Made my day!

nimbhus remember what I was saying about pisstaking, on that track cycling adidas ad thread, your comment adds nothing and sets the tone for all future comments, and in so doing, your restricting what I feel I should post, because of your juvenile response and the reponses it may elicit, and the level of debate, discussion that will now come from you having said that.
If you've got nothing better to post up than the forum equivalent of first, then whats the point of posting it in the first place.

I'm going to have to have a little word with you next time i'm at west drinks, i'm afraid..telling me off in public like that

my broken elbow just straightened itself about 5 degrees more than it was 15 minutes ago.

Woo! healing is great...
I'm sure Thursday Drinks will complete my day.

just now a car swerved into my lane, no harm done but I went to see them as they had stopped by the lights. They were four of them and gave me big smiles and huge apologies. They explained that the lady driver was Polish and new in London (they were in a Polish car).
I forgave them instantly :)

So refreshing not to be greeted with a torrent of abuse, both sides.

This is the nicest thread on this whole forum. Makes me want to ride around waving at everyone! :)

Nice one Corny.

Just had a refreshing experience this evening. Was nipping into the offies to break a tenner so I could give a fiver to edmundane for a rim. There were two young lads in there on Halfords death traps and they were totally amazed by my bike. They couldn't fathom it at all and started asking all these desperate and awe-filled questions like "how fast does it go?" "why does have no gears?" "could it beat my bike in a race?" "can it do tricks?" "how do you fit your feet on those tiny pedals (spd's)?" They were so fascinated I stuck around for a bit chatting to them about fixed wheel bikes explaining some of the hows and whys. Hopefully inspired them to not go for the shiny 73 geared grip shift nasties next time they want a bike for christmas.

i'm saying nothing

i'm saying nothing

you know you wanna say something about "grip shift nasties".

how dare you sir!

A number of years ago I was sat on a Met line train out towards the end of the line (visiting the olds), bouncing along, as you do. There was another train travelling along parallel to us, a few tracks over, and from it a small girl was waving to our train, encouraged by her father. The young lady who was sat opposite me, rather than wave back in a sympathetic, friendly manner, decided it would be more of a giggle to flick the Vs at her and mouth "F--- OFF".

I'm ashamed to say I laughed.

just now a car swerved into my lane, no harm done but I went to see them as they had stopped by the lights. They were four of them and gave me big smiles and huge apologies. They explained that the lady driver was Polish and new in London (they were in a Polish car).
I forgave them instantly :)

So refreshing not to be greeted with a torrent of abuse, both sides.

I love people like that.

couple weeks ago in Wimbledon, a Ford MPV drove past me so close that the mirror hit my shoulder really hard (got a tiny bruise but nothing serious, the lady slow down almost instantly, parked and got out with a "I am so sorry! I didn't realise I was too close to you! is your shoulder alright?", while I was kinda expecting an "you shouldn't be cycling near the middle of the road!" (which I kinda was since there were car parking and I was going fast, better to have a good distance from the parked car and myself to avoid door opening unexpected), especially considering this women is a posh 30-something mother in an huge expensive Ford (those performance MPV bollocks).

I was rather happy to see that respond, that before we parted, I thanked her for being concerned.

I just had a parcel delivered by our super-happy Parcelforce driver. He's fucking great.

A couple of years ago I wrote to Parcelforce to comment on how the bloke was always smiling, seemed to enjoy his work, never had difficulty finding our estate our getting into the block (seems to baffle a lot of couriers), and deserved recognition/to be seen as a model employee.

He was really grateful, received some incentives from Parcelforce to continue being great, and has remained a vibrant figure in my community.

I think it's just as important to write and praise good service, as well as complain about poor service. I've said it before though, probably on this forum, so I'll shut up now.

In addition to this comment - I live in an apartment, with a communal post box area, and my local postie knows that i receive packages/gifts from my parents in the States. Because they don't fit in the post box - he asked me for my mobile no., and said that he will personally drop them off to my workplace (which he has done now, three or four times!) He said that he will always do it for me, because of my usual morning chats, offers of coffee, and healthy xmas tips.
It goes to show that what we consider small efforts, others take as great pleasures. Holla to yer postie!!!!!

ha! I had something similar happen to me twice only I was swimming in the sea, I had swam quite far out and had turned to look back at the coast, while treading water admiring the sun and that sense of peace and quiet ...I can only describe what I thought was Jaws surfacing in front of me which must have triggered my natural scream and flail mode.. after my brain had determined the shape and size wasn't a shark and that there are no great whites in the Scottish seas I stopped to look at a wee cheeky bastard sea lion who was clapping his front paw/flippers together and then spent the next couple of min swimming round me and splashing me with water.

The second time was in Oz, me and a mate had hired some surf boards and went out for a day down the beach, after some hours of catching shitty waves close to the shore we decided to go out a bit further.. we were lying on the boards chatting breeze ..when a fucking huge tiger shark swam between us, it broke the surface of the water and circled us once then headed off ...me and my mate lay on the boards for a while and didn't say a word to each other, was scary but amazing at the same time.

:D

thats an amazing story!i would have literally shat myself if a tiger shark swam anywhere near me.

ahhh!

panda

I have to say, anytime I run into a kid, wherever it may be, they always seem to brighten up my day. I was at the record store the other day and there was a little girl wandering around wearing a little paper crown, when she approached me, and not even shy or hesitant gives me a little tap and says "wanna wear my princess crown?" So I did, she smiled and said "I like it" So simple. If only we could all be happy wearing paper princess crowns.

A bus driver let me go infront of him down by London Bridge. He slowed and I thought he was going to shout at me but he let me go first. Confused me for a while and then made my day.

I have to say, anytime I run into a kid, wherever it may be.

It's one of the dangers of riding brakeless.

ha^

(time to resurrect the happy thread)

i was sitting behind a white van at a junction the other day, he hadn't indicated which way he was going so i stayed behind and then we looked at each other through his side mirror and i signed "which way?", he smiled and indicated, i signed "cool". We smiled again. A great moment.

I saw tower bridge go up, and an old sail boat go under it, made me smile.

Nimbhus? What makes you smile?

and there was this squirrel in the middle of the street that stood on his hind legs as I approached and stared at me in a "I dare you!" kind of way. I almost had to stop...

...but instead you sliced his little furry body in half...

Good call I love squirrel kebabs.

On topic with squirrels - I saw two juvenille squirrels chasing each other up, down and across trees at the station this morning for at least 10min. It was spellbinding.....

.... and even better, as I approached the office, I smacked a hobo with my umbrella and dashed some change in his face. Good times.

You are Patrick Bateman and I claim my £5.