Not something I do now, but fully intend to do when I’m retired: go to the shops at lunch time and leave my cart in the middle of the aisle while doddering around looking for two for the price of one offers!
deliberately asking people who have "reserved" the seat next to them with a bag on the train if they can move their bag so that I can sit down, even if there are other seats available.
Not something I do now, but fully intend to do when I’m retired: go to the shops at lunch time and leave my cart in the middle of the aisle while doddering around looking for two for the price of one offers!
Dont forget to try to settle up with a handful of tatty and largely expired newspaper vouchers for things you havent even bought, and pay with handfuls of coins, counted out while the checkout bod sighs loudly and rolls their eyes. Helps if you turn to the building queue behind you and apologise insincerely while smirking inwardly. Goes without saying really, but if paying by card make sure you forget your PIN number until the last attempt, for which you've rummaged your spectacles out of an almost bottomless shopping bag. All this best applies at the 10 items or less 'quick' checkout, of course, even though youve got at least 20.
Have to make your own entertainment when youre retired.
I once referred to my partner as 'my current girlfriend' in front of a client. He wisely advised me that if i used that phrase in front of her the phrase would very quickly be incorrect.
Whenever I open the fridge or freezer I say "cool" and do a stupid thumbs up. Whenever I get the cheese grater out of the cupboard i say "grate" in a birmingham accent, just because it amuses me no end. Nobody even needs to be present for these things to happen, as long as the dog is somewhere about. The cheese grater is his favourite utensil anyway. I swear that dog can hear it coming out of the cupboard and distinguish it from any other implement even when he's upstairs. By the time i say grate, he's at the kitchen door asking for cheese.
I am known for not putting the butter back in the fridge, which i am reminded about every time Mrs Idle goes into the kitchen and shouts "Butter!" at the top of her voice. Apparently that annoys her.
Any mention of any place in the midlands sets me off on a long impromptu monologue in a fake Brummie accent that will likely include references to "Doodlei Zoological Gaardens", "Coom on the Villa", "That Peter Kay bloke broke down by the RAC centre in Walsall" and "do you remember that Ted Chippington bloke, chief" and so on. The family play along and pretend it's funny, but I'm sure they hate it. Iwy muss just say thow, it's absolutely brulliant now that Lee Carsley is England manager. The fun just never stops in our ouse.
Dad jokes and repeating dad jokes! Also repeating jokes in general just annoys everyone.
Holding my wife’s hand in public and dropping half a step behind, and then start walking like a chimpanzee to see how long it takes her to notice. That really annoys her!
Holding my wife’s hand in public and dropping half a step behind, and then start walking like a chimpanzee to see how long it takes her to notice. That really annoys her!
Holding my wife's hand in public, dropping half a step behind, and then start walking like a chimpanzee to see how long it takes her to notice, whilst making Cheetah noises, and flinging my dung at passers-by with my spare hand. That really annoys her!
Holding my wife’s hand in public and dropping half a step behind, and then start walking like a chimpanzee to see how long it takes her to notice. That really annoys her!
Holding my wife's hand in public, dropping half a step behind, and then start walking like a chimpanzee to see how long it takes her to notice, whilst making Cheetah noises, and flinging my dung at passers-by with my spare hand. That really annoys her!
I can’t LOL this enough. I am in tears, picturing the look of horror on her face if I did that!
Holding my wife’s hand in public and dropping half a step behind, and then start walking like a chimpanzee to see how long it takes her to notice. That really annoys her!
Holding my wife's hand in public, dropping half a step behind, and then start walking like a chimpanzee to see how long it takes her to notice, whilst making Cheetah noises, and flinging my dung at passers-by with my spare hand. That really annoys her!
I can’t LOL this enough. I am in tears, picturing the look of horror on her face if I did that!
Do you know his wife well enough to hold her hand?
I once told my wife and the kids I could see a ghost behind the tv. They all looked at me as though I was mad. I then said that the ghost was fiddling with the buttons on the tv. They looked me as though I was completely bonkers. Then, the tv went off and they jumped out of their skins. Simple trick: just set the tv to turn off in 30 mins and get the wife and kids in the room 29 mins later.
When the kids/wife are listening to music on Alexa in another room, I use the app to change the song to Who Let The Dogs Out. This has backfired because the kids have decided they like that song and now they play it constantly and it's driving me insane.
Not something I do now, but fully intend to do when I’m retired: go to the shops at lunch time and leave my cart in the middle of the aisle while doddering around looking for two for the price of one offers!
Dont forget to try to settle up with a handful of tatty and largely expired newspaper vouchers for things you havent even bought, and pay with handfuls of coins, counted out while the checkout bod sighs loudly and rolls their eyes. Helps if you turn to the building queue behind you and apologise insincerely while smirking inwardly. Goes without saying really, but if paying by card make sure you forget your PIN number until the last attempt, for which you've rummaged your spectacles out of an almost bottomless shopping bag. All this best applies at the 10 items or less 'quick' checkout, of course, even though youve got at least 20.
Have to make your own entertainment when youre retired.
Not something I do now, but fully intend to do when I’m retired: go to the shops at lunch time and leave my cart in the middle of the aisle while doddering around looking for two for the price of one offers!
Dont forget to try to settle up with a handful of tatty and largely expired newspaper vouchers for things you havent even bought, and pay with handfuls of coins, counted out while the checkout bod sighs loudly and rolls their eyes. Helps if you turn to the building queue behind you and apologise insincerely while smirking inwardly. Goes without saying really, but if paying by card make sure you forget your PIN number until the last attempt, for which you've rummaged your spectacles out of an almost bottomless shopping bag. All this best applies at the 10 items or less 'quick' checkout, of course, even though youve got at least 20.
Have to make your own entertainment when youre retired.
Also remember to then look through your bag for your loyalty card, "it's here somewhere!", find it, then spend ages presenting it wrong, upside down, back to front, swiping it backwards, taking it out, rubbing the back, then remove and try rubbing the strip etc then put it back in backwards, back to front, upside down again.... then say oh its "the wrong card we're in Sainsbury's aren't we, then repeat the above until you run out of the wrong loyalty cards and have to use the right one, all so that you get 5 nectar points on your tin of kanga chunks.
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Holding my wife’s hand in public and dropping half a step behind, and then start walking like a chimpanzee to see how long it takes her to notice. That really annoys her!
I am in tears, picturing the look of horror on her face if I did that!
Always fun.