My linen suit has mysteriously shrunk.
I got married in it and now 22 years later it has got smaller and both the pants and the jacket won't do up.
Very strange.  I don't know how that could have happened...

They just don't make them properly any more.

Looks like they didn't back then either.

I've loads of trousers like that 

Strange that your feet don't tend to change size, or not by much anyway 

Ever had one of those days when you feel that the Jinx has settled on your shoulder and decided to stay there ?

Was out with Nick for a drink yesterday and we were due to meet at Victoria Station around 11:00am. So I get to Crystal Palace with plenty of time to spare only to find my train is cancelled. Never mind I thought, get the London Bridge train and grab the tube. That comes on time and all is fine until we get to Peckham Rye when the driver announces that a train in front of us is having some problems and we are stuck there until they are resolved. At least she kept us informed and we were on our way again after a 10 minute delay or so. Get to London Bridge, enter the Underground only to be shooed out by station staff and the Fire Brigade. 3 or 4 fire engines outside in Tooley St and hoards of lost looking passengers milling around. So decide to walk across London Bridge and grab the tube at the Monument. Had to duck and dive to avoid tourists taking photos, how many I'm in the Lord only knows, but got to the Monument and tube was ok so managed to get to our meet only a couple of minutes late, hot and bothered but basically on time.

But the Jinx hadn't finished with me yet. The Weatherspoon's pub had none of  it's 6 hand pump bitters on sale  even though 5 of the labels were facing the customer. So after a pint we move on up towards Westminster and went to the pub in Strutton Ground that the Goons used to use. Guess what ? My preferred bitter was not available, but at least they had a couple of decent alternatives. After a few pints in there we decide to move on. Just as we did so the heavens opened and it teemed down, so we hung around. Within a minute or so the pub's ceiling had developed serious dripping, bear in mind this rain had to come through the roof and then the upper floor to get to the bar. This got so bad that after a short while they had to close the pub, so we moved on up towards Petty France. First pub we went to go in was closing due to sever flash flooding and the second whilst at least still open had had to close its basement bar because of the flash flooding. When we ordered, guess what ? Yup they didn't have my preferred bitter on sale, but again had a decent alternative. This was the Old Star in Petty France and was very much a Civil Service pub, indeed I felt slightly underdressed being one of the few guys not in uniform  However at this point at least the Jinx decided that it had finished with me for the day and moved on, it probably stayed to admire the many attractive young ladies in the pub, and the journey home was uneventful and dry 

As I said "ever had one of those days ?" 

You are still warm and vertical..................if slightly damp....................and by the sound of it replete with decent ale.  It could have been better, but it could also have been a great deal worse.

Quote from: Rheged on August 18, 2022, 06:22:49 AM
You are still warm and vertical..................if slightly damp....................and by the sound of it replete with decent ale.  It could have been better, but it could also have been a great deal worse.

"Always look on the bright side of life" 

Quote from: NARSES2 on August 18, 2022, 06:47:03 AM

Quote from: Rheged on August 18, 2022, 06:22:49 AM
You are still warm and vertical..................if slightly damp....................and by the sound of it replete with decent ale.  It could have been better, but it could also have been a great deal worse.

"Always look on the bright side of life" 

Certainly beats crying all the time.

I've also been watching Palace for 66 years, kind of teaches you to deal with the good and the bad days

My dad took me to my first game when I was 4 and I've never worked out if it was a reward or a punishment ? 

It was a "life lesson".

Quote from: Old Wombat on August 19, 2022, 06:56:11 AMIt was a "life lesson".

It's certainly taught me a few things 

No modelling today as my monthly "main" shop wound me up 

Went into M&S for meat, fish, cheese etc around 9:00am and only 1 of their 12 self service tills was working, they don't even man their cashier tills until at least 10:00am, and that wasn't recognising half the stuff in my basket.    Lets just say that I'm very grateful they had someone helpful around to assist. Usually they put an old bat of a time server on that particular duty and the pair of us have had more than the odd run in 

Then went into Smiths, picked up paper and a magazine and their self service till's card reader wanted to ask me a couple of questions before I entered my pin. Not security questions, but marketing and service appreciation ones ! "Were you greeted with a smile and a hello when you entered the store this morning" for instance.  Lets just say I had to apologise to the young lad who was stacking shelves for my response and he simply laughed and said " you should have heard mine when I first used it" 

The Worlds going mad 

Self service tills, eh? I was intending to pop by my garden tool store (and service provider) for a couple of saw discs, but was met with a sign "Welcome to our automated self service shop". That's a new one! And one that made me abandon my plan since I didn't have the faintest of which of the 452 different discs on their wall that would fit my machine.

I'm not even 60 and already too old for this world... 

I think a big part of the problem with people being so crazy these days is that stuff all around is changing too fast for even younger people to keep up with. Not just technology but social stuff too. Throw in a pandemic and it's nutsville all over. I think it creates its own layer of insecurity and anxiety over what's going to change next.

Quote from: kerick on August 23, 2022, 08:03:58 PMI think a big part of the problem with people being so crazy these days is that stuff all around is changing too fast for even younger people to keep up with. Not just technology but social stuff too. Throw in a pandemic and it's nutsville all over. I think it creates its own layer of insecurity and anxiety over what's going to change next.

Yep!

That plus companies are more concerned with "savings-based" profits than retail profits; if they weren't they'd realise that all the people they no longer employ because of their "self-service" shopping & check-outs are no longer able to purchase their product because they don't have a job, anymore, and NO JOB = NO DISPOSABLE INCOME.

This is also fueled by new-speak & PC terminology, where a patron/customer/patient is now a "consumer", expected to utilise your "service", even when there is none.

Personally, I'm beginning (OK, "beginning" was a fair while ago, now) to think there needs to be a middle-class revolution, where the 1-percenter (I think it should be 5-percenter, but I'll go with the flow on the terminology) parasites at the top & bottom of (at least Australian) society need a good thrashing & to be encouraged (by force, if necessary) to contribute back into society at least some of what they suck out of it.


Note: This isn't a political commentary, it's a social one.

They put two self service terminals in the post office where I work.
It didn't take too long for someone to realise they were left full of cash overnight and drive a ute into the shop to remove it.
They are now card only.