Things you get an utterly disproportionate amount of pleasure from..

[Speicher]

A rarity these days, with e-mails but -

if someone asks me for a stamp,(to post a letter) I lift one foot off the ground and lower it again heavily to the ground

 

[marinyork]

Making tea.
Smelling bread.

 

[djb1971]

undoing velcro

sucking jelly through my teeth

getting a glass like finish in paint

writing my name in the snow

 

[Rhythm Thief]

Reversing a 45' trailer onto a loading bay and getting it spot on first time.

 

[Night Train]

Getting my average MPG in the car above 65mpg.

Seeing a big recovery truck at work.

 

[Rhythm Thief]

Getting my average MPG in the car above 65mpg.

I can empathise with this one too! When I bought my Saab 900 in December, the computer was reading an average of, er, 32.2 mpg. Now I've had it for a month, it's up to 33.8 and still going.

 

[Rhythm Thief]

Blind side I hope

That's even better! Although I was the shunter in a very small yard for six months, so I got pretty good at blind siding.

 

[Night Train]

I thought about trailer reversing but is it disproportionate? I think there is every reason to get pleasure from and be proud of good reversing. I did my C+E with a rigid and drawbar and used to play at reverse figure 8's and parallel parking. My instructor told me I drove it better backwards then I did forwards!

I still walk away with a huge grin when I parallel park my car and trailer into a two car gap without hitting the kerb.

 

[Kovu]

Opening the branston pickel jar for the first time.
That "pop" makes me smile everytime.

Oh and watching leeds lose, and being able to gloat.

 

[mickle]

Finding a fiver in a pocket.

 

[BigonaBianchi]

One word right now:

 

[GentleBenn]

Evening !

Picking my teeth with a toothpick !
The smell of new tyres !
Listening to Redhouse by Hendrix !

 

[montage]

giving innocent people wrong directions

 

[longers]

Or adding things you've already done to your list, so you can tick them off anyway and feel better about yourself.

I thought it might have been just me who did this. Glad I'm not alone .

I also like "popping" the seal of a new jar of coffee after a few test taps first.

My favourite thing would be being first into a glassy smooth swimming pool.

 

[Maz]

Greedo, how do you come up with these great questions?!

I used to get great pleasure after eating a Matlow's Drumstick by unravelling the stick into a small sheet of paper.

You can still get Matlow's Drumsticks these days, but the sticks are made of plastic.