2010 YES!!! The "I'm so happy" thread.

[Luc Gilgemyn]

I hope they haven't worked continuously on your car Angie..

Some 35 working days - 8 hours a day = 280 working hours at 25 £/hour (?) = 7000 £ + spare parts and VAT..

Why did you put this in the "I'm so happy" thread ?? 

[David Shaw]

Can I have the name of your mechanic, Luc? £25 per hour, that is so last centuary!

[Luc Gilgemyn]

 
Oeps... I got it all mixed up David... actually, they would be about 35-40 €/hour over here...
Poor Angie ! 

[Michael J Campbell]

I was at the garage yesterday for a pre. NCT test and service. €45 per hour.

[Anthony Darby]

If they do the job they are paid to do they get a million pound bonus on top?

[angie]

Luc, ,
 I think I am in the wrong job, thankfully I don't have to pay for the repair it was done under warranty or have to pay for the hired car they gave me till the repair was carried out, I had only had the car for two months before it broke down.They told us it was a fuel sensor switch they were waiting for . Do I believe them I thought I would never get my car back.
Angie

[Luc Gilgemyn]

That's a relief Angie... 

[Maggi Young]

That's a relief Angie... 

It certainly is, Luc..... Angie wouldn't have been abel to afford all those plants she got at Dunblane last week if the car repair had been costing her!


I'm so happy Dunblane was last weekend and not this weekend.... the weather is just too bad all around this week for it to have been the success it was!

[angie]

[I'm so happy Dunblane was last weekend and not this weekend.... the weather is just too bad all around this week for it to have been the success it was!
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Me to Maggi, cant believe the weather we are getting but at least today I can see my snowdrops, aren't they amazing all the bad weather they have had and they still put on a good performance for me
Angie

[ranunculus]

Little Ollie (aged three and a half) has been testing his mother's patience for the past three or four days by being uncharacteristically argumentative and petulant.  His mother was driven to comment to us (during a telephone call) that we could 'take him off her hands' and 'I'll bring him over'.  Yesterday, after twenty-four hours of better behaviour, Joanne quietly praised him and said; "Thank you for being such a good boy".  He leaned close in and replied; "Thank you for keeping me, Mummy"!
How tear-jerking is that?       

[Ragged Robin]

Oh my goodness Cliff, they do say some home truths at that lovely age when they first start pushing the boat out!

[Lesley Cox]

You're right Robin, they do. Out of the mouths.....and all that. I remember my own son begging me not to give him away when he was chastised for something, can't remember what. Of course there were others present and I know they all thought he lived in terror of my repeated threats to dispose of him. I swear to God he had NEVER had such a threat. They have a gift for causing deep embarrassment to their long suffering parents.

A small boy travelling with his mother in an Auckland bus was heard to remark, as they passed Mt Eden max security prison, "Mummy, that's where Daddy was." It was, but as the prison chaplain.

[Kristl Walek]

I can't resist saying that this morning all of Canada is so very, very, very happy over the Vancouver winter Olympic results---and in particular the gold for the hockey....

[Luc Gilgemyn]

It was well deserved Kristl !! 

And coming from a non ice-hockey country, this praise counts double ! 

[Kristl Walek]

Luc---to express how much these Olympics sunk into the national psyche---I was attending a birthday party last night (80% women--all plant people) and all that (we women, at least) were thinking about was watching the hockey game. In fact, the tv was on, and we all perched, dinner on our laps, almost choking on our ham in the tense moments.

You could not have imagined the joy in that space when that winning goal was made!!!! And, all things considered, it is some miracle for our huge, widely spread out country with such a small population to have received the most gold medals overall.  Population wise---the top 3 medal winners were:

USA 308,778,000
Germany 81,757,600
Canada 34,018,000