Nice People Thread Number 11 - A Treasury of Nice People

Doozergirl

vivatifosi wrote: »

I had one of the old minis. Loved it. Owned it for a few years, trashed it. I haven't had one of the new ones though. It was the car I owned when I first left home. It signified my independence. It was blue. My friends had white and red ones. So we'd go out and park them outside the pub like the Italian job. Naff, but happy days.

From experience, I will tell you that you can get a mattress in a mini too, but only if you do the whole journey in 2nd gear.

I've had three different models of new one, in black, blue and red. It's love :A

I can inform you from experience that you can get a king size Ikea mattress and a flat packed double width chest of drawers in a Mini Countryman, along with the obligatory picture frame, loo brush and tea towels. I did it alone as well, trying to prove some point to the other half. He was stunned when he got home and it was all in place. :cool:

They roll and shrink wrap the mattresses now. It is the BEST FUN letting them out

Nikkster

Doozergirl wrote: »

I can inform you from experience that you can get a king size Ikea mattress and a flat packed double width chest of drawers in a Mini Countryman, along with the obligatory picture frame, loo brush and tea towels. I did it alone as well, trying to prove some point to the other half. He was stunned when he got home and it was all in place. :cool:

You can also get an Ikea chest of drawers on the bus (well two bus journeys) from Ikea Wembley to Kilburn if you ask nicely for the people at customer services to look after one of the boxes for you because you hadn't thought through how you were actually going to get it home and you're too tight to pay for a taxi/ delivery.

Yorkie1

No experience of Minis, but I have travelled in a Mini Metro (as a passenger) which had a double bass in it as well as me and the driver!

lostinrates

Tomorrow I must do stuff.

Pigeon made big progress today. Think its drinking by itself now, definitely eating alone, and also its perching in its cage, not just sitting on the floor or perching when I put it on something. Hopefully it won't be here much longer, or at least can go out with the little chickens or something. Maybe as soon as I know its drinking and eating enough, I understand its mainly cold that kills them, but the chicken house does for our chicks who must be less hardy than [
][STRIKE]flying rats[/STRIKE][/] squabs, it must be nearly thirty days now, maybe less. but Very, very wee. Maybe its just...small.

vivatifosi

silvercar wrote: »

Why? Does the corner fit under the clutch pedal?

Mine wasn't rolled like Doozer's, and my car was a smaller one being the old model, but folded in half and put in the passenger door (the only way you could get it in), I couldn't change the gear once it was in. I tried different settings and then shut the door. I found that second gear you could start and pull away (just) as well as move along. Third and fourth I couldn't start in, first just revved like crazy. Thankfully I only had to drive about 3 miles.

I also had to scootch down in the seat towards the pedals, as part of it looped round and under my head, as well as filling up most of the windows on one side of the car (though I could see my mirrors). It would be seriously illegal. But this was in 'ye olden days' when people didn't worry about stuff and kids rolled around like peas on the back seat because it wasn't yet a legal requirement for them to wear rear seatbelts.

vivatifosi

Nikkster wrote: »

You can also get an Ikea chest of drawers on the bus (well two bus journeys) from Ikea Wembley to Kilburn if you ask nicely for the people at customer services to look after one of the boxes for you because you hadn't thought through how you were actually going to get it home and you're too tight to pay for a taxi/ delivery.

I've seen someone do that with an Ikea chest of drawers on a bus in Barcelona! It must be an Ikea thing. Or maybe there is 'take your furniture on public transport day' and we just don't know about it.

Nikkster

vivatifosi wrote: »

I've seen someone do that with an Ikea chest of drawers on a bus in Barcelona! It must be an Ikea thing. Or maybe there is 'take your furniture on public transport day' and we just don't know about it.

I think it is living in a city. No car + Ikea a bus ride away - forward planning = getting furniture home in public transport.

vivatifosi

Nikkster wrote: »

I think it is living in a city. No car + Ikea a bus ride away - forward planning = getting furniture home in public transport.

Oh that's a shame. I had romantic notions of a party on the number 73 bus involving a hat stand and billy the bookshelf.

Nikkster

vivatifosi wrote: »

Oh that's a shame. I had romantic notions of a party on the number 73 bus involving a hat stand and billy the bookshelf.

Maybe that's how it happens in Barcelona? Wasn't my experience in NW London

LydiaJ

zagubov wrote: »

I wish I'd known about this programme before it was on tonight.

The BBC are very annoying the way they only make things available on catch up for such a short time. It's much better on ITV, 4 and 5 where stuff stays available for years. It's worth putting up with the adverts to have the stuff stay available.

Nikkster wrote: »

You can also get an Ikea chest of drawers on the bus (well two bus journeys) from Ikea Wembley to Kilburn if you ask nicely for the people at customer services to look after one of the boxes for you because you hadn't thought through how you were actually going to get it home and you're too tight to pay for a taxi/ delivery.

When LNE and I moved from a flat to a house, but before we owned a car, we decided we needed compost for the garden. We walked about half a mile to the garden centre, and bought several large sacks of the stuff. Then we bought a wheelbarrow, and persuaded the garden centre staff to lend us a spanner to put its wheel and handles on. Then we wheeled the compost home in the barrow, taking turns. I could do about 6 steps, I think, and LNE managed about twice that. We tried taking one handle each but we couldn't balance it. When we got home we used the bathroom scales to weigh LNE with a sack of compost type A, with a sack of compost type B, and without any compost, and then we worked out how much stuff we'd had in the barrow. In total it was 19 stone of compost.

lostinrates wrote: »

Tomorrow I must do stuff.

Pigeon made big progress today. Think its drinking by itself now, definitely eating alone, and also its perching in its cage, not just sitting on the floor or perching when I put it on something. Hopefully it won't be here much longer, or at least can go out with the little chickens or something. Maybe as soon as I know its drinking and eating enough, I understand its mainly cold that kills them, but the chicken house does for our chicks who must be less hardy than [
][STRIKE]flying rats[/STRIKE][/] squabs, it must be nearly thirty days now, maybe less. but Very, very wee. Maybe its just...small.

Ummm what pigeon? Have you posted about it before? If so, I'm afraid I missed that.