Trivial things that please you beyond all expectations

[matticus]

We've had motion-sensitive lights installed in the looooong straight downstairs corridor.

Now when you walk down it, you feel like you're in a blimming Sci-Fi movie. It is cool beyond all expectations 😎 :P

 

[lazybloke]

We've had motion-sensitive lights installed in the looooong straight downstairs corridor.

Now when you walk down it, you feel like you're in a blimming Sci-Fi movie. It is cool beyond all expectations 😎 :P

I keep meaning to do that on my stairs.
Otherwise the kids will ALWAYS leave the f****** lights on , 24x7!

 

[Andy in Germany]

I keep meaning to do that on my stairs.
Otherwise the kids will ALWAYS leave the f****** lights on , 24x7!

My parents thought that. Then I left home and they discovered that the lights were still mysteriously left on.

 

[Accy cyclist]

I took my mutt for a haircut yesterday. On entering the shop I spotted some dog coats for sale. I told the staff that I liked a particular one and would think about buying it while he was having his haircut. When I went to collect him two hours later, I noticed they'd put the coat on him. I'm not bothered at all about that as one has to be slightly pushy in business. On paying for his haircut the shop's owner only charged me for his cut, forgetting the dog coat they were hoping to sell.

I said to her that I liked the coat and wanted to buy it, adding she'd forgot to charge me. She thanked me for telling her about the coat and then knocked ten percent off the cost of the coat for my 'honesty'. I declined the offer, but she insisted on knocking off ten percent. How nice of her was that eh.

 

[Asa Post]

Checking my wildlife cams, I found that two of them automatically update the time when the clocks change

 

[Chris S]

An old primary school at the end of my road was converted into a centre for children with behavioural problems. They used to stand outside it at lunch time and 'borrow' money from vulnerable people. It is now a burnt out shell. I think one of the pupils must have set it on fire but the locals won't be sorry to see it go either.

 

[Chris S]

I had to go to my local hospital yesterday which is near a school. I must have seen about half a dozen pupils cycling to it. I thought that had died out in the 1980s.

 

[Chris S]

My Hercules Balmoral came out of the factory with a black saddle and white hand grips. They'd turned a rusty cream colour after 50 years so I replaced them with black ones. It now looks like a completely different bike.

 

[Andy in Germany]

Probably not 'trivial' in some ways, but it makes me happy that African Germans are starting to feature in adverts; not just dubbed adverts from the US, but speaking German and clearly in a German context.
Migrants from Africa are a fairly new demographic in Germany; in our first years here, if we saw someone of African origin, we spoke English with them on the assumption they were from the US base in Stuttgart. The fact that African Germans are in adverts and speaking German shows that they are integrating, and making enough money for advertisers to take notice of them.

 

[Chris S]

The Green Party got 100 more votes than the Tories in my constituency.

 

[Accy cyclist]

Wonderful news!!!😁 Rose the terrier has been rescued after being trapped underground for eight days!!!🍾🥂🍻

https://www.examinerlive.co.uk/news/local-news/trapped-halifax-dog-rescue-latest-30061789?int_source=nba

 

[Accy cyclist]

My kitchen waste bin is smelling of something rotting. I quite like it as seeing as I don't do 'foreign holidays' in warm/hot places these days, the stench reminds me of those holidays where you'd wander round, passing restaurant bins, getting whiffs of all things decomposing in the heat!!

 

[postman]

Today queuing at the bus stop,it's not the British way anymore.And some people older or infirm are getting pushed about.Postman just had to keep his mouth shut there was plenty of seats it was the first stop on its return joueney.

 

[Chris S]

My kitchen waste bin is smelling of something rotting. I quite like it as seeing as I don't do 'foreign holidays' in warm/hot places these days, the stench reminds me of those holidays where you'd wander round, passing restaurant bins, getting whiffs of all things decomposing in the heat!!

Birmingham during the bin strike smelled just like Spain!

 

[Gunk]

My kitchen waste bin is smelling of something rotting. I quite like it as seeing as I don't do 'foreign holidays' in warm/hot places these days, the stench reminds me of those holidays where you'd wander round, passing restaurant bins, getting whiffs of all things decomposing in the heat!!

Empty it then