Nice People Thread No. 14, all Nice and Proper

Doozergirl

silvercar wrote: »

PN....the wait must be so difficult when you know the eventual outcome.

Nikks, released, throw some balloons in the air and watch them disappear with all the frustrations that have built up.

Just watching the news, with someone surviving in the underneath carriage of a plane. I know desperate situations call for desperate measures, but don't people realise that the wheels are released for landing.

They're generally unconscious by the time the landing gear is dropped. Presumably, it would be as easy to cling on to where you were on take off, if you hadn't been subjected to temperatures of something like -40 degrees celcius and a lack of oxygen.

If the one that is still alive survives, it will be a near miracle.

This was along the lines of my anger at racists earlier. How desperate would an individual have to be to do something like that? If we each made an attempt to put ourselves in other's shoes, we may not be so flippant about it.

But then i find it almost impossible to imagine, so a racist, who clearly lacks empathy anyway, must be totally stumped if they bothered to engage themselves.

Doozergirl

PasturesNew wrote: »

I don't want to be non-nice on the NP thread ... but ... seriously .... if they've googled enough to understand "Get to England, get a free house and money", then they should've also understood: farquin cold, freezing, you will die, instant death, wheels drop and so will you, dead body found ... etc.

Darwin at work.

No. Sorry. Just no

SingleSue

I ordered a new car today, a brand new car...ok it is a motability one but it is still a huge (and new) thing to me.

I was an absolute wuss though, going for a test drive and he had to firstly drive the car to a quiet country lane before I felt confident enough to give it a go.

My blue badge has also been approved and is on its way.

Spirit - it takes a while to adjust to the new you, I'm over 5 years in with my issues and I am still in denial of what I can no longer do. I go full steam ahead telling myself that I can do this or do that, try doing it and then fail miserably or end up completely messing myself up.

My world has shrunk amazingly in just the last year, I can no longer get the food shopping if I am on my own, driving to Ipswich (only 12 miles away), has to be thought about and only done on a good day, I can no longer access the town centre without someone else there to push the wheelchair (although with the blue badge, this will change....I can pop to the bank on my own again!)

Still I think that one day I will wake up and my legs will work properly, my back will be healed and the discs magically reappear and the nerve damage disappear and that there will be freedom of movement in my left shoulder.....hasn't happened yet though.

silvercar

PasturesNew wrote: »

I didn't really follow the description to be honest... lost me.

Like semi-detached houses, where the paths round to the back of two houses (that are not joined to each other) are next to each other.

Probably. Boundaries and fences are things a lot of people don't understand; they think they know, or they're assuming, or somebody on a forum told them it's "the one on the left is yours".

Are you SURE you understand yours completely? Do they have to provide/maintain a fence, or is it just a boundary?

Read my deeds. Said that we are responsible for the 'T' marked boundaries and that the said boundaries are to the west of the property.

That's a FORTUNE for a fence. Maybe they couldn't afford it, even if they wanted to.

Lots of scenarios.

So .... you're probably being a bit ungracious .... rather than petty.

I've had 3 quotes. They have money, they just spend it on cars and the inside of their house not the outside.

Spirit_2

SingleSue wrote: »

Spirit - it takes a while to adjust to the new you, I'm over 5 years in with my issues and I am still in denial of what I can no longer do. I go full steam ahead telling myself that I can do this or do that, try doing it and then fail miserably or end up completely messing myself up.

My world has shrunk amazingly in just the last year, I can no longer get the food shopping if I am on my own, driving to Ipswich (only 12 miles away), has to be thought about and only done on a good day, I can no longer access the town centre without someone else there to push the wheelchair (although with the blue badge, this will change....I can pop to the bank on my own again!)

Still I think that one day I will wake up and my legs will work properly, my back will be healed and the discs magically reappear and the nerve damage disappear and that there will be freedom of movement in my left shoulder.....hasn't happened yet though.

I manage so well in my own small world that it comes as a shock when I try 'normal' things and find them tricky. Even the local shop's staff look out for me, assist and congratulate me on progress. This week in the hardware shop staff noted I was out alone asked if I was OK and then help me select items and carried my goods to the counter as I shopped and then carried the bag out to the car when my neighbour arrived to pick me up.
i have a very small world due to location, NP suggested an electric bike, unfortunately I cannot put weight through my left arm or bend my wrist sufficiently to manage this. Hoping the problem will be less by next week as on Weds I have a medical assessment to see if I am fit to drive, afterwhich I can apply to have my licence reinstated.

So pleased about your mobility car, the comfort and reliability will be a much needed step up in your quality of life.What have you chosen?

Generali

ivyleaf wrote: »

Gen I forgot to say Congrats to Mrs Gen. When does she start the new job?

Tch, been back from holiday a whole week now and still feeling slightly out-of-kilter. (We went to Scotland, so I wonder if "out of kilter" was a sort of Freudian slip-type of thing? )

Done some ironing today though And some hoovering. Surprising how much better the hoover worked when it occurred to me that there was a second filter which we'd never touched in the 12 years we've had the cleaner Mr ivyleaf took it out the back and banged it hard several times (the filter, not the whole vacuum cleaner), and the thing actually picks up the dust again now :j

Cheers ivyleaf. Scheduled to start on Thursday but no official date as yet.

HAMISH_MCTAVISH

HAMISH_MCTAVISH wrote: »

do I convince her to just drive 'the beast' when it arrives (and deal with a year or so of moaning and likely a few minor parking dings).

Grrrr..... Will go car shopping today and see whats out there.

Well my convincing re 'the beast' didn't work...

So we went car shopping and of course I was very firm about frugality, restricting our choices to sensible options, sticking to a low budget, etc.

And then what actually happened is Mrs McT saw a beautiful example of a car that she's desired for years, in her favourite colour, and then tried really hard to be responsible and frugal while unsuccessfully hiding the fact that she loved it.....

They're delivering the car next week.

This may be a good time to note it's rather a good thing I don't have daughters. As we'd be living in a Castle with a garden full of Unicorns by now....:o

SingleSue

Spirit wrote: »

I manage so well in my own small world that it comes as a shock when I try 'normal' things and find them tricky. Even the local shop's staff look out for me, assist and congratulate me on progress. This week in the hardware shop staff noted I was out alone asked if I was OK and then help me select items and carried my goods to the counter as I shopped and then carried the bag out to the car when my neighbour arrived to pick me up.
i have a very small world due to location, NP suggested an electric bike, unfortunately I cannot put weight through my left arm or bend my wrist sufficiently to manage this. Hoping the problem will be less by next week as on Weds I have a medical assessment to see if I am fit to drive, afterwhich I can apply to have my licence reinstated.

So pleased about your mobility car, the comfort and reliability will be a much needed step up in your quality of life.What have you chosen?

A Peugeot 5008 automatic, still need a larger car because of the wheelchair, the boys and my parents (I am having to drive them more and more now and it is a bit of a squeeze with 2 of the boys in the car and of course impossible when James is home)

lostinrates

HAMISH_MCTAVISH wrote: »

This may be a good time to note it's rather a good thing I don't have daughters. As we'd be living in a Castle with a garden full of Unicorns by now....:o

I have difficult relationship with parents.....fancy adopting? I don't want unicorns. But a zonkey would be fun, Or a Chinese dragon. Both more obtainable than unicorns.

Spirit_2

HAMISH_MCTAVISH wrote: »

Well my convincing re 'the beast' didn't work...

So we went car shopping and of course I was very firm about frugality, restricting our choices to sensible options, sticking to a low budget, etc.

And then what actually happened is Mrs McT saw a beautiful example of a car that she's desired for years, in her favourite colour, and then tried really hard to be responsible and frugal while unsuccessfully hiding the fact that she loved it.....

They're delivering the car next week.

This may be a good time to note it's rather a good thing I don't have daughters. As we'd be living in a Castle with a garden full of Unicorns by now....:o

She probably needed a bit of spoiling. Pray tell what it is?

Just imagine the expense Chewie faces over the next few years and Mrs McT's wants will seem frugal. it is all relative.