The Retirement Thread

[welsh dragon]

I didn't see quatermass and the pit when it first came out. I remember seeing it on tv years later. Mr WD told me about it.so I watched it. There was another one in the 70's with John Mills in the lead.

 

[ebikeerwidnes]

Something completely unexpected happened to me this afternoon...

Something good. Something VERY good...

No, I didn't hit it off with an attractive unattached woman in the supermarket (or anywhere else). I didn't win a prize in a competition. I didn't go out on my bike...

What happened was that my bubble pal met up with her brother and brought him round for coffee and snacks in my sunny back yard. We had a nice chat and a laugh. Then he instructed me to hold out my hand. Why? Just do it...

He reached into a pocket and took out a roll of bank notes, and started counting them out into my open palm... £10, £20, £30, £40, £50, £60, £70, £80, £90, £100...

Whaaaaaaaat!?

I asked if this was a joke. Nope. Did I remember buying him a used bike years ago? Nope. Oh, hang on, yes - it must have been 25+ years ago. He couldn't afford it at the time, so I'd told him not to worry about it; just pay me back one day when he wasn't skint. Today was finally that day!!!

I had forgotten all about it, but he had been feeling guilty about it and wanted to set things right. He has plenty of money in the bank now, so I wasn't going to turn it down! It will go towards a second pair of wheels for my Devon bike. I'm looking at ads now to see what is available at an affordable price.

"What goes around, comes around!"

Thank you posting this

Lovely story

bad stuff gets loads of publicity but this sort of stuff happens all the time - OK this is especially nice but nice things happens all the time and just makes society flow

it is nice to hear an especially nice part of how people are supposed to - and normally do - work together

 

[ebikeerwidnes]

The same sofa!!

That would explain a lot!!!

 

[Paulus]

I used to do that when the Daleks appeared! Still don’t like them.

I was ok with the Daleks. It was the Cybermen that scared me.

 

[ebikeerwidnes]

Ona different note

many weeks ago I raised the foot rest on my bit of the sofa
and look at my hand
NO WEDDING RING!!!!!!!!

WTF!!!

no idea where it had gone - or where I had last seen it
clearly pretty much dismantled thesofa to find it
had a theory that it could have come off when I stopped on my bike and hence removed my cycling gloves
so I have not combed through the grass verge at my normal stopping point in Moore several times
also rang every shop I had visited in the last 2 days to check

absolutely NO SIGN

HMMM

searched the whole house
started with sensible places
went on to places it could have droped off
started looking at places it could not sensibly be
and then went onto damn silly places

still no idea


Anyway

last evening my wife was being pestered my a mosquito
those little bu****s really do love her
I make no comment about how this is great on holiday because staying close to her is a great way of not being bitten
although sometimes she comes back from a foreign holiday (remember them????) looking like a victim of a bad shooting using very small calibe ammo

anyway
I was commanded - sorry requested in a polite manner -to go upstairs and find the mossy spray that we use on holiday

OOOOOOK

hmmmm
last saw that on holiday before pandemic etc

so - like a good husband I went upstairs
then stood in a random bedroom and looked at drawers

decided that the front bedroom was unlikely so went and looked at drawers in the back bedroom

decided that the drawer on the window side of the bed were less used so more likely to have unseen holiday stuff in them

By luck I opened the bottom drawer in the bedside cabinet and - there was a plastic wet bag thing with all the EU/USA to UK electric adapters in it
so I puller it out to see what else might be underneath
only to see a metal object fall off and bounce back into the drawer!!!

dug out an old swimsuit and found the required mossy spray underneath

AND MY WEDDING RING


that damn drawer hasn;t been opened for well over a year!!!!!


I have NO CLUE how a lost wedding ring got into a drawer with holiday - and foreign holiday stuff at that - in it


but I have it back


so far theories are
a) Grandson - not sure - why - he does has 'rules' at times but I think he would be more likely to throw it down the stairs or put it in a truck
b) magic - no stop - wait - I know someone who is a witch - and I 'may; annoy her - but then??????
c) in some impossible to define manner I managed to fling the ring off my finger - not as dumb as it appears as due to Covid we have not been sleeping together since the start of the lockdown (critically vulnerable and all that stuff) so I was sleeping in that room for many months
and then neither of us noticed it was missing for a while

all of which are unlikely



anyway

I've got it back!!!


note - I sometime go on a bit and type long 'interesting' stories
I presume this is OK
other wise - well whatever - I try to make it interesting
these tend to happen after about 9pm - I blame Merlot and Cabernet Sauvignon

 

[ebikeerwidnes]

I was ok with the Daleks. It was the Cybermen that scared me.

Apparently when I was a kid I was scared by the original Daleks

In the more recent stuff however
The first time a Dalek said "ELEVATE" I genuinely shot back on the safe and yelled WTF

before that - there was BLINK
not THAT was seriously scary!!!!
watched it with my daughter - she had become a Dr Who fan but her Mum wouldn't watch it so we watched it when she was out
we had to pause it and had a discussion
decided that stopping when it was scary was bad - but most programmes end when it is less scary so we watched it to the end
which helped a bit

and there was a Torchwood with Fairies
s**t that was scary - not as bad a BLINK but close

 

[classic33]

Ona different note

many weeks ago I raised the foot rest on my bit of the sofa
and look at my hand
NO WEDDING RING!!!!!!!!

WTF!!!

no idea where it had gone - or where I had last seen it
clearly pretty much dismantled thesofa to find it
had a theory that it could have come off when I stopped on my bike and hence removed my cycling gloves
so I have not combed through the grass verge at my normal stopping point in Moore several times
also rang every shop I had visited in the last 2 days to check

absolutely NO SIGN

HMMM

searched the whole house
started with sensible places
went on to places it could have droped off
started looking at places it could not sensibly be
and then went onto damn silly places

still no idea


Anyway

last evening my wife was being pestered my a mosquito
those little bu****s really do love her
I make no comment about how this is great on holiday because staying close to her is a great way of not being bitten
although sometimes she comes back from a foreign holiday (remember them????) looking like a victim of a bad shooting using very small calibe ammo

anyway
I was commanded - sorry requested in a polite manner -to go upstairs and find the mossy spray that we use on holiday

OOOOOOK

hmmmm
last saw that on holiday before pandemic etc

so - like a good husband I went upstairs
then stood in a random bedroom and looked at drawers

decided that the front bedroom was unlikely so went and looked at drawers in the back bedroom

decided that the drawer on the window side of the bed were less used so more likely to have unseen holiday stuff in them

By luck I opened the bottom drawer in the bedside cabinet and - there was a plastic wet bag thing with all the EU/USA to UK electric adapters in it
so I puller it out to see what else might be underneath
only to see a metal object fall off and bounce back into the drawer!!!

dug out an old swimsuit and found the required mossy spray underneath

AND MY WEDDING RING


that damn drawer hasn;t been opened for well over a year!!!!!


I have NO CLUE how a lost wedding ring got into a drawer with holiday - and foreign holiday stuff at that - in it


but I have it back


so far theories are
a) Grandson - not sure - why - he does has 'rules' at times but I think he would be more likely to throw it down the stairs or put it in a truck
b) magic - no stop - wait - I know someone who is a witch - and I 'may; annoy her - but then??????
c) in some impossible to define manner I managed to fling the ring off my finger - not as dumb as it appears as due to Covid we have not been sleeping together since the start of the lockdown (critically vulnerable and all that stuff) so I was sleeping in that room for many months
and then neither of us noticed it was missing for a while

all of which are unlikely



anyway

I've got it back!!!


note - I sometime go on a bit and type long 'interesting' stories
I presume this is OK
other wise - well whatever - I try to make it interesting
these tend to happen after about 9pm - I blame Merlot and Cabernet Sauvignon

This witch you know, are you thinking she might have a go at you?

 

[PaulSB]

1320 cases. Up by 580+ since last week.

 

[ebikeerwidnes]

This witch you know, are you thinking she might have a go at you?

Well I know her IRL

but I might annoy her 'a bit' on another forum
where she is a MOD

 

[classic33]

Well I know her IRL

but I might annoy her 'a bit' on another forum
where she is a MOD

There were two on here at one time, neither were mods.

There's a witches coven near here.

 

[Drago]

Night Johnboy.

 

[Juan Kog]

I do remember hiding behind the sofa

I still hide behind the sofa. Mrs JK can be very scary when she gets angry .

 

[classic33]

Night Johnboy.

Night GranMa

 

[classic33]

yes

They're happy, and quick enough, taking your money. Not so quick at paying it back though.

 

[ebikeerwidnes]

There were two on here at one time, neither were mods.

There's a witches coven near here.

Where did they go???

Anyway - I have to think their concepts of life have a point

unlike some 'normal' 'religions'

anyway - basically - I never mess with red haired women - I just ain;'t that brave