Saturday 17 January 2009

Pin Pricks

I ended up travelling to London briefly on Friday straight from work, and found myself on the 1635 train from Havant Rail Station.

I thought it was strange that stood next to be were two guys, both wearing pin striped suits, and both ended up in the same 6-seater section of the same busy carriage. 

Now

One of these guys was wearing a brown leather cowboy hat, which was rough round the edges shall I say. The other guy was much older, and carried with him a small black briefcase.

The guy with the cowboy hat also had a notebook and pen in his hand. He sat on the opposite side of the seats, and just stared at me. Then every now and then he would smile and write something. 

Now the other guy, the older guy, suddenly pulled out one of those cup-lid things from a thermos flask, so I thought he was pouring himself a mug of coffee or something.

No

He the pulled out the litre bottle of Smirmoff vodka he also had in this briefcase, and with my help, broke the seal, then poured himself a cup. He also spilled a fair amount on me too. By the time we got to waterloo he had actually downed the whole thing, and I was on drunk alert. 

Would have given me good recovery position practise for my first aid exam the following morning.

Anyway, we all stumbled off the train, and before I knew it I was back on the journey home.

Sitting opposite me on the four seater was, as predicted, a fairly attractive guy in a pinstripe suit. Then, his very attractive girlfriend came along. Bummer. They continued to be smug and perfect until the guard announced...

"Message for the guard, don't worry about that briefcase, its all just rubbish inside"

When the guy in the pinstripe decided he didn't like this information and started to as everyone if they had their belongings, and to find the owners of all the bags in the overhead baggage rack.

Ha...not so perfect now HUH....Her face closely resembled the red colour of the South West Train seat she was sunk into....


Friday 9 January 2009

Some things are just difficult...

I've done some things that i've found very difficult recently... but this is very close to the top...

Ever tried to fit a mountain bike into a Ford Puma???

Thursday 8 January 2009

I'd never make a junkie...

Was my birthday....I'm now 21! Woop!

Opened some prezzies in the morning, ran to work, and pretty much sat at the computer all day and snacked on cakes, as most of my team were on a writing course all day! 

I got to leave work early though...to go and have my Hep B antibody test. Rather... an attempt to have my Hep B antibody test. After a number of attempts, and me passing out twice, they only had about 0.5mls of blood. I used up all their vacutainers, and apparently the phlebotomist has never seen anything like me before, deepest veins in 22 years of blood work! What an achievement.

So I stagger home, and find that my housemates have decorated the front of my house with happy birthday banners and balloons :D They also bought me a huge shiny badge and a cake with candles :D and some prezzies :D

So we went out for dinner at Las Iguanas and had cocktails and latin food :D

The return home saw me finally logging into facebook and being stunned by the 48 happy birthday messages. Thanks everyone :D

Today, I had a very productive day today...I bought a bike and booked a driving lesson. Ill be on the road in no time!!!

Monday 5 January 2009

Bouncy Bouncy Bouncy Fun Fun Fun Fun Fun

Why do so many houses that back onto railway lines have trampolines?

I only know one person who has one, and admittedly she doesn't live anywhere near a train line. But still...

Is it some kinda way of jumping onto the train, thus getting free travel???