Classic from the Mrs! Vol 2
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Mrs. T phones me up this morning. "The engine's making a funny noise. It started on the way to work."
So I'm thinking of the myriad of possibilities of what "funny noise" could mean.
"I didn't drive through anything or anything."
Okay, so that eliminates something stuck in the engine bay that she accumulated while driving, or something being knocked off the engine.
I ask her "What sort of noise is it?"
She then makes a rather vague noise which doesn't really help me.
"Did you make it to work?"
"Yes, I did.", she replies
"Okay. Did you start the engine again after stopping it?" (to see if it's a temporary problem)
"No"
"Okay - in which case, see what happens when you leave work on the way home. And don't forget you've got AA cover."
"Okay"
She gets home before me, so when I arrived back at home after work, I'm pleased to see her car there.
I'm not pleased to see a branch sticking out the front of the car.
I get her out of the house to look at the front of the car.
"Oh yes - I drove over that, but I thought it went through."
So I'm thinking of the myriad of possibilities of what "funny noise" could mean.
"I didn't drive through anything or anything."
Okay, so that eliminates something stuck in the engine bay that she accumulated while driving, or something being knocked off the engine.
I ask her "What sort of noise is it?"
She then makes a rather vague noise which doesn't really help me.
"Did you make it to work?"
"Yes, I did.", she replies
"Okay. Did you start the engine again after stopping it?" (to see if it's a temporary problem)
"No"
"Okay - in which case, see what happens when you leave work on the way home. And don't forget you've got AA cover."
"Okay"
She gets home before me, so when I arrived back at home after work, I'm pleased to see her car there.
I'm not pleased to see a branch sticking out the front of the car.
I get her out of the house to look at the front of the car.
"Oh yes - I drove over that, but I thought it went through."
tribbles said:
"I didn't drive through anything or anything."
I'm not pleased to see a branch sticking out the front of the car.
I get her out of the house to look at the front of the car.
"Oh yes - I drove over that, but I thought it went through."
You fell for it, the second she said I didn't drive through anything it means the exact opposite I'm not pleased to see a branch sticking out the front of the car.
I get her out of the house to look at the front of the car.
"Oh yes - I drove over that, but I thought it went through."
poing said:
tribbles said:
"I didn't drive through anything or anything."
I'm not pleased to see a branch sticking out the front of the car.
I get her out of the house to look at the front of the car.
"Oh yes - I drove over that, but I thought it went through."
You fell for it, the second she said I didn't drive through anything it means the exact opposite I'm not pleased to see a branch sticking out the front of the car.
I get her out of the house to look at the front of the car.
"Oh yes - I drove over that, but I thought it went through."
tribbles said:
Mrs. T phones me up this morning. "The engine's making a funny noise. It started on the way to work."
So I'm thinking of the myriad of possibilities of what "funny noise" could mean.
"I didn't drive through anything or anything."
Okay, so that eliminates something stuck in the engine bay that she accumulated while driving, or something being knocked off the engine.
I ask her "What sort of noise is it?"
She then makes a rather vague noise which doesn't really help me.
"Did you make it to work?"
"Yes, I did.", she replies
"Okay. Did you start the engine again after stopping it?" (to see if it's a temporary problem)
"No"
"Okay - in which case, see what happens when you leave work on the way home. And don't forget you've got AA cover."
"Okay"
She gets home before me, so when I arrived back at home after work, I'm pleased to see her car there.
I'm not pleased to see a branch sticking out the front of the car.
I get her out of the house to look at the front of the car.
"Oh yes - I drove over that, but I thought it went through."
Brilliant!!! So I'm thinking of the myriad of possibilities of what "funny noise" could mean.
"I didn't drive through anything or anything."
Okay, so that eliminates something stuck in the engine bay that she accumulated while driving, or something being knocked off the engine.
I ask her "What sort of noise is it?"
She then makes a rather vague noise which doesn't really help me.
"Did you make it to work?"
"Yes, I did.", she replies
"Okay. Did you start the engine again after stopping it?" (to see if it's a temporary problem)
"No"
"Okay - in which case, see what happens when you leave work on the way home. And don't forget you've got AA cover."
"Okay"
She gets home before me, so when I arrived back at home after work, I'm pleased to see her car there.
I'm not pleased to see a branch sticking out the front of the car.
I get her out of the house to look at the front of the car.
"Oh yes - I drove over that, but I thought it went through."
LarryUSA said:
Issi said:
But surely then, that's entirely logical.
Like saying "Blimey, I wouldn't like to weed Kew Gardens"
My house number as 17333 on a street with 14 houses! I don't know why they do this...Like saying "Blimey, I wouldn't like to weed Kew Gardens"
"On most streets in the United States and Canada, odd numbers are on one side and even numbers on the other. Often, the number assigned is proportional to the distance from some baseline, so not all numbers are used. On very long roads or in areas sufficiently far from the baseline, four- or five-digit addresses are common. For example, along the Overseas Highway in the Florida Keys, house numbers indicate their distance from Mile Marker 0 in Key West. The mileage is found by dividing the house number by 1000 (for example, 77220 Overseas Highway is 77.2 miles from Mile Marker 0). In rural areas, typical numbering may be 1000 for each mile from the nearest town center or radiating from a certain zero-point at the corner or center of a county."
xRIEx said:
LarryUSA said:
Issi said:
But surely then, that's entirely logical.
Like saying "Blimey, I wouldn't like to weed Kew Gardens"
My house number as 17333 on a street with 14 houses! I don't know why they do this...Like saying "Blimey, I wouldn't like to weed Kew Gardens"
"On most streets in the United States and Canada, odd numbers are on one side and even numbers on the other. Often, the number assigned is proportional to the distance from some baseline, so not all numbers are used. On very long roads or in areas sufficiently far from the baseline, four- or five-digit addresses are common. For example, along the Overseas Highway in the Florida Keys, house numbers indicate their distance from Mile Marker 0 in Key West. The mileage is found by dividing the house number by 1000 (for example, 77220 Overseas Highway is 77.2 miles from Mile Marker 0). In rural areas, typical numbering may be 1000 for each mile from the nearest town center or radiating from a certain zero-point at the corner or center of a county."
They do this in France as well, the house number indicates how far in meters it is from the start of the road its on. I said to the OH, "I will take that parcel next door which was left by the couriers"
She shouts "Be carefull, it has glasses in it"
When I came back I asked her how she knew it had glasses in, she said "It has a glass sticker on the box", guys you know the symble to indicate fragile.......................... oh well.
She shouts "Be carefull, it has glasses in it"
When I came back I asked her how she knew it had glasses in, she said "It has a glass sticker on the box", guys you know the symble to indicate fragile.......................... oh well.
Alex@POD said:
They do this in France as well, the house number indicates how far in meters it is from the start of the road its on. My brother had a house built in France, and the road was numbered based on the order in which the houses were built. So you could find number 7 nestled between number 2 and number 15.
Mrs 2CV is pregnant so the sheer frequency of the classics has gone through the roof... only problem is that they aren't always funny...
- for the last 2 days running she's arrange for tradesmen to come round to price up various jobs, not told me, and then forgotten herself and gone out, leaving me and these random blokes to somehow work out what she could possibly have wanted pricing
- One tradesman did actually come around when she was in tonight, and she stared at him blankly for fully 30 seconds to the point i had to step in to assist because it was getting weird... only then did she remember herself what he was there for... although instead of talking to him about that, she rabbited at him about all sorts of random things whilst he pulled a slightly freaked out face. Decided that it would have been better if she had just forgotten and gone out, as previous
- another tradesmen related one... told me the guy did NOT want paying cash. Turns out he does want paying cash. She sends me off to the ATM (which I have to drive to) to get £200 out. I come back with £200 and she tells me it's £300. I come back with £300 and she tells me £400.
- she put milk in the oven. Standard.
- cooked 8 portions of a nice meal and promptly left it out for 24hrs whereupon it became inedible
- on an hourly basis tells me she has text me details of various things, so far none of which have actually arrived on my phone... oo mystery!
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