A funny thing happened on the way to the model railway show.............

Newportnobby · November 16, 2019, 03:10:38 PM

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

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

RailGooner · November 16, 2019, 03:47:59 PM

There's always next year.

exmouthcraig · November 16, 2019, 03:55:35 PM

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

Newportnobby · November 16, 2019, 08:04:13 PM

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'

Bealman · November 16, 2019, 08:09:49 PM

I spent a few minutes looking for me glasses once until I realised I had them on

Intercity · November 16, 2019, 08:30:30 PM

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!!!!

RailGooner · November 16, 2019, 08:38:34 PM

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.

emjaybee · November 16, 2019, 09:53:53 PM

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.

woodbury22uk · 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!

railsquid · November 17, 2019, 11:08:34 AM

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.

chrism · November 17, 2019, 12:01:02 PM

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.

Malc · November 17, 2019, 10:22:10 PM

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.

TrevL · November 18, 2019, 10:10:44 AM

I think this should be renamed "The Altsiemer's thread"
Been there, done that, got the t-cup

Railwaygun · November 18, 2019, 10:47:01 AM

Alzheimer's thread???

https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/alzheimers-disease/

Papyrus · November 18, 2019, 11:48:57 AM

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