November 2010
12 posts
153 - Breaking the hoover
There you are hoovering (or vacuuming if you prefer), and you can see it just in front, that bit of something that looks just that bit bigger than the usual dust spec. It won’t hurt if you just suck it up? it’s far too much effort to bend down and pick it up.
99% of the time this would be a no problem call, but every so often a bit of smoke and some rattling noises from your hoover...
152 - Going for the big chorus at the wrong point
You’re singing away, enjoying yourself, annoying all the other passengers in the car and here it comes, the big chorus and you belt it out… only to find out you’re a verse too early. Do you run with it and keep singing or coyly reduce the volume and embarrassed, fall back in sync with the song?
151 - Messing up the last shot at the driving...
I’m sure all the golfers out there will sympathise. It doesn’t matter how long you spend at the driving range, hours hitting balls straight down the middle as far as the eye can see, when you roll that last little ball onto the mat and tee it up there’s that last ball feeling. The one for the road, make this a good one, let’s finish on a high feeling and if your shot is a...
150 - Messing up the reverse park with an audience
Even the best of us can come unstuck with a bit of confidence before a cock up. A quick look at the space, yeah I’ll get the car in there, then 10 minutes of maneuvres later and you’re still half in the road, half in the space at a jaunty angle and you turn to the pavement to realise you’ve got an audience. It’s your call, will you drive off with your tail between your legs...
149 - Food going missing
How annoying when you’re looking forward to something thinking hmm, I have a cream cake left in the fridge that I can have when I get home. Then you get home and some bugger’s eaten it.
148 - Waiting for videos to load on the web
It’s so frustrating when you want to watch something and it is just so slowly loading, or does that play,buffer,play,buffer,play,buffer thing. I may remember the days when we only had dial up and it took 3 weeks to load a few seconds of video but I also remember the 1987 Skoda Favorit and I don’t compare all modern cars to that.
147 - Cutting your nails too short
How annoying to cut your nails too short and be banging the newly exposed fingertips on everything. It’s always when you need to scratch something or peel a sticker back off or, well just do anything that requires nails.
Ah the perils of cutting your own nails, always more of a problem when cutting with your non dominant hand.
146 - Hot shower, cold bathroom
Hot showers are lovely, especially in cold weather, but you get all washed and all lovely and warm under the water and then comes the shocking realisation - it has to stop. At one point you will have to turn off the shower and exit into the cold harsh reality of the bathroom and do some crazy keep warm dance whilst rushing to get dry and put some clothes on without losing too much of the lovely...
145 - Passengers refusing to flying
Stories like this tend to pop up every so often, although the one that sticks in my memory is this one - http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-491527/Passengers-revolt-told-fly-jet-wing-tip-missing.html
I really don’t understand passengers who refuse to fly on an aircraft due to some “damage” they have seen or some problem they think there is. If the aircraft were unsafe to...
144 - Late post delivery
It used to be that your postie was up at the crack of dawn and you could dash off to work with your junk mail and domino’s menus in hand to read on the way to work. No longer, I’m lucky if my post arrives before early afternoon.
Whilst it makes little difference and most of the time you aren’t expecting anything it’s just a bit nicer to get your post delivered in the...
143 - Not adjusting your bike seat properly
You know the kind of cyclist who goes past practically kneeing themselves in the face, who haven’t seemed to realise they can adjust the seat height, basically it looks like they’ve just stolen the bike from a 12 year old and frankly that’s not cool.
142 - The tissue wash
There’s a reason your mother always told you to check your pockets before washing something. However you will no doubt one day miss that tissue in your jeans, or the crumpled receipt in your back pocket, or the losing lottery ticket in that inside pocket you forgot your jacket had.
The lucky amongst us will simply discover some funny bits of fluff when they next stick their hand in the...
