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Quote from: kaceyk2 on May 09, 2011, 05:48:25 AM

Steve, yes I would have to say no, but only out of a sense of social conscience, 16% would be much to greedy a pay rise to ask for what with the recession and everything.... I feel a 2% pay rise to be in line with inflation and no more than nurses get. I am not nearly as sexy as nurses either, I once dressed up in my sister's nurses uniform to prove this point. My sister is not a nurse, she just got the uniform for "marital reasons" and is embarressed to talk about it in public especially when I bring it up in a "harping on, not letting it drop ever" sort of way as she often reminds me.

I totally agree that 76p is important, I once lost 83p at the bus stop whilst fumbling for the change for the bus at the last moment. I had waited for over 18 mins for the bus to come and had all that time to get my money together for the fare, but like a complete wally I left it till the last moment.
The bus driver said in a rather uncaring way " I don't really care about your 83p either get on the bus or look for your change all day, either way I am going"
Needless to say, I had to get on the bus and leave my 83p to its own devices.

However, I just could not sleep that awfull fatefull money losing night, and first thing the next morning , having only the smallest of breakfasts consisting of a solitary halibut, and wearing my old clothes I set off down the road with the intent of finding my 83p.

Little did I realise what a bizzarre set of circumstances was going to be brought down upon me by the cruel hand of fate.
On arriving at the bus stop in our village, I immediately squatted down to look under the bench where my 83p had been known to roll the day before.
I looked and looked, imagine my surprise when I found that somebody or somepersons (probably pensioners)  had taken my 83p and swapped it for a scratched CD, a condom and some pizza not even in a bag, and given 4p change.

What sort of "fair trade" is that you may well ask, I certainly did, I felt I had been robbed.
Using my brain, I decided that the pizza was not going to keep very fresh as the sun was getting up, not having any clingfilm, I hit upon the excellent Idea of using the condom as a makeshift baggy, after I folded in the pointy corner of the pizza, it worked very well. I felt sure that a surprise piece of pizza would get me in the misses's good books, after all I had eaten the last halibut, and she had been left with only a chinese takaway for breakfast again. (and a small pie)

Totally deflated at my inability to return home with adequate funds, my attention turned to aquiring the morning paper.
They sell these at the garage, so into the garage I went.
Unfortunately, having not got 83p in my pocket, I found that even with the 4p change that the rogue pensioners had left me plus the 21p I had in a corner of my leather, I could not afford my usual morning paper, and had to settle for a cheaper paper that I was unfamiliar with, it's called the "Daily sport" and might even have motorbike racing in it I thought.

Anyways, one mission accomplished and one failed, all things considered, life might return to normal I thought as I walked home.

I was thinking about shaky burns and if he would have any luck this season, and was miles away.
I just got to the school crossing, and heard a voice shout "oy you"
I didn't think for a moment it was "Oy me", but I looked up to see who the "oy" was for, and it turned out that the "oy you" was being "oyed" by the school crossing policeman, and it was indeed "oyed" at me.

I stopped, and think I may have cursed the 83p again.

Apparently I had ripped a seam in the bum of me jeans whilst scrabbling about under the bench looking for me 83p and now had to talk to the policeman about it.

Which may or may not have gone better had he not wanted to look in my pocketsies.
He took out my tobacco and put it on the wall, that was OK, He took out my lighter and put that on the wall.
Things went wobbly when he found the pizza .
He put that on the wall.
He put the Daily sport on the wall, and at the same time informed me that things were not looking good.
I can honestly say I had not noticed that the CD the pensioners had swapped me (for my 83p) had "dont show Mum" written on it.
He put that in his own plastic bag, then put it on the wall.
"what sort of bare bummed, condomfood, dodgy CD porno paper pervert are you then?" he said.
"It was probably pensioners that did it" I answered. " They swapped me for 83p"
I might have got away with leaving it at that,
except,
He squinted his eyes and looked at me real close and said "ear hang on, haven't I seen you on youtube dressed in a nurses uniform?"
My own sister had taken the 83p to get her own back obviously.

and how is this supposed to help with the problem i am having  


Yeah, he's barking, and obviously has far too much time on his hands! 

All engine polishing finished...can put the motor back together now.

Quote from: SteveD CB500F on July 29, 2010, 08:26:20 AM

Phew. That's a relief.

"You don't know what you've got 'til its gone..."   (who said that?)

Steve



A: Carley Simon

Ah yes, "They Paved paradise and put up a parking lot........"