BrumJim
Forum Stalwart (won't take the hint and leave...)
- Location
- Selly Oak, Birmingham
From a colleague, who reckons that he is already perfecting the handlebar grip:
I've just had a free upgrade to a large lemonade from the very nice chap at Kentucky Fried Rabbit who asked how my day had been.
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I'm off to bed, it's been a long couple of days.
edit: and I had the easy part. Respect is definitely due.
Wow!I've just had a free upgrade to a large lemonade from the very nice chap at Kentucky Fried Rabbit who asked how my day had been.
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I'm off to bed, it's been a long couple of days.
edit: and I had the easy part. Respect is definitely due.
When my first was born, I ended up getting a cab home at 3am. Driver said to me (having asked what I'd been doing at the hospital; imagine cockney accent) ""Gor blimey, congratulations, mate. I'd give you a cigar, if I 'ad any".I've just had a free upgrade to a large lemonade from the very nice chap at Kentucky Fried Rabbit who asked how my day had been.
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Sweet, and looks just like you!I've just had a free upgrade to a large lemonade from the very nice chap at Kentucky Fried Rabbit who asked how my day had been.
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I'm off to bed, it's been a long couple of days.
edit: and I had the easy part. Respect is definitely due.
When my first was born, I ended up getting a cab home at 3am. Driver said to me (having asked what I'd been doing at the hospital; imagine cockney accent) ""Gor blimey, congratulations, mate. I'd give you a cigar, if I 'ad any".![]()
I was there for al three, but I DO think there's a certain amount of saying 'it's the best thing ever' because tht's what polite modern society wants us (men) to say. If truth be known (and yes, I KNOW it wasn't mean to be about me) I felt each time that the midwives/nurses/doctors would much rather blokes weren't there, and (though nice polite middle class people are generally a bit shocked when I say this) I would also say that there's every possibility that the mother giving birth would fare much better with a trusted female companion than a bloke trying not to get in the way, yet help, support, be sworn at, and basically be everything at once with no right of comeback or comment.When my first was born my mobile was switched off and I was hiding. We had 2 more children and I went AWOL and hid for those births too. I felt bad, but not that bad that I wished that I hadn't hid. Other fathers always say "You don't know what you missed", but of course I know what I missed and boy am I glad I missed it.![]()