Tell us something really trivial about your life (vol 25)
Discussion
Today's Newbury to Barry commute was characterised by the cruise control set to a steady 70. Until Chris Evan's played Status Quo at half past seven and the car just took off on its own. Bizarre response behaviour from what is after all simply a machine.
Setting the controls forthe heart of the sun a steady 70 or 80 seems to make very little difference in my elapsed time over 110 miles. I'll stick to 70 for a bit I reckon.
Setting the controls for
The chap who came to cut down my willow tree last year had one of those tree eating machines. His was only a 'baby' one towed behind his tipper tranny van of dusty woody particles, but that machine is the stuff of horror movies, or economy burger making, depending upon your perspectives on profitability and opportunity.
Has life returned to normal now in the village Adenauer?
(asking that, i've no idea what normal might be other than an occasional rrrraaaaaaawwwwwwwwwwoooowwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww as something brawny and hairy arsed rumbles past)
Has life returned to normal now in the village Adenauer?
(asking that, i've no idea what normal might be other than an occasional rrrraaaaaaawwwwwwwwwwoooowwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww as something brawny and hairy arsed rumbles past)
Edited by drivin_me_nuts on Thursday 21st May 08:47
/stumbles in
Hi Trivs! Was in that there London for a meeting yesterday and had my first ever "experience" of the tube - f
k me but the sardine-can effect at rush hour is remarkably unpleasant. I'm someone who really doesn't cope well with close crowds so being so squashed in that I was having to contort myself into "interesting" shapes just to fit was pretty much my own personal hell really. I made it 34 years without having to go through that and I'd say I'm good to go another 34 before repeating the experience!
Hi Trivs! Was in that there London for a meeting yesterday and had my first ever "experience" of the tube - f
k me but the sardine-can effect at rush hour is remarkably unpleasant. I'm someone who really doesn't cope well with close crowds so being so squashed in that I was having to contort myself into "interesting" shapes just to fit was pretty much my own personal hell really. I made it 34 years without having to go through that and I'd say I'm good to go another 34 before repeating the experience!SWTH said:
This mornings drive to work music consisted of Motörhead - Burner followed by Fleetwood Mac - Second Hand News.
Do you think that perhaps you might have bipolar driving tendencies? From hideous hairy arsed greebo (now that's a word that hasn't seen the light of illuminated keyboard keys for a few years) to lounge suit slipperyness - the music that is, not you. 
When my old fella was made redundant at the peak of his career in the aeroplane industry, my folks bought a shoe shop. To this day I don't really know why. He did get a whopping great severence package but they knew nothing about retailing and even less about shoes. He did look at a garage down beyond Stonehenge but he didn't buy it and consequently I'm not heir to a garage fortune either. The garage's smouldering ruins I keep meaning to photograph for the Humer Unbeam filling stations thread. They called the shoe shop 'Shoestring' as it was their intention to have a string of shops. Their shoe shop empire grew from one shop in The Butts Centre in Reading to two; the other one being in Frimley High Street. It had been a tiny filling station and we were warned repeatedly about the old fuel tanks that still lurked beneath the pavement. No naked flames, don't go drilling anywhere near it, don't do this, don't that. Years after the collapse of their empire I read in the local paper that workmen had a narrow escape when the fuel tank blew up.
drivin_me_nuts said:
Do you think that perhaps you might have bipolar driving tendencies? From hideous hairy arsed greebo (now that's a word that hasn't seen the light of illuminated keyboard keys for a few years) to lounge suit slipperyness - the music that is, not you.
Possibly, yesterday's choice of music was In the Hall of the Mountain King (better known as the Alton Towers theme), followed by Imelda May - Johnny Got a Boom Boom.
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