Classic from the Mrs!
Discussion
Cliftonite said:
SpeckledJim said:
My sister performs an impressive version of this where she gets hypnotised by the motorway and drives past her junction. Once she realises she's 20 miles past where she need to be she gets off and turns round.
Only to get hypnotised again on the way up and miss the junction again. A 20 mile motorway trip becomes 100 miles and the best part of 2 hours.
You can't train that sort of thing, it's either in you or it isn't.
Buy her a Sat Nav for Xmas?Only to get hypnotised again on the way up and miss the junction again. A 20 mile motorway trip becomes 100 miles and the best part of 2 hours.
You can't train that sort of thing, it's either in you or it isn't.
Not something the missus has done but thought it would be worth sharing 
It was around about mid-June and I was in the garden trying to get the sunflower head to face the conservatory so we could see it - I was out there for at least an hour with string and various hooks/loops/things trying to coax it into place (much against its will) and finally managed it but you could see more string than sunflower and it didn't look too healthy.
At this point the missus pops her head out of the door and asks me what I'm doing. So I show her the fruits of my labour and point out we can now see the sunflower head from the conservatory instead of the ugly back green bit.
She then says "why didn't you just turn the pot around"
me:
It was around about mid-June and I was in the garden trying to get the sunflower head to face the conservatory so we could see it - I was out there for at least an hour with string and various hooks/loops/things trying to coax it into place (much against its will) and finally managed it but you could see more string than sunflower and it didn't look too healthy.
At this point the missus pops her head out of the door and asks me what I'm doing. So I show her the fruits of my labour and point out we can now see the sunflower head from the conservatory instead of the ugly back green bit.
She then says "why didn't you just turn the pot around"
me:
Smiley198700 said:
Not something the missus has done but thought it would be worth sharing
It was around about mid-June and I was in the garden trying to get the sunflower head to face the conservatory so we could see it - I was out there for at least an hour with string and various hooks/loops/things trying to coax it into place (much against its will) and finally managed it but you could see more string than sunflower and it didn't look too healthy.
At this point the missus pops her head out of the door and asks me what I'm doing. So I show her the fruits of my labour and point out we can now see the sunflower head from the conservatory instead of the ugly back green bit.
She then says "why didn't you just turn the pot around"
me:
I think you should have looked up Heliotropism before getting the string out.It was around about mid-June and I was in the garden trying to get the sunflower head to face the conservatory so we could see it - I was out there for at least an hour with string and various hooks/loops/things trying to coax it into place (much against its will) and finally managed it but you could see more string than sunflower and it didn't look too healthy.
At this point the missus pops her head out of the door and asks me what I'm doing. So I show her the fruits of my labour and point out we can now see the sunflower head from the conservatory instead of the ugly back green bit.
She then says "why didn't you just turn the pot around"
me:
onyx39 said:
LHRFlightman said:
Wife just started singing the the tune to the Banana Splits for my 11 year old daughter.
"1 potato, 2 potato, 3 potato 4."
Good God.
Irish version?"1 potato, 2 potato, 3 potato 4."
Good God.
stuttgartmetal said:
RizzoTheRat said:
Given that Ireland are the largest exporters of Bananas in the world, the original would still work better for them but may need some higher numbers
They Export bananas from Ireland?Whale
Oil
Beef
Hooked.
ManFromDelmonte said:
Smiley198700 said:
Not something the missus has done but thought it would be worth sharing
It was around about mid-June and I was in the garden trying to get the sunflower head to face the conservatory so we could see it - I was out there for at least an hour with string and various hooks/loops/things trying to coax it into place (much against its will) and finally managed it but you could see more string than sunflower and it didn't look too healthy.
At this point the missus pops her head out of the door and asks me what I'm doing. So I show her the fruits of my labour and point out we can now see the sunflower head from the conservatory instead of the ugly back green bit.
She then says "why didn't you just turn the pot around"
me:
I think you should have looked up Heliotropism before getting the string out.It was around about mid-June and I was in the garden trying to get the sunflower head to face the conservatory so we could see it - I was out there for at least an hour with string and various hooks/loops/things trying to coax it into place (much against its will) and finally managed it but you could see more string than sunflower and it didn't look too healthy.
At this point the missus pops her head out of the door and asks me what I'm doing. So I show her the fruits of my labour and point out we can now see the sunflower head from the conservatory instead of the ugly back green bit.
She then says "why didn't you just turn the pot around"
me:
Cotty said:
SpeckledJim said:
I've spent long enough with the pinks now to understand that they don't want their problems solving.
They just want something to moan about and if you fix the problem you take away the thing they want to moan about.ManFromDelmonte said:
I think you should have looked up Heliotropism before getting the string out.
not heliotropic when the flower opens... 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helianthus_annuus#Hel...
it was facing SE, needed to face NE..
Edited by Smiley198700 on Wednesday 3rd December 20:16
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