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REGIONAL FORUMS => UNITED KINGDOM/IRELAND => Topic started by: billybandit on December 11, 2005, 08:41:56 AM

Title: 2 weeks till Christmas...
Post by: billybandit on December 11, 2005, 08:41:56 AM
Anyone (like me) NOT started the Christmas shop yet?  :banana:
Title: 2 weeks till Christmas...
Post by: Wooddog on December 11, 2005, 03:50:25 PM
I am the same way, I normally wait till the weekend before Christmas before purchasing any gifts.  I guess, I put it off as long as I can hoping that I will come up with more money, but that hardly ever happens.
Title: 2 weeks till Christmas...
Post by: billybandit on December 11, 2005, 07:53:18 PM
Lol when you leave it that all that happens is there's nothing left in the shops, but town is absolutely packed with shoppers and becomes the biggest ordeal of the year. Even more so!
Title: 2 weeks till Christmas...
Post by: Red01 on December 11, 2005, 08:03:12 PM
I just have to shop for my wife... she does the shopping for everyone else.  :bigok:

...but I STILL have to go shop for her.  :duh:
Title: 2 weeks till Christmas...
Post by: aussiebandit on December 12, 2005, 01:18:51 AM
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I just have to shop for my wife... she does the shopping for everyone else.  

...but I STILL have to go shop for her.


I've got that one beat, I send my kids to shop for Mums presents, and while they're at it they get her  something from me. :banana:  :banana:
Title: 2 weeks till Christmas...
Post by: Red01 on December 12, 2005, 08:58:04 PM
No thanks... I'll keep my method. I don't want the kids to move back in.
I'll glady suffer thru the occasional shopping (Christmas, birthday, anniversary) if they stay in their own places.

:beers:
Title: 2 weeks till Christmas...
Post by: wyntrblue on December 13, 2005, 06:37:37 AM
crap i had forgotten about xmooose, so now i have to go shopping for da misses's pressy..... now what dop you get for the woman who has everything?
Title: 2 weeks till Christmas...
Post by: billybandit on December 13, 2005, 03:04:54 PM
Alcohol. Stuff it, I'm just getting booze for my family this year
Title: 2 weeks till Christmas...
Post by: Jacknife on December 13, 2005, 07:11:45 PM
Im a cheap bastard, everyone gets an IOU, then when the sales start I buy then. Last year I was so busy forget to get my wife a Christmas card you dont know how much shit i got in!

Might buy the card tomorrow (same thing will happen as last year0 :bigok:
Title: 2 weeks till Christmas...
Post by: Red01 on December 13, 2005, 09:35:06 PM
Quote from: "wyntrblue"
now what dop you get for the woman who has everything?


Get her a new bike!  :beers:  :bigok:  :beers:
Title: 2 weeks till Christmas...
Post by: wyntrblue on December 14, 2005, 04:37:15 AM
i would love to but shes disabled and unable to ride one :( next good idea?
Title: 2 weeks till Christmas...
Post by: aussiebandit on December 14, 2005, 06:44:07 AM
There's a lady I know who is in a wheel chair and still 'rides'.

Ok well maybe rides a bike is not descriptive enough.

She's got on old Z1 with a side car arrangement on it.  All the controls have been moved to the side car.  She simply wheels herself into the side car, straps the wheel chair in and 'rides' away.  It's not pretty engineering by any stretch of the imagination, but it's effective.  I'll see if I can track down a picture.

It's quite disturbing the first time you see her coming towards you because there's a bike and sidecar coming towards you, but there's no one on the bike.
Title: 2 weeks till Christmas...
Post by: Red01 on December 14, 2005, 10:18:37 PM
This guy just wheels his wheelchair into the hack:

(http://www.pashnit.com/bikes/sidecarwebpics/sidehack1a.jpg)

(http://www.pashnit.com/bikes/sidecarwebpics/sidehack2.jpg)
Title: 2 weeks till Christmas...
Post by: wyntrblue on December 15, 2005, 04:56:26 AM
lol she isnt allowed to get a licence here with the illness she has, so a bike is outa the question
Title: 2 weeks till Christmas...
Post by: Red01 on December 15, 2005, 11:29:36 PM
You could get her a hack so she can ride with you...