The Nice People Thread, No.16: A Universe of Niceness.

Jazee

Cakeguts- do you think her company may be picking up the expense of the tickets so she doesn't care?

Cakeguts

PasturesNew wrote: »

My parents' next door neighbours had a two-car-wide frontage and they took down all their wall/gate and put in tarmac across the whole frontage, with a double dropped kerb.

They had space to park 2x2 cars there, so two wide and two deep - but they only ever had two cars, side by side.... but they'd go absolutely mental (and send the kids out to stick notes on cars) if anybody dared to park more than a single inch over the incline-stone at either end of their super wide driveway ... nobody ever parked over it, they always had plenty of space to drive in/out... but they did it "out of principle", even when a perceived breach of just 1-2" was occurring.

As it was in a location where each new offender would be on a single visit, never to return, it seemed to me to be a pointless waste of energy as anybody reading their notes would most likely never be in the town again....

Anyone fancy doing this in my road? Keep you nice and fit plenty of opportunities for writing notes and sticking them onto an estate agent's car?

Cakeguts

Jazee wrote: »

Cakeguts- do you think her company may be picking up the expense of the tickets so she doesn't care?

I wondered that. I think I might warn all the neighbours about her so that they can give her a ticket and get the car impounded by the local council. Then it isn't just the cost it is the inconvenience of having to get it back. They are so stupid in that office that they haven't realised that if they annoy all the local people they won't get any business selling their houses. I wouldn't recommend them to anyone because I wouldn't be able to trust them to get anything correct.

Jackmydad

chris_m wrote: »

My very first SLR was a second hand PL Nova 1B, with an uncoupled selenium cell light meter. That succumbed to a very wet weekend on Dartmoor so I replaced it with a Super TL3.
At one point I also bought a new MTL5 but eventually traded that in against a second-hand Olympus OM10.
I did pick up another Nova 1B a few years ago, for nostalgia's sake, when I spotted one on Fleabay for the princely sum of £15

The Praktica I have was my late FILs.
He bought it for a trip to the States in '69 I think. I must have had it for 30 years more or less, I've put a few films through it, but none recently. I looked at it a few months back, and it was working fine as far as I can tell. I'll put a film through I think.
I bought a Nikon F301 later. I liked that camera, but I sold it to help buy my first DSLR.

Jackmydad

PasturesNew wrote: »

My parents' next door neighbours had a two-car-wide frontage and they took down all their wall/gate and put in tarmac across the whole frontage, with a double dropped kerb.

They had space to park 2x2 cars there, so two wide and two deep - but they only ever had two cars, side by side.... but they'd go absolutely mental (and send the kids out to stick notes on cars) if anybody dared to park more than a single inch over the incline-stone at either end of their super wide driveway ... nobody ever parked over it, they always had plenty of space to drive in/out... but they did it "out of principle", even when a perceived breach of just 1-2" was occurring.

As it was in a location where each new offender would be on a single visit, never to return, it seemed to me to be a pointless waste of energy as anybody reading their notes would most likely never be in the town again....

I'd have gone and asked them why they'd stuck something on my car.
I parked in the street just up from a house we'd rented for a holiday once. Had a note on the screen saying "B******** like you should etc. etc.
I asked everyone I saw in that street who'd left me the note. Funny thing, nobody had.
I knew who it was, weaselly little weasel who thought it was his space. I asked him and he looked weaselly.

Cakeguts

Jackmydad wrote: »

I'd have gone and asked them why they'd stuck something on my car.
I parked in the street just up from a house we'd rented for a holiday once. Had a note on the screen saying "B******** like you should etc. etc.
I asked everyone I saw in that street who'd left me the note. Funny thing, nobody had.
I knew who it was, weaselly little weasel who thought it was his space. I asked him and he looked weaselly.

We got back from holiday one year to find a note on the windscreen of our car that said something about how selfish we were to park the car in the road in such a way as to prevent there being two parking spaces. There aren't two unless both cars are really small or one belongs to the local estate agent.:rotfl: It is a public road people can park where they like. There are only 13 houses our road all of us have drives. So this person who left the note didn't live there. They had come from somewhere else and demanded that a space should be left for them to park where they wanted to in the public road where they didn't live.



Some people are so entitled.

PasturesNew

I've just been idling my way through Facebook... it started with remembering a girl's name and looking her up. These are people whose names I remember from 30 years ago.

1/ Ah, there she is... my god she's big ... when did that happen? She was seriously underweight when I knew her.
2/ Ah, look, Friends - there's her brother - my god he's big ... when did that happen? He used to be an ailing/failing shadow of a lad.
3/ Ah look, his Friends .... OMG, my ex ... he was a super hot model when we dated... when did he get so old, and HUGE and ... BALD!!!

Don't go to Facebook people... you won't recognise those tiny people from your past, they've been eaten by pie monsters!



I need to gain me some weight, it seems to be "what everybody does" these days.

God knows I'm doing my best... I've eaten 10 Crunchie bars since yesterday...

LydiaJ

In (well, mostly in) her new bed, in our house.

michaels

Don't forget there are plenty of threads to debate the issues of the day in a serious manner, on npt we try to avoid anything too contentious or only cover it in a light-hearted way, always remembering that what we say might be offensive to a nice person who posts or just reads if it relates to what they do.


I apologise if I have fed any debate, everything say is tongue in cheek and certainly not supposed to cause offence.


Lydia your new dog looks very attractive in a doggy way


I am entirely not a pet person, I have my immediate family if I am looking 'relies 100% on me' and I certainly don't deserve unconditional love. I am not sure why I now have a pet=dirty phobia, we grew up with pets (in a not very clean house) which I never had any attachment for and now the idea of an animal in the house makes me shudder.

LydiaJ

michaels wrote: »

Lydia your new dog looks very attractive in a doggy way

Thank you. She is behaving very well so far, but she may be feeling a bit spaced out because she's on painkillers having been spayed earlier this week.

The only point on which she hasn't behaved impeccably so far was that she and I had a bit of a difference of opinion in the car on the way home from the rescue centre. I thought that dogs should travel in the boot of the car (hatchback, with the parcel shelf removed). She felt dogs should travel on the front passenger seat. Tomorrow I am going to buy one of these: