What makes you grin? Antidote to grumpy thread

[The Moog]

I have a big package on a pallet waiting outside for me to open tomorrow.

 

It might contain Puma bits

[D Spares & Tyres]

How times have changed...

 

After mentioning The Wildhearts I played Earth Vs whilst cooking a stir fry. Bits of vegetables and noodles everywhere.

[Tickman]

I have a big package on a pallet waiting outside for me to open tomorrow.

 

It might contain Puma bits

 

Seats? They might get wet outside!

[xtriple]

I never do the lottery. But, today I bought a ticket for the first time in years and while I haven't won as such, I got two numbers so I get another go apparently. I can feel it in my water, I'm gonna win MILLIONS!   

[Tayne]

A chap who works in supermarket up here stole some lottery scratch cards in the belief that he could win a few quid.

 

He took scratch cards to the face value of £9,000.

 

After a lot of scratching he had won the grand total of...     £250!

[Pillock]

... which were also logged on the system, and programmed to alert the operator if a winning one is presented.

 

Someone round here nicked the display case full of lottery tickets, and was surprised when the CCTV of them presenting a winning one was handed to the police the next day.

[The Moog]

Seats? They might get wet outside!

Under lots of plastic......

 

It definitely has nothing to do with missus Moog getting angry at 6 30am tomorrow morning when climbing over seats..

 

That definitely have always been in the puma .... Definitely

[Cavcraft]

Talking of stolen, a few years back someone robbed a bouncy castle from a local pub. The OB found it a week later, fully inflated in someone's back garden about a mile away.

[strangeangel]

After years of festering in a shed in North Yorkshire, this spectacularly rank moped:

 

 

 

has successfully turned a wheel on the Queen's highway!

 

 

Love it

[beko1987]

Just picked amy up from the hospital. Driving down a rat run of speedbumps, we were down to 15mph due to her crying in pain on each one, which was annoying.

 

Clearly this was annoying to the Chavez dick head behind us who overtook. We are in a 20,so I wasn't going that slowly.

 

Whatever, fuck off then. Except there's traffic uo ahead, so we stay behind her.

 

Turns out, she hasn't quite mastered clutch control, and rolled back every time she moved away (we are going up a hill)

 

I made sure I stayed as far up her arse as I could at all times, we could see her panicking every time she pulled away for the 1/2 mile to the ring road, trying not to roll backwards into us. If she had, I'd have gone full arsehole initially right up to the point she probably would have started to cry, then I'd have given her a life lesson of not overtaking without checking infront that it's worth it! (c1 on p plates)

 

That'll teach her! Even amy laughed. Id have honked the horn too, but it doesn't work very well...

[eddyramrod]

Not really sure if this is a Grin or a Grump...

Today is the fifth anniversary of me starting at the bakery.

On balance, I'll go for Grin, because holding onto a job, any job, for five years is a bit of an achievement these days.

[Cavcraft]

Well in there, StrangeAngel, you did well to get that back on the road by the look of it.

[Kiltox]

I probably wore the horn out

 

Not that hard to change, had to do it on the ex SiC Scenic for MOT

[beko1987]

I probably wore the horn out

 

Not that hard to change, had to do it on the ex SiC Scenic for MOT

No I was in the Zafira. Easier for Amy to get in, and I didn't have to empty the gooner to swap the car seats

 

If I was in the gooner on my own I wouldn't have been doing 15mph/she wouldn't have got past

 

Horn on the gooner works fine, gets plenty of excersise

[Kiltox]

 

Horn on the gooner works fine, gets plenty of excersise

Good lad, keep it in what it’s used to

[fordperv]

Spotted a local registered, lesser spotted sad face fiesta earlier in non pogweasel red shock, it looked a tidying old girl there was a little rust on the back of sills/arch but other than that and the gash wheel trims it looked nice

 

 

Oh shit I just checked the m.o.t status and the m.o.t has lapsed in may

[willswitchengage]

Was watching a Vietnam war documentary and saw these LARCs which I'd never heard of before. How big?!

 

[cobblers]

Yeah, the reason I got a dashcam is when a Ford Galaxy full of people rolled back down a hill in traffic towards me and stopped with millimeters to spare.

[hairnet]

all accomdation for usa nz trip booked

 

hiring this

 

 

just have to book flight to nz from yank and the flight home

 

and its 4 months and two week to go

[Ghosty]

Passed a house in Sheffield earlier - two tone Alfa 165 on the drive, and a Merc W115 and an SVX outside

[Jon]

An elderly neighbour came round today all in a panic, as she'd doofed a large metal bin in a local supermarket car park at low speed and was worried that she'd written her Mitsubishi Mirage off. Here's the result:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Photographer's Guild qualz images courtesy of the iphone 4 sitting in my pocket at the time.

 

 

 

Anyway, 25 minutes later (most of which were used trying to locate my best bodging tools) we had this:

 

 

 

Again, hark at the mastery of my framing and overexposure, but you get the idea. I also found out that Autosol is good for removing paint scuffs. Anyway, Pebble Beach entrants will hardly be quivering in their handmade Italian brogues but our neighbour was over the moon and insisted on trying to pay me. 

 

I told her that the 2 hours each day she'd spent visiting and overfeeding our cat  whilst we were away for over a month was probably enough payment....

[steveo3002]

whats the black thing sticking out?

[BavarianRetro]

Talking of stolen, a few years back someone robbed a bouncy castle from a local pub. The OB found it a week later, fully inflated in someone's back garden about a mile away.

Many years ago a post van or post man in the Glasgow area was robbed on a Thursday morning

 

A couple of hours later two masked men brandishing a sawn off shotgun entered a post office, marched up to the counter and tipped over 100 Giro cheques out of a carrier bag and pointed the gun at the teller, shouting

 

"Fucking cash thaim!"

[Stanky]

Was watching a Vietnam war documentary and saw these LARCs which I'd never heard of before. How big?!

 

 

There used to be 3 of these parked up on some waste ground on the right as you drove into Portsmouth - near the old dog track. They are flipping MASSIVE

[NorfolkNWeigh]

23.30 last night M25 near Maple Cross.

For 3 miles there had been a gradual closing of the outside 3 lanes, you know the sort of thing arrows then eventually big red crosses, leading up to a tapering row of cones and flashing lights.

Traffic was relatively light and everyone had duly filed into lane 1, I say everyone..

A red Focus comes barrelling up the 2 nd lane thinking he can beat the guys putting out the cones, the cone man literally throws a cone in front of the Focus who is next to me doing about 60 , I of course hold my position and put my hand flat on the horn to add to the drama.

In the mirror I see the Focus hit the cone dead on and bits of plastic, presumably grille and bumper, flying everywhere .

Now that's teamwork! I swear I could hear the cone guys cheering.

[strangeangel]

The fact that I'm shit at fleet reduction

[nacho man]

My bro just sent me this beauty he has spotted in Latvia.

 

 

 

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[Guest Hooli]

23.30 last night M25 near Maple Cross.

For 3 miles there had been a gradual closing of the outside 3 lanes, you know the sort of thing arrows then eventually big red crosses, leading up to a tapering row of cones and flashing lights.

Traffic was relatively light and everyone had duly filed into lane 1, I say everyone..

A red Focus comes barrelling up the 2 nd lane thinking he can beat the guys putting out the cones, the cone man literally throws a cone in front of the Focus who is next to me doing about 60 , I of course hold my position and put my hand flat on the horn to add to the drama.

In the mirror I see the Focus hit the cone dead on and bits of plastic, presumably grille and bumper, flying everywhere .

Now that's teamwork! I swear I could hear the cone guys cheering.

 

Brilliant. Hopefully they got reported to plod too.

[Eddie Honda]

hiring this

 

 

 

 

089090 SKOOTERBOY

 

[wuvvum]

Stansted airport appears to be taking its heritage seriously and the announcements are all now read in an Essex accent.