Hi OP, can we take two things as given please?
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is that I am a bit thick - I am just being open & honest here.
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Although it is part of no.1 really, I am slow at the upkeep
can I add a third here now please OP, as I have confused myself?
- Re: no 2, I don't think I understand what I mean by "... , I am slow at the upkeep" if anyone can explain what I mean here I will be very grateful, and no, nothing alcoholic has touched my lips for weeks - unfortunately!
Sorry, this might take a few minutes, I am just trying to remember what I wanted to say/ask/reply to you about OP (if anyone is reading this can they play the Countdown music in their head please whilst I am thinking.
...................... ah, think I am getting a flicker .. damn, it's gone again .......... while I am thinking can I ask the anyone who might be reading this if they ever get to the bit where they are supposed to press post, but they automatically hit their go back key instead? It drives me mad (if anyone - again, poor anyone, I do feel for you [if you are there of course, if you are not, I won't waste my precious brain cells and heart cells on feeling for you] is reading this and they recognise my username, you may understand how mad it does make me, as most of my reply posts are so long, they are more like an essay, or a chapter of a very boring book. Afterall, why use 4 or 5 sentences when 5 or 6 long paragraphs are much more likely to ensure that no-one can be bothered to read your - by your, I mean my - posts?)..........
..... ah, I think I have it, I just have to hit my back button yo re-read your post OP, I don't want to get my reply wrong! Ooops, I nearly did it, thank you to the anyone who shouted loud enough for me not to do it, whew! Ok, so I will just have to try to remember what you said to the best of my ability "gulp" and my eyes rolled at the same time as the gulp.
Now, where were we, oh yes, I think I have it, you were the OP who didnzt know what to buy for your Dad,vor your mum a little bit also, weren't you? Bugger no, that wasn't you, which is a pity because I can remember that one. I don't suppose I quoted you at the top of this did I OP? No, of course not, that would have been far too sensible. Hang on. Wait a second.
Was it you OP who put something up, and might have asked £4 for it, well for 2 of it's (Christmas decorations if I remember correctly), then did you do the same for two other Christmas decorations for the same price, but nobody (who are the nobody, and where for that matter did you put the however many decorations up to - although I no longer live there [and I wasn't born there, but I was almost conceived there, but it was a bit too far East to count as the West Country I think, but my parents were on holiday there with my then 5 year old brother, but I suppose until I was actually conceived {I was an accident, I just whispered that last bit, when my parents were slightly sozzled} I don't suppose he counted as my brother?] that "to" - just before the first one of the recent parentheses (is that the right word for brackets? Probably not, I'm probably just proving my thickness - to self: stop trying to be clever, it always backfires, and you (me) make yourself (myself) look even more stupid! And (never start a sentence with "and" Hearts v Brains. But they do in Portugal - pouts - . You shouldn't really start with "but" either, if you have to you can just about start with "however". However, even that is best avoided.) - is a West Country "to" eg "where's that to?"?
So to reiterate and continue, and to make sure that at least I have some idea about what it is that I am trying to say:
OP, sorry but I don't understand what you are trying to say? Maybe you said half of it inside your head without realising that you hadn't put your whole
a) question?
or
b) point?
down at the beginning of your O (and only, when I started typing this) P?
So, I am guessing that you didn't put things up on your lounge wall (or kitchen wall, or bedroom wall or dining room wall, other rooms may be available) and hope that some random people - who might want Christmas decorations or similar, either to purchase or take away for free - will walk through whichever room it is, and ask to buy them, or take them away for free (maybe you could do a BOGOFF offer?)? So, not having used one of these sites myself yet, I do believe that there are internet sites where you can put things up for sale, is that what you meant when you said something like you had put xxx Christmas decorations up? If I am correct so far, were you making an observation that people people won't pay for some new (could they tell they were new, could they see how much more or less you were asking for them than their original price? Actually if they were new why did you want to sell themI? Sorry, ignore that, I am being too nosy!) Christmas decorations, but when you offered similar for free, lots of people wanted them? Or were you making a complaint about people wanting things for free but they were not willing to pay for them? Oooh, I have just thought of a number 3 (thank goodness it wasn't a number 2, who wants to think about number 2's, well, except Ant and Deck or toddlers, or other grown men like my DH and adult sons who all still love toilet humour?) Anyway, I must stop digressing,
or (sorry for a second "or" I know that there should only be one "or", but I think you can have an "either" as well if you really want to...), are you asking your {dear} reader(s) (whether you married them or not), why we think that the random people visiting ypur house - ooops sorry, I think we got past that? I mean why those perusing your internet market place (?, yes, is that right?) did not want to buy your new Christmas decirations, but seemed quite happy to have similar for free.
May I say (personally he he he) that whether you were making an observation, a complaint, or asking us a question, any of those 3 are quite valid, that I think it was very slightly mean (but also rather funny - sorry) of pp's to make very slight fun of you? I sincerely hope that if you can manage to work out what my original question was (and if you can, and if there was one - or more - can you please remind me what it/they was/were), that you understand that my post here in reply to yours, has been done in all seriousness, and no (well not many anyway) people referred to within this document were based on anyone - sorry again anyone - in real life.
ps. May I just quickly refer back to the holiday in which I was conceived?
My soon to be (well approx 9 months away) parents had not yet bought their first car, so they travelled to their holiday destination by coach, during which my 5 year old not yet my brother, repeatedly sang (sorry I don't know what the tune was, or even if there was one)
"and the train ran right through the middle of the track" (I am not sure quite what he meant by through, maybe 'along' rather than through, but he sang "through", loudly apparently. He just kept on repeatedly singing those eleven words to the very captive audience. My parents could not stop him, as strangling him would have been frowned on, and might have slightly ruined their holiday.