Things you should not do...

CathA

Reading this again last night made me laugh as much as the first time.
Here's a few tips re car washes.

DON'T take a 2 year old in the car wash and not check that hubby has shut the sun roof properly. As foam and watered poured in, said child screams hysterically in the back. 24 years later I still hear the screams.

When the mental scars have faded, DON'T think all will be well next time. Carefully checking that sun roof is shut, I wound down the window to put the token in, (by the way, kids, Google 'wind down windows'!) entered car wash and found out the hard way that the window wasn't quite shut. More hysterical screaming ensued.

Lightning never strikes 3 times, so this time, sun roof shut, windows shut and I opened the car door this time to put the token in. Volvos have very heavy doors and yep, you guessed it, not shut properly! However,as the water and foam came in, I made the mistake of opening the door and quickly slamming it shut, thereby trapping some of the car wash brushes in the door. It was like an tsunami, car was shaking, foam still coming in, screaming child now hyper ventilating in the back, only good thing was I didn't have the dog in there as well!!

I don't go in car washes now, and my daughter isn't keen either!

Happy Sunday everyone.

mickey54

CathA wrote: »

Reading this again last night made me laugh as much as the first time.
Here's a few tips re car washes.

DON'T take a 2 year old in the car wash and not check that hubby has shut the sun roof properly. As foam and watered poured in, said child screams hysterically in the back. 24 years later I still hear the screams.

When the mental scars have faded, DON'T think all will be well next time. Carefully checking that sun roof is shut, I wound down the window to put the token in, (by the way, kids, Google 'wind down windows'!) entered car wash and found out the hard way that the window wasn't quite shut. More hysterical screaming ensued.

Lightning never strikes 3 times, so this time, sun roof shut, windows shut and I opened the car door this time to put the token in. Volvos have very heavy doors and yep, you guessed it, not shut properly! However,as the water and foam came in, I made the mistake of opening the door and quickly slamming it shut, thereby trapping some of the car wash brushes in the door. It was like an tsunami, car was shaking, foam still coming in, screaming child now hyper ventilating in the back, only good thing was I didn't have the dog in there as well!!

I don't go in car washes now, and my daughter isn't keen either!

Happy Sunday everyone.

Sorry to laugh at someone else's misfortune.... But this was just sooooo funny.

grunnie

Keep up the good work - I :rotfl:have never laughed so much in years:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

Hillbilly1

Be careful choosing your herbs from the bark garden.

Do not assume husband has has left all potted lavender, thyme and rosemary in the same place...

Do not just blindly cut some herbs and chuck in a cassoulet. It had a lovely soapy smell... Luckily I could scoop the lavender out and had to put it in loads of tomatoes and Worcester sauce to cover the flavour.

meames_2

A few years ago when I worked as a cashier in Halfords. I won an came in screaming that the car radio she had bought didn't work and she wanted a refund. She didn't have a receipt but She was adamant remembered me serving her on the Tuesday (I didn't work Tuesday's, I woukd have been in school). when she finally calmed down and gave me the radio box, I turned it over to look for the price ticket, "unfortunatley madam it appears you bought this in Motorworld...." . Cue one very red faced and apologetic lady.

Liz3yy

Not turning the oven off after cooking dinner....I shut the kitchen door and settled down to eat and watch TV. After an hour I wondered why my eyes were stinging. I opened the kitchen door and couldn't see for the smoke, luckily I didn't burn my kitchen down

Mrs_Grey

Don't try and open one of those new fangled wine boxes (this was back in 1988) by cutting round the little circle on the side with a sharp knife. The student house looked like an episode of the Young Ones with floods of blood red liquid everywhere and worse still all the wine was wasted.

sillyvixen

Mrs_Grey wrote: »

Don't try and open one of those new fangled wine boxes (this was back in 1988) by cutting round the little circle on the side with a sharp knife. The student house looked like an episode of the Young Ones with floods of blood red liquid everywhere and worse still all the wine was wasted.

never take the wine bag out of the box just because the box is damaged. we did once and the cat waked over it in the night -pierced the silver bag containing the wine with his claws and drank the evidence. the following morning i thought the cat had had a stroke as every time he tried to stand up he fell over.

wannalot

Do not take out your passport to book a flight quickly in the morning.

If you do, do not place your passport in your bathrobe pocket, intending to replace it somewhere safe when you go upstairs.

When you go upstairs and get dressed, do not forget to remove the passport from your bathrobe pocket.

Do not get the bright idea of placing the bathrobe (with the passport) in with the washing machine.

When you have placed the passport in the washing machine, do not cry when you first see its soaked remnants spinning around the drum during the spin cycle.

codemonkey

Don't spill gravy from your dinner onto a library book and decide to put said library book into the microwave to dry it. The metallic strip and lettering on the front cover will cause the microwave to spark the book will look like someone has been shooting at it, and the library will ask you to replace it.

(Not me, my dad).