People Watching

When I was in my last job, Strensham services had a very odd effect on my satnav. After having a coffee and a brownie (cake, not member of) the "voice" would tell me things in kilometres.

LizG if it was a wax model, why was it shrink wrapped in plastic?

(Cue Twilight Zone type music.................)

Apparently you can buy a smoked foot for less than $112! Please don't all rush to order one or the website will crash!

How awful LizG they could have been surgeons on a day out and forgot to leave some poor amputee's foot behind, or they could have been murderers who were showing off their victims "bits and pieces" before burying them in a deep dark forest somewhere, or they could be going to an artificial foot convention or .........

I love people watching too and especially like making up wondering what they might be up to.

They were probably ad people discussing the next step in the campaign to scare smokers into submission...

or film /TV prop makers trying to promote their products???

Oh how weird Phoenix, obviously Strensham is a very strange place. Oh er! I nearly rushed off to check grannyactivist but in truth I rather agree with Ana. It is just one of those things I shall never know .... Unless someone from Gransnet was there? gillybob and nansej

I checked the site. It's very good! Might actually deter smokers ( I'm an exsmoker)

LizG the thing with the satnav happened every time I stopped there (5 times at the last count)

To quote one of Mr P's phrases "Most peculiar"

Sometimes the odd bits of overheard conversations can be intriguing, to say the least.

I remember a friend and I walking along a street in Bideford and overhearing a young woman saying to her friend "Yes, and it was a lovely one, with rubbers on it and everything"

That was over 10 years ago, and we still occasionally wonder what "it" was.

phoenix That's rather like the occasion when there was a pause in a choral work at the Albert Hall (could it have been the Halleluja Chorus?) and a voice could be clearly heard saying, "I always use suet in mine".

I just wondered if you saw "them" leave LizG and whether one of them had a distinctive limp

Oh absent that di make me snigorttle!

Or perhaps it might have been L I M P , pronounced, "limp"

Oh dear, ribs hurt

Wonder if the ghost of Strensham Services would join us at Galen's party? Phoenix my OH says his satanic (oops Freudian slip on the Kindle) satnav goes weird there too and sends him all over the place.

Aaah, so it's not only me, then!

Although I will never be able to put it to the test again!

I have no idea where Strensham Services are. Anywhere near Bermuda?

Not unless we turned right rather than left absent - I wish. With my sense of direction that wouldn't surprise me. I think we were on the M5 just before crossing on to the M42 but the whole trip was horrendous; a never to be repeated exercise. I like to stick to 60mph but no such luck.

My cars have always led me astray. I've never had satnav.

Mind you, I don't really need a car to be led astray .