I love it when....

Aplologies if there is a thread similar to this already set up. Just thought it might be nice to get a bit of positivity going, to counteract the likes of 'Behaviour which needs to be Banned' and the general wave of disgruntlement bringing everybody down. I'll start....


I love it when....

....I get a roll to be made up at a deli counter and it's still hot from the oven!

....I'm expecting about a grand back from revenue but those kind folk give me €1400 instead!


It's been a good Monday!! (although I did miss out on tickets for the Europa League Final at the Aviva, I'll look at it as another financial bonus though:)).

I was going to start a thread called "it's the little things" about things that make you happy aside form the obvious...

Beat me too it

Anyway

I have a four door car but no kids so the back doors rarely get used, so when i do open them the doors sticks to the rubber slightly and give a very satisfing whooosh kinda noise...

Lovely!

...a plan comes together.

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Originally Posted by shannonman

I have a four door car but no kids so the back doors rarely get used, so when i do open them the doors sticks to the rubber slightly and give a very satisfing whooosh kinda noise...

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I'm the same but I'd open them regularly enough to throw in shopping or whatever. Might start using the boot to get some of the whooosh action every so often!

It is great not having kids though!

... Someone sets up a positive "little smiles" thread like this one.

My son gets a hamper of retro sweets....gobstoppers...yummmm.

When Jim Lauchlan takes his top off after a game.

...cars flash their lights to warn of cops ahead.

...i put fresh sheets on the bed. The effort is worth it.

when I go to get a bus and it comes straight away

New socks.

The cup of tea after my shower after coming back muddy and cold from football on a Sunday morning.

..I am watching Soccer Saturday and Jeff Stelling says "there's been a goal at Hillsboro but which way has it gone" and it's for the homeside. A rare treat.

..I have time to sit down in front of the telly and watch a one day cricket international from first ball to last.

..Andy Gray gets in trouble for slagging off an Official. Never happened before.

I LOVE IT WHEN:


- My kids run to hug me when I get home from work

- I am not hungover on a Sunday morning despite having a feed of drink the night before.

- I beat traffic jams with my secret short cuts

- My farts are silent and odorless

when looking through an an old pair of trousers I find a fiver crunched up in the back pocket.

getting your work done and being able to go early, without anything nagging away at the back of your mind. especially on a friday.

...when I wake up feeling wrecked but thinking I have to get up, then notice it's really early and I can sleep for another few hours.

Once or twice, I've actually set my alarm on my days off to allow this to happen.

I go to my son's parent teacher meeting and get told he is practically an accounting genius and on track for loads of great grades in next year's leaving cert.

My son's economic teacher is hot! (Bothers me that he plays county gaa though).

My son and I talk for hours about his future careers and choice of uni.

My younger son's English teacher (same guy as older lad's economic teacher) tells me how incredible my son's poem was even though his p/t meeting isn't for a few weeks.

a dumbass loser like me can look at my life and say my greatest achievement is raising 2 amazing, smart, kind, mannerly, well adjusted young men, on my own without anything from their deadbeat dad. kinda proud of them in case you haven't noticed.

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Originally Posted by Magicme

a dumbass loser like me can look at my life and say my greatest achievement is raising 2 amazing, smart, kind, mannerly, well adjusted young men, on my own without anything from their deadbeat dad. kinda proud of them in case you haven't noticed.

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You're far from a dumbass loser my cyber friend.

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Originally Posted by strangeirish

You're far from a dumbass loser my cyber friend.

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Thanks but I feel I am coz I have given career opportunities up, moved back to a one donkey town, not travelled like I want to, have no prospects and no adventure but did it all for my boys so they are the only thing I have done right in my life. But any mug can raise kids.

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Originally Posted by Magicme

Thanks but I feel I am coz I have given career opportunities up, moved back to a one donkey town, not travelled like I want to, have no prospects and no adventure but did it all for my boys so they are the only thing I have done right in my life. But any mug can raise kids.

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Any mug can have a kid but not every mug can be a parent...

...coming out of a job interview/exam/stressful measure of character and knowing you've just nailed it.

...the satisfying crunch of a gel pen on a brand spanking new jotter pad.

Going into the toilet at work do your business and they have just been cleaned...

an ice cold toilet seat for that matter...

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Originally Posted by shannonman

Going into the toilet at work do your business and they have just been cleaned...

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That really is one of those great little pleasures in life.

....it's Springtime. I'm sick of going to work in the dark. Roll on the brighter mornings and the long evenings.

The now rare, novelty like days, when there's just a pub, a juke box, a few old mates, a bit of banter and all day to get drunk.

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Originally Posted by Onefootednopace

....it's Springtime. I'm sick of going to work in the dark. Roll on the brighter mornings and the long evenings.

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Seconded, with the note that I love the nights getting shorter too; bit of atmosphere about the evenings. You'd get tired of one or the other all the time.

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Originally Posted by shannonman

Any mug can have a kid but not every mug can be a parent...

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A few weeks before I became a parent for the first time, a friend of mine gave me similar advice albeit alcohol fueled

"Any arsehole can be a father but it takes a real man to be a Dad"

I throw onions or something on the pan and they start making a sizzling noise.

Dog on the pitch

Dog in school, particularly if it's a big dog, like a St Bernard or a Pyrenean mountain dog

This thread has gone to the dogs...

...it's Friday !!!

When your thinking about going for a pint and you get a text asking you if you fancy one....

Dilemma over!

You finally get some direction in your life and have a plan of action. Need to brush up on my French over next 2 years.:-D

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Originally Posted by Magicme

You finally get some direction in your life and have a plan of action. Need to brush up on my French over next 2 years.:-D

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Monaco-han United?

...when you take a dump and you don't have to spend forever cleaning it.

When Tesco sell chateauneuf-du-pape for €10. Yummy. Just opened a bottle of it. Nice.

Any time I ask Sligoman to go for pints he says no :(

You get home from a night of dancing and kick your high heels off. Nothing like it, don't ya agree boys?

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Originally Posted by Magicme

You get home from a night of dancing and kick your high heels off. Nothing like it, don't ya agree boys?

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The men of the French court invented high heels as a joke. Centuries later, women still haven't gotten it.

the beast returns...........welcome back boy!