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bobtail4x4

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4,407 posts

138 months

Tuesday 6th October 2020
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Took the car in for a service no courtesy cars when I booked so arranged for this aft and I would wait,
when I got there it was going to be 2 to 3 hours,
decided to go into town, (Doncaster)
stood at the bus stop for half an hour, no bus, bloke from house nearby had gone out in his car and come back, asked me if I was waiting for a bus? bus route no longer in use = no bus,

"hop in lad its only a couple of miles to town" took me to town and would not take any payment,

sat in a Turkish cafe next to 2 Somalians and 3 Iranians drinking coffee, opposite a polish butchers, multicultural??
the town was almost dead no people about,

Alucidnation

16,810 posts

199 months

Tuesday 6th October 2020
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bobtail4x4 said:
Took the car in for a service no courtesy cars when I booked so arranged for this aft and I would wait,
when I got there it was going to be 2 to 3 hours,
decided to go into town, (Doncaster)
stood at the bus stop for half an hour, no bus, bloke from house nearby had gone out in his car and come back, asked me if I was waiting for a bus? bus route no longer in use = no bus,

"hop in lad its only a couple of miles to town" took me to town and would not take any payment,

sat in a Turkish cafe next to 2 Somalians and 3 Iranians drinking coffee, opposite a polish butchers, multicultural??
the town was almost dead no people about,
Erm, wut?

bobtail4x4

Original Poster:

4,407 posts

138 months

Tuesday 6th October 2020
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would you get offered a lift from a stranger "down south"

pti

1,856 posts

173 months

Tuesday 6th October 2020
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What's the relevance of the last paragraph??

Agree the North is friendlier.

glenrobbo

40,508 posts

179 months

Tuesday 6th October 2020
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pti said:
What's the relevance of the last paragraph??
An expression of cultural diversity, and the relentless spread of coffee instead of tea.

In Yorkshire! yikes

anonymous-user

83 months

Tuesday 6th October 2020
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Yes, definitely only in Yorkshire. Nowhere else in this whole country of sixty-something million people would that ever happen. Fact.



How do you know if someone's from Yorkshire?
Don't worry, they'll tell you.

glenrobbo

40,508 posts

179 months

Tuesday 6th October 2020
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OP, Did you maintain the 2m social distance in this stranger's car?

valiant

14,163 posts

189 months

Tuesday 6th October 2020
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bobtail4x4 said:
would you get offered a lift from a stranger "down south"
No need. Our buses work.

Alucidnation

16,810 posts

199 months

Tuesday 6th October 2020
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valiant said:
bobtail4x4 said:
would you get offered a lift from a stranger "down south"
No need. Our buses work.
And we can afford more than one car.

hehe

glenrobbo

40,508 posts

179 months

Tuesday 6th October 2020
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doesthiswork said:
Yes, definitely only in Yorkshire. Nowhere else in this whole country of sixty-something million people would that ever happen. Fact.



How do you know if someone's from Yorkshire?
Don't worry, they'll tell you.
scratchchin How do you know if someone's from Somalia? Or Iran?

Do they have their national identity tattooed on their foreheads?

anonymous-user

83 months

Tuesday 6th October 2020
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glenrobbo said:
doesthiswork said:
Yes, definitely only in Yorkshire. Nowhere else in this whole country of sixty-something million people would that ever happen. Fact.



How do you know if someone's from Yorkshire?
Don't worry, they'll tell you.
scratchchin How do you know if someone's from Somalia? Or Iran?

Do they have their national identity tattooed on their foreheads?
Those are countries and I might be interested enough to ask where they are from. I couldn't give a st what county you are from, and yet people from Yorkshire for some reason think we all desperately need to know.

glenrobbo

40,508 posts

179 months

Tuesday 6th October 2020
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Alucidnation said:
And we can afford more than one car.

hehe
Yes, but it's difficult driving two cars simultaneously. drivingdriving

av185

20,464 posts

156 months

Tuesday 6th October 2020
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Surprised Yorkshire folk have actually progressed to car travel.

bobtail4x4

Original Poster:

4,407 posts

138 months

Tuesday 6th October 2020
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just about

Countdown

49,368 posts

225 months

Tuesday 6th October 2020
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jimmythingy

317 posts

91 months

Tuesday 6th October 2020
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Years ago I worked for a company that serviced catering equipment in pubs and restaurants. One day I'm driving around looking for a pub, (no satnav in them days) A to Z in my lap and just going round in circles on a massive estate. Anyway I pulled over at the side of the road to ask an old boy which way the pub was, next thing I know he jumps in the passenger seat and says he was on his way there himself. About five roundabouts and ten turns later where in the pub car park, he jumps out says thanks and trotts off into the pub. This was Doncaster also.

Jimmy No Hands

5,100 posts

185 months

Tuesday 6th October 2020
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av185 said:
Surprised Yorkshire folk have actually progressed to car travel.
Should be ey up and owd thi 'oss.

Hub

7,130 posts

227 months

Tuesday 6th October 2020
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glenrobbo said:
OP, Did you maintain the 2m social distance in this stranger's car?
Is this why all our lockdowns and current cases are up north? They're just too friendly!

bobtail4x4

Original Poster:

4,407 posts

138 months

Tuesday 6th October 2020
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driving home from a mates several years back, I stopped to let a few drunks cross the road in the middle of Donny,
the passenger door opened a "big lass" got in saying "tek me to Armthorpe"
Im not a taxi love, ok she says "take me home and you can come in"


I pushed her out of the door, she would have been more at home in the pages of VIZ

loskie

7,094 posts

149 months

Tuesday 6th October 2020
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that was exactly the picture you painted in my mind!!