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Really minor annoyances


Becs said:
My Mam says things like "you remember Margaret?"
"no"
"yes you do, she came to Church with Joyce when you were little. She had a toddler called Billy"
"I've no idea"
"yes you do, anyway, you'll never guess what Billy is doing now........"
and I'm sat there thinking who the hell is she rambling on about 😊

Also she gives directions by shops/buildings that no longer exist and sometimes they didn't exist in my lifetime, yet somehow I'm expected to remember where they were.
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My Auntie does this.

Last Christmas she started with it, and the end of the story was that this man she knew had been blackmailed over webcam sex with a trans woman.

It was all I could do not to burst out laughing. :lol:
 
Select coaches said:
Only ever seen it on here, and only by the wind up merchants
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So a bit like the Phillipsy thing?
JonnotheMackem said:
My Auntie does this.

Last Christmas she started with it, and the end of the story was that this man she knew had been blackmailed over webcam sex with a trans woman.

It was all I could do not to burst out laughing. :lol:
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Perhaps we need a daft things older people do/say thread.

Twice for some reason in conversation when my mam was there, my daughter or wife brought up cycling. Both have said they would enjoy a long cycle but are nervous about being on the roads until they get to the quiet cycle tracks. A couple of times I have said we could get a bike rack and head out where we like. Both times my mam chipped in:
"Well (everything starts with 'well') Eddie such and such had a bike rack you know"
"Err ok, so yes we could look at doing that and I know a couple of places we could go if you are interested"
"Eddie used to go all over doing that. I think it was a really good quality one and he would just clip the bikes to the top"
"Right, do you think I should ask Eddie for a loan?"
"You will have a job, he has been dead 6 years. I don't know what might have happened to it"
 
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DaveH said:
So a bit like the Phillipsy thing?

Perhaps we need a daft things older people do/say thread.

Twice for some reason in conversation when my mam was there, my daughter or wife brought up cycling. Both have said they would enjoy a long cycle but are nervous about being on the roads until they get to the quiet cycle tracks. A couple of times I have said we could get a bike rack and head out where we like. Both times my mam chipped in:
"Well (everything starts with 'well') Eddie such and such had a bike rack you know"
"Err ok, so yes we could look at doing that and I know a couple of places we could go if you are interested"
"Eddie used to go all over doing that. I think it was a really good quality one and he would just clip the bikes to the top"
"Right, do you think I should ask Eddie for a loan?"
"You will have a job, he has been dead 6 years. I don't know what might have happened to it"
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We had this discussion on another thread if you have a quick search. It's a dismissive term used by someone trying to belittle someone else. And almost nobody from Sunderland has heard it apart from a few really old shipyard workers.

Basically trying too hard.
 
DaveH said:
So a bit like the Phillipsy thing?

Perhaps we need a daft things older people do/say thread.

Twice for some reason in conversation when my mam was there, my daughter or wife brought up cycling. Both have said they would enjoy a long cycle but are nervous about being on the roads until they get to the quiet cycle tracks. A couple of times I have said we could get a bike rack and head out where we like. Both times my mam chipped in:
"Well (everything starts with 'well') Eddie such and such had a bike rack you know"
"Err ok, so yes we could look at doing that and I know a couple of places we could go if you are interested"
"Eddie used to go all over doing that. I think it was a really good quality one and he would just clip the bikes to the top"
"Right, do you think I should ask Eddie for a loan?"
"You will have a job, he has been dead 6 years. I don't know what might have happened to it"
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I've offered to make some wedding favours. I've spoken with the bride and shown her some options and we've picked what she likes best and what fits with her theme, which happens to be little organza bags. She'd like me to write tags on them in my fancy handwriting to make them more personal.

Mam then became obsessed with laser cut boxes and laser printed gift tags. She kept offering to order them even though they're not what the bride wants.

I finally convinced her that I need to buy organza bags. Then she goes raking in the cupboard as she's thinks she's got some bags left over from something or other, and came back with three dirty looking bags in the wrong colour. I said it doesn't matter and I'll just have a look in Hobbycraft as I'm on the Team Valley weekly with work. Now she wants me to "pop round when I'm not busy with work" and pick her up and we'll go to some florists trade supply place as she can buy things through the Church account and I might get stuff a bit cheaper than Hobbycraft. I'm spending about £20 on the stuff I need. It's not really worth taking time off to take her to some floral shop where she doesn't know if they sell what I want in the hope that I might save £1 or so.

I wish I'd never mentioned favours to her.
 
Having a booking system for the tip and only being able to take two bags of soil/rubble/plasterboard at a time.

Mine has a system where you can only take two bags at a time on a visit and have four such visits in a four week period. You can't do 8 bags a month.

I'm busy wrapping up a building project. I went on Saturday morning with a car full or all sorts of left overs and two bags of plasterboard. Then this morning I went again with the remaining two bags of plasterboard. One booking slot used up and a few miles of driving at a busy time (getting it in before work) when I could have just thrown in two extra bags on Saturday.

I have a pile of top soil, so I'll probably do a weekly trip with only two bags for the next few weeks too.
 
People buying vape. The process not the actual concept.

Actually can I have a number 562, a 34, a 984 actually no, the next one waterbomb cherry bakewell tart cloudburst. That sounds good. Is it four for 15 quid? I'll take the antifreeze sour apple in that case. Oh and can I have sixteen lucky dips.
 
Looking at stuff for hours before you decide and get what you think is the best deal. Then a better deal pops up straight away😂. I always seem to do it,latest is my new phone, basically for £1 more per month and £51 less up front I could have a free watch 🤦
 
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