Classic from the Mrs! Vol 2

[ColinM50]

Vaud said:

Tell me about it.

There was this one time that I tried to book a channel tunnel crossing and the idiot at the other end kept denying that it was the right number. Took me ages to convince him.

In the end I did and I got my booking.

Unfortunately there must have been a problem with they systems and when I got there, no booking! I blame their computers.

Funny you should say that. Our phone number is one digit away from a local builders merchants and we get a lot of calls for them so we put the callers right, tell them the right number they should dial. One Saturday morning took a call from a woman asking for a tonne of sand. I explained the wrong number thing and she hung up. Two mins later, she's back on the phone. Again I told her she'd dialled incorrectly and gave her the right number. Another two mins and she's back again. So again I told her she'd misdialled but she wasn't having any of it. Insisted that she'd called the right number and read it out to me. It was the wrong number, so I again explained and told her the right number. At this point she really lost it, got really irate, called me all the names under the sun and insisted I stop messing her about and deliver a tonne of sand before 11:00. So I calmly took the order and told her it'd be there. 12:00 she called me again, chasing up her sand. I told her the lorry had broken down on the way back from the beach where they'd had to go to get the sand and she seemed quite happy with that. We're two and a half hours from any beach but she didn't twig.

[Vaud]

ColinM50 said:

Funny you should say that. Our phone number is one digit away from a local builders merchants and we get a lot of calls for them so we put the callers right, tell them the right number they should dial. One Saturday morning took a call from a woman asking for a tonne of sand. I explained the wrong number thing and she hung up. Two mins later, she's back on the phone. Again I told her she'd dialled incorrectly and gave her the right number. Another two mins and she's back again. So again I told her she'd misdialled but she wasn't having any of it. Insisted that she'd called the right number and read it out to me. It was the wrong number, so I again explained and told her the right number. At this point she really lost it, got really irate, called me all the names under the sun and insisted I stop messing her about and deliver a tonne of sand before 11:00. So I calmly took the order and told her it'd be there. 12:00 she called me again, chasing up her sand. I told her the lorry had broken down on the way back from the beach where they'd had to go to get the sand and she seemed quite happy with that. We're two and a half hours from any beach but she didn't twig.

Woosh parrot for ColinM50. Go back a page....

[tribalsurfer]

Recently on holiday it was relatively warm in the evenings so I set the air con to a not too uncomfortable 22 degrees. Next morning Mrs says she was cold the previous night, I tell her that at home our heating is set to 22 degrees at which point i'm told 22 degrees with air con is different to 22 degrees with heating.

[marshalla]

tribalsurfer said:

Recently on holiday it was relatively warm in the evenings so I set the air con to a not too uncomfortable 22 degrees. Next morning Mrs says she was cold the previous night, I tell her that at home our heating is set to 22 degrees at which point i'm told 22 degrees with air con is different to 22 degrees with heating.

Wind chill. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wind_chill

Aircon blowing air around can make it feel colder.

[Vaud]

marshalla said:

Wind chill. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wind_chill

Aircon blowing air around can make it feel colder.

Plus it is a dry air, increase evaporation across skin, etc

[DrTre]

When catching the tube a while back, I went through the barrier, fully expecting her to follow me no problem.

After a few steps I was aware she wasn't there.

I turned round to see her on the other side of the barrier, looking angry and putting her oyster card through the ticket slot for the third time...

[vanordinaire]

DrTre said:

When catching the tube a while back, I went through the barrier, fully expecting her to follow me no problem.

After a few steps I was aware she wasn't there.

I turned round to see her on the other side of the barrier, looking angry and putting her oyster card through the ticket slot for the third time...

Sorry I don't get this one. I presume it's something to do with an oyster card but I don't know what one of them is/does.

[Vaud]

vanordinaire said:

Sorry I don't get this one. I presume it's something to do with an oyster card but I don't know what one of them is/does.

Oyster cards are a proximity card that just needs tapping on the large symbol marked Oyster card. They don't get pushed into the ticket slot. You just tap them on entry and exit.

[vanordinaire]

Vaud said:

vanordinaire said:

Sorry I don't get this one. I presume it's something to do with an oyster card but I don't know what one of them is/does.

Oyster cards are a proximity card that just needs tapping on the large symbol marked Oyster card. They don't get pushed into the ticket slot. You just tap them on entry and exit.

Thanks, I suppose I have an excuse never having seen one or indeed never having been on a train.

[DrTre]

Thanks vaud.

On reflection, it's more of a 'had to be there' thing... And even then only one of us found it funny which was made very clear, very quickly.

[Vaud]

DrTre said:

On reflection, it's more of a 'had to be there' thing... And even then only one of us found it funny which was made very clear, very quickly.

I think I would have laughed as well..

[Cotty]

vanordinaire said:

Thanks, I suppose I have an excuse never having seen one or indeed never having been on a train.

Never been on a train

[Vaud]

vanordinaire said:

indeed never having been on a train.

That's quite an achievement.

[cootuk]

"I turned round to see her on the other side of the barrier, looking angry and putting her oyster card through the ticket slot for the third time"

Shouldn't that be on the Council thread?

[DrTre]

I have no idea why but go ahead, knock yourself out.

[mike80]

We've got a little food recycling bin under the sink. The other day my wife said in a panic, "yuck! there's some sort of gas or something in it!".

It was a tea bag I'd just used...

[Silver Smudger]

mike80 said:

We've got a little food recycling bin under the sink. The other day my wife said in a panic, "yuck! there's some sort of gas or something in it!".

It was a tea bag I'd just used...

Smell of gas?

[Jimmy Recard]

Silver Smudger said:

Smell of gas?

Steam or condensation from the hot teabag, I think

[vanordinaire]

Vaud said:

vanordinaire said:

indeed never having been on a train.

That's quite an achievement.

By the time I get to the nearest railway station to my house, I've already been in the car for an hour, no point in parking up and transferring to a train.

[Vaud]

vanordinaire said:

By the time I get to the nearest railway station to my house, I've already been in the car for an hour, no point in parking up and transferring to a train.

Sure, but never in your life is quite an achievement.