let's thread jack
What was your favourite childhood activity? I think mine was going to the zoo.
( Kitty v1.0 desperately naive, Thu 9 Sep 2010, 8:29, 4 replies, latest was 16 years ago)

Going on holidays
And I haven't changed my opinion since!
( K2k6 has a proper job these days, Thu 9 Sep 2010, 8:31, Reply)

I meant more day trips
obviously holiday was the best time ever.
( Kitty v1.0 desperately naive, Thu 9 Sep 2010, 8:35, Reply)

Ah, OK
Probably the biannual model railway exhibition that my dad used to take me to. He didn't tell me where we were going the first time (I'd have been about 6) and I was incredibly pleased when we entered a hall full of train sets!
( K2k6 has a proper job these days, Thu 9 Sep 2010, 8:38, Reply)

my dad had a model railway running around our loft, it was brilliant.
He used to spend ages painting the little houses and stuff for the scenery.
( Kitty v1.0 desperately naive, Thu 9 Sep 2010, 8:46, Reply)

I had one too, as a kid
but I grew out of it when I reached my mid teens. It's all still in boxes up my parents' loft though.
( K2k6 has a proper job these days, Thu 9 Sep 2010, 8:48, Reply)

I quite like the idea of little model painting but the trains don't hold any interest for me now
When we moved my dad was gutted to have to take it all down.
( Kitty v1.0 desperately naive, Thu 9 Sep 2010, 8:52, Reply)

I'll bet that guy who was on Derren Brown's programme last night
has nightmares about trains.
( K2k6 has a proper job these days, Thu 9 Sep 2010, 8:57, Reply)

I didn't see it, what happened?
lots of people have been slating it.
( Kitty v1.0 desperately naive, Thu 9 Sep 2010, 9:07, Reply)

He picked a meek, shy bloke
and got him to MTFU over a month, culminating in taking control of an aeroplane (actually a simulator but he didn't know). Part of if involved him putting the bloke in a strait jacket and tying him to a railway line, with a train coming. He escaped in the nick of time.

Obviously there would have been some sort of trickery involved, but he was still shitting himself!
( K2k6 has a proper job these days, Thu 9 Sep 2010, 9:37, Reply)

I thoroughly enjoyed watching it

( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Thu 9 Sep 2010, 10:01, Reply)

Staying in my room and drawing.
I was emo before it was invented.
( girlinthehole, Thu 9 Sep 2010, 8:32, Reply)

I'm rubbish at art
I can't even draw a straight line.
( K2k6 has a proper job these days, Thu 9 Sep 2010, 8:33, Reply)

line curtain
( SteveFrench Cardio is for homo's. do you even lift bro?, Thu 9 Sep 2010, 8:45, Reply)

Never mind curtains
It takes me all my time to draw breath some days!
( K2k6 has a proper job these days, Thu 9 Sep 2010, 8:46, Reply)

room cave

/old joke
(PenguinOfDeath is Scottish, and most likely angry, Thu 9 Sep 2010, 8:39, Reply)

from the age of 13: driving tractors, prior to this: anything with an engine

(lkjshaglkasjdhglkhjz lkcvl; g;aodh;owih, Thu 9 Sep 2010, 8:40, Reply)

Tractors scared me when I was younger
their wheels are just so big.

Now that I'm older they just piss me off when I get stuck behind them on the road.
( Kitty v1.0 desperately naive, Thu 9 Sep 2010, 8:47, Reply)

I've never had strong feelings about them!
Round here, farmers are usually pretty good at pulling over to let traffic past. It's the old biddies in their Micras who piss me off, pootling along at 40mph on a perfectly good road, with a queue of angry commuters behind.
( K2k6 has a proper job these days, Thu 9 Sep 2010, 8:50, Reply)

It depended which farmer it was where I lived
the younger guys usually pulled over but the grumpy old twatbags never did, no matter how many people they were holding up. Dicks.

I hated Sunday drivers, I used to work a double shift in the pub and I'd have an hour to nip home and have a break between shifts, but I would always get stuck behind some stupid old couple who would drive at 20 and stop to point at bunnies, making a 5 minute journey take 20 minutes.

I love living in the city now.
( Kitty v1.0 desperately naive, Thu 9 Sep 2010, 8:54, Reply)

Cities irritate me beyond measure, when trying to do a journey
It takes so long to get anywhere! Even tractors move at a faster average speed.
( K2k6 has a proper job these days, Thu 9 Sep 2010, 8:55, Reply)

I walk everywhere in the city
or get the tram. I only rob Wiggy's car when we're leaving the city. I see so many angry commuters beeping at each other and driving like dicks in the mornings it makes public transport look slightly less horrific.

I walk to work accompanied by the magpies so it's a pretty stress-free journey.
( Kitty v1.0 desperately naive, Thu 9 Sep 2010, 8:58, Reply)

If it's a short enough distance to walk
it's definitely the best way. I live nearly 30 miles from work but it's only about a 35 minute drive.
( K2k6 has a proper job these days, Thu 9 Sep 2010, 8:59, Reply)

I just wish the trains were more reliable so that more people used them
it pisses me off how many people drive when they don't need to. I wanted the congestion charge to come into Manchester so that they would improve the transport links but all those people who drive the 5 mile journey to work voted against it.
( Kitty v1.0 desperately naive, Thu 9 Sep 2010, 9:05, Reply)

Was (still am) a petrolhead - tractors were the first thing I was allowed to drive
I did buy my first car when I was 14 though, although my parents sold it 4 months later when they finally found out I had bought it & was driving myself around (including to school).
(lkjshaglkasjdhglkhjz lkcvl; g;aodh;owih, Thu 9 Sep 2010, 8:51, Reply)

you're lucky you didn't get stopped by the police
or hit anyone.
( Kitty v1.0 desperately naive, Thu 9 Sep 2010, 8:54, Reply)

I only drove locally on rural roads, the car was roadworthy and I didn't tear around like a boy racer.

(lkjshaglkasjdhglkhjz lkcvl; g;aodh;owih, Thu 9 Sep 2010, 9:00, Reply)

doesn't make it ok
All the lads in the pub used to drink drive on the local roads because there weren't any coppers.
( Kitty v1.0 desperately naive, Thu 9 Sep 2010, 9:04, Reply)

I didn't drink & drive. I'm not condoning what I did either.

(lkjshaglkasjdhglkhjz lkcvl; g;aodh;owih, Thu 9 Sep 2010, 9:10, Reply)

sorry I shouldn't be so grumpy
I have to deal with people at work who break motoring laws all the time so it annoys me more than it should.
( Kitty v1.0 desperately naive, Thu 9 Sep 2010, 9:15, Reply)

understandable

(lkjshaglkasjdhglkhjz lkcvl; g;aodh;owih, Thu 9 Sep 2010, 9:18, Reply)

I loved playing with Mecanos
specially if they had engines. It took a while for my parents to agree and buy me the first one, as they thought I (as a girl) wouldn't like it, and would be asking my father for help all the time. Bah.
(Aberracion Life's getting very complicated, but a lot of fun., Thu 9 Sep 2010, 9:03, Reply)

Going to the beach
But I hated the coming back, walking uphill back home full of sand and salt.

But the beach was great. Smelling the sea and feeling starving was all the same thing.
(Aberracion Life's getting very complicated, but a lot of fun., Thu 9 Sep 2010, 9:02, Reply)

I used to hate coming back from the swimming pool
sitting in the car with damp hair and crinkly fingers, stinging eyes and smelling of chlorine, yuck.
( Kitty v1.0 desperately naive, Thu 9 Sep 2010, 9:06, Reply)

Yep, I know
And I hated having to shower at the swimming pool too. The showers were opened, so we would keep our swimming wear on and, you know, there are bits of your body that you can't wash properly without getting naked and without looking a bit rude in front of a lot of women.
(Aberracion Life's getting very complicated, but a lot of fun., Thu 9 Sep 2010, 9:10, Reply)