Do people still worry that their underwear is clean just in case…
Louisa xxx
ps This could of course be a local saying just from where I was brought up and you all think I’m mad!
Ok - I’m going to be a spoilsport here … I’ve actually seen 2 ppl who’ve been knocked down by buses, not actually run over but hit fair and square by a double decker ! On both occassions the silly sods had actually run out in the road instead of doing the gree cross code thingy… so to even the score I would say as long as you don’t launch yourself off the pavement whilst ona bus route the odds are in your favour.
I do like the one liners … especially the one about the Mrs Bucket getting on your tit.
I have had the good old ‘what doesn’t kill you will make you stronger’ comment a couple of times … I’ve responded with ‘well here’s hoping for the later then!’ … quite funny to see their faces tho. One friend asked me if she could get me anything - I asked for a right tit - she said I could have her husband… I declined lol
Hi Lilacblushes,
That’s the best laugh I’ve had today, Thanks, I was feeling a bit gloomy (again) Why do I always get depressed and neurotic before a checkup? Been looking for summer dresses for a wedding this weekend… triumph of hope over experience again, nothing I really could wear, even if money had been no object!
Let’s all just hope that the light at the end of the tunnel isn’t the express train rushing towards us!
Thank goodness for sites like this where we can let rip occasionally.
Silversue
Hi girls,
I asked a relative of mine who works for a council if she could get me any real figures for “being run over by a bus”.Sad aren’t I?!!!
Her findings are for the whole of Humberside for last year…the figures don’t show whether the injury was from, say, the bus pulling up quick and a passenger falling or being outside the bus. Guess how many???
18. no fatalities.
Unfortunately they have had 2 fatalities in this year both young lads with bicycles one of whom dithered about whether to stay or go and just dashed across.
I know you have to multiply this up for all the regions and probably a few more for large busy towns but I suspect it is no where near the 44,000 plus of us?!!!
Love to all,
Kay .
hi
I live in a small village the only buses that come is the school and only have one bus stop so what chance do we have of getting hit with a bus. though some days i feel as it has run over me Ha Ha
Jackie
Thanks for this thread - my day has brightened just by reading it. Not laughed so much in the past month.
I can’t believe I even used the ‘bus’ line when trying to reassure my 15 year old daughter that I would come through the first & second operation!! I will have to find some other one liners to use.
Hi all I too have been entered in the " who has the worst breast cancer competition" dont know why people say that bout people dying from it !! when i was considering Dubai for a holiday later this year I was told that I dont want to go there as you cant sunbathe topless!!! Then the other day a work colleague said she wished she had a figure like mine !!! which i suppose is a credit to my plastic surgeon .I have been stared at so many times and then asked which one is it ?? I find it amusing that people are so interested in my boobs so much .
Also that day after my mastectomy my friend text me to say she was fed up … I wasnt actually on top of the world myself that day lol
I may have lost a breast but I sure aint lost my sense of humour xxxxx
We have two different bus companies here - we have the posh “First” buses and tatty hand painted lilac and white ancient " Faresaver" buses. If I get run over by a bus. ( clean pants or not)…please let it be “First” and not “Faresaver”
We have First too … and a couple of others who do limited routes and are cheaper … shame the lilac ones are the cheap tatty ones … says a lot for me lol!!!
I would be quite happy to be run over by a lilac blush rather than a lilac bus. Please don’t take offence
x
I remember as a child being told when waving around assorted harmless objects such as toys being told that I ‘have someones eye out with that’. It started off as a warning when wielding something pointed and dangerous and then got said about anything !! became as much as a cliche as the bus running us all over.
We have stagecoach bus which is the posh company and has the smart buses and goes on the nice quiet routes and solent blue line where the buses chug and chuff up the road and are old Hants and Dorset stock from the 1980’s.
Rach xxx
Hi all
I have always chuckled about the bus thing…last I heard BC affected about 1 in 12 women - there’d either have to be very bad bus drivers or habitual j-walkers to beat those odds.
The other cliche that made me grit my teeth was people saying to me whilst having chemo…“this time next year you’ll be laughing about all this” - er never really considered chemo as having a particularly strong comical element. Nausea, fatigue, hair loss…laff a minute - NOT! It’s now nearly a year since my 1st chemo…I’m still not really splitting my sides
Lol
xxx
I get the bus comment too. People are so stupid. My OH is saying I am “lucky” - look at all the poor people in the earthquake in China, and other inappropriate comparisons. I want to smack him in the face - but he is bigger than me.
Today my hair started falling out, and one friend had the cheek to email me the following:
“meanwhile you
can feel good that you are so many grams lighter - and in such a short
time, too! that’s one way to lose weight :)”
Why can’t they think before they open their big mouths?
Penny
Yeah I see homocidal bus drivers around all the time ~sigh~ more likely to get cancer than get hit by a bus anyway 1 in 3 compared to about 100 people a year who get hit by the bus!!!
We used to be told the ‘be careful or you will have someone’s eye out’ one too - actually when I look back on it some of the stuff my 3 siblings did it’s amazing that we never did cause horrendous injuries to each other… luckily we all managed to get to adulthood with 2 eyes each and un-hit by a bus … my elder sister did get knocked over by a pick-up truck … luckily for her she was just clonked on the back of the head with it’s wing mirror and not a proper run over job.
back to tit comments:-when I am on the computer my husband always says,“Is that Tits Anonymous again?”
very good horace - I see your husband attended the same school of tact as my dad. His 1st words to me when he saw me after my surgery was ‘does your diddy hurt much?’
Hi,
it can’t be worst than this:
Top Ten Worst Responses If Someone Tells you They Have Cancer
10 - Other than that, how’s it going?
09 - This isn’t going to affect my career, is it?
08 - I guess there’s no need to quit smoking now.
07 - There are easier ways to build character, you know.
06 - Oh, my aunt/cousin/grandfather died of that same cancer!
05 - Be sure to wear clean underwear.
04 - Just think of all the money you’ll save on shampoo.
03 - Cancer…is that before or after Aquarius?
02 - Yeah, right, whatever.
01 - It’s always about you, isn’t it?
X H
My broither-in-law actually said “anyway its not life-threatening” I had just been diagnosed and was in shock so had no suitable reply. Also my onc said the bus thing when I asked about heart problems on Herceptin!!
When I was diagnosed, my boss wrote me a very sweet letter which included a bus anecdote…no, not the dreaded ‘you could always be knocked over’ one!
Two Tory government ministers in the 1980s were having a discussion about Maggie Thatcher. ‘What would happen if she got knocked over by a bus?’ mused one. ‘The bus wouldn’t dare!’ was the reply.
Well, my boss’s metaphor cheered me up and I wondered if I could live up to the faith he had in me - there are some bloody audacious buses out there!!