasn't blocking you in if I parked on the driveway"
Un-bloody believable 😳 It's our private land!!!! Quite obviously not a public space!
He apologised profusely , but who in their right mind does that???
Been parking our car away from the grass incase it catches fire, then some moron parks right on it.
He was driving with the A4 size note still on his windscreen where we left it under his wipers. Probably unread & staying there until he returns the rental car!

:rolleyes:
I've lost count the number of people who block our gates by parking their cars in front. We had the gates put up in the first place to stop the bastards parking in the driveway. Last idiot came back to find his car had 'moved' from in front of my gates to the road. He was not happy. He was even less happy when I made my opinion clear of him and his parentage.
 

staffordjas

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As son was asleep after his night shift, and me wanting his big square clay garden pot (been there unused for 3 years ) I burgled his back garden and he never even noticed until he woke to see a photo of it sitting on my lawn :lol:

Had to dig all the soil out into bags with a little trowel I found in his shed, so that I could drag it to the car, but the old Walton school motto ' Persevere' came into play.

Bought a nice new plant from the garden centre to put in it, and it's now sitting looking lovely on the lawn , next to the Bush that was parked on last night. They'll have a bloody great big dent in their car if they try parking there again!
Neighbours were all saying they couldn't believe it . They've all been here 17-25 years and never happened before. First time for a water burst, now first time for rogue parking.. sure someone up there above has got it in for us! :roll:

Found out that the compost bin in the woods, by our secret side gate into them, is what our seller put there. Been climbing through the stinging nettles to get to it, trying not to make such a visible pathway as I went.Massive plant pot now filled with goodness at no cost ( apart from a few nettle stings)
 

Glam

Mad Cat Woman
As son was asleep after his night shift, and me wanting his big square clay garden pot (been there unused for 3 years ) I burgled his back garden and he never even noticed until he woke to see a photo of it sitting on my lawn :lol:

Had to dig all the soil out into bags with a little trowel I found in his shed, so that I could drag it to the car, but the old Walton school motto ' Persevere' came into play.

Bought a nice new plant from the garden centre to put in it, and it's now sitting looking lovely on the lawn , next to the Bush that was parked on last night. They'll have a bloody great big dent in their car if they try parking there again!
Neighbours were all saying they couldn't believe it . They've all been here 17-25 years and never happened before. First time for a water burst, now first time for rogue parking.. sure someone up there above has got it in for us! :roll:

Found out that the compost bin in the woods, by our secret side gate into them, is what our seller put there. Been climbing through the stinging nettles to get to it, trying not to make such a visible pathway as I went.Massive plant pot now filled with goodness at no cost ( apart from a few nettle stings)
Just remember, things happens in 3s! xx
 
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