Here we can all be heard for a little while. Part 3

disabled_NCIS_fan

Sorry I've not talked in ages. Been a bit of a whirl wind lately if I'm honest. Uni is near done for the year, my exam is in June. My GP has referred me to be checked for MS etc. I was told expect an appointment in July/August as its a long waiting list. I got a letter the other week. 19th May. Day after my 25th birthday. I also am waiting to see a urologist. The GP basically thinks MS is attacking my bladder and they are talking catheters and all sorts. To be honest I think I'm dreading the urology letter more than the neurology appointment lol. My twitches are worse and another reason I'm seeing the neurologist. Something about anti spasm drugs and drugs to prevent strokes etc. If I'm honest I didn't take it all in. I had only gone for a letter for the university exam board. Sorry I'm rambling lol. It's been a heck of a few months.

codemonkey

I failed for very stupid reasons. The first, he decided I cancelled my indicator a millisecond too late. I had 2 minors. The second she failed me for not allowing the car behind me to go ahead after I did an emergency stop. I tried to let him go ahead and he refused to go - he just kept signalling me to move. There wasn't space to pull over so short of getting out of the car and screaming 'Just go !!!!!!' there wasn't anything else I could do. I had 3 minors on that one. I know they say there are no caps on who can pass, but my driving instructor saw everyone who went out at the same time as me come back and nobody passed.

disabled_NCIS_fan

Code as my dad said you can get some right B words of an examiner. My dad passed third time if I remember right. First two times he had the same examiner and he failed. Over a tiny little bump to the curb the first time and if I remember right his three point turn was actually 4 points. Third time he had a different examiner, bumped the curb and thought you know what I've failed so I'm not gonna pass. He passed and he drove for a living for years.

Izadora

Code, I had exactly the same problem with my 2nd test. I got a major for not giving a door's width when passing a car which was stopped at the side of the road with its hazard lights going and my instructor reckons he would've failed me whatever course of action I'd taken as that was by far the safest option available.

That was about a month before I moved away to college so I didn't have the time or money to carry on with lessons and there's never been enough of a need to drive since then for me to face it again. I know it annoys my OH sometimes that I can't drive and I know it would probably improve my life in some ways but I live somewhere which has pretty good public transport and I can't quite bring myself to face up to the fear for the odd occasions where it'd be handy to be able to jump in the car rather than walk/get a bus/get a cab etc.

Pyxis

I've been musing about the Great Holey Sock Conundrum - you know - why do holey socks have a homing instinct for the sock drawer, but perfect socks develop a wanderlust? - and I think I've cracked it.......



First of all I thought.....you know the Great Pacific Garbage Patch in the North Pacific Gyre?...............

............well, maybe there's some similar force at work connected to perfect socks.
The great Antarctic Sock Stew, perhaps?

A bit like snowmen travelling to the North Pole to see Father Christmas just before Christmas Day?

Maybe holey socks aren't allowed, being imperfect. Although that doesn't explain how holey socks get back to the sock drawer from the dustbin.
Perhaps, once they've got a hole, their polarity is reversed? So instead of homing to the Great Antarctic Sock Stew, they home back to their drawer?

That seemed plausible, but then! My EUREKA! moment! :j :idea:

Silly me, I thought! Doh! It's not the Great Antarctic Stew at all!

Of course not!..... Socks going missing...........this just how socks get divorced!

And your drawer with all the odd socks in it is the Sock Dating Agency!
Ta-da!

And as for holey socks...........

...........holey socks must be like swans; they are the very happily paired ones, and don't want to be parted from their mate!

Result! :j

I thank you!

codemonkey

When I was little I had a book called Lost sock land (maybe). The child in it wonders where one of theit favourite socks got to. He or she (I cant remember, we'll go with he) discovers a portal at the back of so crawls through the washing machine into Lost Sock Land where fairies use lost socks to make houses and towns and post boxes and that kind of thing. I like that idea. Maybe the holey socks don't make for good houses?

I've never been able to find any reference to this book in the interwebs and my copy has probably been given away and destroyed because that's what happened to all my favourite childhood stuff :mad:

whitewing

This sounds yummy

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/news/tesco-launches-uk-s-first-ever-avocado-spread-a7022526.html

codemonkey

Ugh. I hate avocados. Saw this earlier and it seems appropriate.

Izadora

codemonkey wrote: »

Ugh. I hate avocados.

Me too, vile things. I also really wish that sandwich places/restaurants would realise that not all vegetarians like avocados. I had few enough options before and in the past couple of years I've found avocados popping up in the majority of vegetarian choices :mad:

Pyxis

I just lurve avocados!



Too thin penguin
For anyone wishing to take in extra calories with very little effort, avocados are for you. They contain a lot of 'good' calories and nutrients, but are very easy to eat, in all sorts of ways. End penguin.






Re. your sock book, Code, the first thing that sprang to mind was that it might have encouraged tiny ones to crawl into the washing machine looking for Lost Sock Land, so it might have been withdrawn.