The Retirement Thread

[PaulSB]

The only person who phones me is my mum. I appear to be Billy no mates.

My kids and grandchildren all message me instead.

I'm the same WD unless one of my sons wants to borrow money! Even that can be by text. My mum and dad are long gone.

 

[Deleted member 1258]

We rarely answer the landline these days except if we are expecting No.3 sin to call. For some reason he often rings the landline.

Our theory is if something is important the caller will leave a message.

We don't have a landline phone, we have a landline but only for the internet.

 

[Paulus]

An update on my earlier post, the gentle rain has now turned into very heavy rain

 

[PaulSB]

We don't have a landline phone, we have a landline but only for the internet.

We're the same but retained the number. We make all calls on mobiles as it's so cheap. Sky charge a ridiculous amount for a phone call.

 

[Paulus]

That's these bloody scam phone calls started again this morning. Supposed to be from BT saying your internet will be cut off unless you press button whatever! Feckin annoying.

They are a nuisance, often an Asian accent saying that they are from your internet/phone company. They get short shrift from me, but I can easily see how some people are taken in and they give the details of their account and suddenly their bank account has been emptied

 

[Dave7]

The only person who phones me is my mum. I appear to be Billy no mates.

My kids and grandchildren all message me instead.

Send me your number.......I will phone you

 

[Paulus]

Send me your number.......I will phone you

Grovelling will not help your cause

 

[PaulSB]

Send me your number.......I will phone you

I think that was the hidden message.......

 

[welsh dragon]

We went shopping in the metropolis yesterday. Parked in the main car park and Mr WD went to the pay and display to get the ticket.

However he made a mistake pressing the buttons and put the wrong reg in. He was 1 letter out. Mr WD had to buy a second ticket. It ended up costing £1.40 to park for 30 minutes.

 

[Paulus]

We went shopping in the metropolis yesterday. Parked in the main car park and Mr WD went to the pay and display to get the ticket.

However he made a mistake pressing the buttons and put the wrong reg in. He was 1 letter out. Mr WD had to buy a second ticket. It ended up costing £1.40 to park for 30 minutes.

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Oops.

 

[PaulSB]

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The reg was an expression of joy at the thought of shopping?

 

[welsh dragon]

The reg was an expression of joy at the thought of shopping?

Quite possibly.

 

[PaulSB]

I see ALDI are offering "pull on" cycling gloves as part of this week's cycling specials.

Clearly I've been doing it wrong for 50 years.

 

[172traindriver]

That's these bloody scam phone calls started again this morning. Supposed to be from BT saying your internet will be cut off unless you press button whatever! Feckin annoying.

I normally dont bother to answer phone calls and think if you really want me you will leave me a message then I will call back.
Hardly ever get a message.....really popular bloke me
Anyway a few weeks ago for some reason I answered and an Indian sounding gentleman was trying to tell me my internet was about to be cut off.
Simple instead of telling him to f##k off like I normally do I said who are you speaking to sir, what is my name?
Funny call went dead

 

[172traindriver]

We rarely answer the landline these days except if we are expecting No.3 sin to call. For some reason he often rings the landline.

Our theory is if something is important the caller will leave a message.

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