What Are You Doing In Real Life II

[Mr Quatro]

Originally Posted by Jimbuna

Currently sweating on two very expensive bids on models over on evilbay which are due to come to a conclusion whilst I'm at work tonight.

I hate not being in control and leaving matters to guesswork.

Is that ebay in UK or overseas?

[Sailor Steve]

Originally Posted by Mr Quatro

Do you take up a collection? Wear a hat

Nah, it was a family party for our lead guitarist's late aunt. We did it gratis. The food was good, though.

[Jimbuna]

Originally Posted by Mr Quatro

Is that ebay in UK or overseas?

In the UK. I was successful with both bids and am now a little over £500 the poorer.

If you've gotta have it you must pay the price

[Jimbuna]

Not long back from the dentist, mouth frozen, drooping upper lip and two fewer teeth.

Impressions taken for partial dentures and a relieved wife and daughter.

Father should have no problems smiling for the wedding photographs now but little do they realise I now run the risk of my dentures falling out whilst in the middle of my wedding speech

[Mr Quatro]

Back in the old days of trains gone by ... the train use to pick up a bag of mail at a train station without even slowing down.

So I got to wondering if the train ever missed a mail bag ... here's the answer: https://postalmuseum.si.edu/rms/life/mail.html

“The night was coal black, and it was awkward holding onto the mail sack with one hand, the other on the crossbar . . . watching for the faint glow of the light on the crane. . . . The wind tried to steal your breath away. . . . There was both relief and satisfaction when I heard the 'whing' of the pouch as it was snatched.” —L. E. Davis, RPO Clerk

As early as 1865, before the arrival of mail cranes, mail was exchanged on nonstop trains, but to do so, engineers had to slow trains down to a crawl so clerks could exchange the mail by hand. This system, both inefficient and dangerous, was soon scrapped. The first track side Railway Mail Service cranes were wooden, F-shaped, mechanisms. They were soon replaced by a simple steel hook and crane.

As tremendously successful as it was, mail “on-the-fly" still had its share of glitches. Clerks had to pay special attention to raising the train's catcher arm. If they hoisted it too soon, they risked hitting switch targets, telegraph poles or semaphores which would rip the catcher arm right off the train. Too late, and they would miss an exchange. Each missed exchange would net a clerk five demerits.

Missed exchanges were a special threat on a handful of eastern runs that had less than a minute between some exchanges. On single line tracks, mail cranes could appear on either side, and woe be the new clerk who, alertly looking out the right-hand side of the train, missed a series of mail cranes on the left-hand side. Experienced clerks on board night mail trains relied on the sound or "feel" of the tracks, knowing by the train's speed or the curves of the track how far away they were from a mail crane.

Exchanging the mail was a two-part process, after the clerk snagged the mail bag with the catcher arm, he had to toss out that station’s mailbag. If a clerk did not kick the mailbag out far enough, it could get trapped beneath the wheels of the train, bursting open and sending letters flying everywhere. The clerks called such small disasters "snowstorms." On the other hand, too much "oomph" could also be a problem. One poor clerk tossed the mailbag out with such force that it sailed through the bay window of the station house. Another kicked off his shoe along with the bag.

[Aktungbby]

Father should have no problems smiling for the wedding photographs now but little do they realise I now run the risk of my dentures falling out whilst in the middle of my wedding speech !

From which we get the expression: "May U forever hold your peace!"

[Jimbuna]

Originally Posted by Aktungbby

From which we get the expression: "May U forever hold your peace!"

[STEED]

Off to work later and its getting very cloudy out there with dark clouds.

[Jimbuna]

Most expensive of the two models arrived today and I am suitably impressed and found out earlier that the seller is a guy I communicate on the diecast forum

[Aktungbby]

Originally Posted by Jimbuna

Most expensive of the two models arrived today and I am suitably impressed and found out earlier that the seller is a guy I communicate on the diecast forum

WHA....! there's a Die-Cast forum?? No transactions on the 15th of March BBY! What to imbibe while playing with diecast airplane collections!!

[Von Due]

Coming to realise I will never become a chess player. Watching a grand master teach kids about the game, the bright brats solving chess puzzles where I go "huh?".

[STEED]

Got soaked at work and coming home. Wow rain in my part of the UK well i never.

[Jimbuna]

Just made my pick of holiday location for October. Showed it to Steve on Skype and he approves so now it is down to the bride to decide tomorrow.

[Mr Quatro]

Has anyone seen Aktungbby lately? Doesn't he guard ATM builds?


Man gets stuck in ATM and slips 'help me' notes through receipt slot

A repairman changing out the lock of an ATM was stuck inside the room that houses it -- and was forced to slip notes asking for help through the cash dispenser's receipt slot.

http://www.cnn.com/2017/07/13/us/rep...rnd/index.html

[Aktungbby]

Yeah, the idiot should have had security.