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

PasturesNew

GDB2222 wrote: »

It was accidental, but it looked really welcoming, and I recommend it if you can get your agent to redo that photo.

I might give it a go.... of course, access to being able to stand in the spot that makes that work is a problem... might end up, say, up a ladder, leaning against a fence, shooting from the other side of the fence.... have to see how it comes up in the viewer.

Pyxis

GDB2222 wrote: »

When I marketed MIL's house myself, having got fed up with agents faffing around, I just took some photos with my mobile phone. The one of the front of the house had the front door open. It was accidental, but it looked really welcoming, and I recommend it if you can get your agent to redo that photo.

I had 7 or 8 enquiries just in the 3 days before I took the advert down, so the amateur photos certainly were not putting people off.

That's really interesting!

The psychological effect of an open door! Amazing!

I wonder how long it'll be before agents cotton on, and we see lots of houses with open doors?


Can you copyright an idea like that?


Was it wide open, or half open?

PasturesNew

Pyxis wrote: »

Was it wide open, or half open?

And what colour was it .....
And was there a mat in/out, what sort ....
And what door furniture is fitted.....


I wonder if kidnapping a local cat and supergluing his bum to a doormat and sticking him in the shot would help

Pyxis

PasturesNew wrote: »

And what colour was it .....
And was there a mat in/out, what sort ....
And what door furniture is fitted.....


I wonder if kidnapping a local cat and supergluing his bum to a doormat and sticking him in the shot would help

Hey! You've got something there!



I know! Have a Mary Poppins dancing in the rooftop by the [STRIKE]chimney[/STRIKE] boiler flue outlet.
Make sure she's got no soot on her face, though, or you could be in dead trouble! :doh:

PasturesNew

Pyxis wrote: »

Make sure she's got no soot on her face, though, or you could be in dead trouble!

LOL... that's the trouble with furreners .... she wasn't "black facing".... she simply went up the chimney and, having got black with soot, simply dabbed with her powder puff with a "stiff upper lip, carry on regardless" message.

Pyxis

Well, what an emotionally fraught morning.

Went to the supermarket nice and early to escape the traffic and crowds, and get a parking space easily, which I did. Loaded up my trolley, had a peaceful cup of coffee, picked up a click'n'collect parcel,and returned to the car and started unpacking the trolley into the boot, having made sure the trolley was immobile, as they have a tendency to roll in this car park, and there aren't brakes on them like there used to be.

Anyway, I moved the trolley to let someone with a pram pass, and turned to the boot again.
There was an almighty crash. The trolley had somehow turned itself, rolled off the kerb, upended and the sides of the trolley had smashed into both my car and the car next to me. Everything fell out including two bottles.

Someone helped me pick the trolley up again, and then I saw a series of large scratches on the other car, although there were none on mine.
Feeling sick, I finished loading the car, (the bottles were miraculously unbroken), went back into the supermarket and asked them to tannoy 'the owner of car reg number........' etc., but nobody came, so I went back to the car, photographed the scratches, and wrote a note explaining what had happened, including my details.

By this time about twenty minutes had elapsed, and I was just about to get back into my car and go, when luckily the owner of the car returned, so I explained very apologetically what had happened, and then ....................
He said that those scratches had already been on the car!

OMG! What an honest man! I was so relieved, I gave him a hug!
I was quite a tearful jelly by this time, though!


Thinking about it later, there had not been any of the coloured paint transferred to the trolley, because I looked for some, which I thought was strange, given the size and width of the scratches, and my car was totally unmarked, even though it had also been hit by the other side of the trolley.

Anyway, all was well, and if I believed in angels, I would have said that one was sitting on my shoulder this morning! :A

PasturesNew

Pyxis wrote: »

Well, what an emotionally fraught morning....

Blimey, you got out of that one fine .... it must have been embarrassing/gut-wrenching all the time.... glad he turned up though before you'd just left a note.



Tip: Look after number 1.... next time, ignore the pram she can wait.

I'm glad your bottles didn't break ...

Pyxis

PasturesNew wrote: »

Blimey, you got out of that one fine .... it must have been embarrassing/gut-wrenching all the time.... glad he turned up though before you'd just left a note.



Tip: Look after number 1.... next time, ignore the pram she can wait.

Oh, no, couldn't do that.:(

I just should have rechecked the stability of the trolley.

It is a shame they no longer put a brake on one wheel, though.


But yes, it was sheer good fortune he turned up....he hadn't even been to the supermarket, (it was a public car park), which is why he hadn't heard the tannoy.
And yes, embarrassing, gut-wrenching, worrying (about the owner's reaction, and the expense), especially as I'm normally so very careful with other people's cars, and with stabilising the trolley.

As I said, blessed by an angel on several levels!

ivyleaf

Aw, Pyxis! So glad all was ok in the end x

GDB2222

My phone just flashed up 'Yellow wind warning.' Is it just just me, or could that be better worded?