Life's little niceties

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Getting paid and then realising you still have money left over from last month.

Finding a game that has been released before it was supposed to be.

Having a full weekend off with nothing planned.

Finding a bargain on Ebay.
 
Finding the stash of chocolate bars you hid from the kids during Halloween.

Shooting two clay birds with one shot.

Eating the last breakfast donut.

Getting to the bathroom first in the morning.

After working out, or hard, taking a shower then sitting in a comfortable recliner with your most comfortable clothes on.

Making a ricocheting bullet sound at the range. *pee-oown!*

Seeing a non-handicapped person in the only handicapped parking spot, seeing a cop just enter the parking lot, and flagging him over with your brights.
 
As has been said before:
  • Turning off the morning alarm when it's Saturday
  • Having a long, hot shower after a seemingly endless day at school/work
 
Arriving back at my desk to a fresh hot cup of tea.

The merest hint of opposite lock.

Getting air... (for me, in a car.)

Finding a corner with an apex that is the lowest point of a severly negative cambered road - the slingshot effect!

Cunning yet safe overtaking maneouvers.

Knowing the road better than the guy with a 50hp/tonne paper advantage.

Exhaust flameouts on the overrun - when you're driving a car which shouldn't ever do it.

Accidentally setting fire to your brakes. (Guilty. :) )

Having a pretty girl smile at me.

Feeling the difference clearly after some improvement made to your car (from service to rebuild.)

Noticing something in a product the designer clearly thought about, but knew that virtually no-one would notice.

Realising someone else is right in such a way that it's actually funny that I am wrong.

High speed carving on my snowboard just after an avalanche (one perfect day at Mt. Norquay... :) )

Finding that piece of music you've been scratching your head over in some obscure record shop.

Cola bottle sweets.

Driving early on a bank holiday morning.

The view from the top of a mountain (any mountain.)

Roman architecture.

Old school buildings.

Imagination.

The colour green.

People who are silly and don't care. (Claudia Winkleman, mad as a fish.)

Getting a discount when it's not advertised.

Getting yourself a discount just because you asked.

Getting other people a discount.

Jasmine.

(For blokes:) Your favourite girl, wearing a black velvet choker and your white shirt.

Mad conversation with people who laugh a lot.
 
I agree with many thats been posted, but....

Solid Lifters
Making a ricocheting bullet sound at the range. *pee-oown!*
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Oh my not wrong, that is one of the coolest things I have heard when you hear it in-person.
 
Having the house to yourself, especially for a whole weekend :crazy:

and Jaffa Cakes...
 
3:15pm on a weekday (time I get off of school) is always a good'n, same goes for the last day of school of the year, the moment your last lesson finishes is always the best feeling. This year it will be even better knowing I wont have to go back next year. Although I don't really skateboard anymore, pulling off a perfect melon grab at a decent height always felt awesome.
 
* Pulling clothes out of the dryer and finding a $5.00 or $10.00 bill
* The feeling of a 300 yard (+) drive on the 18th Tee.. OR ...
* Draining a 20 foot double-breaking putt on the 18th green!
 
SimRaceDriver
The feeling of a 300 yard (+) drive on the 18th Tee..
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I just played a round today, and I hit clean as hell on the 18th (275 par 4) and hit it long into the bushes past the back boundary. I was convinced that the 275 was being generous, so I had to ask. Apparently the 275 was fairly accurate, so I must've been swinging pretty decent!

And as for snowboarding... don't even get me started. There's so much I can say about snowboarding that makes me smile and makes me happy and makes me feel all tingly and warm. A few examples, biiiiig floaty backside 180s, landing just sweet spot on the landing so it's like touching down on big feathers, thinking you're going to come about 15 feet short on a big kicker and that last time when you kneed yourself in the chest flashes into memory, you slam the deck, hear people go oooooo from the drop in, but it didn't hurt at all.

And powder days. I've been in fast cars, I've done "other" things, but riding a sweet bluebird powder day it's the absolute bliss of life.
 
exigeracer
I just played a round today, and I hit clean as hell on the 18th (275 par 4) and hit it long into the bushes past the back boundary. I was convinced that the 275 was being generous, so I had to ask. Apparently the 275 was fairly accurate, so I must've been swinging pretty decent!

And as for snowboarding... don't even get me started. There's so much I can say about snowboarding that makes me smile and makes me happy and makes me feel all tingly and warm. A few examples, biiiiig floaty backside 180s, landing just sweet spot on the landing so it's like touching down on big feathers, thinking you're going to come about 15 feet short on a big kicker and that last time when you kneed yourself in the chest flashes into memory, you slam the deck, hear people go oooooo from the drop in, but it didn't hurt at all.

And powder days. I've been in fast cars, I've done "other" things, but riding a sweet bluebird powder day it's the absolute bliss of life.
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I hear you on snowboarding, gonig fast and in control with no motor is awesome, i love it when you head strait down the long sloped when you are getting blasted by chilled refreshing air, the you try a bs turn as low as you get without going over, back to the slope, cutting off piste and weaving through trees. it great fun.

I love it when you raid the cupboard searching for any scraps of food you can get your hands up, open up a tin to find it full of chocolate and other munchies 👍
 
exigeracer
And as for snowboarding... don't even get me started. There's so much I can say about snowboarding that makes me smile and makes me happy and makes me feel all tingly and warm. A few examples, biiiiig floaty backside 180s, landing just sweet spot on the landing so it's like touching down on big feathers, thinking you're going to come about 15 feet short on a big kicker and that last time when you kneed yourself in the chest flashes into memory, you slam the deck, hear people go oooooo from the drop in, but it didn't hurt at all.

And powder days. I've been in fast cars, I've done "other" things, but riding a sweet bluebird powder day it's the absolute bliss of life.
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Agreed, snowboarding rules. Landing a new trick, both in snow- and skateboarding, totally clean, or just buttering around in the powder/street is just sooo much fun.
 
Kylehnat
My last job was in customer service, and I must say, there isn't anything more fun than catching a customer in a lie, or giving them that "you got told" feeling. I know the silence you speak of, and it is sooooo satisfying :D.
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Gold, pure gold. Or if they don't reply to your emails........
 
zoxxy
Agreed, snowboarding rules. Landing a new trick, both in snow- and skateboarding, totally clean, or just buttering around in the powder/street is just sooo much fun.
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Buttering... god I can (and have, and will) butter down the hill until I'm too dizzy to know which way is down.

Or having such perfect balance while doing a stall or handplant that it sticks there for that extra little second. I especially love it when doing a noseblock.
 
Finding some really scary stuff on a story/book, telling your friend, only for him to think of it another way that is scarier and nastier, then laughing your buttocks off and crying too for 10 minutes, then saying you didn't say anything innapropriate, and then going all gangsta on her, only for her not to understand.

Ahhh, how good it feels to write a run-on sentence.
 
More from me.

Fixing a co-worker's 🤬-ups and being acknowledged for doing so.

First Tracks (Any Skier or Boarder knows what I mean).

Getting a job done to your level of satisfaction.

(On a completely off-topic note, it's still August and I'm super-stoked for the ski season. I can't wait.)
 
A smile or giggle from my daughter in the morning, or when she says "da-da-da-da" and she's not crying.

A smile from my wife.

A shared joke or gag from long ago suddenly makes us laugh out loud like children.

When my dogs are happy to see me, and he's not begging to go out or eat.

Sunsets that cast a warm glow on everything, even if only for 5 minutes.

Seeing the stars...the more, the merrier.

An open cashier when you're ready to leave.

A song you like is plays from beginning to end on the radio.

A green left-turn arrow just patiently waiting for you.

An open road.

Taking a shortcut or scenic route for the first time and not getting lost!

When something you learned 5, 10, or 20 years ago finally applies to something interesting or important.

People who appreciate you and what you do. They don't have to slobber with excitement, either.

Getting the photo you wanted at just the right moment.

Finding something you'd lost for a long time.

Fixing something right the first time.

Enjoying the fruits of one's labor, especially my lawn after 4-5 hours of mowing, trimming, cutting, pruning, spraying, exterminating, and cleaning.
 
Getting drunk then coming home to GTP and barely ebing able to sit down, let alone type. :)

Happy times.
 
- Hitting all the green lights while driving in city traffic.
- Not having to slow down while driving home*, because of a slow-poke.
- Getting a package/delivery I've been waiting for.
- The "Christmas"-feeling.
- There's only good music on the radio**
- Old junk in odd places, and you wonder what and why it's there (like an old truck in the middle of a forest)

* - I stick to the speed limits
**- My radio's CD-ejector is busted with my brother's crap CD in it
 
-Timing your window wipers just right so that they catch both the first and the second dribbles of water running down from the top of the windscreen having used the washer jets.
-Being able to stay at the magical point between tipsy and wasted.
-Not getting asked for ID when going into a bar. :lol:
-Finding something you really like in your size on a sale rack.
-Typing the word 'google'. It's all to do with that double O press. :D
-When you know you've got a good photo lined up and then you review it it turned out better than expected.
 
Whipping your camera out and setting exposure, aperture and shutter speed then pressing the shutter all in one go.
 
F1GTR
Whipping your camera out and setting exposure, aperture and shutter speed then pressing the shutter all in one go.
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I can't do that, my aperture and shutter speed controls both use the same scroll wheel. It feels very satisfying to adjust them all, although not as satisfying as switching from auto to manual focus as you have to adjust it on both the lens and the body and they're both lovely clunky switches. They also make two different noises. Mmmm... :lol:
 
Sage
Noticing that you’re going exactly the speed limit right as you see a highway patrol vehicle.
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:lol: 👍

Getting up on the weekend after school gets out for the summer, thinking you have only 2 days of freedom before the week starts, and then realizing that school's out.

Not making a mistake in a band performance.

:-)
 
-Walking out of the office on Friday afternoon (especially on 3-day weekends :D).

-Seeing the same people during your commute each day, either on the road or on the bus. I don't know why, but I find it comforting.
 
Kylehnat
-Seeing the same people during your commute each day, either on the road or on the bus. I don't know why, but I find it comforting.
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To make my train ride more interesting, I'm going to try to see if I recognize the cars (or at least one car) on the highway.
 

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