Nice people thread part 3- Nice as pie

treliac

lostinrates wrote: »

No, just a drink...meet some locals....:D

That's a good idea - get to know the people around you.

We've got a good set of neighbours now (wasn't always the case!) No-one lives in any else's pocket but there are a number get-togethers a year and we all get on well. It's a nice feeling.

PasturesNew

lostinrates wrote: »

edit: we want to go to the pub but have no idea what time it opens. its new so no details on line yet....safe to try at about 6:30pmdo you think?

I'd expect them to open earlier, say 10am or 11am.... open at lunchtime, find their feet, before the crowds hit.

Or, radical idea this but stay with me while I outline this genius and cunning plan ...... phone them!



I've nowhere to go, so I'll be here.

lostinrates

PasturesNew wrote: »

I'd expect them to open earlier, say 10am or 11am.... open at lunchtime, find their feet, before the crowds hit.

Or, radical idea this but stay with me while I outline this genius and cunning plan ...... phone them!



I've nowhere to go, so I'll be here.

I did think about phoning but didn't want to appear like a panting alcoholic. Anyway, we're off in a minute

Davesnave

treliac wrote: »

That's a good idea - get to know the people around you.

We've got a good set of neighbours now (wasn't always the case!) No-one lives in any else's pocket but there are a number get-togethers a year and we all get on well. It's a nice feeling.

Some of our neighbours here are a little tricky, but they live 100 metres or more from us, so cause only minor irritations. Most are OK, though people willing to live cheek by jowl in upside-down barn conversions within a gated community must have some question marks over their sanity.;)

As an example, we live in an area where the local authority is more than capable of printing and distributing a totally ficticious recycling timetable. It was wrong last January and it's still wrong, but some folks down in the barns can't get this. Yesterday, realising that they'd automatically place their recycle bins at the top of the lane, I attempted to warn them and printed a notice saying the next collection would not be until January 10th. The notice had been removed by lunchtime, while four bins sat there in its place. :mad:

JonnyBravo

silvercar wrote: »

What constitutes tall?

My younger son is 6' 1"+ and weighs about 9 stone, definitely too skinny. He has a bit of a complex about it. So tall isn't always good.

Tell him not to worry, it is a good starting point. He'll pile it on over the years.

At 17 I was 6'9" and 13 1/2 stone. Yes, 13 1/2 stone. Could see my ribs and all the eating I could do would never put an ounce on me.
By the end of my first year at Uni I was 16 1/2 stone. That was just about right I guess. Alcohol and junk food will sort him out!

treliac

Davesnave wrote: »

............... The notice had been removed by lunchtime, while four bins sat there in its place. :mad:

There's nowt so queer....... :rotfl:

treliac

At 17 I was 6'9" and 13 1/2 stone

Blimey, we have men at different ends of the height scale here on the board tonight.

I presume you are still the same height Jonny.....

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wageslave

I don't really talk to my neighbours. Does that make me weird?

I say hello and good morning and thanks for taking my parcels from the postie and that's about it.

The idea of getting friendly with them and ending up with them perched in my kitchen delving into my life gives me the heebie jeebies.

I am sure they are all very nice people but I have always felt getting too friendly with them would end, if not quite in tears, at the very least in hiding behind the sofa.

Possibly I should make more of an effort to be sociable.

But I won't:o

PasturesNew

lostinrates wrote: »

... didn't want to appear like a panting alcoholic.

You're not from round there are you .... you'll never fit in unless you ARE a panting alcoholic!

When I first moved South West I was struck by how commonplace drinking and driving home was in tiny villages/hamlets. Many people would simply drive the 1-2 miles home from the pub.

Four particular things I remember were:
1] One bloke would bring his 14 year old son down the pub on match nights, get him half a pint .... and then the lad could drive them home.
2] One farmer used to have his dogs with him, as he left the joke was always that the dogs were guiding him home - and it actually seemed that way sometimes as he was bladdered.
3] The local taxi driver was "known for it". I saw him one morning just after he'd done the school run, he came in and sunk his first pint in about 30 seconds. Next one lined up and the phone rang, it was his wife, some kid needed collecting from the school as they were ill, so he downed his second pint and went off to collect the ill kid.
4] Same taxi driver, he had a notice in the bar advertising his business, it said: "Don't Drink and Drive" and then had the taxi number. The regulars wrote underneath that ".... let XXX do it for you".

But somebody drinking/driving etc was an everyday occurrence, part of 'normal life' for them.

PasturesNew

JonnyBravo wrote: »

I was 6'9"

I've nothing against 6'9" except I'd look really stupid.... 6'2"-6'5" is my usual range.