Well, where I come from...

[Guest]

 

lol you know it well G

 

EDIT: Are you heading back that way in the near future? I haven't had an Oatcake in three years

 

Ma and Pa will be over in a few weeks, Will get some fetched over!

[the Boy From Bozlem 574]

 

Ma and Pa will be over in a few weeks, Will get some fetched over!

 

cheers mate PM. Let me know or txt J

 

 

 

just tried to explain it to the missus a bit but... Guess if you aint been there you would never know.

 

PS Bozlem normals comes from some graffiti under a bridge that i used to see when i were seven.

[Aggie.P 27]

Where I come from, there are coin-operated barbecues in parks, but nobody ever invites their neighbours for a barbecue on the weekend.

 

Where I come from, there are parks everywhere, but nobody speaks to anybody else in them, much less goes there frequently enough to make park friends.

 

Where I come from, there may be Cadbury, but there's no Triolade. Om nom.

[Keefy 3,577]

Like the bloke who gets a new job in Leeds...

 

Settles into his new house and decides to go exploring. Finds a friendly pub, has a few pints...and then thinks "What now?"

 

Decides to watch a film. Finds a cinema, makes himself comfortable in the Upper Circle, the film's great...but after all the beers he's aware he badly needs a piss. Not seeing a sign for the toilets, he discreetly asks the guy sitting next to him.

 

"You're new to Leeds, aren't you?" says the guy.

 

"Well, yes, I am actually."

 

"It's quite simple. Go to the edge of the circle, dangle it down and away you go. No problem."

 

The newcomer thinks his neighbour must be a complete weirdo, so he askes the guy sitting on the other side of him where the toilets are.

 

"You're new to Leeds, aren't you?"

 

"Well, yes."

 

"Just go to the edge of the circle, dangle it down and away you go."

 

Hmm, the newcomer thinks, they can't BOTH be wrong.

 

So he goes to the edge of the circle, dangles it down, starts to relieve himself, when an angry voice comes from below.

 

"OY! You're new to Leeds, aren't you?"

 

"Well yes, I am."

 

"Well would you mind spreading it around a bit, I'm copping the fcuckin' lot down 'ere!"

[robinson100 12,854]

Where I come from two people form a queue - anybody joining it after the first two has to stand behind them - not at the side, or hanging around by the next till just incase they get lucky and it opens!!!

[Gwaptiva 7,116]

Where I come from has a pub... and something decent on TV on a Saturday night

[Guest]

Where I come from we politely wait until the person in-front has finished packing, has paid and left to make our way to start packing, your food on the conveyor-belt will not magically expire :P

[Lisa Rusbridge 433]

Where I come from tubs with showers have a full curtain or a door, not a partial accordion-style panel that gives only about 40 coverage. By what great contortionist trick is one supposed to wash waist-length hair using two hands and with the magical third hand hold the removable nozzle-spray thingy and not get the unfinished wooden shelving unit that sits at the end of tub wet/water-spotted? I noticed that long hair seemed to be a rare sight and I wondered if this was part of the reason (that and the hard water).

[john g. 37,776]

Where I come from no longer exists...my childhood has gone and been replaced by living somewhere else. That´s the way it is...

[Gwaptiva 7,116]

john g == the man from Atlantis???

[Lisa Rusbridge 433]

Much wisdom in your words, john g. Thank you for that.

[katheliz 17,879]

Well, when I come from in Chicago kids played out of doors after school and all summer.

At the age of 10 or 11 I could travel alone by streetcar from the far west side of town to the Lake and spend the day at the beach.

When I was 13 and was accosted one day by a dirty old man outside a store, I was obviously so completely unaware of what he meant, he apologized and walked away.

We all walked to school, even in midwestern blizzards.

There was no such thing as Hitzefrei on 90-degree days.

Unhomogeonized milk was delivered door to door, with a top hat of frozen topmilk in the winter.

 

Workers got only two vacation weeks a year.

In the winter we ate tinned vegetables - spinach, carrots, peas, spinach, carrots, peas . . . . *

With six mouths to feed, my mother walked eight blocks to the store twice a week, pushing a baby buggy and pulling a wagon, in rain or snow or 90-degree heat.

 

* EDIT: ... and lima beans. How could I forget tinned lima beans?

[ramblin rose 28]

where i come from, summer (May - September) is hot. with no tricky patches where one may need scarves and winter coats...

[ramblin rose 28]

(somehow i missed the post prior to mine, no intentional redundancy!)

[Guest]

Where I came from... My Dad still scratches from time to time!!

 

My Mum nags him for this too!

[Muldoon 260]

Where I come from men are men and sheep are nervous

[Auroris_bkn 28]

Where I come from... people are told since their childhood not to stare at others... <_<

[PezMom3 2,101]

Where I come from people knew how to form proper lines/queues...and if you cut someone you're likely to get cut. Ok the latter wouldn't happen where I am from...but two towns down maybe.

[penelope pitstop 207]

Where I come from - you don't wait at a bakers's that sells drinks too and get ignored for 5 minutes whilst 2 "free Employees" just fill shelves and fiddle and faff about without acknowledging you. Only when I lost my patience and asked if someone would kindly serve me - was I actually acknowledged. The other customer (a 70+ male) found it quite funny to say to the staff that I was stressed because tomorrow is Mother's Day! :blink:

[Kazalphaville 1,813]

Where I come from, supermarket floors are cleaned at closing time or early in the morning and "Caution - Wet Floor" signs are put out to warn anyone walking around there is a chance they might slip on their arse if not careful.

 

Where I come from, supermarket shelves are stocked outside shop opening hours.