Monday, October 03, 2005

Car Boots and Traffic Wardens!

OK, by request, this is the full length version. Pete said it didn't show my big arse, which I claim is a matter of opinion as to whether it's big and it's also a matter of preference as to whether big is beautiful!
I mean, it's only a size 12 bottie and not exactly humongous!
Moving on ...
What do you have in your car's boot??? (trunk)
I listed the things I had in mine in a comment below.

A stepladder
Little green wellie boots
Half a dozen bottles of water
A blanket
A beach tent
A tweed hat
An umbrella.

oh, and I forgot:

A pair of golf shoes, a 7 iron, a beach mat, windscreen defroster and a bag from the Erotica Exhibition last year which a sachet of lube. What?
Pete's got a blanket and two bottles of Rioja.
I was driving around with 6 bottles of wine in mine but finally got fed up of the clanking sound - though they were in a bottle carrier. The bottles were 3 of New Zealand Sauvignon Blanc, Villa Maria Reserve. This must be my favourite wine. Used to buy it in the US for about $5 but even there is got popular and went up in price. Here it was £8.99 a bottle but there was a 3 for the price of 2 offer so I thought I'd take advantage of it.
Also, listening to Radio 4 on my tiny radio (that I have to use because my aerial was stolen and uprooted with such force it's a £200 jobbie now!!!!) I heard a programme where Raymond Blanc, who used stoutly to support Australian/New Zealand wine is now gung ho about some of the French wines now being produced. So I grabbed a bottle of French Connection Merlot Grenache.
http://www.bottlegreen.com/ French Connection is a supporter of the Royal British Legion and there's a piccie of a poppy on the bottle. They will make a donation to the RBL for every poppy bottle purchased, "With a minimum £30,000 guaranteed each year." Which sounds good to me. So if you see a poppy bottle, grab yourself one and feel good in more ways than one.
I got another parking ticket today. I went into a local school to pick up a press release re. The Duke of Gloucester's visit in the town tomorrow. A reporter is coming from Boston and I was asked by the school sec if I'd fax the press release to her. I'd only paid for 30 mins parking and wasn't going to go into town but - out of the goodness of my little heart - trotted down to the office to use their fax. Got caught with a call to take another picture and since I was in town and needed a couple of toiletry things I nipped into Boots.
I had that feeling again though, re my car.
Sure enough as I dashed up to it there were the two parking wardens. I wouldn't mind but couldn't one of them been hitting another car??? The guy hadn't pressed 'go' yet and I yelled NOT AGAIN!!! I was ten minutes over time. He hit go. B******. He pointed out that had I spent a further 10p I would not have been late back. Yes I ****ing well know that but I wasn't originally going to stay that long ... I'd just gone to do someone a favour! Damn, blast. I didn't say all that, of course, I just burst into a torrent of tears, threw the ticket on the front seat and burned rubber ... stalling in the process.
Arrived at my next job with red eyes. Parked up, took a jolly picture of childen doing African dancing at St Michael's CofE school, got back to find my car, which I'd cleaned the day before, had the biggest slidey bird poop down the passenger window you could ever imagine!

Drove on to next job and still bloody well cried!
Oh well, better phone 'em up and pay for it while it's still only £30 and not £60 if I leave it over a week.

Put the car thro the wash, tumble dried it ... HAH, just checking you're reading properly!
Went in to pick up the bike (but it's not ready yet) ... I wonder if bicycles can be parked free - if, indeed, there's anywhere to chain them to?
One of my toiletry purchases was a crystal deoderant. Though I'd try a little experiment. I'll see if it loses me friends!
A few years ago I bought a 'natural' deoderant ... that one where in the ad. people were camouflaged as tree trunks, Natura, I think.
It definitely did not work and I was so annoyed I wrote to the manufacturuer and told them it made me smell like onions! The letter must have amused the recipient but they had, of course, to reply that their product was of the highest quality yardy yah - but they did send me a voucher to buy another one.

Managed 38 lenghts tonight but realised I hadn't eaten since I can't remember when so dashed off to Somerfield (not so cold today in there!) but got chucked out after 15 misn of mooching. Or soliciting?

I wanted a melon which was on the top shelf, bigger than my head I reckon but I couldn't reach to grip it and they were pushed quite tightly together. I gave a tall guy walking in a big big beaming smile.

Why'd he look like rabbit caught in headlight?? He looked worried but calmed down when I stopped jumping about like a monkey and said I only wanted him to reach me a melon. He picked a nice one too! Told him he can shop with me another time.



8 Comments:

Blogger Pykspeeks Rides Again said...

Bemoaning my ticket to a colleague I received this reply in email: "If you drive off before they have time to stick it on your vehicle you are free according to what I read in the Times."
Wish I'd known that beforehand, I could have zoomed off with a smile on my face!

Mon Oct 03, 04:07:00 pm 2005  
Blogger Pykspeeks Rides Again said...

LOL, do wish I'd known that then.

Tue Oct 04, 12:17:00 am 2005  
Blogger Pykspeeks Rides Again said...

Credit where it's due, Pete .. you do compliment, as well as advise!! thanks, ducky x

Tue Oct 04, 12:20:00 am 2005  
Blogger Pykspeeks Rides Again said...

Hah!!!! yeah, we rub along fine, in a manner of squeaking. Probably cos we're both fairly reasonable people apart from me being nuts and you having strange opinions! x

Tue Oct 04, 12:44:00 am 2005  
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Tue Oct 04, 12:56:00 am 2005  
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Tue Oct 04, 01:15:00 am 2005  
Blogger Pykspeeks Rides Again said...

I thought the Incredible Hulk was green???
OK we've done that to death, I'll erase references to the clergy!

Wed Oct 05, 07:55:00 pm 2005  
Blogger Pykspeeks Rides Again said...

Ah, the problem is that Morrisons must be about 17 miles from me and by the time I'd driven there (and back!) I don't suppose I would have made much of a saving?
I tend to do 'small shops' now, i.e. only buy a little at a time. Mind you, when I do do a big one it shocks me a bit to think that's what I used to pay, weekly, for a family shop.
I do have to get into Grimsby, possibly next week, for a trip to Staples so maybe I'll nip to Morrisons and come back via Barton Street? Nah, Bradley would probably be quicker?
PS .. NOT on my bike!!!! :)
I'll give Oyster Bay a go, possibily have had it before. I've tried White Cloud which isn't bad.
Thank you for the input, Ian

Wed Oct 05, 08:41:00 pm 2005  

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