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Nice people thread part 6 - thrice by twice as nice :)

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  • PasturesNew
    PasturesNew Posts: 70,698 Forumite
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    Nikkster wrote: »
    Did you manage to work out her number and give her a call?
    I think I've her number; I've not called her. She said she'd call me and wrote my number down in her diary in front of me..... I keep meaning to do it, but then I figure if she wanted me she'd call me.... it seems that in the end she must have changed her mind.

    I might do it, but, frankly, I'm feeling all unloved about it :)
  • LydiaJ
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    PasturesNew wrote: »
    I think I've her number; I've not called her. She said she'd call me and wrote my number down in her diary in front of me..... I keep meaning to do it, but then I figure if she wanted me she'd call me.... it seems that in the end she must have changed her mind.

    I might do it, but, frankly, I'm feeling all unloved about it :)

    Pastures, maybe she has lost her diary, or forgotten that it was her diary that she wrote it in, or something. Please call her. I know it will be hard for you, but take a deep breath, imagine all the NP egging you on, and phone her with some nice non-confrontational question like "just calling to see how things are at your end".
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  • PasturesNew
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    LydiaJ wrote: »
    Pastures, maybe she has lost her diary, or forgotten that it was her diary that she wrote it in, or something. Please call her. I know it will be hard for you, but take a deep breath, imagine all the NP egging you on, and phone her with some nice non-confrontational question like "just calling to see how things are at your end".
    I wasn't going to phone.... phone signal's not really up to calls here... so I'd have to go up the road and stand in the street to have a conversation.... which I don't fancy :)

    I was going to text: UR RM 4 MI?
  • Nikkster
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    PasturesNew wrote: »
    I wasn't going to phone.... phone signal's not really up to calls here... so I'd have to go up the road and stand in the street to have a conversation.... which I don't fancy :)

    I was going to text: UR RM 4 MI?

    Good job I know you're joking :D (edit - about the texting)

    I vote for giving her a quick call - Lydia's suggestion of something along the lines of 'just calling to see if there was any news' is great. Be prepared for it to be a no, try not to take it personally if it is/ brilliant if its not. I'd take myself to somewhere where no-one can hear me (or not too many people are walking past - chances are you'd never see them again anyway). And what I would be telling myself to make me go for it (I have to push myself with things like this too) is that I would always be wondering 'what if she'd just lost her diary' etc etc. Better to find out definitively, and be able to move on... or hopefully in!

    Otherwise, you just have to get looking again :)
  • lostinrates
    lostinrates Posts: 55,283 Forumite
    I've been Money Tipped!
    I would call too, she is probably just a little disprganised. :)
  • PasturesNew
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    Just spoken to 'the Banks'.... says I sound perfect, not bothered about my job/lack of. Seeing it Thursday. Moving in date dovetails precisely with my having to leave here.... except maybe I might have to loiter all day long with the car full of stuff as he's probably going to say he's at work all day.

    So .... looks like a good 'un.
  • michaels
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    Mahy be you have been associating with people who had a virus :o
    misskool wrote: »
    i think i am coming down with a cold :(
    I think....
  • michaels
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    If that doesn't deserve a POSH ALERT then I don't know what does.

    Does that mean we can't do vicarious house hunting on your behalf any more?
    PasturesNew wrote: »
    Just spoken to 'the Banks'.... says I sound perfect, not bothered about my job/lack of. Seeing it Thursday. Moving in date dovetails precisely with my having to leave here.... except maybe I might have to loiter all day long with the car full of stuff as he's probably going to say he's at work all day.

    So .... looks like a good 'un.
    I think....
  • lostinrates
    lostinrates Posts: 55,283 Forumite
    I've been Money Tipped!
    Ijust found a retailer that specialises in evergreen broadleaf trees. I am in virtual gardening heaven.
  • PasturesNew
    PasturesNew Posts: 70,698 Forumite
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    michaels wrote: »
    If that doesn't deserve a POSH ALERT then I don't know what does.

    Does that mean we can't do vicarious house hunting on your behalf any more?
    It would be a full on posh alert.

    Yes it might do .... see how it goes :)

    You can ooh and aah over any "view from my room" photos I might take though, which is just as interesting.

    Anyway .... chickens/counting ... and water/bridge ... and other various sayings.... so... until Thursday....

    In the voice of Harry Enfield.... I'd be considerably posher than yow.
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