04 Sep 20
@divegeester saidand there is no doctor; he comes from twenty miles away, only in emergencies.
The postman, the Pub Landlord and the teacher are all the same person.
04 Sep 20
@ghost-of-a-duke saidMy post about post being delivered to an addressee is true, too. As a boy, I lived in Texas. I used to send post cards addressed to “Aunt Blanche, Oshkosh” (Nebraska), and they arrived.
Entirely true. We were driving around an estate and kept going in circles. We had to pull over and ask directions.
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04 Sep 20
@ghost-of-a-duke saidSimilar happened to me in Basildon, but it was a part you wouldn't pull over and stop in.
Entirely true. We were driving around an estate and kept going in circles. We had to pull over and ask directions.
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05 Sep 20
@wolfgang59 saidIt is also impossible to leave Barnet.
Similar happened to me in Basildon, but it was a part you wouldn't pull over and stop in.
05 Sep 20
@ghost-of-a-duke said???
It is also impossible to leave Barnet.
Barnet has the A1000 running through it and ... not much else!
You can either go to London or "The North"
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@wolfgang59 saidTrapped in Barnet
???
Barnet has the A1000 running through it and ... not much else!
You can either go to London or "The North"
Barnet had sounded lovely, Mr and Mrs Jenkins rather enjoying pottering around the Spires and having an early lunch at Carluccios. Looking for a route back to Palmers Green, Mr Jenkins noticed they were in fact heading to High Barnet. Calmly he took a left at the junction but was now on route for Chipping Barnet and a corrective right on a ring road towards New Barnet. Panicked he did a full 360, now on a collision course for Friern Barnet. “William!” screamed Mrs Jenkins. Slamming his foot on the accelerator, Mr Jenkins headed, at speed, towards East Barnet Village.
05 Sep 20
@wolfgang59 saidThe A1000 becomes 'The Great North Road'. I wouldn't go much further than Hatfield though. There are strange folk in 'The North'.
???
Barnet has the A1000 running through it and ... not much else!
You can either go to London or "The North"
05 Sep 20
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@very-rusty saidWhen you keep bumping into the same person you know you're in a small town.
There are strange folks everywhere, we all have one thing in common we are all human.
-VR
Point of last post was in the U.K. I'm viewed as from "up north".
05 Sep 20
@petewxyz saidexplaining things to -VR will get you three things
When you keep bumping into the same person you know you're in a small town.
(Point of last post was in the U.K. I'm viewed as from 'up north''😉)
1. a participation trophy
2. frustration
3. perpetual adulation by the object of yer focus
and in this here small town, none of these things will get you a cuppa joe
05 Sep 20
@petewxyz saidWhich being from Canada would mean nothing to me, one would have to know about the U.K. or else be from there.
When you keep bumping into the same person you know you're in a small town.
Point of last post was in the U.K. I'm viewed as from "up north".
It would be like me talking about a small village over here, you wouldn't know anything about it.
-VR
05 Sep 20
commonalities of a small town
40% we all know who is shtupping who
20% we all drink from the same pot of coffee at mabel's cafe
0% we all grouse about lack of decorum
0% we all debate the pastor's last sermon
40% except for the heathen who go to that "other" church
0% we all bask in the light of sameness
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05 Sep 20
@rookie54 saidI won't confuse things further by explaining that Liverpool is in fact in the southern half of the U.K. Even the Londoners won't be able to get their heads around that. "The North" starts just beyond Watford Gap.
explaining things to -VR will get you three things
1. a participation trophy
2. frustration
3. perpetual adulation by the object of yer focus
and in this here small town, none of these things will get you a cuppa joe
