BS: Innit nice when things go smooth?

Subject: BS: Innit nice when things go smooth?
From: gnu
Date: 07 Feb 12 - 04:19 PM

Been puttin off goin to the DMV for a driver's license renewal. Take a number and sit and wait. And, the number has a letter in front of it. People who come in a half hour after you get served first. Apparently, some of the staff are stupid and can't do certain tasks.

Today, I got my number and looked at the screen. It was like winning the lotto! Stepped right up, paid my $80 and walked over to the photo shoot. She told me to come in, sign the riggin, step up to the blue curtain, look at the blue light... click... 3 minutes later, I was walkin out. THE DMV in less than TEN MINUTES.

I'd rather win the lotto, but, innit nice when things go smooth? Youse have any small "victories" lately?

Subject: RE: BS: Innit nice when things go smooth?
From: GUEST,olddude
Date: 07 Feb 12 - 04:30 PM

don't know been so long that I can't remember when the last time things went right

Subject: RE: BS: Innit nice when things go smooth?
From: gnu
Date: 07 Feb 12 - 04:32 PM

Mabey God is a Patriots fan too? >;-)

Subject: RE: BS: Innit nice when things go smooth?
From: Crowhugger
Date: 07 Feb 12 - 09:38 PM

The last 3 times we forgot to put the 2nd car in the laneway for the night, we did NOT get a ticket!

Subject: RE: BS: Innit nice when things go smooth?
From: gnu
Date: 07 Feb 12 - 09:49 PM

I hope your good weather continues.

Subject: RE: BS: Innit nice when things go smooth?
From: GUEST,leeneia
Date: 07 Feb 12 - 11:02 PM

I taught my first mountain dulcimer class last week (4 students) and it went well.

Subject: RE: BS: Innit nice when things go smooth?
From: Joe Offer
Date: 07 Feb 12 - 11:55 PM

Arnold Schwarzenegger rightly got a lot of flak while he was governor of California, but he sure made it easier to deal with our Department of Motor Vehicles. I submitted my car registration online last week Sunday night, and had the license stickers in the mail Friday.

Actually, there are lots of times when things go smoothly and people do more than a good job. Life would be happier if we took the time to notice all the good things that happen around us.

-Joe-

Subject: RE: BS: Innit nice when things go smooth?
From: gnu
Date: 08 Feb 12 - 02:01 PM

Indeed, Joe.

Subject: RE: BS: Innit nice when things go smooth?
From: frogprince
Date: 08 Feb 12 - 03:54 PM

All our license renewing here (in Michigan) for the last few years has been a couple of minutes each time on the 'puter. Would that everything in life was as difficult.

The sneakers I've been wearing came with 52" shoelaces; just enough too much to keep me snagging them and having to retie. I measured up and figured 40" would be about right. Went around town and found no 40" sport laces to be had. Tried online. The first couple of sites I tried, you could get 40" in neon orange or purple, but not white. The next site sold only a bag of a hundred. The next site had what I wanted. When I got to the last stage of the order, the shipping and handling cost of eleven bucks appeared. The next site, the shipping and handling would only have been eight bucks. I bought 45" the next time at the store; at least it's a marked improvement.

Subject: RE: BS: Innit nice when things go smooth?
From: GUEST,999
Date: 08 Feb 12 - 05:12 PM

Frogprince: Google

ShoeLacesExpress - Cotton Shoelaces

The two pair of 40" laces cost $3.99 and shipping is $5.99.

#######################################

I live in a town that has NO doctors available. So people use the hospital emergency department. After one visit when my BP was extremely high and I waited six (ISYN) hours I lost my rag with the ombudsman about wait times and the forced abuse of the emergency room. Anyway, finally, I got a doctor. He is a gem: good sense of humour, darned good diagnostician and easy to get along with. He was writing a requisition for blood work and I asked if he'd mind adding a PSA test to the list because the alternative method of checking the prostate is literally a pain in the--and he ticked the box. I then thanked him both for making my life a bit easier and helping the environment because it's one pair of plastic gloves that won't end up in a landfill somewhere. The two nurses who work for the program are sweethearts. They keep appointments booked and paper work sorted and one of them likes my music. (The other says she does, but I think she just says that to humour an old guy.)

I told the three of them today, separately, how grateful I am for them and the work they do on behalf of me and patients who used to go to the ER but now have what is generally called a family doctor.

Saying thank you to people who do jobs in the town is I think important. I still over 16 months later get waves from guys who work for the town. Last year they were doing a road repair job involving asphalt just out back of where I lived. The temperature was into the 90s and I counted them then took out four bottles of cold water. I kept one bottle in my back pocket out of sight, went to the crew, asked who the foreman was and gave the water to the other three along with the remark that since all the lazy effer did was let them do the work, piss on him. They chuckled and I then gave the boss the remaining bottle of water before he instructed the crew to make me part of the road.

If you can't find it in yourself to give thanks when they're deserved, even if it IS the person's job, well, it tends to make the world a gloomier place. Maybe just a smile and a nod, or a 'hot day to be doing that' can result in someone you don't know maybe having a great day. Don't take much effort to make others feel human and important, regardless the work they're doing.

Subject: RE: BS: Innit nice when things go smooth?
From: gnu
Date: 08 Feb 12 - 08:06 PM

I do that kinda stuff regularly, 9. Just the way I was brought up. Makes ya sleep better at night too.

Subject: RE: BS: Innit nice when things go smooth?
From: JohnInKansas
Date: 08 Feb 12 - 08:14 PM

Obviously gnu had a better day than that fellow in Chicago who got stuck in an elevator a couple of days ago.

The rescue crew couldn't pry the doors open with the elevator between floors, so they brought another elevator up to it in the adjacent shaft and hauled him into the other elevator.

Then the other elevator got stuck.

Word is that it took about three hours to get everybody out of the shaft, but they didn't report how they managed to do it.

Not exactly a smooth operation.

The whole crew probably went late for a late "lunch," one might expect.

John

Subject: RE: BS: Innit nice when things go smooth?
From: Bobert
Date: 08 Feb 12 - 08:31 PM

Well sheet fire, gn-ze...

I been trying to get mine for two months now... Same thing every time... Computer down so...

...seeing as how easy it is to get one where you live howz about sending me yers and I'll send you $80 so you can go get another one???

B~

Subject: RE: BS: Innit nice when things go smooth?
From: Bill D
Date: 08 Feb 12 - 10:14 PM

I am due for MY licence renewal this month. I can do it by mail-- IF I spend $50-$60 for an eye exam first. Now trying to decide whether to spend the $$$ or stand in line...

Subject: RE: BS: Innit nice when things go smooth?
From: Crowhugger
Date: 09 Feb 12 - 01:25 AM

Bill D, maybe you can phone the local office and ask when it's usually least busy, and go then. Around here they know and happily will share that info.

Subject: RE: BS: Innit nice when things go smooth?
From: GUEST,Patsy
Date: 09 Feb 12 - 07:58 AM

It's nice when things go smooth but can be incredibly boring. I am not that well travelled because of fear of flying in the past however I plucked up courage and began to book the odd holiday abroad starting with a shortish journey from UK to Majorca then progressing to Turkey and then eventually the long hall recently to Cuba. Over the years I have heard various stories about flights delays, passports being lost, long waits at airports and things generally going wrong as some tv programmes portray but on each occasion everything has gone to absolute plan not even any dramas with destination accommodation, food or facilities. It is fortunate that it's all been plain sailing but deep down wish I could come back with some dramatic tale to tell.

Subject: RE: BS: Innit nice when things go smooth?
From: Bill D
Date: 09 Feb 12 - 10:25 AM

[pedant alert] BTW- it is 'smoothly', not smooth. [end pedant alert]

Subject: RE: BS: Innit nice when things go smooth?
From: GUEST,999
Date: 09 Feb 12 - 11:07 AM

"deep down wish I could come back with some dramatic tale to tell."

(Alert to anyone who's gonna say pedant alert: I know that quotation should receive an ellipsis after the opening quotation mark and before the word 'deep'. Thing is, I can't be arsed.)

Yell out, "I like bin Laden" in any airport. You will return home (maybe) with a dramatic tale to tell. AND, as a bonus, you'll receive a free x-ray and colonoscopy.

Subject: RE: BS: Innit nice when things go smooth?
From: Bill D
Date: 09 Feb 12 - 11:42 AM

☺

Subject: RE: BS: Innit nice when things go smooth?
From: GUEST,999
Date: 09 Feb 12 - 11:44 AM

I wish I knew how to make them, Bill. Best I can do is :-) or ;-)

Subject: RE: BS: Innit nice when things go smooth?
From: Bill D
Date: 09 Feb 12 - 12:11 PM

alt 1 (if you're on a PC)

alt characters

Subject: RE: BS: Innit nice when things go smooth?
From: GUEST,999
Date: 09 Feb 12 - 12:46 PM

Thank you, Bill. Got an appointment coming up but

1) I have bookmarked the page
2) I'll read the tutorial
3) I'll post you a dozen roses

☺

Subject: RE: BS: Innit nice when things go smooth?
From: GUEST,999
Date: 09 Feb 12 - 12:47 PM

PS I cut and pasted yours.

Subject: RE: BS: Innit nice when things go smooth?
From: gnu
Date: 09 Feb 12 - 01:24 PM

Bobert... "...seeing as how easy it is to get one where you live howz about sending me yers and I'll send you $80 so you can go get another one???"

You wouldn't like the picture.

Subject: RE: BS: Innit nice when things go smooth?
From: gnu
Date: 09 Feb 12 - 01:41 PM

Well, Bill, I know that. If you heard me say it the way I would say it and saw the contented smile on my face, you'd let it go. BTW, you forgot to tell me "innit" is not spelt correct. Innit is spelt idinit, innit?

Subject: RE: BS: Innit nice when things go smooth?
From: katlaughing
Date: 11 Feb 12 - 06:51 PM

Thought this might bring a smile to a few faces: Boy Saves Grandma's house from foreclosure. What a neat kid!

Subject: RE: BS: Innit nice when things go smooth?
From: gnu
Date: 11 Feb 12 - 07:03 PM

BRAVO!

Subject: RE: BS: Innit nice when things go smooth?
From: Mrrzy
Date: 12 Feb 12 - 11:13 AM

Boy a nice thread to read with the way my life is going. Heartening to know that sometimes a plan can come together.

My dad would now ask, if there is only one plan, with whom is it coming?

(Sorry.)

Subject: RE: BS: Innit nice when things go smooth?
From: Bill D
Date: 12 Feb 12 - 03:21 PM

"Innit is spelt idinit, innit?"

naawww...where I come from it's spelled "ain't*

and I should have added this earlier:

"I don't think we'll do too bad," said the student to the professor, referring to an upcoming football game. The professor chided him for his bad grammar, pointing out that he should have said badly. "Oh," said the student, "what difference does an 'ly' make?"

"Well" said the professor, "do you see that pretty girl over there?"

"Oh...sure", grins the boy.

"Well, do you think it makes a difference whether you look at her stern, or sternly?"

Subject: RE: BS: Innit nice when things go smooth?
From: gnu
Date: 12 Feb 12 - 04:20 PM

Good one, Bill.