Latest Moan From You and Me 2025

Oh goddess @JennyJB Perms! That brings back memories. I can remember my Daddoing my Mum’s for her and the smell of the setting lotion

 

TBH @shiney I can't remember exactly where it was except that i'd arranged to meet OH afterwards outside Topshop at Oxford Circus. He's moved on since then and so has Nicky Clarke. They did seem to understand face shapes, hair texture and suitable styles which still seems to a skill lacking in nearly all the hairdressers I've met since.

 

I queried the amount our hairdresser was charging for my haircut as I'm going bald so there isn't as much to cut. She countered saying part of the cost was a search fee. Cheeky mare.

 

We had an open reach van, with cherry picker on the back, take out the side of our car and just drive off. Our neighbour saw it and we had all these pieces from the plastic cherry picker surround but open reach completely denied it and our insurance company got bored chasing them after a few months and just paid themselves.

I was also on a bus once that took out the side of a car, with a screaming sound of banging metal, as it went round a corner and the driver just kept going and no one mentioned it.

 

It not an easy job bus driving with some idiot drivers on the road.
I was driving buses in the 70's & 80's, less traffic in those days,
still had the idiots back then.

 

To be fair to the bus driver, the car was parked in the most idiotic place but he hit/tangled with it, hard enough to make the bus shudder. I think most of us preferred to just go on so we weren't late.

I also remember a bus driver hitting a tree and taking off the wing mirror. It was funny that he told the engineers it just fell off as he was going along. The road wasn't really suitable for double decker or buses in general though.
On the same road one night we heard an almighty thwack and then a panicked lady asked what happened. The driver said we hit a deer and she asked if it was ok, his reply was "I doubt it love, we were doing 50".

 

The bus I was on yesterday had plenty of grunt. I think the driver is a part time rally driver and thought he could get a bit of practice in. According to the timetable it should take the bus 15 minutes from our stop to town. He did it in 8 minutes, and would have been even faster if he hadn't had to stop at a red light. For clarity, he did have to stop at about half of the bus stops en-route.

 

I've mentioned before about some of the articles posted by 'GloucestershireLive', our supposedly local online newspaper. They have excelled themselves today with a story of a doctor who arrived home to find 3 cars parked on his drive. Potentially of local interest as there have been stories in the news recently about this. However, this 'local news' item is about a doctor in Montana.