| lesley153
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| PS The thought of smacking the parents is very attractive. |
Reply #2561. Apr 15 11, 7:20 PM
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Jazmee27 
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Some people just shouldn't be parents
Reply #2562. Apr 15 11, 11:26 PM
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| C30
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Was in local Tesco recently, perusing the cold meat selection, further down the aisle was a young child working up to "full head of tantrum" whilst the mother looked indulgently on.
Man next to me, around my own age, nodded towards child and said, "Now THERE is a good advert for contraception".
I cracked up!
Reply #2563. Apr 16 11, 1:32 AM
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| C30
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Lesley.................Blimey, they filmed it! rofl
Reply #2565. Apr 16 11, 7:25 AM
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| lesley153
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Once upon a time, if you had an enquiry about London Transport, you'd ring ABBey 1234, and a friendly voice would pick the phone up and answer your question. Over the years, some idiot decided to re-brand it Transport for London (why?), the number has changed to (020)7222 1234, and the friendly voice has become a list of options.
Now the familiar old number that everyone remembered gives you a recorded message telling you to redial 0843 222 1234, charged at 5p a minute from BT landlines.
Ring the new number, and the voice will remind you that it will be charged at 5p a minute from BT landlines.
First option: if you have a simple station-to station query, press 1. And a too-cheery voice says "Welcome to our automated service!" So I hung up.
Going to Waterloo to see sprog playing in Mahler 7. Back this evening. :) |
Reply #2566. Apr 17 11, 9:00 AM
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baldricksmum
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I love the alternative number site - try 020 3283 6550
Reply #2567. Apr 17 11, 9:26 AM
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honeybee4
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Enjoy yourself Lesley.
Reply #2568. Apr 17 11, 9:29 AM
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| lesley153
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Thanks, both. I shall try that number!
Slow train journey, but it always is. Tube was fine. Bursting with people who'd been involved in the London Marathon, but they were all travelling in the opposite direction.
Off tomorrow. Happy Easter/Passover/Ostara... Back near the end of the month.
(((((( )))))) |
Reply #2569. Apr 17 11, 8:09 PM
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Jazmee27
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Hope you have a fun week
Reply #2570. Apr 18 11, 4:45 AM
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Professer
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Missing you already Lesley hope you have a great time
Reply #2571. Apr 21 11, 1:41 PM
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| lesley153
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| Thank you. It's a bit of a relief to be back. We had eight days staying with my bro and his wife and their youngest child and my SIL's mother, with visits from all the other nine children, seven with spouses and a total of eighteen grandchildren. |
Reply #2572. Apr 28 11, 8:33 PM
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| lesley153
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That wasn't supposed to happen! I didn't mean to press enter! but it's probably as good a description of the week as any. Strange bed, not our customary diet, very little sleep, and visits to and from a whole dynasty.
The food is good and fresh and unprocessed, and the family's nice enough to very nice to a joy to be with, and it was a pretty good week.
Not counting a visit from a family "friend" who was, unwittingly, quite breathtakingly nasty. We first met her ten or twelve years ago. Somebody told her that Jonathan had been having violin lessons. She walked over to him and said "You don't play the violin, do you? I don't think you know how to play it. Someone told me that you do but I don't believe them. Prove to me that you can. I bet you can't." He didn't bother.
She dropped in a few days ago, and my SIL said "Lesley, you know my friend," disappeared to talk to her mother, and left us to it. We may have looked like we were having a conversation but she was talking and I was listening. My attempts to participate were met with challenges and corrections, or were just ignored.
My niece came in the room. She's had complicated surgery, is recovering slowly, but has lost a lot of weight, and still can hardly eat or drink, but the "friend" doesn't know any of this. She greeted her by saying "You look dreadful. What's wrong with you? You look like a concentration camp survivor." She informed us all that being too thin was as bad as being too fat (oh really?), and banged on about what my niece needed to do, none of it good advice because she didn't know and we weren't about to tell her, with the attitude that she was the first person to notice that something was wrong and she was the only person who could tell us what to do about it.
The more nobody responded, the more she was like a small dog with her teeth in my niece's ankle. She thought nobody had noticed my niece's weight loss, and we were all thinking it's none of her business. I said "Leave it" a few times, but she ploughed on. Eventually I told her that my niece couldn't drink even the most diluted lemon juice because it would hurt as it went down. I think that's when the visitor turned to me and snapped "Oh don't be so ridiculous." I stayed for a minute or two, till my dropped jaw recovered, and walked out. My son and nephew had already walked out. We returned when she left the house.
Next time my SIL says "Lesley, you know my friend," I'm going to stick my fingers in my ears and run. |
Reply #2573. Apr 28 11, 9:04 PM
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Professer
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Great to have yopu back Lesley
Reply #2574. Apr 29 11, 2:19 AM
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MotherGoose
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Great to see you back, Lesley. I've just got rid of houseguests too, however, they aren't as bad as the woman you describe. She's a doozy!
My friends live in the country and every time they come up to the city, they stay with us instead of getting a hotel room. Normally, we have a great visit with them and enjoy ourselves. However, this time they came up for Easter and stayed a whole week and it was a bit much. Partly because she snores louder than anyone I have ever heard (she drowns out the TV when it's on full volume). And partly because she criticises our spare room bed every time she comes (it's too low, not comfortable, etc). She frequently asks when I am going to buy a new bed. No prizes for guessing that I have no intention of doing so. It seems to me it is very rude to criticise when you are getting free board and lodging and not contributing anything to the expenses.
Reply #2575. Apr 29 11, 4:23 AM
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| lesley153
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I think it's very rude indeed! but confess that I have been guilty of remarking that there is nowhere to put my clothes when I sleep in the computer room (actually, there's hardly anywhere to put your feet on the ground once they've got a bed in there) so I bought a clothes rail.
Their youngest daughter lives with her husband and two children in Manchester, so they stayed over. They were given a twin room with a cot, they put the children to bed as early as they could, while she slept downstairs on the sofa and he took a top bunk in the boys' room, because, they say, they "can't sleep" with their children. So, when the children wake up in the small hours and start shouting and crying, Mummy is far enough away to maintain that she can't hear a thing, and Daddy is on the top bunk, so my 17yo nephew gets up to see to them on the grounds that it was too much bother for Daddy to climb down.
After four days, they were offered a three-bedroomed house and moved out so fast you couldn't see them for dust. I moved into the twin room, which was nice, because I'd been able to hear the mammoth freezer rumbling on the other side of the wall, and the younger of the two children doesn't understand about closed doors. He took things out of the display cabinet and bashed them on the floor; removed damp towels from the tumble drier and covered the floor with them; and he removed a 1.5 litre wine bottle from the fridge. It only dropped a foot but shattered and spread glass and wine all over the kitchen.
There are four bedrooms and last time I was there, two years ago, they "insisted" on having two rooms so that they wouldn't have to sleep with their children. Normal house guests don't "insist" on anything from their hosts, and normal hosts don't let them - mostly because they can't afford to give up two bedrooms - so I'm surprised my bro and SIL acquiesced; but I don't think this daughter will be invited to stay again. "You're welcome any time, as long as you stay in a hotel." Child number three is due in four or five months. They'd probably want three rooms. Can't help thinking it's a good thing they live with his parents. |
Reply #2576. Apr 29 11, 7:31 AM
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| lesley153
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| (For them - not for his parents.) |
Reply #2577. Apr 29 11, 7:33 AM
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Professer
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oh dear Lesley how did you cope?
Reply #2578. Apr 29 11, 7:59 AM
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| veronikkamarrz
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Well, so much for my "hope you had a wonderful time" comment, huh? ;)I would have opted for the hotel, myself!
Reply #2579. Apr 29 11, 9:04 AM
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Jazmee27
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Sounds like just the sort of people we *all* want to spend time with (not!)
Sorry you had such a rough time
(((Lesley)))
By the way, great to see you :)
Reply #2580. Apr 29 11, 9:53 AM
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