Work: when are you back from Johannesburg
Me: Sunday
Work: we'rr booking you on a flight to Dallas on Monday
Me: <internal rage>

Yes, we still get it. It's targeted a bit more - usually there's been a tip off that someone on base has been indulging. But they have to be 'random', so hundreds get tested to catch one. And, of course, if one of the hundreds gets caught too...

Business or economy?

Work policy is everyone flies economy unless they are a set grade (which I am) and also a certain age (which I am not).

I found this out before joining and negotiated more money to cover upgrades. Unfortunately I only counted on about six long haul trips a year. I've done three already this year.....

A bat ?

Commuters boarding busy trains then spending time folding their clothes and shuffing round their items and blocking the gangway then looking offended if you ask to get past.. By the time they have finished most if not all of the available seating is gone.

Yeah that's how I know I'm in proper pain as I've taken a 5mg one and currently working from home (very painfully) doing my company's year end accounts, it's not knocked me out. I think I'll need a second set of eyes on the work I prepare mind :supergrin:

Yes, a common pain. In a similar vein, the wankers on the seats on tube trains who think it's ok to barge past me, who's been standing for the entire journey, just so they can get to the front of the queue when the doors open at the stop I'm disembarking on myself. Wait your turn.

Did it look like a bat, a ball or a catcher's mitt?

Mine are more akin to the pitchers mound these days :frown:

You Arse. Why didn't you tell them Monday?

Sadly yes. You had to be an NCO or above to 'qualify'. Quite why that was I could never really understand. Like a lot of things in the forces to be honest. All about control I guess.

Thats what elgin.told everyone.......me, I would just charge a tenner.

Feel your pain bro

A tenner!! I was always worried about the buggers who volunteered.

A baseball bat. I was so surprised by its girth that i took a photo of it. I won't lower the tone by posting here though

Contemporary artists stealing a living with art that was probably done by a 4 year old.

Same for planes where someone has sneaked in before their seating area has been called and then spends ages unloading their hand luggage in the middle of the aisle.

Cycle super highway. Loads of traffic on lower thames street all in 1 lane. Massive cycle lane empty.

Echo that one:wallbash: