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Last couple of times I've checked the tyre pressures, i've dropped the valve caps. Looks like my fine motor skills are on the way out!

Demannu wrote: Sun Jan 29, 2023 2:53 pm Last couple of times I've checked the tyre pressures, i've dropped the valve caps. Looks like my fine motor skills are on the way out!

Accept it, fill your pocket with these.

Horse wrote: Sun Jan 29, 2023 3:07 pm

Demannu wrote: Sun Jan 29, 2023 2:53 pm Last couple of times I've checked the tyre pressures, i've dropped the valve caps. Looks like my fine motor skills are on the way out!

Accept it, fill your pocket with these.

That's what neighbours are for!

£10 Tesco points gets a £30 oldgit railcard, which has paid for itself buying one ticket

You turn the car radio down to read road signs...

Taipan wrote: Sun Jan 29, 2023 7:47 pm You turn the car radio down to read road signs...

LOL. I was just thinking today how irritating it was that the car thinks I can't do reverse and listen to the radio at the same time.

My Merc thinks I need need a bit of quiet to get off my estate, soon as I get to the main road it turns the volume up.

KungFooBob wrote: Sun Jan 29, 2023 8:35 pm My Merc thinks I need need a bit of quiet to get off my estate, soon as I get to the main road it turns the volume up.

You can usually turn the speed/volume thing off. Given how quiet most big cars are it seems a bit unnecessary.

Count Steer wrote: Sun Jan 29, 2023 8:37 pm

KungFooBob wrote: Sun Jan 29, 2023 8:35 pm My Merc thinks I need need a bit of quiet to get off my estate, soon as I get to the main road it turns the volume up.

You can usually turn the speed/volume thing off. Given how quiet most big cars are it seems a bit unnecessary.

Handy in a convertible tho.

KungFooBob wrote: Sun Jan 29, 2023 8:35 pm My Merc thinks I need need a bit of quiet to get off my estate, soon as I get to the main road it turns the volume up.

I thought all cars did that and have done for years.

My '07 Transit had it as standard.

You ask your Son and Son-in-law to help move a heavy bike that you can't lift and they lift the front end up like it's a bicycle. The parent becomes the child...

When your bathroom routine becomes increasingly filled with putting countless ointments and creams into every conceivable orifice.

Taipan wrote: Mon Jan 30, 2023 9:57 am You ask your Son and Son-in-law to help move a heavy bike that you can't lift and they lift the front end up like it's a bicycle. The parent becomes the child...

Ok, he's wearing Docs and I'm in socks, but how did he get so tall?

Foal about to head out on NYE.

You find you've wasted an hour looking at weather stations on Amazon

You start thinking you'd suit a Panama hat...

You start giving organ recitals.




'My heart is getting a bit dicky, my prostate's enlarged, I need a cataract op.........'.

I misplaced the keys to the SBH this morning. Looked all over, including in the garage twice & in the F350, started looking for the spare key.
Didn't find the spare, but I did find the ones I'd been looking for earlier...

They were FOUR INCHES from where I usually keep them.


In my defense I should mention that I keep all the keys in one of those desk-tidy doodads for pens etc. The keys all sit in the small tray on the top... but the SBH keys had fallen behind it.. IN THE MIDDLE OF THE FUCKING DESK

Also:
While looking for the SBH keys in the F350, I found two pairs of glasses I'd misplaced.

The car park charges from 0830 and you're there at 0828 ready and willing with some cash!
Adult responsibility, pah!

gremlin wrote: Mon Jan 30, 2023 10:08 am When your bathroom routine becomes increasingly filled with putting countless ointments and creams into every conceivable orifice.

+ you realise you're going to need a bigger medicine drawer/cabinet (or 2...one to hold the knee, wrist, back, ankle.....supports and bandages you've gathered over the years, the other divided into 'general' ie paracetamol, Lemsip, nasal sprays, plasters, assorted unguents etc and prescription stuff).

Then there's the once a year check to see what's now past 'use-by' date and a trip to the pharmacy with a bag of stuff to dispose of.