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Lack of brain cells = Lack of sofa

  • 14-04-2010 10:16PM
    #1
    Bonito
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,399 ✭✭✭


    Where to start?

    The other week a couple of people from the traveling community called round to my great-aunties asking if she'd be interested in a good deal on a sofa and a reclining armchair.

    She wasn't in need of such items but remembered that her brother (my grandad) was looking for such items so she sent them down to his house with them.

    She didn't bother ringing to let him know they were coming so it was a bit of a surprise when they arrived and started lugging a sofa and an armchair out of the van.

    They brought the sofa around the side entrance but it wouldn't get through the back door so they left it down and contemplated the situation.

    Cue my grandad storming out the back door effing and blinding demanding what's going on and being informed that his sister told the chaps he wanted the sofa. Poor feckers got a right bollocking off him.

    Anyway he told them he didn't want the sofa and take it back and didn't want the armchair either. Unfortunately, the lads were exhausted and couldn't get the sofa back out the side entrance.

    They pip up and tell him "One of the other bai's are out in the other van we'll get him to give us a hand and come back to ya."

    Nearly 2 weeks later they still haven't returned. No sign of them whatsoever. So, my grandad broke up the sofa and intends on using it as firewood if there's any cold nights ahead. :D To be fair he was decent enough to cover it over with plastic sheeting while waiting for them to come collect it, but, they never did.

    Maybe they forgot about it? Maybe they were leaving it there to scope his house out for when they come back? Who knows.

    What would you have done? Keep in mind my grandad was home alone at the time and wouldn't be the most persuasive of figures.

    Why do you think they never came back for the couch? Anybody have any similar experiences?

    BTW before there's any I'm more holy than thou nonsense we rang the guardaí etc and they simply said "We'll keep record of it, so far nobody has reported stolen furniture so as far as we're concerned if they left it there it's yours to keep." They rang back a week later and said there was still no reports so my grandad was free to do with the couch whatever he wanted.


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  • #2
    Dj Stiggie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 619 ✭✭✭Dj Stiggie


    Well if the gards said he's free to do what he wants with it he is

    However, if the lads did come back, they may not be impressed to find that their couch has been chopped up and may want a few quid or start a bit of trouble


  • #3
    Danbo!
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,942 ✭✭✭Danbo!


    Pfft, I can only assume you called the gardai? :pac:


  • #4
    nucking futs
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 230 ✭✭nucking futs


    Dj Stiggie wrote: »
    Well if the gards said he's free to do what he wants with it he is

    However, if the lads did come back, they may not be impressed to find that their couch has been chopped up and may want a few quid or start a bit of trouble
    That's what I was thinking as well, hell that might even have been what they'd been planning all along, I guess we'll never know


  • #5
    Bonito
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,399 ✭✭✭Bonito


    Dj Stiggie wrote: »
    Well if the gards said he's free to do what he wants with it he is

    However, if the lads did come back, they may not be impressed to find that their couch has been chopped up and may want a few quid or start a bit of trouble
    Well he was good enough to bother to cover it for 2 weeks just so he could demolish it himself! I'm just upset he didn't involve me in the occasion..... :(

    Plus they never left him a number so he couldn't contact them.
    Stee wrote: »
    Pfft, I can only assume you called the gardai? :pac:
    Nope honestly he rang them and explained it and that's what they told him. :pac:


  • #6
    we'llallhavetea_old
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,971 ✭✭✭we'llallhavetea_old


    your grandad sounds lovely bonito :)

    i think they either forgot about the couch or they are still gonna come back for it and then go mad that its smouldering in the fireplace. :(

    i would have hauled the sofa out to the road and called the council to have it removed :)


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  • #7
    Bonito
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,399 ✭✭✭Bonito


    He's actually the best grandad ever. Fact! It's ok IF they do come back we'll just say the council took it. :D


  • #8
    we'llallhavetea_old
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,971 ✭✭✭we'llallhavetea_old


    Bonito wrote: »
    He's actually the best grandad ever. Fact!

    aw cute! :)
    It's ok IF they do come back we'll just say the council took it. :D

    ah well thats grand then, fcuk them! ;)


  • #9
    admiralofthefleet
    Closed Accounts Posts: 15,515 ✭✭✭✭admiralofthefleet


    Dj Stiggie wrote: »
    Well if the gards said he's free to do what he wants with it he is

    However, if the lads did come back, they may not be impressed to find that their couch has been chopped up and may want a few quid or start a bit of trouble

    what couch?;) grandpa should play dumb and deny it ever happened


  • #10
    Sharpshooter
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 31,859 ✭✭✭✭Sharpshooter


    Bonito wrote: »
    :D To be fair he was decent enough to cover it.

    We rang the guardaí etc and they simply said "We'll keep record of it.

    I'd have rang the Police.:pac:
    Bonito wrote: »
    Well he was good enough to bother to cover it for 2 weeks.

    Or maybe not, you don't want Sting getting the royalties for this one.
    When is it out then, and will it be available on CD?


  • #11
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 17,378 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Exhausted knackers leaving behind a couch they could sell and then forgetting about it. There's 3 parts in that sentence which seem very unlikely so ya can be expecting them back sometime soon demanding the money.


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  • #12
    Bonito
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,399 ✭✭✭Bonito


    admiralofthefleet wrote: »
    what couch?;) grandpa should play dumb and deny it ever happened
    Ah the aul senile card. ;) Good thinking.
    Sharpshooter wrote: »
    I'd have rang the Police.:pac:
    Nah. I'll just fix my typo of guardaí to An Garda Síochana. :p
    Or maybe not, you don't want Sting getting the royalties for this one.
    When is it out then, and will it be available on CD?
    Sting has royalties to the couch? :eek: CD??? Pffft.

    http://www.craftsinindia.com/newcraftsimages/gramophone-nostalgia.jpg


  • #13
    admiralofthefleet
    Closed Accounts Posts: 15,515 ✭✭✭✭admiralofthefleet


    remember kids, what key opens every door in the house?


















    a pikey


  • #14
    Bonito
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,399 ✭✭✭Bonito


    Deleted User wrote: »
    Exhausted knackers leaving behind a couch they could sell and then forgetting about it. There's 3 parts in that sentence which seem very unlikely so ya can be expecting them back sometime soon demanding the money.
    Twas half 5 in the evening they could easily have been tired from their long day. :D


  • #15
    mikom
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    File under F for fiction.


  • #16
    orourkeda
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    f*ckin knackers


  • #17
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 17,378 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Bonito wrote: »
    Twas half 5 in the evening they could easily have been tired from their long day. :D

    Well at least ya can smile about it..

    I personally wouldn't like that knackers had been in around my house and left a couch there.. They're not idiots, everything they do is geared at making a bob or two.


  • #18
    Bonito
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,399 ✭✭✭Bonito


    Deleted User wrote: »
    Well at least ya can smile about it..

    I personally wouldn't like that knackers had been in around my house and left a couch there.. They're not idiots, everything they do is geared at making a bob or two.
    My great aunt got a right ear burning off us for giving them my grandads house address in the 1st place.

    **Lads please try refrain from racist comments I don't want the thread locked just because some of ye have a disliking to a certain group in our society**


  • #19
    DonJose
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,470 ✭✭✭DonJose


    If I had a shotgun for everytime a traveller called to my door... We'd be a majority :D


  • #20
    DonJose
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,470 ✭✭✭DonJose


    orourkeda wrote: »
    f*ckin knackers

    Cop on. Theres no * in fukking :)


  • #21
    admiralofthefleet
    Closed Accounts Posts: 15,515 ✭✭✭✭admiralofthefleet


    DonJose wrote: »
    Cop on. Theres no * in fukking :)

    and there is only one k in fucking


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  • #22
    starbelgrade
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,739 ✭✭✭✭starbelgrade


    There's only one K in Sofa King..

    http://skepbitch.files.wordpress.com/2009/02/sofa-king1.jpeg


  • #23
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    Ehm if I was your granddad I would be on the eye out for a good old thieving session involving his house in the next few weeks.

    The lads were tired and couldn't move it? Me arse.. they want an excuse to come back in a few weeks and fleece the place blind.

    What was your aunt even thinking sending blatantly stolen goods to your granddad for him to buy anyway? It's illegal, you know.


  • #24
    filthymcnasty
    Closed Accounts Posts: 644 ✭✭✭filthymcnasty


    they'll be back, they're pikeys


  • #25
    Sharpshooter
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 31,859 ✭✭✭✭Sharpshooter


    Deleted User wrote: »
    Exhausted knackers leaving behind a couch they could sell and then forgetting about it. There's 3 parts in that sentence which seem very unlikely so ya can be expecting them back sometime soon demanding the money.
    orourkeda wrote: »
    f*ckin knackers
    filthymcnasty wrote: »
    they'll be back, they're pikeys

    Anymore of this will result in a ban.

    Keep it nice.:pac:


  • #26
    Bonito
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,399 ✭✭✭Bonito


    Rojomcdojo wrote: »
    Ehm if I was your granddad I would be on the eye out for a good old thieving session involving his house in the next few weeks.

    The lads were tired and couldn't move it? Me arse.. they want an excuse to come back in a few weeks and fleece the place blind.

    What was your aunt even thinking sending blatantly stolen goods to your granddad for him to buy anyway? It's illegal, you know.

    We were thinking the same tbh. Why? Clearly she's a bit touched. God love her because someone has to. :D


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