[Closed] I used to own a sevice station.

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I used to own a one legged owl, friendly thing used to sit on my shoulder and shi....

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It was a pain in the r's ?

3 14/15ths star?

I'm on the wife's Kindle, the keyboard is taking some getting used to. Just thought i'd join in with the service station theme cos its true!

Ummmmm...

I went on the mountain railway up Cairn Gorm this weekend and had a plate of curried parsnip soup. Afterward I realised I'd left my hat and had to go back up to get it.
Whew, just as well the ticket for the train is an all-day pass otherwise I'd have had to pay again to retrieve my completely unfashionable headwear.

I one got lost while trying to find a fireplace showroom as I took a wrong turn, but there was a handy side road and little traffic so I was able to turn round quickly and easily to get back on track.

I was working with my da once and I dropped a table saw on my head.

i dreamed that i was driving an old 70s car and it had a tiny plastic steering wheel

Last week I needed the loo at Waterloo Station; when I got there the change machine was out of order and I got into the toilet for free.

I used to know what was going on around here, but now I'm not so sure.

Here comes Autumn.
[i]It was still dark as her hand reached across.
I moved closer in behind.
The kids are asleep.[/i]

Yesterday had a day off work and took my lad to school. On the way there, Paint it Black by the Rolling Stones came on the radio. After I got back home I saw my red garage door and did indeed paint it black the reason for me having a day off work in the forst place

My daughter tells me she did a runner from a Paris cafe last week. Then she realised she'd left her camera on the table.

2star and 4star. Things you'd forgotten existed.

Remember 5star

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3 star wasn't uncommon and in there was also 1 and 5 star I'm told.

I discovered the other week, while out camping, that 2 strategically placed boulders (one for each cheek, spaced at a suitable distance) is far more comfortable than squatting! 😆

She went back for the camera and pretended she'd forgotten to pay. Had to pay the 18 euro bill (for 2 pints of heineken!) to get the camera back.

I got a carpet burn on my elbow. In the office!

I got a carpet burn on my elbow. In the office!

Probably easier to explain when you get home than carpet burns in your knees.

I had my eyebrow pierced after seeing Cannibal corpse at the Royal Court in Liverpool when I was 17. I hid it from my parents until a few days later I was working on the till at Spar and a TV crew came in following that Scottish footballer whose name escapes me (Alan Hanson?)and there I was on telly serving him his wine with my eyebrow pierced looking like a rabbit caught in the headlights.

Last night I wallpapered my living room in two slightly different colours of lining paper.
I found it quite disturbing but I don't really know why.

20 odd years ago the car I was in broke down at the exit from the a66 at scotch corner, east bound, the spark plug blew out the cylinder head and stripped the threads, it got fixed with a helicoil insert. Time flies

I celebrated my first time being on a canal boat and owning a Lego set by inserting a piece of Lego up my nose. My father pinned my to the table by the throat and removed it with a pair of tweezers. I've never been on a canal boat since but have always loved Lego.

Is this the STW version of Mornington Crescent?

This secondhand bit of Lego I bought has a bogey on it.

I love Lego and I had a Lego Shell Service Station

WTF have i started? 3 star was a mix of 2 & 4 star, 5 star was 101 octane. 4 star was 99.
I've never been on a canal boat but i have stood on some Lego.

I had a Hornby Dublo railway set. The type with three rails, not two.

My mum burnt her eyebrows and the front of her hair off using a match to establish if she'd turned the gas off in the oven on a canal boat.

It turned out she hadn't.

I use to go on canalboat holidays with a friend (it belonged to his mum and dad). It was powered by a Lister diesel twin. I've no idea if diesel is rated by stars or if its just good ol' diesel. We never took lego on the boat.

I suffer stress at French service stations. I worry obsessively that the cashier will ask me something beyond my pidgin French. So where possible I get my wife to go and pay

I stood on the plug for the iron this morning - not something I'd advise doing as it hertz.

I have been on a canal boat for a week but not in France.

Though I have ridden my bike along most of the Nantes-Brest canal.

No Lego was involved either time (to the best of my knowledge)

I was looking on amazon and nearly bought a LEGO superhero set, the one with ironman hulkbuster.
But I didn't.

DrP

I almost got my Lego ver yesterday but realistically we both couldn't be bothered.

My wife used to live next door to a petrol station run by Mr and Mrs Startup. It's a dentist's now.

I one got lost while trying to find a fireplace showroom as I took a wrong turn, but there was a handy side road and little traffic so I was able to turn round quickly and easily to get back on track.

Went to a customer today, they have spent the last two weeks demolishing a petrol station, and clearing the site ready for building.
I asked what it's going to be, apparently it's going to be a petrol station.

We started to run out of diesel in my van once when we were driving on the motorway. We turned off for the services and coasted to a stop one metre short of the pump.

Thanks for the reminder, I need to visit the petrol station on the way home but need to fill the tank with diesel otherwise it wont work properly.

i did a lego skills course once on a canal boat on the way to a petrol station, i was worried about lego building but by the end of the day i was expert and could jump over a piece of lego instead of landing on it

A woman once pulled into my sevice station with smoke billowing from the car & i thought, 'good idea, cars on fire, pull in here' but it turned out she'd driven 4 miles on a flat tyre.

I've read all these replies before having a shower.

I might do some tea in a bit if I can muster the enthusiasm

My canal boat is full of eels.

I haven't got a canalboat suppose I could build one out of lego, but haven't got any lego either:-(

I used to work as forecourt attendant in a service station. I once served Bob Crampsey with the more expensive of the two 3-star petrols on offer. He was not happy at having to pay a wee bit more than he was used to.

I've literally just been to the service station for some fuel on my way home from work.

I actually prefer to call it a petrol station.

I was catching the London train from Crewe station. It was very crowded; I found myself in a last-minute rush for the one remaining seat beside a tall, good-looking man with collar-length hair, it was the seventies; buckaroo! I looked up and saw it was none other than Peter Purves, it was the height of his Blue Peter career. He said, "You jammy bastard" and quick as a flash, I replied, "Don't be blue, Peter!" Needless to say, I had the last laugh

Top Partridge!

I haven't had a Curly Wurly in ages.

I'm always amazed that the people who staff our village petrol station spend so much time smoking on the forecourt.

I've never met Peter Purves but as I was walking in to M&S at lunchtime Peter Stringfellow was walking out. I can now legitimately claim to buy my smalls from the same establishment as Peter Stringfellow.

Konabunny ... timing is everything ... lol

I've just finished reading a really random thread that got me thinking- where the hell do you fill-up a canal boat?

I had a look in a boat on the Norfolk Broads the other day. It was very similar to a canal boat but wider and made of fibreglass. I may hire one next year. While we were looking at the boat the ladies and gents in the hire office were having a good look at our folding bikes and said they would be good for bombing around the yard on.

I've no idea if diesel is rated by stars or if its just good ol' diesel.

What.T.F. is this thread about, it's surreal 🙄

Sometimes, on a Friday, my only companion during office hours is a puppet called 'Eisel'

He doesn't say much.

I was skinny -dipping in a river on Skye today. The pebbles weren't as sharp as lego. No way you'd have got a canal boat up there either. Well, not without a bloody big helicopter.

I saw those photo's Col, nice arse!

I saw an MG Meastro today, H reg in blue. Made me think, how "cool" I thought they were in their day and how lame they are now.

Margerine is a terrible lubricant for cable car systems made out of Lego. It melts too quick then increases friction which melts Lego.

Lisa: Is there any point to this story?
Grandpa: Yes- I like stories

I Can't Believe It's Not Better

I have popped out for a quiet pint and while reading this thread my fellow patrons have started to look suspiciously in my direction as I am chuckling away.

Sometimes, on a Friday, my only companion during office hours is a puppet called 'Eisel'

He doesn't say much.

Oh yes he does, just not to you. I sometimes break into your office just to enjoy his witty banter.

A new lad joined my primary school in about the 3rd year back in the early 70s. His dad had bought the local petrol station. He drove the only Moskovitch I have ever seen in the UK. It was lime green

This thread is hurting my head. But it was aching beforehand.

I had carnation milk for the first time this millennium yesterday, it was not bought in a service station.

I filled up at a service station in Marshfield, near Bath. The free plastic gloves only had 4 fingers. I said to the cashier, "what kind of Mickey Mouse operation is this?"

One of the joys of eating asparagus is the resulting smelly wee.
Today I had a corned beef sandwich and now have corned beef smelling wee.

Fray Bentos is a town in Uruguay.

If it takes a fly a week to walk a fortnight, how long does it take to sandpaper an elephant down to a greyhound?

Yesterday I drove my mum and dad down to a nice fish restaurant overlooking a harbour in a local-ish fishing village. The food was excellent and despite being on cycle four of her chemo my mum managed the stairs (although getting down again was more challenging).
Afterwards, as we were only 10 miles away, I took them in past to see their ex daughter in law who they hadn't seen in years. They had a good chin wag catching up.
On the way back my dad fell asleep in the back. They're both in their eighties, bless them, they did well.
It was a hundred mile round trip all in all for me so I had to fill up first at the service station.

Mmmmm cevice, had some amazing in Lima on our honeymoon
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