Instruction #4
#4 in a series of sentences you never thought you’d hear yourself saying: “Don’t cough into the saucepans”
Monthly Archives: November 2009
Things you don’t want to hear when you’re passing people on the street (#1)
Two posh-looking teenage girls are passing me giggling excitedly and the only bit of the conversation that reaches my ears is: “….and, like, there he was – literally trying to rape her…”
Things you don’t want to hear immediately after arriving home (#3)
“If you don’t buy me a scooter I will wipe my nose on you.”
Definition of waste:
People letting off fireworks this morning that they were too lazy to find in the dark last night. At least cover them up and set them off tonight!
Mirror
Mummy: “Don’t keep spitting on the mirror.” Child #2 [disappointed]: “But I love it!”
Sensory
There is a ‘sensory garden’ placed at the end of a platform at Swindon railway station. I’m not sure if it’s for the blind, but I’m sure even they would be disappointed with it. It’s a small enclosure with a bench and a pot of dead ivy. I should have got a photo of it […]
Security
Why don’t banks have an automated phone line (free, of course) that you call when you want to access your online account. It asks for a couple of bits of information and then gives you a temporary PIN number. Wouldn’t that be a good idea?