Car Boot!

I was at my local car boot the other day in Weaverham, (I also found out that Sarah has never been to one!). Not that she is missing out I suppose, because I have never been to a car boot where there was so much crap being sold!!!! It was shocking, I was almost laughing most of the way round at the tat people thought they were going to sell, broken picture frames, really really old board games e.t.c. About the only thing that was selling was PS2 games. How long if this stuff going to be in circulation? Will we see the same old crap in years to come when its even more out of date? No one wants to buy that old VCR now, never mind in a couple of years.

There was also a couple of high school girls with a stall, selling cakes to abolish the slave trade, I guess they would have to build a time machine first so they could go back a few hundred years and help out, good luck to them though.

I also did my good deed for the day, there was an old couple bartering with one guy over the price of a complex Lego Technic model, which happens to be the same one that I have at at home from my childhood. The problem with the one being sold was that it had no instructions making it impossible to make! So I boldly volunteered to scan in and email then the instructions, which they were very appreciative for. I got their email address, which they read "w w w dot" (the older generation) and off I went.

It started to dawn on me what a big task I had taken on, the instruction manual for this thing was over 100 pages long, how long would it take me to scan, rotate and crop all of those pages??? So a quick search on the net lead me to the Lego website, where, luckily, they have already done all the hard work and PDF'd all of the manuals up, so I emailed the link to that across with full instructions on how to get Adobe and open it up e.t.c. Sorted.

Another strange thing happened to me at Tescos the other day, a women was asking where something was in the shop, so I told her and that was that, she then asked me
"do you do the lottery?",
I said "yes, just go to customer services and they will sort you out",
she said "no, do YOU do the lottery?"
I said "what? Me personally?"
she said "yes, yes"
I said "well, no, I don't"
she said "oh, ok"

and that was it, she walked off, to late for me to ask why the hell she wanted to know! So that left me confused.

Sarah's present is coming along well, I can write all about it at the weekend hopefully when I have given it to her.