Things That Gladden The Heart

[HomerJSimpson]

Dental visit today.
Sitting in the waiting room with one other guy.
Nurse opens the door dead on my appointment time and says Mr 'Doon'.
Up I get and make to go upstairs, she says follow me and we stay downstairs in a part of the building I had never visited.
Walk into the surgery and meet a Dentist I did not know.
A bit of small talk and she goes through my medical record.
She then asks for my date of birth, this was followed by some muted muttering from the two and I asked if something was wrong as this does not seem right.

Believe it or not two guys with the same name had appointments with two dentists at the same time

My mate has had he's Harley in their repair shop. Gets a phone call from the dealer asking if he liked his test ride. Apparently another guy with the same name and riding a Harley came in. His surname isn't overly common

 

[chellie]

Accepting the offer of a new job yesterday. Still a part time role but slightly less hours, more pay and more holiday. It's also working for a Charity so it will be nice not to work somewhere where it's all about the £££ for the owners.

 

[Bazz]

Two hour meeting with our German overlords and one of them just said AI has a soul.
Just the 26 years to go.

 

[SwingsitlikeHogan]

Watching two 14wk old kittens tearing about the house, playing hide and seek; leaping and tumbling on each other, and just generally having a blast with each other and anything they can find to hang off or biff about the place.

 

[Neilds]

Watching two 14wk old kittens tearing about the house, playing hide and seek; leaping and tumbling on each other, and just generally having a blast with each other and anything they can find to hang off or biff about the place.

Just waiting for a similar post to appear in the irritation thread when they are scratching the furniture, not using the litter tray, etc

 

[Bazz]

My 3 year old has just asked the dog why he hasn't got a job or go to school.

 

[Tashyboy]

Just looking at some of the weather we have had over the last Couple of days and in the Mansfield area, we have seriously got away with one. I have been watching the weather warnings over the last few days and the yellow and amber warnings have been as far north as Nottingham and as far South as Nottingham. I seriously thought we would get a hammering.
On the fourth hole I put on my jacket, waterproof trousers and umbrella, it had started raining and we thought here it comes. I lost two balls whilst driving off. It stopped raining within 5 mins so I walked to the next tee and promptly took off my trousers, Jacket and Jumper as the sun had come out and it was warm. Played the rest of the round in a polo shirt.
12 of us played and it was nigh on perfect conditions. We couldn’t believe it.
Thoughts to those that have suffered.

 

[PJ87]

Just dropped eldest to her youth club, bit surreal being is i used to go the same one (they do a younger one and older one now) and the person on the door was someone I used to go youth club with lol

In she skips

Bless her

 

[Wilson]

It's clear people at work have had enough of a major gaslighter we have, it came to a head this afternoon when she started with her normal position of telling everyone how we were doing it all wrong and she'd been excluded from everything etc. Rather than everyone just trying to shift the blame to someone else, everyone just pointed out that she'd chosen to not include herself by not attending meetings and how many weeks people had been waiting for answers etc.

 

[backwoodsman]

A regular at my local has been barred.

Every day he walks in through door 'A' sort of towards the bar. Staff say 'Sorry, mate' and he walks out door 'B' without breaking step. Every day. Quite endearing really ...

 

[Pin-seeker]

Ben & Jerrys cookie dough

 

[Voyager EMH]

My 3 year old has just asked the dog why he hasn't got a job or go to school.

Did the dog explain that under the terms of a pet contract it is stipulated that he must not do either of those things.
A representative from The National Dog's Union would perhaps be able to explain it better.
Either that or Brian from Family Guy.

 

[Wilson]

Did the dog explain that under the terms of a pet contract it is stipulated that he must not do either of those things.
A representative from The National Dog's Union would perhaps be able to explain it better.
Either that or Brian from Family Guy.

Or just ask the 3yr old why he doesn’t have either?

 

[Bazz]

Did the dog explain that under the terms of a pet contract it is stipulated that he must not do either of those things.
A representative from The National Dog's Union would perhaps be able to explain it better.
Either that or Brian from Family Guy.

Hard to work when you sleep 20 hours a day

 

[Rlburnside]

Cooking fresh local prawns probably my favorite meal, delicious , shame they are not easy to get now, nearly all the prawns are farmed and come from the other side of the world.

 

[HomerJSimpson]

A regular at my local has been barred.

Every day he walks in through door 'A' sort of towards the bar. Staff say 'Sorry, mate' and he walks out door 'B' without breaking step. Every day. Quite endearing really ...

I bet it actually looks quite funny. Clearly not getting the message if he comes back each day

 

[Lord Tyrion]

A regular at my local has been barred.

Every day he walks in through door 'A' sort of towards the bar. Staff say 'Sorry, mate' and he walks out door 'B' without breaking step. Every day. Quite endearing really ...

Did you ever see Frisk? Australian comedy, very funny. She had this scenario with a coffee shop. As you say, endearing and chucklesome.

 

[SwingsitlikeHogan]

On Saturday I took my lad to Bristol for his work - dropped him off in city centre at 11am then had day to myself until I picked him at 11pm to drive him to Sheffield. We lived in Bris from 1984 to 1996 and other than a brief few hours some years ago I’ve not been back.

So I too the opportunity to visit my old club (Filton). Had a couple of coffees, bite of lunch and a lovely long catch up with a friend from back then who I haven’t spoken with for all that time and who just so happened to be at the club for a bit of practice. It was lovely…and the course looked nice too - I rather wish I’d brought my clubs. It was great to reconnect with my friend and we’ll keep in touch.

Then I popped to see the flat and house we lived in (both close to city centre) - and close to my flat in Redland is the house in which I met my future Mrs at a party (I took a snap of it and posted it on the family WhatsApp chat asking our two if they could guess why the house was so important to them )…it is next door to my local for ten years and so I popped into that for a drink and had a chat with a lad behind the bar about how the pub was back then…it was the best pub in Bristol - if you know Bris it’s The Kenny…

And just a general drive and wander around. Bristol looked great, but so busy…and the traffic…. As much as we miss Bristol and our lovely Victorian terraced house - we often wonder if we made the right decision moving cross country to Surrey, I decided that the scary traffic and the very difficult residential roads and parking where we lived made me feel a bit better that we had.

I had a lovely day.

ETA…the flat upstairs from mine is for sale. I bought mine in 1986 for £35k, the flat upstairs is for sale for £325k. Blimey.

 

[Neilds]

On Saturday I took my lad to Bristol for his work - dropped him off in city centre at 11am then had day to myself until I picked him at 11pm to drive him to Sheffield. We lived in Bris from 1984 to 1996 and other than a brief few hours some years ago I’ve not been back.

So I too the opportunity to visit my old club (Filton). Had a couple of coffees, bite of lunch and a lovely long catch up with a friend from back then who I haven’t spoken with for all that time and who just so happened to be at the club for a bit of practice. It was lovely…and the course looked nice too - I rather wish I’d brought my clubs. It was great to reconnect with my friend and we’ll keep in touch.

Then I popped to see the flat and house we lived in (both close to city centre) - and close to my flat in Redland is the house in which I met my future Mrs at a party (I took a snap of it and posted it on the family WhatsApp chat asking our two if they could guess why the house was so important to them )…it is next door to my local for ten years and so I popped into that for a drink and had a chat with a lad behind the bar about how the pub was back then…it was the best pub in Bristol - if you know Bris it’s The Kenny…

And just a general drive and wander around. Bristol looked great, but so busy…and the traffic…. As much as we miss Bristol and our lovely Victorian terraced house - we often wonder if we made the right decision moving cross country to Surrey, I decided that the scary traffic and the very difficult residential roads and parking where we lived made me feel a bit better that we had.

I had a lovely day.

ETA…the flat upstairs from mine is for sale. I bought mine in 1986 for £35k, the flat upstairs is for sale for £325k. Blimey.

The last 2 Bristol Mayors really hate the car - they have hiked car parking, introduced a ULEZ, bus lanes, etc but what have they done to improve the public transport - absolutely nothing. In fact, the day they introduced the ULEZ, they cut a load of bus routes. We have stopped going into Bristol now as the car journey is terrible and the train station is too far away from the harbour and the shopping area. If they had a P&R at the top of the M32 it would solve a lot of the traffic issues.

 

[PaulMdj]

Small mercies.