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A true story about me. (Memories)

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  • Registered Users Posts: 8,551 ✭✭✭Rubecula


    looksee wrote: »
    You are only just back for heavens sake! :D

    well you never know when you might need a bolt hole do you? :D


  • Registered Users Posts: 8,551 ✭✭✭Rubecula


    And then there was the time I went shopping without my glasses on a warm day, in a supermarket (aldi) I went with my girlfriend. I have said it was a warm day and the aldi was hot inside so I went and bought myself a carton of milk and also one for the girlfriend too. At any event ater the groceries were paid for I went outside and presented a fresh carton of milk to my young lady, with a happy sort of pride, she asked me why. I explained that it was to help,if she was thirsty. she burst out laughing and made me look at the carton and I could make out a word that said milk. she laughed all the harder and pointed out she was not a cat. Then she let me use her reading glasses. I made out a picture if a black and white cow which it was not it was a black and white cat. I had bought two cartons of cat's milk for kittens...… dear lord I will never live that down. especially as we don't have even a whisker of a cat between us.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    A. I've never heard of a supermarket selling Cat's milk, so learned something new today.

    B. You're a real charmer. A carton of milk for the good lady.

    C. I'd never think of a carton of milk on the go.


    You never cease to amaze and amuse me. Thank you.


  • Registered Users Posts: 8,551 ✭✭✭Rubecula


    A. I've never heard of a supermarket selling Cat's milk, so learned something new today.

    B. You're a real charmer. A carton of milk for the good lady.

    C. I'd never think of a carton of milk on the go.


    You never cease to amaze and amuse me. Thank you.


    thank heaven she looked at it before we tried it :D


  • Moderators, Arts Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 76,339 Mod ✭✭✭✭New Home


    Don't worry Rube, it's just overpriced, lactose-free milk with added fish and vegetable oils. Your fur will be sssoooo glossy, you'll look purrrfect in time for Christmas! :D


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  • Registered Users Posts: 71,799 ✭✭✭✭Ted_YNWA


    We'd can get him a ball of wool for Christmas.


  • Moderators, Arts Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 76,339 Mod ✭✭✭✭New Home


    Cheap skate, splash out on some catnip, at least! :D


  • Registered Users Posts: 8,551 ✭✭✭Rubecula


    mistakes like this could happen to anyone, at least I am not the Mr Bean that Colette thinks I am. :)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    Rubecula wrote: »
    mistakes like this could happen to anyone...:)

    Eh, no actually.


  • Moderators, Arts Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 76,339 Mod ✭✭✭✭New Home


    Rubecula wrote: »
    mistakes like this could happen to anyone, at least I am not the Mr Bean that Colette thinks I am. :)


    Just to be on the safe side, DO NOT touch any paper bag if you're on a plane. Trust me.


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  • Registered Users Posts: 8,551 ✭✭✭Rubecula


    New Home wrote: »
    Just to be on the safe side, DO NOT touch any paper bag if you're on a plane. Trust me.
    :pac::pac::pac:


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 7,108 ✭✭✭Jellybaby1


    New Home wrote: »
    Just to be on the safe side, DO NOT touch any paper bag if you're on a plane. Trust me.


    I'm really sorry you gave me that vision!! Away with you! Ugh! :eek:


  • Registered Users Posts: 32,634 ✭✭✭✭Graces7


    Interesting as I bought some long life lactose free milk i n LIDL as they had run out of the UHT I keep in stock.. Tasted fine and also was good for my cats


  • Moderators, Arts Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 76,339 Mod ✭✭✭✭New Home


    The stuff they sell in small bottles for cats has a few extra ingredients compared to the one aimed at humans, Graces. :)
    Ingredients: Milk, Water, Nonfat Dry Milk, Malt Extract, Trisodium Phosphate, Hydrogenated Vegetable Oil, Guar Gum, Corn Syrup Solids, Lactase, Taurine, Carrageenan, Sodium Caseinate, Mono and Diglycerides, Dextrose


  • Registered Users Posts: 8,551 ✭✭✭Rubecula


    o have been buying goat milk recently too


  • Registered Users Posts: 32,634 ✭✭✭✭Graces7


    New Home wrote: »
    The stuff they sell in small bottles for cats has a few extra ingredients compared to the one aimed at humans, Graces. :)

    Well yes but they say cats are lactose intolerant so it is the absence.. . My mob are very well fed and need no extras ;) They are postiviely bouncing and glowing with good health, especially the two new small ones.... Heaven help me and th eolder cats if they got any more lively :eek:
    I honestly do not think cats in general are lactose intoleranr anyways...


  • Registered Users Posts: 32,634 ✭✭✭✭Graces7


    Rubecula wrote: »
    o have been buying goat milk recently too

    When I lived on a North Sea island I had a goat called Poppy and never had but her milk all those years.. made cheese too sometimes.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    Rubecula wrote: »
    o have been buying goat milk recently too

    I wish you well with it Rube. We were, more or less, brought up on it and I never liked it. My grandmother's goats were demons too; would eat the clothes on the line and were more stubborn than any mule.


  • Registered Users Posts: 8,551 ✭✭✭Rubecula


    Graces7 wrote: »
    When I lived on a North Sea island I had a goat called Poppy and never had but her milk all those years.. made cheese too sometimes.

    I never had goats cheese before the holiday I mentioned previously, I had it toasted while there … sadly my OH did not appreciate the malodorous effects it had on my digestive system in the night … hence when I woke up in the morning I was alone with all the windows wide open :D:D:D


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 7,108 ✭✭✭Jellybaby1


    Rubecula wrote: »
    I never had goats cheese before the holiday I mentioned previously, I had it toasted while there … sadly my OH did not appreciate the malodorous effects it had on my digestive system in the night … hence when I woke up in the morning I was alone with all the windows wide open :D:D:D


    Thanks Rube. Another darned memory I didn't need! :rolleyes:


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  • Registered Users Posts: 8,551 ✭✭✭Rubecula


    well that was a bit insane .

    I had expected a nice quiet holiday period with my loved ones over Christmas but you know by now what I expect and what I get are usually mutually exclusive. and so it proved to be/


    Last year I was ill for Christmas and had to come home early. Thus year I was not going to be affected by the same thing again. No pain in my right leg was going to stop me enjoying myself this year I even had an invite to a party. Well the good news is my right leg didn't. My left leg however.... GRRRRRR

    just to make things a tad worse of course my car hit a pothole at speed on the Christmas eve when I was travelling to the arms of my loving family. my phone didn't work and I ended up on a dark country lane destroyed front wheel and all.

    I had to wait nearly three hours for a mechanic to help me it was Christmas eve after all. got to the city in the early hours and cursed my luck. The following week I finally git new tyres and wheel on the car nut the car has all sorts of electric sensors on it and they were also damaged and so needed replacing . I had to wait until after new year.

    the party? well, we were both too ill to go/ Christmas turkey? what is that? we had beans on toast. but overall it was a great big waste of time. :(


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    Rubecula wrote: »
    well that was a bit insane .

    I had expected a nice quiet holiday period with my loved ones over Christmas but you know by now what I expect and what I get are usually mutually exclusive. and so it proved to be/


    Last year I was ill for Christmas and had to come home early. Thus year I was not going to be affected by the same thing again. No pain in my right leg was going to stop me enjoying myself this year I even had an invite to a party. Well the good news is my right leg didn't. My left leg however.... GRRRRRR

    just to make things a tad worse of course my car hit a pothole at speed on the Christmas eve when I was travelling to the arms of my loving family. my phone didn't work and I ended up on a dark country lane destroyed front wheel and all.

    I had to wait nearly three hours for a mechanic to help me it was Christmas eve after all. got to the city in the early hours and cursed my luck. The following week I finally git new tyres and wheel on the car nut the car has all sorts of electric sensors on it and they were also damaged and so needed replacing . I had to wait until after new year.

    the party? well, we were both too ill to go/ Christmas turkey? what is that? we had beans on toast. but overall it was a great big waste of time. :(
    :D At least you're still in the land of the living. I was starting to fear you'd left us for good.


    All I can say is; if it's going to happen to anybody it'll be Rubes.


  • Moderators, Arts Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 76,339 Mod ✭✭✭✭New Home


    And at least this time there were no motorbikes involved.... or were there? :D

    (Welcome back and happy new year, Rube. :))


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 7,108 ✭✭✭Jellybaby1


    Poor Rube, even your legs are plotting against you! Face the new year with the knowledge that you survived 2018 and now you can fight back......have a greater 2019!


  • Registered Users Posts: 8,551 ✭✭✭Rubecula


    may I just say happy new year to you all have a free hug ticket on me :)


  • Registered Users Posts: 32,634 ✭✭✭✭Graces7


    Rubecula wrote: »
    may I just say happy new year to you all have a free hug ticket on me :)

    and back at you from the windy isle...


  • Registered Users Posts: 8,551 ✭✭✭Rubecula


    To continue with the life and tribulations of being me Last Tuesday evening I wanted a nice hot cuppa annoyingly I got to the fridge and found I had no milk left. "Sid it" thinks me I had just time to get to the local shop before it shut So off I set. I beetled around the shop bought my milk (or at least put it in the basket) Then as the girls said I had a few minutes I went and added a few other items to the Load.


    Right That will do for me think and headed for the till. OMG I had no wallet with me. I felt mortified I had kept the poor girls over to wait for me and now I had come out without my money. I had no option but to apologise profusely and put the goods back on the shelves the girls were very kind though.

    So I left the shop still dying for a cuppa. Tea Coffee anything would have done. Anyway I went home picked up my wallet from the coffee table And decided that it would be possible if I was to drive I could get to the Spar in the next village and be back in time for the telly I wanted to see


    Al seemed to be going fine then ….. Until I reached the slip road to the dual carriageway. (A55 if these detals are important to you) Anyway unbeknown to me the temp had dropped alarmingly And I hit a patch of black ice.


    The car skidded and hit the Armco barrier denting the side and the front wing which I had just had repaired under the insurance. I was fed up and came home / I was also a bit shaken up. In fact I was so shaken up I had not realised I had banged my head on the car door in the bump.


    Later o in bed I woke up to a blinding headache and a feeling of being unwell. I put on the light and found I couldn't see out of one eye. "OMG I am aving a stroke" I think so I Phoned the ambulance right away … No Says the para medic you are not having a stroke (You may have already had minor stroke though) go see thee doctor tomorrow. Oh and here are a couple of paracetomol for the headache.


    So to cut a long story short I am now sitting here unable to see out ogf one eye I did go to the doctors and they sent m to the hospital for the check ups and it was only then I remembered I my have banged my head in the incident. I have some eyedrops to help with the pain and possible infection and I gi=o back on Thursday. But now everybody and his dog wants t see me and needs me to do things for them And frankly I can not see wnything at all so I ask you folks to forgive any typos on the screen


  • Registered Users Posts: 8,551 ✭✭✭Rubecula


    by the way I consider myself to be lucky there were a dozen or more incidents tht night on the same patch of road and in one of them there was a 5 car pile up


  • Moderators, Arts Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 76,339 Mod ✭✭✭✭New Home


    Rubecula wrote: »
    To continue with the life and tribulations of being me Last Tuesday evening I wanted a nice hot cuppa annoyingly I got to the fridge and found I had no milk left. "Sid it" thinks me I had just time to get to the local shop before it shut So off I set. I beetled around the shop bought my milk (or at least put it in the basket) Then as the girls said I had a few minutes I went and added a few other items to the Load.


    Right That will do for me think and headed for the till. OMG I had no wallet with me. I felt mortified I had kept the poor girls over to wait for me and now I had come out without my money. I had no option but to apologise profusely and put the goods back on the shelves the girls were very kind though.

    So I left the shop still dying for a cuppa. Tea Coffee anything would have done. Anyway I went home picked up my wallet from the coffee table And decided that it would be possible if I was to drive I could get to the Spar in the next village and be back in time for the telly I wanted to see


    Al seemed to be going fine then ….. Until I reached the slip road to the dual carriageway. (A55 if these detals are important to you) Anyway unbeknown to me the temp had dropped alarmingly And I hit a patch of black ice.


    The car skidded and hit the Armco barrier denting the side and the front wing which I had just had repaired under the insurance. I was fed up and came home / I was also a bit shaken up. In fact I was so shaken up I had not realised I had banged my head on the car door in the bump.


    Later o in bed I woke up to a blinding headache and a feeling of being unwell. I put on the light and found I couldn't see out of one eye. "OMG I am aving a stroke" I think so I Phoned the ambulance right away … No Says the para medic you are not having a stroke (You may have already had minor stroke though) go see thee doctor tomorrow. Oh and here are a couple of paracetomol for the headache.


    So to cut a long story short I am now sitting here unable to see out ogf one eye I did go to the doctors and they sent m to the hospital for the check ups and it was only then I remembered I my have banged my head in the incident. I have some eyedrops to help with the pain and possible infection and I gi=o back on Thursday. But now everybody and his dog wants t see me and needs me to do things for them And frankly I can not see wnything at all so I ask you folks to forgive any typos on the screen
    Rubecula wrote: »
    by the way I consider myself to be lucky there were a dozen or more incidents tht night on the same patch of road and in one of them there was a 5 car pile up

    Jesus, Rube... that's terrifying!!! I'd go to the A&E if I were you, Thursday is a long way away... Be well, and stay clear of milk of any kind, it doesn't seem to be any good to you. :(:/


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  • Registered Users Posts: 8,551 ✭✭✭Rubecula


    New Home wrote: »
    Jesus, Rube... that's terrifying!!! I'd go to the A&E if I were you, Thursday is a long way away... Be well, and stay clear of milk of any kind, it doesn't seem to be any good to you. :(:/
    you think it is terrifying you really should see it from my side lol oh hang on even I can't see it lol lol


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