Sainsbury's Nectar Points,True Story.

[Jim Brady]

Having a pint or two with a mate of mine last week and he told me this story.He has an uncle who lives on Vancouver Island and he likes to come over here each year he likes a pint and a bet on the horses.The other afternnon at going home time this guy that was in the pub latched onto the Canadian,the Canadian Tom said to the guy I'm going to Sainsbury's to get some booze,the guy still tagged along although Tom didn't realy know him.Tom gets a few bottles of spirits and gets to the checkout,he gets his card out but before he can give it to the girl this guy thrusts his card into her hand.Tom thought that's alright I don't realy know him and he is buying me my booze.He was buying his booze allright he was giving his Nectar card in to claim the points on Toms purchase,how cheeky is that.
Regards.
Jim.B.

[John Albert Evans]

JIm,

The old saying is "Theres nowt as queer as folk".

John

[Captain Kong]

I collect Nector Points at Sainsburys, for groceries and petrol.and I always use my BA Amex credit card for the Air Miles. so a double saving. Now have 107,000 Air Miles to play with, use them for reducing the price of flights and Upgrades.
Nector points so far have given me a Lawn Mower, a 32" and a 40 inch TV, a Bike, and a few other items over the years. so it is worth it.
Cheers
Brian

[happy daze john in oz]

What ever happened to the 'Green' stamps?

[Gulliver]

What ever happened to the 'Green' stamps?

My poor grandma Ivy in Oldham went to her grave in 1992 still believing that Green Shield Stamps would make a comeback.She had something like 27,000 stamp books (that may be a slight exaggeration,but it's still an awful lot of licking) up in her loft. I think all she really wanted was a toaster.
Sad but nice memories .....

[Gulliver]

There's an old joke isn't there

Man takes Lada to car dealer."I 'll give you five quid for it mate,and even that's twice as much as it's worth.".
"Five quid ! shrieked the seller,"but hang on a minute" as he rummages in the glovebox,eventually coming up with a half completed book of Green Shield stamps.
"OK mate you win" said the dealer ," Fifty Quid" ! Jalopy.gif

[Captain Kong]

I had a BIG Lada for quite a few years, Built Like a T54 Tank, probably used the parts off one. several cars ran into it over the years and not a mark on it tho` the others were badly damaged. The only thing wrong was there was No Power Steering, you had to have muscles like Garth [remember him?] to steer it. I then gave it to my son who was an impoverished student at the time in Liverpool and he eventually knackered it. I got £20 from the scrap man for it.

Brian

[Gulliver]

Yes,Ladas (probably( weren't half as bad as they were cracked up to be.Or Skodas.Isn't it strange that their reputations ,at least in the western world,were torn to shreds and still endure today,though Skodas are damned fine cars now,and quite expensive.
I forget how bad some of the British Leyland 'lemons' I owned were. An Austin Allegro that wouldn't go where you pointed it(not helped by that model's weird square (Quartic they called it)steering wheel,a frighteningly worrying Morris Marina that let me down time after time,notably on a wild wet icy evening at the junction of the M6 with the M61-that's where two lanes merge into three.My hazard lights not working and twice almost wiped out by following artics,I ran for my life across fields to the lights of a service station,where I called my Dad to please come and get me. I abandoned it and never collected it,glad to get back to sea and warmer climes. I did receive a hefty bill for it's recovery from the motorway but it was worth it just to get rid.I didn't really like the colour anyway ,a sort of mucky brown,and the registration number didn't help ,the first three laters being CAC something.So never really loved it.
Then there was the TR7 I owned which I bought once I was earning proper money.It was an early Speke car, the factory,which had bad labour problems at that time 76/7 rather than the later Coventry-built cars. It ruined what little street cred I had by overheating problems and one of it's pop-up headlights would well,not pop-up or stick up and then not retract,so I had to remember not to flash the headlights...these we have loved.

Cars are so boring these days,but very reliable,and I'm glad in a way for those early motoring experiences.

[Keith Tindell]

I remember well the old Fords, they had vacuum wipers, as you went up the steep hill they slowed right down to almost nothing, then when you went downhill the other side, they would go like they were on sme sort of drug, twice normal speed. 3 speed gearbox etc, what a difference today's motoring, kt

[John Arton]

My first car was an Austin A40, brought from a local farmer who had used it to transport straw and sheep in it. It ran fine but had the odd rust problem around the rear wheel arches, so could see the road through them!
Next came a Rover P60, beautiful leather seats but air in the braking system meant you had to pump the bake pedal like crazy to get them to work. It also suffered from an earth fault on the battery wiring loom which meant I often had to hand crank it to start. Neither of these cars would have passed an M.O.T. had they been in force at that time.
After that came Alfa Romeo's (great looking cars), Nissan, Austin Montego, Mitsubishi, Skoda's (best car ever, basically an Audi), Nissan X Trail and presently Ford Focus.
Apart from the first two the rest were brought brand new and even the first two never gave any real problems, always started whatever the weather and however long they had been left standing idle whilst away at sea.
The A40 was brought after passing my test and two days later picked up a girl in the pub who invited me to go to a party with her. Great I thought, I'm on a promise here.
Unfortunately in my part inebriated state O managed to scrape the passenger side of my faithful A40 along a low wall bordering the road. She was screaming that I had almost killed her with my bad driving, I told her to shut up silly girl, its only a scratch. After driving miles past my home, arrived at the party house and was told in no uncertain terms to "get lost". So much for being on a promise.
rgds
JA