😀 Just been threatened with a lawyer

[Lenny HB]

John Barrett , My husband's got a PhD in chemistry. I can well believe what you're saying.

That explains why he always rings me when he is trying to do jobs on the Motorhome.

 

[Nanniemate]

When working in London I rented a bedsit type house share

My landlady was great but suffered with arthritis , we could get 2 cars on the drive or one on the drive and one across it. Keep clear disabled parking signs displayed

However on a Sunday the church in the street was well attended , however Christian charity did not stretch to courteous parking and often a parked car would be found across the drive blocking us in. If one of us was not parked there.To.prevent it.

The clash came when they parked in the drive not realising that 2 cars would now be parked on front of them

But unfortunately my landlady's friend who was parked on the drive in front of the offending car was not returning for a few weeks and had not left keys.

The police were called who found it rather amusing that the friends car on the drive was owned and registered in Wales so spare keys were not easily accessible

There were tantrums and tears from the trespasser but the car couldn't not be moved.

After the party left the officer turned to me and said , you have not had much to say with a grin

No boyo

We did let them out after a few days

 

[swemmy666]

"Christian charity did not stretch to courteous parking " you cant trust anyone who can wipe the sin/guilt slate clean every Sunday...

 

[meanders]

"Christian charity did not stretch to courteous parking " you cant trust anyone who can wipe the sin/guilt slate clean every Sunday...

I am not sure that is fair to say 'anyone'. Some are absolutely Christian in their outlook on life. Yes you get the bigots, the 'Holier than thou' hypocrites, and the downright evil who use the churches as a cover for their wicked ways, as well as those who fail to see that their actions are hurting, offending or upsetting others, but to say it's everyone, is, in my experience, unfair.

Also as fair as I am aware, attending a church service on a Sunday does not 'wipe the slate clean'. The only time anything like that happens is in the Catholic, (and I think Orthodox) churches, where on rare occassion the sacrement of reconciliation is offered en masse when priests are unable to deal with all the 1:1 confessions and then give 'General Absolution'.

 

[Wildbill]

Where I lived in Scotland we had a bit of a parking war with the upstairs neighbour
He would park with not enough room to put a cigarette paper between the bumper.
So I wen and bought another car three months mot and tax on it.
I gets back from buying it and the guys blocked me in I parked hard up his ass locked up my new car and lock up my other car and went to Aberdeen that nigh for three weeks
WB

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[L' Hobo]

I worked for a while in a wine merchants in Newcastle, we often got "Gentlemen of the road" (tramps) in and they would buy either QC sherry or Buckfast tonic wine which I thought strange, until I looked at the alcohol strength of it

The Buckfast Tonic was the best, I was nearly persuaded to become a man of the cloth!

 

[Freo]

Buckfast, El Dorado and Lanliq were the jakeys’ quaff of choice where I grew up.

 

[Northernraider]

Buckfast, El Dorado and Lanliq were the jakeys’ quaff of choice where I grew up.

Buckfast is still the choice of jakeys... many shops where I lived had a one bottle per customer rule passed down from the police.

 

[swemmy666]

I am not sure that is fair to say 'anyone'. Some are absolutely Christian in their outlook on life. Yes you get the bigots, the 'Holier than thou' hypocrites, and the downright evil who use the churches as a cover for their wicked ways, as well as those who fail to see that their actions are hurting, offending or upsetting others, but to say it's everyone, is, in my experience, unfair.

Also as fair as I am aware, attending a church service on a Sunday does not 'wipe the slate clean'. The only time anything like that happens is in the Catholic, (and I think Orthodox) churches, where on rare occassion the sacrement of reconciliation is offered en masse when priests are unable to deal with all the 1:1 confessions and then give 'General Absolution'.

was another that need the

 

[PaulW2]

"Christian charity did not stretch to courteous parking " you cant trust anyone who can wipe the sin/guilt slate clean every Sunday...

Irrespective of the doctrinal points, there is something there.

One often hears about believers who behave badly that they are not "true" believers in whatever they're meant to be. Not a 'real' X, Y or Z.

But the only 'true' things, how you can know them, is through their scriptures and their behaviour. There is nothing else, no fixed point. Only behaviour and scripture.

And the scriptures of all the religions cover almost the entire gamut of human behaviour to the most bloodthirsty. So they exclude almost nothing.

As time passes the churches then focus on certain things, certain aspects. And they cast this as their essence. They de-emphasise bits of their scripture, or contextualise them. So perhaps we should look at their behaviour instead of holding the more hair-raising bits of scripture against the faith.

What is that behaviour then? Ok, maybe not of the Orthodox ones who support Putin, or the people who decapitate others, or disempower women, or some of the wilder evangelical strains emerging from say the US. Not the 'liberation theologists' maybe. Not the kiddy-fiddlers. Not those who fight running battles with people who have different beliefs. Who kill them, lock them up, enslave them and so on.

The others.

Ok, also not those who do it just for the cultural stuff and the feel good factor. Just for the high days and holidays. Those who take it all a bit more seriously.

What do those people have?

One thing they usually do share is moral certainty. It's their USP if you like, moral certainty. They know the meaning of life and the weight to attach to things. It's pretty much all clear.

By their parking you shall know them.

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[bellabee]

That explains why he always rings me when he is trying to do jobs on the Motorhome.

Yes, and very grateful we are to you, too.

 

[Northernraider]

I think all religious posts should be restricted to the belly locker .


Or an asylum....whichever comes sooner.

 

[Minxy]

You should try typing ah fir feck sake . But without the Scots or Irish twang

Careful ... I wouldn't put it past Jim to start replacing 'feck' seeing as it's used a fair bit now and we all know what it means!

 

[Minxy]

Sorry but I don’t agree. There’s much more offensive material all over the internet that affects people and particularly children, that is immoral but sadly not illegal.

Ah, but this is about a specific person not just some stuff 'generally' on the internet which I agree is immoral and IMV some of it should be well and truly made illegal as it skirts way too close to the 'line'.

 

[Minxy]

Not necessarily. My sit on mower has a “mulching deck” so the cuttings are blasted downwards. You are welcome to come and give it a try: you can even come every week from May until October

Let me, let me, let me, go on ... LET MEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!

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[DuxDeluxe]

Let me, let me, let me, go on ... LET MEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!

You just want to mulch a duck, really…..

 

[Minxy]

You just want to mulch a duck, really…..

Oooooooooooooooo ... never thought of that ... pre-shredded for the crispy duck!

 

[CAB96]

If she's used up her five free emails, surely she has to pay the subscription for any more...

I believe Jim has been known to gift Life membership to deserving causes

 

[ianp]

I said that above


All you bus drivers had to have stolen that line off a comedian there's no way you all just dreamt it up

Does this make #PaulyP yer dad.......

 

[Jane And Rog]

It’s tantamount to saying that you’re profanity challenged!

Exactly. I'd rather hoped I had a reputation for a wide and varied profane vocabulary.

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[Ingwe]

I think you overestimate the power and ability of lawyers.

Even the best lawyer can’t make a silk purse out of a sows ear.

Not even for £1k an hour.

C’mon, Chris, at £1,000 per hour, even I’d contemplate coming out of retirement and give it a go!

 

[fishplug]

Inconsiderate parking?

Well, that takes me back some 30 years or more...

I used to work in the centre of town next door to a used car lot.

There was some off road parking for company use, but no yellow lines on the road so technically the general public could park in front of us, blocking us in.

Given the central nature of the place it wasn't uncommon for people to block us in for 15 mins while they ran an errand in town. While it wasn't strictly courteous it also wasn't normally an issue as you could manoeuvre round a single parked car.

However, one day we had two people who parked in front of our spaces - they parked nose to tail and were there all day so two of our cars simply couldn't get out. Come 5:30pm the friendly people from the car lot next door offered ..um.. 'some insight'

Our staff were suddenly free to go home unhindered while the two cars which had previously been blocking the access somehow found themselves stationary on a busy roundabout, unoccupied, locked, and with the hazzards and headlights on.

We never saw those two vehicles again....

 

[Clive Mott]

You naughty man!!

 

[Chuns]

Well I finally found out how my car got on a roundabout!

 

[fishplug]

You naughty man!!

I never touched them!

I may well have watched and laughed, but that's a different story...


Speaking of different stories, I remember heading out to lunch one day and finding a fiver right outside the door. Having picked it up and looked around to see if anyone might have dropped it, I saw a couple of tenners too which also got scooped up. The trail of banknotes led me to a carrier bag full of cash and I immediately knew what this was.

I picked the bag up and brought it back into the office and then I waited until I saw the owner of the car lot next door come screeching round the corner at speed and then I nonchalantly 'left' the office again. There was some frantic looking around, an urgent "have you seen a carrier bag? I left it on the roof of the car and drove off" and quite a lot of swearing before I finally gave in and admitted that I had rescued the week's takings and gave it back....

They were a good bunch next door and they did see the funny side of it (eventually!).

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[Northernraider]

I never touched them!

I may well have watched and laughed, but that's a different story...


Speaking of different stories, I remember heading out to lunch one day and finding a fiver right outside the door. Having picked it up and looked around to see if anyone might have dropped it, I saw a couple of tenners too which also got scooped up. The trail of banknotes led me to a carrier bag full of cash and I immediately knew what this was.

I picked the bag up and brought it back into the office and then I waited until I saw the owner of the car lot next door come screeching round the corner at speed and then I nonchalantly 'left' the office again. There was some frantic looking around, an urgent "have you seen a carrier bag? I left it on the roof of the car and drove off" and quite a lot of swearing before I finally gave in and admitted that I had rescued the week's takings and gave it back....

They were a good bunch next door and they did see the funny side of it (eventually!).

Yeah I read that story too

Pensioner who didn't trust banks loses entire £80,000 life savings after leaving cash on roof of his car

The 68-year-old man, who doesn’t trust banks, had been moving the money between his home and place of work.

www.dailymail.co.uk

 

[fishplug]

They did the bank run once a week and put the cash in a carrier bag as we were quite close to the main shopping centre so it was quite inconspicuous. This is why I knew exactly what I was looking at and who it belonged to when I saw it.

 

[Gizmouk]

Tell her to phone the Samaritans. "They might give a f***, I don't".

 

[Tony50]

The Parish Council I Chaired was threatened by a Solicitor on behalf of 4 house owners that the Council would be sued if we did not give permission for the house owners to drive vehicles across Village Green.
I spent Hours in the archives in Ipswich miles from village , but I found we were Caretakers of the green not Owners, Permission not granted, if we had given permission we could in future be personally been sued if different councillors were appointed and found we had acted illegally,
On refusal the Council Clerk resigned ( she owned a house across the green ) .
The Solicitor's threat went away

 

[AlanandMayya]

I’ve received a series of emails from a furious woman in Surrey. Her complaint? A motorhome is parked near her driveway. Not blocking it exactly, but apparently close enough to make turning right out of her drive, a bit tricky or near impossible. Naturally, she’s furious.

Why is she ranting at me, you ask?

Because the motorhome has a MotorhomeFun sticker on it. Yes, she’s holding me personally accountable for this parking predicament.

Trying to add some levity, I replied, “Does it also have a National Trust sticker? Have you sent them a strongly worded email too?”

Clearly, she is too angry for humour.

Now she’s escalated her threats. If the motorhome is still there tomorrow, I’ll be hearing from the police for my “misogyny and rudeness” and her lawyer for damages. Damages to what, I’m still unsure, her driveway, her turning radius, or her blood pressure maybe?

So here’s a heartfelt appeal:

If this happens to be your motorhome parked near this woman’s driveway...

Please don’t move it. At least not for a while; let's give her lawyer some blood pressure, too.

In order to trace this miscreant, you need the Unique Identifier Number. This is stamped under the chassis, just behind and to the left of the fuel tank. If she could crawl under it and send you a photo of this number you would be able to spring into action immediately. This is just hilarious Jim, thank you so much for sharing it!

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