Happywanderer wrote: I hate buying something from any shop, NOT IKEA, and having to unpack it when I get it home and try putting it together. ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Marj...one of my ambitions is to NEVER AGAIN have to assemble any flat pack furniture/garden tools etc; BTW...I think I am dreaming the impossible dream.
Happywanderer said
12:25 AM Jul 26, 2012
Exactly what I said travel bug, after I saw how hard the book shelf was. Have got the mulcher together and working. Haven't even looked at the line trimmer yet. I vow to only buy items that are already in one piece from now on . Even if I have to buy second hand, at least someone has put it together in the first place.
Ellice said
12:51 AM Jul 26, 2012
Seeing Pics of a beautiful Beach, Thats described like heaven only to get there and find its full off Sea Weed all year round and the beach pongs....
tonyd said
06:52 AM Jul 26, 2012
People who BACK into parking spaces, thus holding up everybody else while they have several stabs at reversing. Can't see what else it achieves. If you can back INTO the space, Numpty, you can back OUT of it when you leave.
Grrrrrr. Tony.
Happywanderer said
03:27 PM Jul 26, 2012
Agree Tony, that one astounds me too.
_wombat_ said
03:41 PM Jul 26, 2012
Those checkout chicks that ask me everytime I shop, have you got a rewards card, I say no and I don't want one.
Yes I know they are only doing what they have been told to do but it does get on my nerves every time I shop.
Rip and Rosie said
04:28 PM Jul 26, 2012
I like the checkout chicks who ask me how I am, and then don't listen to the reply.
Sometimes, when the urge hits me, I resist saying "Fine thanks" and launch into "Well, I've got this headache, and its no better becase I can't find the pineapple relish. The bloodee Down Down song is giving me the tomtits, and I have to walk home because the bus is on strike again. Besides that, you're going to ask me for that damn rewards card and we've had this conversation before.................."
Or, the ones that ask if they can look in my bag. I just say a crisp "No". and watch the fall out.
Beth54 said
05:38 PM Jul 26, 2012
Happywanderer wrote:
Dougwe wrote:
tonyd wrote:
People who BACK into parking spaces, thus holding up everybody else while they have several stabs at reversing. Can't see what else it achieves. If you can back INTO the space, Numpty, you can back OUT of it when you leave.
Grrrrrr. Tony.
Ooops, sorry, I'm one of those. Not all the time though. But due to driving buses I get in first time with no holding people up.
There are some places in this great country where you have to reverse in to a parking spot though.
Ok Dougwe, why? and where? Why do you do it, whats the point? and where other than thats the law in NSW?
I know why, because sometimes I do it too. Depends on the angle you've come from, how much room there is to manouvre, the dimensions of your vehicle, sometimes it's easier to reverse park. Case in point today...I was in the Ipswich hospital carpark, which is a bit squeezy. I didn't see the empty spot until I was close, because of a big concrete post. And it was kind-of on a bend, so it was easier to turn into the corner a little and reverse in...if you get my drift. When my sister drove a Kingswood wagon, she found it easier to reverse park.
PS: Some schools...in Qld anyway...have the reverse park rule.
-- Edited by Beth54 on Thursday 26th of July 2012 05:40:26 PM
Dougwe said
07:44 PM Jul 26, 2012
tonyd wrote:
People who BACK into parking spaces, thus holding up everybody else while they have several stabs at reversing. Can't see what else it achieves. If you can back INTO the space, Numpty, you can back OUT of it when you leave.
Grrrrrr. Tony.
Ooops, sorry, I'm one of those. Not all the time though. But due to driving buses I get in first time with no holding people up.
There are some places in this great country where you have to reverse in to a parking spot though.
Happywanderer said
08:20 PM Jul 26, 2012
Dougwe wrote:
tonyd wrote:
People who BACK into parking spaces, thus holding up everybody else while they have several stabs at reversing. Can't see what else it achieves. If you can back INTO the space, Numpty, you can back OUT of it when you leave.
Grrrrrr. Tony.
Ooops, sorry, I'm one of those. Not all the time though. But due to driving buses I get in first time with no holding people up.
There are some places in this great country where you have to reverse in to a parking spot though.
Ok Dougwe, why? and where? Why do you do it, whats the point? and where other than thats the law in NSW?
03_troopy said
04:11 AM Jul 27, 2012
Happywanderer wrote:
Dougwe wrote:
tonyd wrote:
People who BACK into parking spaces, thus holding up everybody else while they have several stabs at reversing. Can't see what else it achieves. If you can back INTO the space, Numpty, you can back OUT of it when you leave.
Grrrrrr. Tony.
Ooops, sorry, I'm one of those. Not all the time though. But due to driving buses I get in first time with no holding people up.
There are some places in this great country where you have to reverse in to a parking spot though.
Ok Dougwe, why? and where? Why do you do it, whats the point? and where other than thats the law in NSW?
Raymond Terrace, NSW has reverse parking in the main street. But it's angled at 60deg, so pretty easy. There are also places that were (if not still) perpendicular reverse parking though, but I can't remember where I've encountered them.
Happywanderer wrote:
I hate buying something from any shop, NOT IKEA, and having to unpack it when I get it home and try putting it together.
______________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Marj...one of my ambitions is to NEVER AGAIN have to assemble any flat pack furniture/garden tools etc;
BTW...I think I am dreaming the impossible dream.
I vow to only buy items that are already in one piece from now on . Even if I have to buy second hand, at least someone has put it together in the first place.
Seeing Pics of a beautiful Beach, Thats described like heaven only to get there and find its full off Sea Weed all year round and the beach pongs...
.
Grrrrrr. Tony.
Those checkout chicks that ask me everytime I shop, have you got a rewards card, I say no and I don't want one.
Yes I know they are only doing what they have been told to do but it does get on my nerves every time I shop.
Sometimes, when the urge hits me, I resist saying "Fine thanks" and launch into "Well, I've got this headache, and its no better becase I can't find the pineapple relish. The bloodee Down Down song is giving me the tomtits, and I have to walk home because the bus is on strike again. Besides that, you're going to ask me for that damn rewards card and we've had this conversation before.................."
Or, the ones that ask if they can look in my bag. I just say a crisp "No". and watch the fall out.
I know why, because sometimes I do it too. Depends on the angle you've come from, how much room there is to manouvre, the dimensions of your vehicle, sometimes it's easier to reverse park. Case in point today...I was in the Ipswich hospital carpark, which is a bit squeezy. I didn't see the empty spot until I was close, because of a big concrete post. And it was kind-of on a bend, so it was easier to turn into the corner a little and reverse in...if you get my drift.
When my sister drove a Kingswood wagon, she found it easier to reverse park.
PS: Some schools...in Qld anyway...have the reverse park rule.
-- Edited by Beth54 on Thursday 26th of July 2012 05:40:26 PM
Ooops, sorry, I'm one of those. Not all the time though. But due to driving buses I get in first time with no holding people up.
There are some places in this great country where you have to reverse in to a parking spot though.
Ok Dougwe, why? and where? Why do you do it, whats the point? and where other than thats the law in NSW?
Raymond Terrace, NSW has reverse parking in the main street. But it's angled at 60deg, so pretty easy. There are also places that were (if not still) perpendicular reverse parking though, but I can't remember where I've encountered them.