Nice People Thread No. 15, a Cyber Summer

vivatifosi

PasturesNew wrote: »

He might be more blokey, he's an arrogant 4ss to be honest... but he does always drive "new/smart Audis", whereas my pleasant/smiling, WI-belonging sister always drove small functional cars that were used to get to/from work, they always used his bigger car to go out because "men drive, it's what they do; wives sit in the passenger seat".

More fool them then.

I looked at an Audi as I've driven VAG cars (A4s and Golfs) for about 20 of my car driving years and wanted to buy a new one. The amount they put the prices up on the model I was looking at was ludicrous. How they will keep market share when they are passing on the cost of their mistakes to new purchasers has yet to be seen, but they lost a customer here.

The passenger seat thing belongs in the past though. My nan never drove and my great aunt who did was really unusual. My mum doesn't drive and nor did my mum in law, but about 50% of their generation did. These days equal numbers of men and women drive and garages are mad if they don't realise that.

Fwiw DH has a smaller car than mine (he has a Smart 4:2 as well as a Roadster) and I almost always drive when we go out together, it is only fair as he drives further than me in the week.

bugslet

Mr Bugs met his previous wife after she had broken down at the side of the road.

He didn't realise she was a woman to start with; he stopped because it was an unwritten law in the 70s that if you saw a fellow Middle East driver ( I mean Doha/Oman/Iran not Derbyshire;) ) , you stopped.

He didn't realise it was a she because she had her head under the bonnet fixing the problem.

Like to see the man that would mess with her:eek::D

kabayiri

vivatifosi wrote: »

To the best of my topographical knowledge, most of the peaks are in the north. But the downs are in the south:(.

They don't call it the Peak District for nothing

Generali

bugslet wrote: »

Take no notice Single Sue, it's lovely oop 'ere. We have theatres and beautiful countryside and GPs that you don't have to wait 3 weeks to see;)

Okay, okay, I give in. It's not necessarily grim up north.

Ol' Nonna Generali used to live in the shadow of Kinder Scout and I spent large chunks of my childhood being dragged up various Penines so I am well aware of the natural beauty of the North of England.

I spent many a school holiday in Buxton and Manchester and seeing the splendor of Derbyshire and Cheshire.

However, I have been to Bradford and so can confirm that it's grim up (some of the) north.

We took The Boy to check out my favoured High School for him which is not his favourite. Much to my surprise I managed to convince him that he wants to go to the better school. It might have cost me a few hundred dollars on buying him a drone. He's not getting one with missiles though.

kabayiri

Generali wrote: »

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I spent many a school holiday in Buxton and Manchester and seeing the splendor of Derbyshire and Cheshire.

However, I have been to Bradford and so can confirm that it's grim up (some of the) north.
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In the classic words of David Tennant's Doctor Who then, it's a case of "narrows it down".

I remember not so fondly choking on petrol fumes as I walked into a work office in Enfield on a daily basis. Clearly, that part of Greater Londinium wasn't particularly attractive to me.

I am willing to concede that other parts of the South East were much more appealing. Sunny Chobham or Windlesham/Lightwater are lovely places to have a nice pint.

Sadly, I can't afford somewhere nice in a nice place down there. "Grim" is affordable up here

bugslet

Generali wrote: »

However, I have been to Bradford and so can confirm that it's grim up (some of the) north.

. He's not getting one with missiles though.

Oooo Bradford, that's grim. Askrigg, where I was christened, now that's nice:D, certainly more so than Runcorn.:(.

Killjoy, think of the hours of fun to be had with a missile and he'd be the envy of all his friends.

SingleSue

bugslet wrote: »

Take no notice Single Sue, it's lovely oop 'ere. We have theatres and beautiful countryside and GPs that you don't have to wait 3 weeks to see;)



'Cos I'm dead 'ard, with my hairy arms and tattoos and Pitbull called Tyson.:D

I actually had part of my honeymoon up north...it should have been Tunisia but now ex hubby chickened out of having his jabs done and then cancelled the honeymoon because we then couldn't go (without me knowing about it). Unfortunately, he cancelled it so late that we couldn't get any money back so we had to rely on an offer of a place to stay with the chief bridesmaid and her family (just outside of Manchester).

A haulier that ex hubby dealt with then treated us to free transport over to Belgium as drivers mates (two seperate lorries) and a cheapo 3 day hotel stay whilst there.

I was not impressed about what he did but we still had fun....the cabins are huge (or were, no idea about now), in the driver area of the ships.

SingleSue

vivatifosi wrote: »

More fool them then.

I looked at an Audi as I've driven VAG cars (A4s and Golfs) for about 20 of my car driving years and wanted to buy a new one. The amount they put the prices up on the model I was looking at was ludicrous. How they will keep market share when they are passing on the cost of their mistakes to new purchasers has yet to be seen, but they lost a customer here.

The passenger seat thing belongs in the past though. My nan never drove and my great aunt who did was really unusual. My mum doesn't drive and nor did my mum in law, but about 50% of their generation did. These days equal numbers of men and women drive and garages are mad if they don't realise that.

Fwiw DH has a smaller car than mine (he has a Smart 4:2 as well as a Roadster) and I almost always drive when we go out together, it is only fair as he drives further than me in the week.

I had an Audi, biggest blooming white elephant going. Never liked that car but it was part of our divorce settlement as I needed it to ferry the boys around and he didn't.

I was always the main driver, ex didn't learn to drive until after youngest was born. My mum passed her test back in 1977 and although dad remained the main driver for holidays etc, she would be the one to take us for appointments. She is now the main driver as dad is no longer allowed to drive although she doesn't go too far (Yarmouth seems to be her limit) and I have to drive them for any hospital appointments as she doesn't like car parks.

With my siblings, they are more old school, sister did pass her test but stopped driving within weeks when she made a rookie mistake, her husband drives them everywhere. Sister in law has never passed, so she relies on brother to drive them everywhere and if he isn't available, then the rest of us beggers get a call.

My mother in law drives as did my paternal nan, my maternal nan didn't.

SingleSue

James home tomorrow! Peace (and a tidy house) will be shattered...still looking forward to it though.

Not sure what his reaction will be to the newly decorated front room......

GDB2222

bugslet wrote: »

'Cos I'm dead 'ard, with my hairy arms and tattoos and Pitbull called Tyson.:D

There's a thought! Could I enhance my credibility by changing Doglet's name to Tyson?