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My grandfather was a fisherman and obviously very frugal with the pennies.
After a particularly successful season my grandmother decided to splash out on an oak mirrored wardrobe.
When he came into house she said to him “come and see what I’ve got, it’s lovely”
They went upstairs where he took a look at the new wardrobe and responded...
“that’s a great thing to watch yourself starving to death in”
It’s always tickled me.
After a particularly successful season my grandmother decided to splash out on an oak mirrored wardrobe.
When he came into house she said to him “come and see what I’ve got, it’s lovely”
They went upstairs where he took a look at the new wardrobe and responded...
“that’s a great thing to watch yourself starving to death in”
It’s always tickled me.
Doofus said:
Trophy Husband said:
My old construction manager on women.
"You spend the first year wanting to eat them and the rest of your life wishing you had."
"It doesn't matter which model you get they've all got the same chip in their head!"
He sounds charming."You spend the first year wanting to eat them and the rest of your life wishing you had."
"It doesn't matter which model you get they've all got the same chip in their head!"
It was all macho bravado.
His wife had him wrapped around her little finger as did his 3 daughters!
Frank7 said:
This is why London’s Black Cab drivers are the best in the world.
Maybe they are nowadays, but backalong there used to be a really dodgy one; wouldn't stop harping on about his experiences and favourite bars in the US of A, liked to drop Americanisms into every other sentence. But I'm sure he was a great guy really.Lily the Pink said:
Frank7 said:
This is why London’s Black Cab drivers are the best in the world.
Maybe they are nowadays, but backalong there used to be a really dodgy one; wouldn't stop harping on about his experiences and favourite bars in the US of A, liked to drop Americanisms into every other sentence. But I'm sure he was a great guy really.p.s., he wasn’t a great guy, but he was a stand up guy
Frank7 said:
@piersmorgan
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Big thanks to the taxi driver who just dropped back my Amex card that I left in his cab yesterday... before I even realised I’d left it.
This is why London’s Black Cab drivers are the best in the world.
I was stewarding at a conference in Brighton, an American delegate came and asked if I could lend him 10p for the phone (before we had mobiles) as he'd left his wallet in the cab - he wasn't expecting to see it again so was surprised when the cab firm said the cabby had told them he'd found it and would be back at the conf hall in 10 mins with his next fare. I guess most cab drivers would do that, and get a tip for it. ·
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Big thanks to the taxi driver who just dropped back my Amex card that I left in his cab yesterday... before I even realised I’d left it.
This is why London’s Black Cab drivers are the best in the world.
He even gave me the 10p back - I said it didn't matter, but he insisted in case I needed to lend it to someone else.
john2443 said:
I was stewarding at a conference in Brighton, an American delegate came and asked if I could lend him 10p for the phone (before we had mobiles) as he'd left his wallet in the cab - he wasn't expecting to see it again so was surprised when the cab firm said the cabby had told them he'd found it and would be back at the conf hall in 10 mins with his next fare. I guess most cab drivers would do that, and get a tip for it.
He even gave me the 10p back - I said it didn't matter, but he insisted in case I needed to lend it to someone else.
If I found, or as more often happened, another job found a phone or wallet in the back, I would move heaven and earth to reunite the owner with what he’d lost.He even gave me the 10p back - I said it didn't matter, but he insisted in case I needed to lend it to someone else.
If someone gave me two notes stuck together, I’d point it out to them, but that didn’t make me an angel, that was just the way I was, but in the extremely unlikely scenario that I glanced over my shoulder and saw a tenner on the seat or floor, that went straight in my sky rocket!
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