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1" from the end of the season...

Tue, 8 Dec 2009 19:58:59 GMT

Woah, that was very close. I live on the fourth and top floor in this building. In communal areas they have lights on timers so that you switch it on and then it stays on for maybe 45 seconds, allowing even people at the top enough time to negotiate the stairs. Well 3 days from a weeks snow and some extreme relaxing I am in high spirits and bound out to put the bins out. Not processing the fact the lights were on already I started taking the four flights 3 steps at a time. On the last flight and just straightening the legs to jump the entire flight the lights click off. I'm in mid air not able to see my landing, the back of my trainers rub the top of the riser on the bottom step and I land it :!: An inch less distance and I would have broken my ankles :shock:

Re:1" from the end of the season...

Tue, 8 Dec 2009 20:00:03 GMT

Moral - make the other half put the rubbish out!

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Tue, 8 Dec 2009 20:00:27 GMT

Be more careful :shock:

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Tue, 8 Dec 2009 20:02:13 GMT

Dorset Boy wrote:Moral - make the other half put the rubbish out!

Small logistical problem with that mate )

Re:1" from the end of the season...

Tue, 8 Dec 2009 20:15:00 GMT

Sheesh.. Why haven't you fixed up a net at ground level, then simply toss your rubbish out of the window :twisted:

Simples.. squeek

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Tue, 8 Dec 2009 20:17:22 GMT

Far Queue wrote:Sheesh.. Why haven't you fixed up a net at ground level, then simply toss your rubbish out of the window :twisted:

Simples.. squeek

Inspirational.

Back in 20 minutes.

Re:1" from the end of the season...

Tue, 8 Dec 2009 20:32:28 GMT

Thank God for that, how many lives did you just use up? Years ago when I moved in with my Husband he lived on the 4th floor and I always found it difficult with washing, rubbish etc having always lived in a house. So I got into the habit of every norning on my way out to work take a bag of rubbish down out to the communal bins. Except one morning I forgot to put it in the bin........walked nearly a mile to work carrying a bag of rubbish.

Re:1" from the end of the season...

Tue, 8 Dec 2009 20:41:43 GMT

Tino,
Next time, jump torch ready in hand, just in case the lights go out :lol:

I hate those economy lights - especially when they have them in the toilet ... :shock:

Ally

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Tue, 8 Dec 2009 21:58:03 GMT

AllyG wrote:Tino I hate those economy lights - especially when they have them in the toilet ... :shock:

Ally

I gotta say, I'm very surprised Ally. I thought you were the queen of energy efficiency.

RoseR wrote:walked nearly a mile to work carrying a bag of rubbish.

:lol: :lol: :lol:

May good fortune continue your way Tino, and all of ours :D

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Tue, 8 Dec 2009 22:51:03 GMT

In that very dark second I was in the air all I could think about was not being able to snowboard, wierd how the mind works. I just bought my insurance consultant dinner and beers, that can only be good....I hope.

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Tue, 8 Dec 2009 23:13:18 GMT

Well, I'm very glad you're okay, Tino, and still able to snowboard.

I had a moment a bit like that, once, when an idiot on a motorbike overtook me, crossing the double white lines, on a nasty bend, just as a fuel tanker came towards us. In that instant all I could think of was my older daughter on the train, whom I was on my way to meet, and of her standing at the station waiting for a mother who wasn't coming ...

Luckily for me, somehow the motorbike managed to fit in between me and the tanker, and we were all okay. Unluckily for him, however, he got stopped at the next traffic lights, in front of me, and I got his number plate and reported him for dangerous driving :twisted:.

Ally

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Tue, 8 Dec 2009 23:17:58 GMT

AllyG wrote:Well, I'm very glad you're okay, Tino, and still able to snowboard.

I had a moment a bit like that, once, when an idiot on a motorbike overtook me, crossing the double white lines, on a nasty bend, just as a fuel tanker came towards us. In that instant all I could think of was my older daughter on the train, whom I was on my way to meet, and of her standing at the station waiting for a mother who wasn't coming ...

Luckily for me, somehow the motorbike managed to fit in between me and the tanker, and we were all okay. Unluckily for him, however, he got stopped at the next traffic lights, in front of me, and I got his number plate and reported him for dangerous driving :twisted:.

Ally

Jeez, that must have taken some bottle!!!!

My mother had a very similar thing on her way home from her driving test. Around Loch Lomond turend a corner to be faced with two lorries side by side, she had to roll the car into an area few feet from the Loch. Hates cars now..... and planes.

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Tue, 8 Dec 2009 23:41:29 GMT

tino_11 wrote: I just bought my insurance consultant dinner and beers, .

Warning, Street Cred Loss!

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Tue, 8 Dec 2009 23:45:23 GMT

Dave Mac wrote:

tino_11 wrote: I just bought my insurance consultant dinner and beers, .

Warning, Street Cred Loss!

Street? I am only interested in piste.

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Wed, 9 Dec 2009 00:07:27 GMT

tino_11 wrote:

Dave Mac wrote:

tino_11 wrote: I just bought my insurance consultant dinner and beers, .

Warning, Street Cred Loss!

Street? I am only interested in piste.

Funnily enough, I have just been online with my mate, who lives in New Zealand. He amd his family are coming across to ski in Niederau in March, and he needed info on insurance for off piste. Minefield. The wife of one of our lot skied off piste outside the"designated area", Helicpter, cost 4000 Euros.

Re:1" from the end of the season...

Wed, 9 Dec 2009 00:11:28 GMT

Dave Mac wrote:

tino_11 wrote:

Dave Mac wrote:

tino_11 wrote: I just bought my insurance consultant dinner and beers, .

Warning, Street Cred Loss!

Street? I am only interested in piste.

Funnily enough, I have just been online with my mate, who lives in New Zealand. He amd his family are coming across to ski in Niederau in March, and he needed info on insurance for off piste. Minefield. The wife of one of our lot skied off piste outside the"designated area", Helicpter, cost 4000 Euros.

Is that all???

When I said piste it was in direct opposition to street. Sow would bemore accurate :D

Re:1" from the end of the season...

Wed, 9 Dec 2009 14:46:13 GMT

:oops:

I should have also added to my post last night, that I am glad to hear that you did not actually hurt yourself. Wait till after April to start doing silly things :twisted: