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Welly misses mileage milestone by miles
Posted: Thu May 16, 2013 7:30 am
by Welly
First I missed that all important 60K a while back and vowed to capture the 61K in all its glory until it rolled-over on a busy road last night
So here, nearly, is the big 61 and here's to many more
Re: Welly misses mileage milestone by miles
Posted: Thu May 16, 2013 7:37 am
by puggy
I suppose when you reach the stage when you are driving a vulva
watching the milometer seems like an exciting thing to do
Re: Welly misses mileage milestone by miles
Posted: Thu May 16, 2013 7:41 am
by Welly
For some reason I can't think of a reply to that
How are you Puggy?
Re: Welly misses mileage milestone by miles
Posted: Thu May 16, 2013 8:39 am
by steve_earwig
*forwards pic to police re: driving without due care & attention*
Re: Welly misses mileage milestone by miles
Posted: Thu May 16, 2013 8:53 am
by Welly
One of my many hobbies (including experimental Asian cookery) is to safely raise the driven wheels of a vehicle on my driveway and run the drive-train through its gears whilst stationary. This is why the MPG-o-meter is saying 99mpg so nerr
That was a little fib, I actually hopped into the rear seat for a bit whilst on a busy A-Road and zoomed-in on the dash, this in itself was a nuisance as I couldn't find anywhere to put my Red Wine and Cigarette
Re: Welly misses mileage milestone by miles
Posted: Thu May 16, 2013 9:02 am
by steve_earwig
Well that's ok then
Did they make smoking while driving illegal now? It wouldn't surprise me anyway (nobody smokes in my cars
). I presume you weren't eating a donkeyburger at the time...
Re: Welly misses mileage milestone by miles
Posted: Thu May 16, 2013 10:45 am
by Welly
steve_earwig wrote:I presume you weren't eating a donkeyburger at the time...
No I'd just finished eating (hence the cigarette) but I was in the middle of an important text message
You can schmoke in cars but not in 'shared' work vehicles. Do you still smoke steve?
Re: Welly misses mileage milestone by miles
Posted: Thu May 16, 2013 11:05 am
by steve_earwig
Oh yes
I tried to give up once more last year but I started again to avoid a domestic World War 3...
Re: Welly misses mileage milestone by miles
Posted: Thu May 16, 2013 12:26 pm
by scotty73
puggy wrote: driving a vulva
I think that was another reason for the ciggie and red wine... Lucky (dirty bastard)... i wonder who he was texting to brag about it?
Re: Welly misses mileage milestone by miles
Posted: Thu May 16, 2013 1:27 pm
by puggy
I'm very well thanks welly , as i hope you are
as regards eating whilst driving dont you have your food puree'd now so
you can suck it through a straw ??
Re: Welly misses mileage milestone by miles
Posted: Thu May 16, 2013 1:54 pm
by lozz
steve_earwig wrote:Oh yes
I tried to give up once more last year but I started again to avoid a domestic World War 3...
Get a electronic ciggy mate,
I've not had a real CIG in 4 month,
I've been using one called i-breath, it still contains nicotine but not as harmful as areal CIG
I cut down that way..
I've saved a fortune with it too,
With what I've saved its paid for a cheap car for the mrs..
http://www.i-breathe.co.uk/
Re: Welly misses mileage milestone by miles
Posted: Thu May 16, 2013 2:11 pm
by Welly
I used to smoke but stopped in 2001, I hadn't really noticed the cost of fags recently until someone said the other day and I was shocked
I cut down (rather than stopped) over a month or so until I was down to maybe 2-a-day and it seemed pointless then so just stopped. I suppose we're all different though. I know one thing; it was nice to go into shops without
needing to look at the Cigarettes and I think we'd all rather be a non-smoker at the end of the day.
Oh and Puggy; I haven't quite got to liquidised food yet but you'll be the first to know
Re: Welly misses mileage milestone by miles
Posted: Thu May 16, 2013 2:20 pm
by lozz
I tried stopping smoking without the i-breathe thingie..
Did OK for a while, the end up with the worst caugh ever,
Also noticed people wouid spark up in front of you knowing full well your quitting..
Its like walking past a pie shop when your hungry,,
Re: Welly misses mileage milestone by miles
Posted: Thu May 16, 2013 3:30 pm
by Welly
I kinda miss smoking sometimes;
Sitting outside on a hot day with a Coffee was a good one.
Beach Smoking was hard to beat.
First one in the car on the way to work (or after work) was always good.
Not to mention Beer-and-a-fag
I never did do that smoke-after-a-meal thing and never smoked indoors cos she didn't like the smell
.....this
probably isn't helping is it?
Re: Welly misses mileage milestone by miles
Posted: Thu May 16, 2013 6:52 pm
by steve_earwig
No, I'm thinking "small beer compared to all the advantages of giving up"
You should work out how much money you've saved since you quit...
My wife smokes, so there's no incentive to go outside or anything. I kind of wish there was, it would limit the amount I smoke. It doesn't help that fags here are cheap compared to the UK (about 2 quid a packet, or 4 quid odd for a wotsit of tobacco which is what I'm on these days).
I've tried a few gimmicks to help giving up: chewing gum (gave me
lockjaw), patches (hahaha I have 12 on my arm now and I still feel like killing someone
), I even bought some nicotine spray last time I was in the UK, it was quite pricey and made me vomit. So I'm a little reluctant to try anything else. The stupid thing is I gave up for almost a year once, using Zyban, but I rather idiotically though I could get away with being a "social smoker", only smoking when I had a drink (don't even think about it, there'll soon be no-one you can ponce one off and then you'll buy a packet...) Unfortunately they don't do them here