Give me some dialogue from your day

[ColinJ]

Dad: "Is it raining?"

Me: "Only outside."

I heard it raining inside my house once - it is not a good sound! The flashing on my chimney stack failed during a torrential thunderstorm. So much water was coming in that it brought a chunk of my attic ceiling down. For 20 minutes I was continuously swapping buckets underneath the hole and emptying them out of the skylight.

 

[jhawk]

When does your father get rid of you on your trans-Canada bike ride?

Alas, I've had to make a difficult decision regarding that - and postpone it for a year. I'm not happy about that, but it'll give me a chance to get some money saved up, and do some short trips that I wasn't able to do last year, as circumstances didn't allow for it (our power was cut off at home due to financial difficulties, so I wasn't really able to take the time or money to do short tours). Alas, plans don't always work out, but on the bright side, I get to take some short trips, as we're now in a much more stable position.

 

[jhawk]

I heard it raining inside my house once - it is not a good sound! The flashing on my chimney stack failed during a torrential thunderstorm. So much water was coming in that it brought a chunk of my attic ceiling down. For 20 minutes I was continuously swapping buckets underneath the hole and emptying them out of the skylight.

That's awful! Can't say I've had a roof collapse!

 

[ColinJ]

That's awful! Can't say I've had a roof collapse!

At least the insurance company paid up! I only had to pay about the first £50 of the repair bill, and the roofer did a few extra jobs while he was on the roof fixing the flashing - he sorted out some dodgy pointing, ridge tiles, and slipped slates.

 

[gbb]

Todays conversation, carried out between two people about 15ft apart...
Im working on an industrial pressure washer, head in the gubbins of it. I vaguely hear Alex, our Italian cleaner shout
'Coleen' (colin)
I'm 15ft away and busy. If he wants me that bad, he can come to me.
'Coleen'
'Coleen'
'Coleen'
'Coleen'
'Coleen'

I lift my head out the machine, look back and Alex is stood here with the hosepipe in his hands...
'Blur blah, wah, wuh' (you can barely understand what he says at the best of times, let alone 15 ft away in a noisy environment)
I reply..
'Wha ?'
Blur blah wah wuh' he repeats, pointing at the hose, which has no water coming from it.
'Wha ?'
He points animatedly at the dry hose, another stream of unintelligible words leave his mouth.
'What ?' I ask, hands open in a questioning way.
'Blur blah no wadder, no blah blah'

Oh FFS
'TURN THE BLOODY TAP ON THEN ' (the tap, which is, and always has been, on the other end of the hose)

He's been using it for three years, the tap, hose, nozzle, everything...its never changed. What in Gods name he was thinking I don't know.

Later, I was talking to a supervisor...
'Well if the company are happy to accept dubious Lithuanian fork lift licences, they deserve everything they get. They're probably not even real, probably brought off their mates for £20 so they can get a job'

The levels of damage being inflicted by the new batch of fork lift drivers is scary. We've put right 4 cold stores, repaired walls, racking, doors etc etc to the value of around £10K this last month....and I just got todays racking damage report, with 3 new damaged racking uprights. Its relentless. Its like they don't give a flying fig (the drivers)...and the management have lost control of it all.

 

[Rickshaw Phil]

Overheard at the next table in the Malt House, Birmingham last night:

Waitress: I'm sorry but we've run out of mash. We can do chips or jacket potato instead.

(I believe this is cateringese for "We don't cook anything on site, it's all just heated up from packets" )

We should have taken the hint. Our meals turned out to be utterly rubbish - won't be going there again.

 

[rich p]

Overheard at the next table in the Malt House, Birmingham last night:

Silence?

 

[Rickshaw Phil]

Silence?

Dratted thing posted itself while I was still typing.Edited to include the full text now.

 

[gbb]

'Colin...'..asks one of the cleaners, slightly apologetically...'the paper handtowel machine, I can't open the door'

I relocated it yesterday, next to another identical one. What I didnt take into account was the lock to open it...is now blocked by the machine next to it. Gah....

'Im sorry....jeez, I didnt see that ...idiot me !!!.'

duh....

 

[TreeHuggery]

Me "are these new potatoes?"
Mr TreeHuggery "I got them this morning"

 

[gavgav]

Overheard at the next table in the Malt House, Birmingham last night:

Waitress: I'm sorry but we've run out of mash. We can do chips or jacket potato instead.

(I believe this is cateringese for "We don't cook anything on site, it's all just heated up from packets" )

We should have taken the hint. Our meals turned out to be utterly rubbish - won't be going there again.

I don't think that waitress will be quick to ask if meals are ok again!

 

[Rickshaw Phil]

I don't think that waitress will be quick to ask if meals are ok again!

She did scoot off quite quickly didn't she.

I know I said at the time it was probably the worst pub meal I've had, but afterwards I remembered The Grapes . This still features firmly in the bottom five though.

 

[gbb]

I was shown a security, fireproof filing cabinet...'its really heavy' they said, it needs moving to another office.
'No problem, we'll get to it as soon as we can.

Intrigued, I went back to the workshop and googled the cabinet for its weight..
'Bloody hell, we'll have to give this some thought....TWO HUNDRED AND SIXTY SIX KILOS' ...over a quarter of a tonne'

 

[gavgav]

She did scoot off quite quickly didn't she.

I know I said at the time it was probably the worst pub meal I've had, but afterwards I remembered The Grapes . This still features firmly in the bottom five though.

The Grapes always causes me to shudder for a multitude of reasons........Sue!!!!!!!

 

[Saluki]

Leigh: How about some Jason Becker?
Me: You are having a laugh!
Leigh: Yeah