Started playing ping pong at dinnertime

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  1. ark

    ark104 (v2) Well-Known Member

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    At the York Railway Institute.

    The old bloke who sits behind the desk is like a character out of League of Gentlemen. Goes in last week:

    "Hello, got a table tennis court booked for half one"

    "No you haven't"

    "Erm, yeah we have"

    "You haven't"

    "We have! We booked a table tennis court online for today"

    "No. You've booked a table tennis TABLE"

    This week he'd decided his game of the day was to conduct his entire job in silence without saying a word but pointing and grunting.
     
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    Top bloke! I like the sound of him!
     
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    ark104 (v2) Well-Known Member

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    All done in a track suit that looks like it was borrowed from Jimmy Saville
     
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    I used to play snooker in there. I doubt it's the same bloke still working there but it sounds like they're at least related.

    I see they now offer "No Strings Badminton". How does that work?
     
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    is it just for railway people or can anyone join in the 'fun'?

    hth
     
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    ark104 (v2) Well-Known Member

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    I'm nowt to do with railways so don't think so. Maybe that's why he holds me in such contempt
     
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    'thereev' Banned Idiot

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    Strange bunch that railway lot.
     
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    Cos you'd booked a table tennis "court"!!

    Sorry, with the owd fella on this one...feckin yuppies...
     
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    ark104 (v2) Well-Known Member

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    Admittedly he was factually correct, but this was coming from a man who told us after 4 weeks that the table tennis balls he provides are what other people leave behind when they're out of shape
     
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    Hee hee, bet he overheard you refer to the game as ping pong.

    I'm loving the owd man...
     
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