Jokes???

[Steven P]

2 hours ago, Doug Tait said:

 

Reminds me of the youth rugby sevens tournaments. Our team often travelled in one of the parents car together. I remember one Saturday when it was so wet the local joinery business sent out it's workers with yard brushes to sweep the water off the pitch, after the tournament we were all sent to the burn and stripped off to get clean before being allowed to wedge ourselves into a Honda civic in our underpants to head home.

One of our coaching team was the local bobby.

 

I can see this going to "how many of us used to squeeze in the back of the ..... " - driver, passenger, 4 in the back was common, and on special occasions 2 in the boot with the parcel shelf removed so they could hear us shout "duck". Most in a police car... driver, passenger and 4 in the back.....

[Doug Tait]

42 minutes ago, Steven P said:

 

I can see this going to "how many of us used to squeeze in the back of the ..... " - driver, passenger, 4 in the back was common, and on special occasions 2 in the boot with the parcel shelf removed so they could hear us shout "duck". Most in a police car... driver, passenger and 4 in the back.....

 

When I was just drinking age a group of us used to go to other towns for a night out, we'd have needed a minibus to get us all back but we knew a guy called Ghost taxi's who'd take as many as would fit in as long as he could take a back road and it was after dark, always charged 'a pound a skull' and kicked us out on the outskirts of town!

[Mark Bolam]

13 of us in a Volvo 343GL from The Cheviot in Bellingham back to Otterburn was the record.

Steering was a bit light.

[Doug Tait]

7 minutes ago, Mark Bolam said:

13 of us in a Volvo 343GL from The Cheviot in Bellingham back to Otterburn was the record.

Steering was a bit light.

 

Bet the Guinness Book were interested in that achievement!

We did once have 10 in a Shogun but I don't think it counts if you end the journey in an ambulance

[roboted]

Eight in Ford Anglia (mine) Only a couple of miles........from the Pub to the Youth Club.

[Steven P]

2 hours ago, Mark Bolam said:

13 of us in a Volvo 343GL from The Cheviot in Bellingham back to Otterburn was the record.

Steering was a bit light.

 

So a nice easy straight road then!!

[Silverhooker]

3 on a Vespa 50cc 

 

[Decro]

As he came to the end of his inspection tour of the hospital's supplies department, the over zealous, box ticking jobsworth doing the audit was becoming increasingly desperate to find something, anything, to be scathing about in his report.
"What happens to the small cardboard tubes in the centre of toilet rolls when the roll is finished"?
"We collect them all, send them back to the manufacturer and every 6 months they send us a free box of toilet rolls".
"And what about the cardboard tubes in the centre of rolls of bandages"?
"Same. We collect them up and return them to the manufacturer and every 9 months they send us a free box of bandages".
Suddenly the auditor had a brilliant inspiration.
"When you perform a circumcision what happens to the bits you remove"?
"Same. We collect them all and return them to the local health authority and once a year they send us a complete dick".

[Will C]

10 hours ago, Mick Dempsey said:

Yes, we were dropped off at the end of the farm drive.

When it was snowing Dad used to take us down in the tractor to meet the bus.

In the summer I used to put a foot each on the three point linkage arms and hold on to the cab behind his seat.

Seemed dodgy at the time, even dodgier looking back.

 

10 hours ago, Mark Bolam said:

Just found this shot of our old school bus drop off point with the house in the background.

 

 

We were much the same, about mile and quarter from bud stop to the farm. Got dropped there most mornings but walked back most days from about 7 year old. We used to ride in a trailer as the lift arms wouldn’t take 3 of us easily 

 

it never fails to amaze me how a lot of tree folk had similar practical upbringings 

[maybelateron]

17 minutes ago, Will C said:

We used to ride in a trailer as the lift arms wouldn’t take 3 of us easily 

 

it never fails to amaze me how a lot of tree folk had similar practical upbringings