I noted the postcode (BB3 0AL) off my calendar for the Colne show today, stuck it in my car's satnag and off I jolly well went. I know Colne is at the eastern end of the M65 so had the sound on 'mute' thinking I'd listen to the dratted woman later in the trip. Somewhere past Blackburn I punched up the sound only to be told to make a 'U' turn when possible and head back towards Preston. Very strange, I thought, as Colne was still a good 15-20 miles away to the east. Still, like a good chap I did was I was told. Soon I began to have the uneasy feeling I'd been this way before and, sure enough, I ended up at the venue for last week's Blackburn show :doh:
Now, if I'd got one of them smart phones (you know - the ones you can walk under a bus with while looking at FaceTube) I could have jumped on t'interweb and found the correct code but, being a Luddite, I haven't so returned home. Never has my crest been so fallen :-[
I think I'd better stay in tomorrow :uneasy:
There's always next year. :D
Could be worse Mick.
My sister being a massive Westlife fan through the late 90s and 2000s went to every gig they performed at the NEC Birmingham.
A couple of years ago, after a good 5 (or more) year break they were back performing at the NEC. Not to miss out her and her good mate bought 2 tickets to go and see them.
The usual countdown to the main event started and excitement built.
The night came, jumped in the car, drove straight to the NEC, no parking dramas, walked into the arena and presented tickets to door staff.
They looked at the tickets, looked at them, looked at the tickets and kindly told them they were
7days late, Westlife were here last Wednesday.
£40 useless piece of paper just stuffed in a drawer now :no:
Wouldn't be so bad but this followed me taking my Mum shopping this morning. She got into the car, sat there with one glove on her left hand, one clutched in her right hand and exclaimed "I've dropped a glove somewhere!". She looked in the foot well and opened the door but there was no sign of the glove on her drive.
What is it they say? 'The apple doesn't fall far from the tree' :laugh:
I spent a few minutes looking for me glasses once until I realised I had them on :-[
I've driven an hour to work on my day off, got to my sign up location and the outbound crew politely (whilst cracking up laughing) told me I was 24hrs early, at least I wasn't sitting at home when I should have been working!!!!
Quote from: Bealman on November 16, 2019, 08:09:49 PM
I spent a few minutes looking for me glasses once until I realised I had them on :-[
Done that, so many times. I also like to prowl the house with my mobile grasped firmly in hand, while looking for, my mobile. :-[ :dunce:
I once drove to a clients house, got out of the van, loaded myself up with dust sheets etc. and knocked on their front door.
They answered and seemed a little surprised. When I'd dumped all my dust sheets in the hall they asked me what I was there to do.
I said "I thought we were painting the dining room?".
"You painted it four weeks ago" they said.
"Where the hell am I supposed to be then?" I said.
They made me a cup of coffee while I got my bearings.
We had a nice chat and then I reloaded the van and set off to the client whose guttering I was supposed to be repairing.
I'd travelled 15 minutes in one direction from home and I should have travelled 15 minutes in the other direction.
So, to summise.
Wrong direction.
Wrong client.
Wrong job.
I wonder about me sometimes.
:dunce:
My coffee travels around the house with me and gets refilled periodically, and reheated if I leave it too long before drinking. One day after a bit of close up kit building work I decided that I needed a refill. Couldn't find the coffee cup anywhere. Looked all around but no luck. So I found a new cup and used that. Sadly the coffee went cold before I drank it so off I went to reheat it in the microwave, where I found the previously lost cup sitting there full of cold coffee.
Doh!
Earlier this year I trailed all the way across Tokyo to the exhibition hall where one of the annual model railway exhibition/sales events is held, and was bemused to find that while an exhibition of some sort was taking place it was nothing to do with model railways.
After some confused thinking I realised I'd mixed it up with a similar event held elsewhere in Tokyo which I didn't really plan to go to. :-[
Quote from: woodbury22uk on November 17, 2019, 10:49:08 AM
My coffee travels around the house with me and gets refilled periodically, and reheated if I leave it too long before drinking. One day after a bit of close up kit building work I decided that I needed a refill. Couldn't find the coffee cup anywhere. Looked all around but no luck. So I found a new cup and used that. Sadly the coffee went cold before I drank it so off I went to reheat it in the microwave, where I found the previously lost cup sitting there full of cold coffee.
Doh!
When I was a volunteer at the Watercress Line, a colleague spent all of one Saturday afternoon making a special tool for a job he had to do on 34105 "Swanage". Having made it, he then happily used it all day Sunday, before putting it away "somewhere safe" ready to carry on the next weekend.
The following Saturday arrived, he arrived, and then spent most of the afternoon wandering all over the shed muttering obscenities about thieving so-and-sos. By late afternoon he'd given up and started making another of these special tools. He completed it on Sunday morning and carried on with the job on Swanage.
On Sunday evening the air
really turned blue, because he'd gone to put his replacement tool "somewhere safe" - and had found the first one.
:laugh3:
A pal of mine is a gas engineer and was working for a housing association. He turned up at this house to do the annual safety check. The lady appeared a bit bemused, but let him in. He examined the gas fire and determined the heat exchanger was faulty, so he promptly condemned it, fitted the necessary label and disconnected it.
He went out side and sat in his car to fill in his paperwork and noticed that he had just visited 61 instead of 16.
I think this should be renamed "The Altsiemer's thread"
Been there, done that, got the t-cup :laugh3:
Alzheimer's thread???
https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/alzheimers-disease/ (https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/alzheimers-disease/)
Many years ago when I left my previous employment I decided to have a small farewell gathering at a pub in Cambridge. I phoned up one that had been recommended to me and asked if they could provide some refreshments. Yes, they could, could I please go in and leave a deposit?
Off I went, drove up to the pub, said who I was and what I had come for, and was met with puzzled frowns. Nobody could remember any phone call and nobody had written anything down. I was beginning to get a bit annoyed and said that I had chosen the Chequers because it had been recommended to me. "Ah," they said, "I think I see your problem. This is the Six Bells."
I never did go to the Chequers.
Cheers,
Chris
I once went to visit the Midland Bank offices in London to try to sell them some cheque paper.
After our meeting I went to the pub for lunch with my customer.
Over a pint or two I explained to my customer that I had trouble finding his office and I asked him why there was no big sign over the door indicating "National Westminister Bank".
He replied :
"because we are the Midland Bank".
:dunce:
I've enjoyed reading this thread.
Its so comforting to realise that I'm not the only .........
Um.....
Where was I?
What?
Alec.
A number of years ago, before satnavs, I was working beside a road to the south of Crawley in Sussex when a car pulled up and a red-faced man got out and asked me how to get to Addlestone. (Wearing a hi-vis jacket with 'Ordnance Survey' on the back made you a magnet for lost motorists...) I vaguely knew that Addlestone was in Surrey but I had no real clue how to get there, so I told him it was miles away and I would need to check the map. He said he was late for a meeting and it had to be nearby as he had been told it was just off junction 11. I asked him which motorway and he looked at me as if I was an idiot and said the M25 of course. When I told him yes, it was junction 11 but the M23, not the M25, he glared at me as if it was my fault, jumped back in the car and screeched off back the way he had come.
Cheers,
Chris
PS. Mind you, it works both ways. On another occasion somebody stopped me to ask the way to somewhere I did know, so I gave them directions. It wasn't till after they'd gone I realised I had made a mistake and they would never get where they were going the way I had sent them... I can only hope they thought they had misremembered my instructions and that it was all their fault.
My claim to ignominy is putting sugar, coffee whitener and coffee into my breafast cereal bowl then wondering why the weetybix won't fit in the coffee cup.
A condition known in our family as TIBMIN
Thumb in bum, mind in neutral