Major problem solved.

[Major Catastrophe]

Today, I decided to clean out the garage. I discovered a box my Dad made for me when I was about ten. At some stage I added a steering wheel so that I could play at 'boats'.

To aid navigation I used some paint to scrawl these words on it.

It may just answer why I suffer from the occasional catastrophe.

 

[itsonlymoney]

Do you have L & R on yer wellies as well. LOL

 

[fireball]

Ah ... steering wheel for a boat? ... I had a tiller and a mainsheet ...

 

[ggt9]

Or presumably R & L!

Major, why not take said family hierloom and stick it in wheelhouse of your very nice new boat with the writing towards the front then sit on it while you're helming. Might be useful and no-one would ever know...

 

[marine]

could double check with the L & R on his wellies at the same time..

 

[Clyder]

Hope he doesn't have C&A on his underwear !! /forums/images/graemlins/blush.gif

 

[mjkinch1]

I think I must have one of those judging by the number of times i get my left and right mixed up....

 

[craigwishart]

Whats a tiller

 

[Major Catastrophe]

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Whats a tiller

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[JKay]

"Check out person normally in a supermarket /forums/images/graemlins/blush.gif"

Welcome to the nuthouse by the way

cheers Joe

 

[Lakesailor]

How thoughtful of him.
I had to make do with a bedroom.

 

[Major Catastrophe]

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How thoughtful of him.
I had to make do with a bedroom.

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Problems only really started when they let me out of my box.

 

[ported0]

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[old_salt]

Don't worry Major C just ignore all the crap above. /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif
Every one knows if you give a young child A "Box" ( cardboard ones are the best) he/she will play happily for hours , it will become a racing car, a steam engine, an aeroplane, and eventually a Ship and thats why we are all here now. /forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif

Just on a serious note Chris how have you gone on with your "trailer". And will you be around the Straits/Red wharf bay on the W/E on 2/3 June.
Cheers David.

 

[Major Catastrophe]

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Just on a serious note Chris how have you gone on with your "trailer". And will you be around the Straits/Red wharf bay on the W/E on 2/3 June.

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Trailer is still ongoing - in that I haven't done much yet as I have been busy amd I have one flat tyre!

I doubt I am around next weekend as I have to work. What am I missing?

 

[RogerRat]

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Hope he doesn't have C&A on his underwear !! /forums/images/graemlins/blush.gif

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Just spat Red Wine over my keyboard! /forums/images/graemlins/mad.gif /forums/images/graemlins/mad.gif /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

 

[ShipsWoofy]

One of my earliest childhood memories in the uk was making a cardboard box car, it was the business; I had a flip down front screen (I don't think it was intended to flip down) doors and an opening boot.

I would have been around 6 and I do remember spending hours driving it in the hall of our house. I then moved on to carties, mine had pram suspension, which was getting boat-like.

 

[Major Catastrophe]

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I then moved on to carties, mine had pram suspension, which was getting boat-like.

[/ QUOTE ] Which nowdays will get you arrested by the plods.


<span style="color:blue"> • In Staffordshire, the war on motorists has taken an exciting new twist.

WPC Gibbs, Staffordshire's answer to Juliet Bravo, was driving her panda car through the village of Codsall when she spotted three boys riding a homemade go-kart.

It sounds like a scene out of Just William and recalls an age when youngsters made their own amusements in the fresh air, instead of sitting in their bedrooms glued to computer screens, downloading pornography from the internet.

That's not how Juliet Bravo saw it. She pulled the boys up and said they were breaking the law because they hadn't got a tax disc or insurance.

After lecturing them, she took their names and addresses. A few days later, their parents received a letter informing them that their sons were guilty of antisocial behaviour.

Needless to say, the parents were livid - not with the boys but with the petty-minded police.

One of the boys' mothers, Karen Cross, said: "When I was young, my sister and I built our own go-kart. It is part of growing up."

Precisely. When I was a boy, building your own kart out of planks half-inched from the nearby building site and pram wheels recovered from the local scrapyard was a rite of passage.

With no brakes and rudimentary steering made from string likely to snap at any time, we were a downright menace.

It was like the chariot race from Ben Hur. The only way of stopping was to hit a wall headon or slam your shoes down on to the pavement.

Frankly, you were better off hitting the wall, especially as most of us had only one pair of shoes.

There was always someone limping to school with the soles and heels hanging off their Startrites, sporting a clip round the ear from their mum or dad.

Mrs Cross was prepared to concede the possibility that Juliet Bravo was concerned for the safety of the boys and other pedestrians and road-users.

She admitted: "Young lads can cause problems sometimes. If the police officer was concerned, she could have told them: 'Come on, lads, you are causing a problem. You could hurt yourselves or cause an accident. Let's have you home and off the streets.'"

That is, of course, what any sensible copper would have done. Moreover, not so long ago, if a silly slip of a WPC did tell her inspector she had taken the names of three young boys riding a go-kart, she'd have spent the rest of the week cleaning out the cells after the winos.

But that's not how it works any more. You'd have thought the police would be pleased three teenage boys were getting rid of their energy in such an innocent fashion and not shoplifting, robbing people of mobile phones, spraying graffiti all over the place or kicking in bus shelters.

It's not as if the Old Bill haven't got anything else to do.

In Staffordshire that same year, burglaries went up seven per cent and violent crime increased 16 per cent. </span>

From here.