One is without an automobile

[Crackle]

..and it's a dashed infernal nuisance. I believe some chaps advocate this as a a raison d'etre and some women too, probably suffragettes but they probably don't have my knees and offspring to get around so the old safety bicycle is just not on at the moment.

Needs must though and the offspring needed taking to the infirmary and wot not. So I was led to believe that an Omnibus, leaving at it's own convenience would carry us back, having managed conveyance in another automobile to said infirmary.

Anyway, it all went jolly well, bit biting whilst we waited for the chap to turn up but so so. Up he turned and we leapt aboard. "One and a half to my place of abode please, my stout fellow", I said. "80 shillings, 24 pennies", he replied. I spluttered a bit and asked him if he'd perhaps pressed the wrong lever on his contraption but the chap was quite certain.

I exclaimed to the offspring that I'd have to get to the surgery and get these knees fixed so we could get back on the safety bicycles because if we had to use these omnibuses too often we'd be better off with a new automobile.

I then noticed a curious creature smiling at us, a bit simple looking. "Don't smile back" I said to the offspring. "Probably just been released from the infirmary and is a bit ga, ga"

It's all rather inconvenient.

 

[Crackle]

[QUOTE 3016949, member: 259"]If we didn't have one there'd be nowhere for my kids to keep their empty crisp packets and drink cans.[/QUOTE]
Quite so. I noticed this omnibus seemed to be a receptacle for assorted wrappers too.

 

[byegad]

The Omnibuses that runs betwixt Darlington and Durham is very modern with charging sockets for gadgetry and free wifi on board and run for most of the day four times an hour in each direction. Being of a certain age I may travel, during civilised hours when I don't need to mix with the common folk that do that 'W' thing each weekday, free of any charge. I often use it to undertake photographic missions where carrying the Box Brownie on the velocipede is unwise. They are excellent vehicles and very convenient. However planning more involved routes needs the patience of a christian saint of which I'm neither saintly nor a god-botherer, nor for that matter patient, plus the ability to remember lots of numbers, which I can do.

 

[helston90]

I am always shocked at the prices on the buses- it really is not tempting as an alternative mode of transport, fortunately I only use them at Xmas time when the bus man doesn't mind how drunk I am (to a degree).

 

[Speicher]

Crackle, my good fellow, was the omnibus of the extended vertical variety? Did you and your spring-offs venture to the topmost deck of said conveyance, perchance to take a seat at the forward end of the omnibus?

I am astonished, nay my flabber is gasted, that the chauffeur of the omnibus was also the vendor of the requisite tiquettes. I am cognisant that there is advancement of Teck Knowledgies, but it is surely more desirable to have a conductor aboard said conveyance.

 

[Fab Foodie]

[QUOTE 3016949, member: 259"]If we didn't have one there'd be nowhere for my kids to keep their empty crisp packets and drink cans.[/QUOTE]
Don't they have bedrooms?

 

[EltonFrog]

What are these omnibuses of which you speak? If only there was some way of finding out, by some electronic medium or some such, where by information was fed automatically to the home, thus negating the need to leave the habitual abode.

 

[Crackle]

Crackle, my good fellow, was the omnibus of the extended vertical variety? Did you and your spring-offs venture to the topmost deck of said conveyance, perchance to take a seat at the forward end of the omnibus?

I am astonished, nay my flabber is gasted, that the chauffeur of the omnibus was also the vendor of the requisite tiquettes. I am cognisant that there is advancement of Teck Knowledgies, but it is surely more desirable to have a conductor aboard said conveyance.

It was the single deck variety and I quite agree. Some kind of conductor to keep the riff raff in check would make the whole thing more pleasurable.

 

[deptfordmarmoset]

My dear chap, ones automobile is without!

 

[Speicher]

My dear chap, ones automobile is without!

Should I infer that you do not undertake the sheltering of your automobile within a building?

Could you not use the building previously occupied by the horses and horse-drawn carriage?

 

[deptfordmarmoset]

Should I infer that you do not undertake the sheltering of your automobile within a building?

Could you not use the building previously occupied by the horses and horse-drawn carriage?

But where would one keep the horses and stable boys?

 

[tyred]

But where would one keep the horses and stable boys?

Tesco's buy horses I believe but not sure what to do with the stable boy.

 

[John the Canuck]

gave up the car in Feb............ok - except i have to plan grocery trips based on the weather forecast

 

[shouldbeinbed]

I concur with the optional efficacy of ones own horseless carriage contraption, one of ones most beloved family members (Max the Lurcher hound) is in severe pain with a spinal injury and making intermittent noises like Satan himself is tormenting the poor blighter. The five mile trip to our vetinary surgeon would not be permitted by omnibus, he not being an assistance dog, and the velocipede is inappropriate not only for the sensitivity of his disposition but also because his legs can't reach the pedals and he'd fall off the crossbar.

 

[IDMark2]

Caw blimey, all shaahting it a bit posh in 'ere innit? He was like oh ,'omnibus' and him said 'oh, velocipede' and I was like 'Eh, get theeeem inittt...'

Sorry, don't know what came over me, Jeeves, get the Brandy will you, thank you. Where were we?