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Post by prong on Aug 4, 2008 11:25:12 GMT
I forgot to post my rant on Saturday night..... Not knowing the area well, I stepped off a bus to play a pool match at Riley's on Saturday. Getting off at the Potteries centre, I had a vague idea of where it was, i.e. down hill a bit on the edge of town. My mate told me to look for a museum and a silver statue. This turned out not to be the silver statue of a tree near some forest park thing. Having heard the people of Stoke have a reputation for being friendly and approachable, I started asking for directions when I got a bit lost. None of the first 10 people knew what Riley's snooker club was, never mind where it was. I got sent to the Green Baize club a couple of times, and this woman in a burger van was pissing herself laughing as I kept walking backwards and forwards past her. Bloke stood at burger van in a high-vis vest had a good laugh sending me the wrong way too. In the end, I got in a taxi only to be told by the driver that the club was two minutes walk away but he'd have to charge me a £4 fare. I asked him for directions, and all he'd say was "Let me drive you there, but it's £4". Bollocks to that, so I set of walking again after giving his car door a proper slam, and finally found the snooker club, on some dodgy wasteland, by asking for directions to the museum instead. Anyway, to cut a long story short (too late) I got my arse kicked in the pool match, and got lost again trying to look for the bus station. Having been told it was by the shopping centre, I headed back to the Potteries centre again, and two laps of the building later started to realise that the locals were all taking the piss and sending me in the wrong direction every time. Eventually some sweet old dear told me she was walking to the bus station, and escorted me across town. Hope everyone had a good chuckle at the lanky bugger wandering around aimlessly with a giant silver cue case on Saturday. Clueless Hanley twats.  |
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Post by tazi on Aug 4, 2008 11:36:22 GMT
I doubt it very much, but is your name Roy Keane by any chance?.
;D
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Post by prong on Aug 4, 2008 11:39:31 GMT
Something tells me that if Keano stepped of a bus in Hanley and got lost, the directions from the locals would have been a little more specific.  |
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Post by Mr_DaftBurger on Aug 4, 2008 11:43:09 GMT
But the end of the night had a happy ending you pulled!  |
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Post by stepsref on Aug 4, 2008 12:22:52 GMT
You get off a bus and don't where you're going.....
...........and you title the thread 'Clueless'!!!!!!!
Priceless....
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Post by scfc147 on Aug 4, 2008 12:23:43 GMT
Simple answer play snooker instead!! |
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Post by sirpineapple89 on Aug 4, 2008 12:49:45 GMT
Woah I'm an alien, I'm a little alien, I'm a Yorkshireman lost in Stooooke.
That was for you that was.
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Post by bayernoatcake on Aug 4, 2008 15:23:25 GMT
If they didn't know where it was how the fuck do You expect them to tell You how get there? Knobhead! In all fairness I didn't know where it was until a year ago and I've been Hanley more times than I want to! |
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Post by prong on Aug 4, 2008 15:28:09 GMT
You get off a bus and don't where you're going... I knew where I was going, I just didn't know how to get there... |
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Post by GRUMPY 1 on Aug 4, 2008 17:42:00 GMT
I've heard all about them "escort women" up'anleyduck.
I'd get yersen checked out sharpish.
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Post by Nick1984 on Aug 11, 2008 18:32:33 GMT
But the end of the night had a happy ending you pulled! Hanley is the only place in the world where pulling is called "getting unlicky" |
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Post by starkiller on Aug 11, 2008 18:38:21 GMT
They were telling you to go in the opposite direction of the bus station for your own good.
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Post by Time4aPINT on Aug 11, 2008 19:34:01 GMT
The moral of the story is.............
if you don't know were somewhere is then look at google maps before you set out. Prong, are you clueless or something? ;D
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Post by powchirper on Aug 11, 2008 19:34:54 GMT
I'd have thought one of your mates from the Prince would have given you a lift down there...........oh hang on a minute!!!!!!!!!!!
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Post by powchirper on Aug 12, 2008 9:28:30 GMT
I'd have also thought with legs as long as your's it would only take a minute or so to walk round the whole of Stoke on Trent ;D
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Post by prong on Aug 12, 2008 11:26:43 GMT
I'd have also thought with legs as long as your's it would only take a minute or so to walk round the whole of Stoke on Trent ;D Boom, and indeed, boom. |
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Post by myleftboot on Aug 12, 2008 11:31:13 GMT
The people of Hanley are nice but lets face it they also have a sense of humour.
Come on you have to admit it ;D
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Post by powchirper on Aug 12, 2008 11:41:08 GMT
So picture this; A 7 foot tall bloke in a Leeds utd shirt comes up to you in the middle of Hanley and in a Yorkshire accent asks for directions to a place which is 100 yards north of where you are |
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