What get's your back up?

Travel Bug · Guru

RE: What get's your back up?

Happywanderer · The Master

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 · Senior Member

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 · Guru

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 · The Master

Agree Tony, that one astounds me too.

_wombat_ · Master (of Mischief)

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 · Guru

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 · Guru

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. biggrin 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 · Chief one feather

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 · The Master

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 · Guru

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.