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jimbo
PostPosted: Thu Dec 16, 2021 11:20 am 
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0700 this morning and a punter asks me, chisit to Nottingham? I said £80. He waves a minicab card at me and says, they will take me for £50. So go with them, I said. They can’t take me until 0900, says he.
In that case, I told him, I’ll take you for £40 tomorrow. Weirdo. There was a train at 0745.

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PostPosted: Thu Dec 16, 2021 11:46 am 
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your not a people person are you Jimbo

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PostPosted: Thu Dec 16, 2021 1:41 pm 
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edders23 wrote:
your not a people person are you Jimbo


Your not an england person are you

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edders23 wrote:
your not a people person are you Jimbo


Oh, the irony.

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PostPosted: Thu Dec 16, 2021 8:13 pm 
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0700 this morning and a punter asks me, chisit to Nottingham? I said £80. He waves a minicab card at me and says, they will take me for £50. So go with them, I said. They can’t take me until 0900, says he.

You have to wonder exactly what kind of response they expect from those comments.

It's never going to be a positive one.

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jimbo wrote:
edders23 wrote:
your not a people person are you Jimbo


Your not an england person are you



Eh ? I can trace my family back a couple of hundred years and they are all from England so not sure what you mean

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PostPosted: Fri Dec 17, 2021 8:26 am 
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edders23 wrote:
jimbo wrote:
edders23 wrote:
your not a people person are you Jimbo


Your not an england person are you



Eh ? I can trace my family back a couple of hundred years and they are all from England so not sure what you mean


T’was but a comment on you’re (sic) English language, old bean. :lol:

I couldn’t understand why you accused me of not being a people person, because I declined a gentleman’s offer of nowhere near enough to take him to Nottingham, but I let it go, mainly because it was an as usual puerile comment.

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England = country English= language or nationality

a people person would have talked the punter round by chatting a little and explaining the reasons why cheapskate cars will not be able to get him to nottingham any time soon and why £80 is not an unreasonable price given the cost of providing the service

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edders23 wrote:
England = country English= language or nationality

a people person would have talked the punter round by chatting a little and explaining the reasons why cheapskate cars will not be able to get him to nottingham any time soon and why £80 is not an unreasonable price given the cost of providing the service


Your/ you’re really are bereft of a sense of humour, aren’t you? Oh well.

Not interested in explaining to a cheapskate when other punters are wanting to get in and go. I was better off NOT going. But thank you for the lesson in humility, I’ll bear that in mind the next time.

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tell em he can go as far as £50 on the meter

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Punter told me today why she does her Xmas food shop at Asda.

They play the best Xmas music. ](*,)

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