Responses from 'the other half'.

[Browser]

What bothers me is that you watched Gnomeo and Juliet.

No, she (Mrs B) watched it along with the kids, I've never seen it thanks be to the fates

 

[MacB]

I enjoy scaring my kids wearing mine doing a "Big Daddy" impression, easy easy easy. Apparently I am "not cool"

yep, I get Mexican Wrestler jibes and I think their biggest fear is that one day I make good on my threat and turn up to meet them from school in lycra.

 

[threebikesmcginty]

yep, I get Mexican Wrestler jibes and I think their biggest fear is that one day I make good on my threat and turn up to meet them from school in lycra.

Even without Lycra they're too easy to embarrass, there must be a graph which charts the relationship between their age and the increasing distance from the school gate when they say goodbye (if they can be bothered to say goodbye) to ensure they're not seen with you by their friends.

 

[postman]

I had a very early hospital appointment last month.I had to get the 08-01 bus to Leeds my girl's school bus leaves the same stop 07-50.My youngest asked if i would not be there when the school bus left.Why because they did not want to be seen with me,what about Orlando and Harry Potter World in July they were asked.That's ok no one knows us in America. Good job i don't bother about what people think about me.So i dread to think what their pals would say if they saw me in my cycling gear.

 

[MacB]

Even without Lycra they're too easy to embarrass, there must be a graph which charts the relationship between their age and the increasing distance from the school gate when they say goodbye (if they can be bothered to say goodbye) to ensure they're not seen with you by their friends.

It's strange, I remember that embarassment but then I don't, if you know what I mean...a bit like trying to remember pain, you can get the image but can't recreate the sensation.

I took my middle son and two of his friends to the driving range last weekend, I took a book and sat in the car waiting for them. Apparently I'm ok as a chauffeur but it doesn't entitle me to actually join them on the range. It's quite funny these days both eldest and middle son, plus friends, are pretty used to me driving them around. So they chatter away as if I'm not there....god do they talk some bollocks, I reckon they could give P&L a run for its money.

 

[4F]

yep, I get Mexican Wrestler jibes and I think their biggest fear is that one day I make good on my threat and turn up to meet them from school in lycra.

I have done that, cycled straight from work to parents evening. My daughter would not stand next to me

 

[fossyant]

This is why I cycle in tee shirt, jeans and steel toecap boots.

YMCA

 

[Night Train]

YMCA

I also have the hard hat.

 

[alans]

My appearance in lycra is a case of mind over matter.
I don't mind & no-one else matters.

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

I remember several years ago, the daughter of a family friend telling me that her Dad was SOOO embarrassing because he'd brought a camera to her sports day (obviously in the days before 'Peadofear' gripped the nation).

Personally I'd have loved to have had my picture taken at some of these events. There's no justice, is there?

 

[Night Train]

Personally I'd have loved to have had my picture taken at some of these events.

That always got me when I was a kid, and later as a growing teen.

There were always hundreds of photos of my older brother at all the childhood landmarks and events and almost none of me. I even began to suspect I was adopted.

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

I KNEW I was adopted. Imagine my disappointment then when I finally found out I wasn't.

Yes, my Big Brother was 'Mr Perfect', couldn't do anything wrong, the sunshine shone out is bum. The less said about my sister the better. God, I bloody hated them!

My Brother has improved a bit with age, but my sister is still exactly the same as she was and I imagine she always will be....

 

[Arch]

That always got me when I was a kid, and later as a growing teen.

There were always hundreds of photos of my older brother at all the childhood landmarks and events and almost none of me. I even began to suspect I was adopted.

I wouldn't worry. I think I've taken tons more photos of nephew Oli than of Max. I think in my case it's a feeling that when there's only the one, every moment must be recorded (especially for me, only seeing them a few times a year). By the time Max came along I'd calmed down - as a result, he probably gets more actual quality time with me, without a camera in his face.

Well except the times he puts it there himself:

 

[asterix]

Mrs A says lycra makes me look long and rather thin. This could be because I am rather long and thin. Baggy shorts would not improve things.