Have you had a priceless day? [Archive]

EJK

24th July 2008, 14:31

Let me tell you about my priceless day. Simple and short thread.

Riding along towards St Heleirs, I see a kid looking at me curiously. I wave to him and he waves back with a smile. His mother beside him sees and replies a smile too. Thats priceless.

Riding back towards the City Central, I see two cyclists on the Bus lane (which I was riding along) riding side by side, then he sees me and pulls over to make a gap. I pass gently giving a thumb up sign. After passing them, I see their face through the side mirrors. Faces with a pair of sports sunglasses and a great smile. Thats priceless.

A guy on a golden F650CS stops side by side on a traffic lights, nodding with a BIG ASS grin that I can see through his open faced helmet. That is priceless.

Ride along the motorway, passing a family van and I see a kid through the rear passenger. Again he looks at me with curious eyes. I wave at him and he waves back. His mother driving sees it and smiles, which I saw through the side mirrors. Again, priceless.

Also you know what is priceless?

Going to KB KIDS get together and grabbing a sausage sizzle... its free... priceless... Pity I missed that...

Smile is priceless*! Go out there and make a priceless day!

*Also sausages

nodrog

24th July 2008, 14:34

i farted in my collegue's drawer while he was out of the office, the look on his face when he came back and opened his drawer was PRICELESS.

Meekey_Mouse

24th July 2008, 14:35

Excellent thread :) Some times we can get so caught up in where we want to go and or what we have to do we forget just how important the little things are. Like giving a cyclist the thumbs up for moving over :yes:

mstriumph

24th July 2008, 14:36

i farted in my collegue's drawer while he was out of the office, the look on his face when he came back and opened his drawer was PRICELESS. i liked HIS post a lot more though ..........

Pussy

24th July 2008, 14:49

Before all the OSH laws etc became so draconian, I have taken numerous little kids for their first ride in an aeroplane. The look of excitement and awe on their faces was PRICELESS

vifferman

24th July 2008, 15:05

Let me tell you about my priceless day. Simple and short thread.
I hate you!

:confused:

I'm having a pointless day.
Or mebbe it's just a shitty day...
My computer program is ferkt. I upgraded it, and that made it worse. I can't do my work, and I'm days behind. I've got three weeks to get ALL my work done before I go on a vacation I'd rather not go on.
My mother is in hospital, semi-conscious and I dunno what's happening there. Maybe orphanhood is looming...
My son is very depressed (just a bit more than me) and threatening to kill himself. I took him to a specialist yesterday, and got it in the neck from the porcupine/accountant/spousal unit for it costing so much.
I phoned the porcupine/accountant/spousal unit to tell her about my mum, and she sounded ill. She made a massive cock-up at work, and thinks she's gonna get fired. (Why that matters, I dunno, because she's going to a new job after our vacation anyway...)

I did just escape from CubicleHell for a coupla minutes, and buy a flatness of white and a fudge thingie. That helped. Perhaps I had a chocolate deficiency...

[/moan]

screamer

24th July 2008, 15:49

i farted in my collegue's drawer while he was out of the office, the look on his face when he came back and opened his drawer was PRICELESS.

Knowing how much shit you talk i'm amazed that was all you left.:bleh:

ukbandit

24th July 2008, 15:53

The look on the cops face in england as my head smashed into thier wind screen! that was priceless (no cops were armed in the making of this reply or in the accident):rolleyes:

Boob Johnson

24th July 2008, 16:42

my priceless day
Spot on guvna :niceone:

I just returned from my nieces 3rd birthday party, lots of smiles & lots of fun had by all, priceless indeed :clap:

I'm having a pointless day
:hug: for Viffer

gunnyrob

24th July 2008, 17:03

Go out there and make a priceless day!

*Also sausages

Freakin A. Good thread:banana:

Number One

24th July 2008, 17:19

People wonder what I'm up to when I smile...I smile all the time...and I'm ALWAYS up to something :devil2:

Jez

24th July 2008, 17:34

my day has cost me approximately $3.27

but to arrive home and have my daughter triumphantly cry out that the chicken pox have ALL gone ... priceless ;)

Mom

24th July 2008, 17:35

Best ongoing priceless one for me happened a couple of years ago. I was sitting having a latte as you do sometimes, and heard a bump kind of sound, turned my head in time to see an elderly man about a metre off the ground after having been bowled by a car! Being the ex-nurse I am, I ran over to offer assistance. Long story short here the man was pronounced uninjured apart from bumps and bruises by the ambo that attended, the car driver was ticketed by plod and one of the other witnesses to the event drove this man home in his car.

Later in the day I rang to see how he was, his wife told me he was off out fixing an elderly neighbours hot water cyclinder, he had not told her what had happened, apart from he fell :yes: He was very grateful for what I did, and that I rang to see how he was after the fact. I see the pair of them down the road everyweek, they are very elderly and still hold hands, they always stop to ask how I am when they see me! The buzz just keeps on happening for me!

I'm motarded

24th July 2008, 17:39

The day my son was born and now coming home every day to see his reaction when I walk in the door. :D That to me is priceless

MSTRS

24th July 2008, 17:51

Riding back towards the City Central, I see two cyclists on the Bus lane (which I was riding along) riding side by side, then he sees me and pulls over to make a gap. I pass gently giving a thumb up sign. After passing them, I see their face through the side mirrors. Faces with a pair of sports sunglasses and a great smile. Thats priceless.

Being blocked by 2 or more cyclists who deliberately ensure you can't get round them, only for one of them to ride into a manhole with the cover off = priceless!

martybabe

24th July 2008, 17:52

I'm fretting about going to the doctors, keep putting it off and I got all these morbid scenarios running through my head, when I passed a young mom doing stupidly elongated exaggerated walking movements for the 2-3 year old child who was bouncing up and down on her shoulders in fits of giggles, that's priceless.

She stopped when she saw me watching and smiling, I wish she hadn't it was a lovely moment,took me to a nice place for a while, mind you this face would stop a train. :laugh:

CookMySock

24th July 2008, 18:17

Let me tell you about my priceless day.Thank you bro. I needed that. Priceless! :cool:

DB

shafty

24th July 2008, 18:32

Was queueing up at the post box to mail something, a little girl and her Mom are in front of me and the little Girl says" Mummy lift me up, lift me up" (so she could post their mail), Mom says "Oh, OK"

..........and as she turns toward me to head away I said " Gonna lift me up?"

The look on her face? Magic!

MyGSXF

24th July 2008, 18:36

Getting to give a new mum with a little baby in the car your parking ticket for the car park, still with 45 minutes on it.. & seeing her smile.. priceless! :D

Papa Bear

24th July 2008, 18:43

Being blocked by 2 or more cyclists who deliberately ensure you can't get round them, only for one of them to ride into a manhole with the cover off = priceless!

:rofl: :bleh: :jerry: :clap: :2thumbsup

Bloody Mad Woman (BMW)

24th July 2008, 19:04

Thanks for sharing that - today I was walking back from the Dr's in the freezing cold - full of the flu and feeling like utter crap - I looked up and this young guy was staring so I smiled at him thinking - smile back mate cos that's the only one I'm gonna see today - cos I'm heading straight for bed - he did smile back and tonite I read this thread lol.

Mom

24th July 2008, 19:07

Getting to give a new mum with a little baby in the car your parking ticket for the car park, still with 45 minutes on it.. & seeing her smile.. priceless! :D

Giving some harried young Mom complete with crying baby 50 cents to pay for the few things she had bought and was short paying for....mmmm

I love doing shit like that!

MyGSXF

24th July 2008, 19:15

Giving some harried young Mom complete with crying baby 50 cents to pay for the few things she had bought and was short paying for....mmmm.. I love doing shit like that!

Yep!!!! good aye!! :2thumbsup

Bout a month ago, I went to give an old fella my parking ticket with bout half an hour still remaining on it.. but it was very windy & the exchange between hands didn't go quite how it was sposed too.. :rolleyes: & the ticket blew away.. straight into a stormwater drain.. :doh: man did we laugh!! :lol:

Mom

24th July 2008, 19:31

Yep!!!! good aye!! :2thumbsup

oooo bugger. :Oops:
Bout a month ago, I went to give an old fella my parking ticket with bout half an hour still remaining on it.. but it was very windy & the exchange between hands didn't go quite how it was sposed too.. :rolleyes: & the ticket blew away.. straight into a stormwater drain.. :doh: man did we laugh!! :lol:

oooo bugger. :Oops:

marty

24th July 2008, 20:13

i've had a great day, and a shit day - all at once.

fireball

24th July 2008, 20:27

im still trying to work out what kinda day i had

but taking rawberry to work instead of the zzr and the smile on my face! and the strange sense of satisfaction when a biker from a gang said it looks better than the harely i parked next to!!!

bikerboy011

24th July 2008, 20:33

Awesome man. Havin a scooter over my bike for the whole day today that is priceless it was fun too.

Sully One

24th July 2008, 20:36

I was a good boy today so daddy brought me Gingerbread ice cream...YUM PRICELESS

Number One

24th July 2008, 20:41

I was a good boy today so daddy brought me Gingerbread ice cream...YUM PRICELESS
Yeah that was yummy stuff!

R6_kid

24th July 2008, 21:22

Hmmm - a day up north at The Stranger's family bach.

Wake up whenever I felt like it, to high tide all of about 3m from the front porch (it's a nice quiet sheltered bay)...

Bacon etc for breaky...

Crack open a beer :apint:

A spot of (unsuccessful) fishing from the dinghy... oh well.

Then a 'dummies guide to scuba diving' from The Stranger, straight into it - put that in your mouth, put this over your face, breath normal, go down to the bottom and get us some scallops thank you sir.

A full catch bag later return to the bach for yet another beer.

Many beers + bourbon and cokes later, dinner is finished and out comes the poker set.

After some good tactical play things get a bit heated and I am graced with being called 'girly legs' by someone who shall remain unnamed. If you've seen my legs, you'd know that that moment was quite 'priceless'.

Timber020

24th July 2008, 22:17

We have been having ongoing sagas on a developers worksite, its steep enough for a goat to break its neck on, never NEVER gets any sun, is just loose rock and dirt and they always expect us to cut trees and haul them 100m up a basically unclimbable slope. (we call it the valley of darkness)

This morning, 100kmph winds my phone goes "hi timber its X, the wind and rain has brought down a slide with trees on it, can you deal?"
Seriously thought about pretending not to hear him, my guys sick anyhow, Im by myself and weather sucks. tempted to claim my phones dying but find myself stupidly saying "Sure, will be right there."

Load up 2 chainsaw winches, cables, power pruners, pulleys, ropes for africa, tirfir, ladder, GRCS amongst the usual tree gear.

Get to the job, look down the bank and theres at least a couple tonnes of trees, rootball and ALOT of mud and rock in a mess down there.shit.

Theres a digger down in the hole, and apparently the guys doing the stablising have to get a new big compactor fitting down there, so just as im trying to work out how I am going to do this by myself a fucking great beautiful CRANE show up.

Cost of setting up chipper, truck, winch, rope, pulleys, redirects, climbing lines, cables....$190

Having a crane come in and pull the whole lot up in 2 goes and dropping it beside chipper and letting me get the job done in less than 5 hours and not break my ass doing it

PRICELESS

gijoe1313

25th July 2008, 08:46

Reading about EJ's pricless experiences while riding my little ol'hornet is priceless ... thats about what happens on an average day riding my little ol'hornet! :yes:

Actually, being in class working with a student who suddenly has the penny drop ... and the change in their look and bearing ... is priceless. It's the sort of thing that keeps pulling you back in when you're thinking "damn, I should give up teaching..."

Update : mmmm scored a free piece of chocolate mud cake, I have a non contact period now (not teaching) and the sun is out and I have a hard working student doing her assessment .... priceless! :yes:

vifferman

25th July 2008, 12:57

w00t.
Today is much better than that other day. I was late for work, because despite getting up at 5:45, I let the vifferbabe get in the shower first, and went back to bed because it was cold. I could have still made it to work early (I was planning to noisify the zorst and park in front of the whingey lady downstairs's office), but I had instructions to get #2 Son to do some whasing, owing to the shiny big thing in the sky (StrongBad it's called, according to the boys). Huh - that wasn't going to happen, so I did some myself, and it was after "the time I was supposed to be at work" before I even got out the door.
It's sunny!
So, there I was, riding to work, late, and I didn't get a ticket and lose my licence, even though I exceeeeeeeded the speeeeeeed limit by a goodly amount, and eeeeeven though I passed four cops here'n'there (though I wasn't speeding then coz I saw them).
But (however!) and EXCELLENT start to the day, when I'd gone past cops #1 and #2, and then noticed my front wheel had encountered a local gravity anomaly. :laugh:
It wasn't deliberate - I was pootling along in first, and gave it a moderate handful of throttle, and noticed the steering had gone all light, and I was now sitting in a backward-leaning position! Not my first wheelie on the CakeMixer, but quite unintenional, and easily the best ever. :niceone:
If I'd expected it, or known that was going to happen, I would've given it more throttle! Nothing like a stuntingly good start to the day.

And my computer and server now have twice the RAM, so they now work properly! :niceone:
And everything is going well (except I dunno if my Dear Old Mum is at Death's Door or not.) :confused:

And it's FRIDAY (a.k.a. POETS day). :niceone: Not at all like those two execrable days Monday and (especially) Tuesday. :nono:

DarkLord

25th July 2008, 15:35

I was riding home from work on the motorway on the North Shore the other day. I'd just gone past Wairau Park and was heading south. I was pretty grumpy as it had been a long day and I just wanted to get home.

A white car came alongside me on my right and I didn't notice it until I saw a lot of movement from inside the car and realised that there were 3 kids in the back seat who were looking at me and waving and smiling, so I grinned at them and waved back, much to their delight.

Seeing their reaction to my wave was pretty priceless, gave me something to feel good about. :)

vifferman

25th July 2008, 15:53

...there were 3 kids in the back seat who were looking at me and waving and smiling, so I grinned at them and waved back, much to their delight.

Seeing their reaction to my wave was pretty priceless, gave me something to feel good about. :)
Yeah, that's always a goodun. :yes:
On the way to work this morning, I stopped at the traffic lights on Onewa Road by the school, just before the pedestrian buzzer went. The kids were quite interested in my bike. Pity I forgot to wave...

martybabe

25th July 2008, 17:13

Just come back from spending all day being tested in Hospital and have received the all clear. :D

That is really really priceless.

Thanx No1 and mom, for the threats and encouragement, Bless ya both. Priceless. X

wysper

25th July 2008, 17:43

The day my son was born and now coming home every day to see his reaction when I walk in the door. :D That to me is priceless

yep, that is the best! and when they can shout out daddy as the come charging towards you too is awesome

Just come back from spending all day being tested in Hospital and have received the all clear. :D

That is really really priceless.

Thanx No1 and mom, for the threats and encouragement, Bless ya both. Priceless. X

Congrats martybabe!!

Hope the weather is fine for some good riding this weekend too.

Number One

25th July 2008, 17:48

Thanx ...... for the threats and encouragement,

DAMN and I was so loooking forward to man candying up your place too.

Seriously though - fab news...you've just given me something to smile about :sunny: been a terminally boring day of housework and grocery shopping, being COLD and not being able to get on my bike...even though it ain't raining and I know it will be tomorrow and Sunday :argh:

Brunch was nice though, hubby and I hob nobbed with the lunchtime lot at a local cafe...blardy gorgeous corn fritters with bacon and sour cream and sweet chili and salad...FARK I'm hungry! Time to get the tea on...housewifes work is never done :rolleyes: