True story..honestly

[spudfan]

Two Americans were on holiday in Dublin the capital of Ireland. They were in a night club. One of the Americans being the worst for wear on alcohol decided to go outside and get a taxi to the hotel they were staying in. At the end of the taxi journey he paid the fair went to his room and slept. The next morning his partner asked were he had disappeared to the night before. He explained about going outside and getting a taxi to the hotel.
"The nightclub is in the hotel" his partner replied.

[RANDLOVER]

That story raises a lot of questions, in a similar vein my brother was once given the electronic key card coded to a hotel suite that wasn't his, he realised when he opened the door and saw other peoples luggage in the foyer and people out on the balcony!

[ramblingboy42]

whenever someone says "true story , honestly " , I immediately have doubts.

I immediately doubt your true story.....

[loanrangie]

whenever someone says "true story , honestly " , I immediately have doubts.

I immediately doubt your true story.....

An Irishman telling a true story, asif.[bighmmm]

[cripesamighty]

Around 20 years ago my parents went on a European holiday and decided to catch up with one of my uncles who had moved to Hungary. They took a taxi from the airport to my uncles house but did not have enough money to pay for the trip. Dad went inside to borrow some money but my uncle said not to worry. He went down to ask why the fare was 5 times the going rate, but was promptly told to get F'ed and he wanted his payment. In hindsight it probably wasn't a good idea to speak like that to the head of the Taxi Board... Dad and mum still laugh about it to this day.

[ATH]

'An Irishman telling a true story, as if.' Enough I say, desist from posting scurrilous stuff such as this.
But this is a true story dating back to the early 80s when there was no internet, no mobile phones and TV had only just started to be available once out of the metro areas.
I was working on a mine site and my next door neighbour in camp was an Irishman commonly known as "the Green Man". We drank many gallons of thirst quenching beer (and told many stories as well.. all true of course) as this was long before any weird thing such as 4 cans a day limits were introduced.
I reckon there would have been riots back then if management had tried that one on.
Moving on, Michael was a gambler and used the on-site booky to place bets and I could hear his radio going and his more than muttered curses when his pick didn't come home in front. One day there was a terrible eruption of bad language and his radio came flying out the door to end up looking rather broken on the grass out the front of our dongas.
Michael had been rather upset at this shocking but not unknown event of yet another losing bet and took it out on the poor innocent wireless.
Next day he very pleasantly asked me if he could borrow my radio which he knew could pick up just about every station existing on short wave but was very upset when I politely refused to lend it to him. :) I recollect some of his rants about my birth place and me and all others like me but by our next drinking session all had been forgotten. :)
We had some great times in bush camps with story tellers from just about every country in the world competing for the title of biggest bull****ter around.
I tried hard but couldn't compete because I'm just too honest.....
AlanTH.

[3toes]

In London you have people who arrive at London Victoria station who have a connection with a bus at the Victoria coach station

The coach station is 2 blocks and an easy walk from the train station unless you elect to go via a taxi where the driver is looking to increase their earnings for the day

Over many years there have been some real horror stories of fares run up on that one by unsuspecting non locals

[V8Ian]

An oldie, but a goldie.

https://youtu.be/R1HyisEtjsM.

[Tins]

An oldie, but a goldie.

https://youtu.be/R1HyisEtjsM.

That was in my YT feed the other day and I ignored it. I shouldn't have. Thanks Ian.

[3toes]

They rebuilt the visitor centre into something fit for the number of people visiting the site a few years ago. As part of the rebuild they had a green initiative where the number of car parks were reduced. Result is far too few car parks for a site which has seen growth in visitors

Now a local farmer next to the site has seen the commercial opportunity that the decision to reduce parking has presented and is charging people for using fields as over flow parking due the the visitor centre not having enough parking. Does this come under diversifying farm incomes ?

[spudfan]

During a car rally here some years ago some people parked in a field while they went to watch the rally. The farmer lived nearby, saw them and told them they could not park in his field. They were in a hurry and not very polite to the farmer, to put it mildly. The farmer phoned the local agricultural contractor and got him to dig a ditch across the entrance to the field with a JCB. When the rally fans returned the farmer was waiting for them. As you can imagine tempers were high but they had no option but to pay what the farmer wanted before he had the ditch filled in and they could get their cars out.

[Tins]

Does this come under diversifying farm incomes ?

Probably would have been frowned upon pre-Brexit.

[Tins]

https://youtu.be/ezUmZGKhrUA

[BradC]

As you can imagine tempers were high but they had no option but to pay what the farmer wanted before he had the ditch filled in and they could get their cars out.

My dad had prime park under his office building years ago (80's). Had the sign up on the bay "Reserved bay, offenders will be fined". People used to park in it frequently, so he'd come back from a meeting and park them in. Lots of agro and frustration, but he used to respond with "That'll be a $500 donation to the red cross. Bring me the receipt and I'll move my car". The red cross office was only just down the road. They made a few bucks from that over the years.

[cripesamighty]

Around 30 years ago I worked for a well know Liquor outlet. The first Xmas I was there was insanely busy and someone parked in front of our loading bay. My manager went out and told him to move as a beer truck was about to arrive shortly, but was told in no uncertain terms what he could do with himself, and then walked off. My manager Bert got onto the forklift, picked up the offending car and placed it on the median strip across from us. Beer duly arrived, got unloaded and then angry customer arrived and unloaded on Bert. Bert got onto his toes (all 5'4" of him) into the customers face and told him if he left his car there again, he wouldn't just charge him for a missed beer delivery, but move his car again, this time with the forks straight through the side of his car. Was a funny bugger old Bert, especially with his hackles up. It would be interesting to see someone do that in this day and age!

[Xtreme]

Currently dealing with council, without much success, regarding illegal parking, partially and on one occassion completely blocking access to my driveway and three other neighbours - we're all on battle axe blocks. Very annoying and inconvenient especially when the street is narrow and I'm oftem towing a 4 wheel trailer behind the 110.

So I really appreciate the suggestions offered in the foregoing posts involving successful examples of dealing with similar problems.

PS - I might add that there's a bit of Irish in my 'Riley' surname. :whistling:

[3toes]

Back when I was a little younger used to carry a tyre valve release tool in the car ash tray

Was used for those people who were deliberately causing me parking problems. Requires only seconds to release the tyre valve after which the tyres loses its round shape and becomes straight edged on the lower side. Repeat process for tyre on diagonal opposite side of vehicle

Hope was they would change one before realising the other was also flat. Designed so I could share with them my inconvenience and time wasted as most cars do not carry a second spare. Some people are slow learners as had to administer repeat lessons to some cars

[BradC]

Back when I was a little younger used to carry a tyre valve release tool in the car ash tray

I used to do that too, whereas an older mate of mine just used to plunge a knife into the sidewall. I made sure never to upset him.

[scarry]

Take valve cap off,put piece of twig under cap and screw on until hissing is heard.
Easy as.

[ATH]

Many years back I was a cab owner driver in my old home towns and we had a bloke who constantly parked his car right in the middle of one of our ranks while he got on a train to do his bit for 8 hours in London. He was quite abisuve when asked not too so we watched and waited then when he'd got on the train one morning we got together and lifted his car just on to the edge of the kerb and let his tyres down on that side.
I wasn't there when he came swaggering out of the station in the evening but those that were loved seeing him get in start up and rev it up while grinning at the watchers and BANG the grin left his face pretty quick when the car left the kerb and the rims hit the ground. :)
I arrived at bit later to find several coppers there questioning drivers as to who "dun it" and asked me if I knew anything. "No mate, I'm a night shift driver" I said and they left me alone.
They never charged anyone and he never parked there again. :)
AlanH.

[spudfan]

Yes revenge is sweet. Many years ago I worked on the building sites when I left school. One day the foreman came into the canteen and read us the riot act over something or other. We or some of those there probably deserved it as the foreman was generally easy going. Well the gauntlet was thrown down and revenge was in the air. It was noted that at morning tea break the foreman went into the toilet cubicle with a newspaper and read it in peace and quiet while doing his "business". The aforementioned cubicle was a metal affair bolted to a concrete base. The plan for revenge was put into action. The bolts on the cubucle were removed. Next morning when the foreman went in to settle down to his read and "business" the cubicle was lifted up via straps fitted to the roof by a JCB. I can still remember the look on his face when the cubicle was lifted and swinging gently in the air above his head. Yep, I learnt a lot on the building site.

[austastar]

Should have been in the script
https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20221206/a27823a3524e9930a989ae7b0582646a.jpg

[3toes]

Or foreman/site manager had us do some above and beyond work to meet a contractual deadline for the job. This on basis we would be financially compensated. When pays came round (in cash) no one had any extra. When questioned we were advised had been blocked by higher up nothing could do

The site ‘office’ was a little temporary shack with a tar paper roof. Learned that a tar paper roof does not stop barrages of welding rods when they are being launched from above by angry workers

[spudfan]

As I was the smallest person on the site, just out of school, they used to put me down the manholes with a flashlight to check things. After the above "incident" I was duly sent down a manhole but the lid was closed and there I sat for the day. Fair enough at lunch time he did pass me down my sandwiches and flask! Yep they were fun times on the site, never a dull moment, especially when you were young and no mortgage or car loan!