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Post by Drummond on Apr 18, 2005 22:28:37 GMT
I passed my test first time........twice! Passed my test first time, got a car. ......1 year and 50 weeks later I went through a speed camera which went off & promptly forgot about it. A week after that I got pulled over by some bastard coppers with a speed gun on my way home. They gave me a speeding ticket = 3 points + fine. When I got home, I had a letter saying I was caught on a camera speeding a week ago = 3 points + fine. If you get 6 points on your licence within 2 years of passing your test, they take your licence away & make you do both written & practical tests again. Bastards got me 1 week before my 2 years was up!  >:(So did tests again & passed first time, hence first time twice *smug* ;D These days I drive my girlfriends car occasionally, but having quit my job & become a student, I too am on the bicycle to college route & it rules.  Do you guys wear helmets whilst cycling? I know it's pretty uncool to, but I got knocked off my bike last year & if I wasn't wearing my helmet, it would have caved my cranium in so was fucking glad my girlfriend insisted on me wearing it.  |
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Post by freerangefrog on Apr 19, 2005 9:21:00 GMT
yeh, i dunno if i will actually learn to drive asap...
i mean, i always thought itd be cool but now ive tried it... im kinda over it!
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Post by thew arn on Apr 19, 2005 9:22:51 GMT
I passed my hexagonal test. Sixth time lucky!
More 'amusing' failures included not noticing a red traffic light until it was all too late and waiting at the end of a double-parked road for 5 minutes for a 'bus' (figment of my imagination) to come from the other direction. Conversation:
Driving examiner: 'What are you waiting for?'
Me: 'That bus at the end of the road'.
Driving examiner: 'There isn't a bus is there?'
Me: no
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Post by Tom-From-Sparks on Apr 19, 2005 10:03:59 GMT
Do you guys wear helmets whilst cycling? I know it's pretty uncool to, but I got knocked off my bike last year & if I wasn't wearing my helmet, it would have caved my cranium in so was fucking glad my girlfriend insisted on me wearing it. I know I should but I don't, I find it cooks my head  The only times I've fallen off I've badly grazed and cut my elbows and knees. |
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Post by Fellalady on Apr 19, 2005 10:14:45 GMT
No, me neither.  I used to, but when my house was broken into the burglers stole it. I should get another one. I don't mind looking uncool. Infact I get a strange kind of pleasure from looking really stupid for some reason. I looked rediculous this morning, fully waterproofed up with reflective strapping 'n all sorts. Yeah baby. |
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Post by Smileadelic on Apr 19, 2005 10:31:13 GMT
Unfortunately my eyesight is so bad I will never be able to drive. That said, I've never actually wanted to, not even before I found that out. Public transport rocks |
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Post by Monpot on Apr 19, 2005 10:52:35 GMT
They stole your bike helmet? How odd! Burglers do take strange things. When my parents' house got burgled they left the expensive guitars, but took one of the guitar cases. Weirdos. Not that I'm complaining!
There is something pleasing about dressing odd. Back in my youth, if I needed to go to the Castle Grounds (where the Goths loitered), I'd make sure to where my Dad's old bright yellow mac.
My mate Llyws is the King however! He came round yesterday and went "Look at these!" -he'd bought a pair of jeans, which had the word 'Wolverine' down one leg, a picture of the X Man himself on the other leg, and just above the pic were some slash marks. A bargain at £20.
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Post by freerangefrog on Apr 19, 2005 11:01:04 GMT
i know what you mean, there is something fantab. about looking rrrrrreally stupid...!
so, i often do... or that's my excuse. y'know, just to do weird stuff in public.
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Post by Tom-From-Sparks on Apr 19, 2005 11:04:22 GMT
It's always the different looking people who are the interesting ones...
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Post by creakyknees on Apr 19, 2005 11:08:40 GMT
I enjoy looking really cool and tarted up in an inappropriate place like asda.
Frilly red button down shirt, long black suede jacket/coat
I look like a 19th century vampire schoolteacher
Actually thats quite sad really, going to a supermarket so you look better dressed than everyone else.
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Post by freerangefrog on Apr 19, 2005 11:08:50 GMT
 well, thats me... "different looking" dont know about interesting though...
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Post by Fellalady on Apr 19, 2005 11:40:04 GMT
Uncool is the new cool!! It's now official. I'd love to see a photo of you pottering round the supermarket Creaky. That sounds great. I've always fancied going supermarket shopping dressed inappropriately. I quite like the idea of tottering around in a pair of kitten heals.  My brother used to be a hovercraft mechanic which mean't he had to wear this green industrial all-in-one waterproof outfit. He once pulled the cord ties of his hood really tight so that it framed just one of his eyes and then he wandered the streets of portsmouth town centre pretending to be a cyclops monster. The more abuse he got the funnier he thought it was. Strange fellow....he also used to go to college in his slippers. But that makes him a legend in my eyes. |
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Post by Fellalady on Apr 19, 2005 11:47:41 GMT
" They stole your bike helmet? How odd!"
Yep, one actually wore it and then wandered into my housemates room (this was at four in the morning). She woke up half in a dream and thought it was me, and then tried to remember ordering a courier and then came round and realised what was happening. Scary!
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Post by creakyknees on Apr 19, 2005 11:53:37 GMT
My brother used to be a hovercraft mechanic which mean't he had to wear this green industrial all-in-one waterproof outfit. He once pulled the cord ties of his hood really tight so that it framed just one of his eyes and then he wandered the streets of portsmouth town centre pretending to be a cyclops monster. Sounds a bit like Kenny. Being a hovercraft mechanic would seem to give carte blanche to someone to wear whatever they liked. Did his unusual job help in success with girls at nightclubs? (I'm thinking of obvious terrible job related one-liners here) |
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Post by John Brainlove on Apr 19, 2005 12:19:22 GMT
I enjoy looking really cool and tarted up in an inappropriate place like asda. Frilly red button down shirt, long black suede jacket/coat I look like a 19th century vampire schoolteacher Actually thats quite sad really, going to a supermarket so you look better dressed than everyone else. That sounds like a good outfit. I do this too, dressing up for just going to the cornershop. Not sure why. I like being overdressed though, in general.* *Although apparently this makes people think I am gay.  |
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Do you guys wear helmets whilst cycling? I know it's pretty uncool to, but I got knocked off my bike last year & if I wasn't wearing my helmet, it would have caved my cranium in so was fucking glad my girlfriend insisted on me wearing it. 
well, thats me... "different looking"
