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  • IA can I PM you about a form?
  • LouiseJ
    LouiseJ Posts: 11,156 Forumite
    lennymfo wrote: »
    Thanks, thats my reassurance to set me up for the day :) Hey ref your loo, are you sure Lou hasnt been round and done a sneaky Number 2 whilst you wasn't looking. You know her reputation for blocking toilets dont you :D

    :eek: :eek: So these are the types of things you say about me when my back is turned:eek: :eek:

    I am not and never was the Mystery Jobber:p
    But these things take time, I know that I'm, the most inept that ever stepped.
  • System
    System Posts: 178,375 Community Admin
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    Flamin eck Pepe you is a braver man than me :D
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  • pepe2008
    pepe2008 Posts: 5,158 Forumite
    lennymfo wrote: »
    Flamin eck Pepe you is a braver man than me :D

    I blame it on being an Aries....when you are bored, go and charge headlong at somebody.

    ...and everyone knows I dont mean it.......reasonable access to fresh air IS allowed. :p
    :D:D stay wonky :D:D

    ....one-way ticket to Portugal booked !
  • ZTD
    ZTD Posts: 24,327 Forumite
    6pm lock up to go to work. Pishing it down. Key gets jammed in door half way round. Get very wet trying to get key out as it won't go either way. Key eventually comes out. Wet all down my back - yuck.

    Next time that happens, draw on your key with a pencil. The graphite acts like a lubricant, but unlike oil, it doesn't go all sticky and attract dirt.
    9.45pm 5 minutes have turned into 20. OH turns up. Key won't turn. OH gets screwdriver and removes handle/casing. No joy. OH gets pliers. Key snaps in lock :eek: I find the keys for the other door in my bag(yale and a 'long' style key for a door not used in about 4 years). Yale - fine. Long key? There's one in the lock on the other side and it won't push out as it's half turned :eek: . Getting even wetter.

    Don't leave keys in locks. It means you can open the door just by twisting the key round with a screwdriver. Because guess what? It's the right key...
    "Follow the money!" - Deepthroat (AKA William Mark Felt Sr - Associate Director of the FBI)
    "We were born and raised in a summer haze." Adele 'Someone like you.'
    "Blowing your mind, 'cause you know what you'll find, when you're looking for things in the sky."
    OMD 'Julia's Song'
  • ZTD
    ZTD Posts: 24,327 Forumite
    LouiseJ wrote: »
    :eek: :eek: So these are the types of things you say about me when my back is turned:eek: :eek:

    I am not and never was the Mystery Jobber:p

    I'm sure if it paid like Mystery Shopping, you would be...
    "Follow the money!" - Deepthroat (AKA William Mark Felt Sr - Associate Director of the FBI)
    "We were born and raised in a summer haze." Adele 'Someone like you.'
    "Blowing your mind, 'cause you know what you'll find, when you're looking for things in the sky."
    OMD 'Julia's Song'
  • jinky67
    jinky67 Posts: 47,812 Forumite
    LouiseJ wrote: »
    :eek: :eek: So these are the types of things you say about me when my back is turned:eek: :eek:

    I am not and never was the Mystery Jobber:p
    Actually i say faaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaar worse:p
    :heartpulsOnce a Flylady, always a Flylady:heartpuls
  • ZTD wrote: »
    Next time that happens, draw on your key with a pencil. The graphite acts like a lubricant, but unlike oil, it doesn't go all sticky and attract dirt.
    I think what had happened is the door was swollen, not 100% shut and the lock had somehow caught in the wrong position and I guess the door with even more rain had swollen a bit more.........although as I didn't have a pencil with me, that wouldn't have been a solution, but I now will carry one!!!
    ZTD wrote:
    Don't leave keys in locks. It means you can open the door just by twisting the key round with a screwdriver. Because guess what? It's the right key...

    That's the OH.....telling me it had to be locked and then the key half turned :rolleyes: We tried everything - screwdriver, end of a plastic spoon, one of the spikey ends on my umbrella to try to push it through but the torch showed it wasn't sitting in the hole properly.......thing is it hasn't been opened for years and even if moveable it was kind of 'stuck' as well :rolleyes: ...........oh,you guessed the second 2 implements pushed into the hole were my idea..............ok.......:o


    Right........sigh......can't put this off. Need to go to town, get copy key cut.......grumble, grumble, hate going to town......
    :D"Stay Wonky":D

    :j:jBecome Mrs Pepe 9 October 2012 :j:j
  • Bookie about to cry!
    I'm trying to fill in a form. Left it to the last minute as usual. I know I have done an on-line SOA (not posted it) but I can't remember the link!
    Help!!!
    :eek:
  • ZTD
    ZTD Posts: 24,327 Forumite
    pepe2008 wrote: »
    I blame it on being an Aries....when you are bored, go and charge headlong at somebody.

    ...and everyone knows I dont mean it.......reasonable access to fresh air IS allowed. :p

    Is that for you or them..?
    "Follow the money!" - Deepthroat (AKA William Mark Felt Sr - Associate Director of the FBI)
    "We were born and raised in a summer haze." Adele 'Someone like you.'
    "Blowing your mind, 'cause you know what you'll find, when you're looking for things in the sky."
    OMD 'Julia's Song'
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