Stop me before I eat a sausage roll!

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Hi guys - feeling a little sorry for myself at the moment. Just failed my driving test (one manoeuvre of all things! And something that I ALWAYS do right and never have any trouble with) and now I have to wait until August to take it again! So I am feeling very sorry for myself and I can hear the sausage rolls calling me from the fridge (just to add - they're not my sausage rolls - they're my fiance's. I don't even like sausage rolls very much!)

Anyone got a joke to cheer me up? Or some inspiring words?

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  • Robin1109
    Robin1109 Posts: 231 Member
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    Good heavens! What's a sausage roll?? It sounds like a coronary waiting to happen. Maybe if it were a turkey sausage roll...

    Get outside if you can - get some air. Sorry about the test but a little movement will make you feel better! Who needs a car when they've got legs?!
  • squoozyq
    squoozyq Posts: 305
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    Go for a walk/run/exercise.
    Go try on bathing suits in the horrible mirrors at a department store. That will make you rethink the sausage roll.
  • jenjaw
    jenjaw Posts: 10
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    Read the ingredients of what is actually in a sausage roll... that'll probably put you off haha,
    & don't worry about the driving test, if its something you know you can do it was probably just nerves so it'll be much better next time :)
  • lawkat
    lawkat Posts: 538 Member
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    Now would eating a sausage roll really make you feel better? After you eat it, you will probably feel worse because you had all that fat and calories and beating yourself up over having it. Go for a walk or play some music really loud and dance around or anything to not eat. I can relate to your wanting to eat to make you feel better. I have been an emotional eater for most of my life and I still struggle some days when things get tough. I have to remind myself that food won't help the situation, but only make me feel worse. It is good that you are recognizing that you are eating to feel better. Remember that every time you want to eat not out of hunger but out of emotion.

    It will all be okay. I didn't pass my first time either and it wasn't the end of the world. Just annoying.

    good luck to you.
  • antiadipose
    antiadipose Posts: 447
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    sounds like ur hungry... so dont NOT eat. but plz dont eat that thing =]
    go in ur fridge get something high in volume and low in calories.
    idk... make a huge salad or something.... chop an apple and eat it with low-fat yogurt?!

    good luck
  • Norbert2010
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    Just think of all them extra calories you're going to burn off walking instead of driving. I have just sold my car for financial reasons and so I am currently do the 7.5 miles (each way) commute on foot, it is a great time of year to do it in the UK. I appreciate it isn't always that easy and you may really need your licence, but all good comes to those who wait!

    Sorry, no funny jokes to add.
  • mcbeth
    mcbeth Posts: 53 Member
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    This is long but pretty good

    All hair removal methods have tricked women with their promises of easy,
    painless removal - The Epilady, scissors, razors, Nair and now...the wax.
    Read on..........

    "My night began as any other normal weeknight. Come home, fix
    dinner, play with the kids. I then had the thought that would ring painfully
    in my mind for the next few hours: 'Maybe I should pull the waxing kit out
    of the medicine cabinet.'

    So I headed to the site of my demise: the bathroom. It was one of those
    'cold wax' kits. No melting a clump of hot wax, you just rub the strips
    together in your hand, they get warm and you peel them apart and press them
    to your leg (or wherever else) and you pull the hair right off.

    No muss, no fuss. How hard can it be? I mean, I'm not a genius, but I am
    mechanically inclined enough to figure this out. (YA THINK!?!)

    So I pull one of the thin strips out. Its two strips facing each other stuck
    together. Instead of rubbing them together, my genius kicks in so I get out
    the hair dryer and heat it to 1000 degrees. ('Cold wax,' yeah...right!) I
    lay the strip across my thigh. Hold the skin around it tight and pull. It
    works!

    OK, so it wasn't the best feeling, but it wasn't too bad. I can do this!
    Hair removal no longer eludes me!

    I am She-rah, fighter of all wayward body hair and maker of smooth skin
    extraordinaire!

    With my next wax strip I move north. After checking on the kids, I sneak
    back into the bathroom, for the ultimate hair fighting championship.. I drop
    my panties and place one foot on the toilet.

    Using the same procedure, I apply the wax strip across the right side of my
    bikini line, covering the right half of my hoo-ha and stretching down to the
    inside of my butt cheek (it was a long strip) I inhale deeply and brace
    myself....RRRRIIIPPP!!!!

    I'm blind!!! Blinded from pain!!!!....OH MY GAWD!!!!!!!!!

    Vision returning, I notice that I've only managed to pull off half the
    strip. CRAP! Another deep breath and RIPP! Everything is spinning and
    spotted.

    I think I may pass out...must stay conscious...must stay conscious. Do I
    hear crashing drums??? Breathe, breathe...OK, back to normal.

    I want to see my trophy - a wax covered strip, the one that has caused me so
    much pain, with my hairy pelt sticking to it. I want to revel in the glory
    that is my triumph over body hair. I hold up the strip!

    There's no hair on it...!

    Where is the hair...??? WHERE IS THE DAMNED WAX...???

    Slowly I ease my head down, foot still perched on the toilet.. I see the
    hair. The hair that should be on the strip...it's not! I touch. I am
    touching wax.

    I run my fingers over the most sensitive part of my body, which is now
    covered in cold wax and matted hair. Then I make the next BIG
    mistake...remember my foot is still propped upon the toilet? I know I need
    to do something. So I put my foot down.

    Sealed shut! My butt is sealed shut. Sealed shut!

    I penguin walk around the bathroom trying to figure out what to do and think
    to myself 'Please don't let me get the urge to poop.

    My head may pop off!' What can I do to melt the wax?

    Hot water!! Hot water melts wax!! I'll run the hottest water I can stand,
    into the bathtub, get in, immerse the wax-covered bits and the wax should
    melt and I can gently wipe it off, right???

    *WRONG.........!!!!!!!*

    I get in the tub - the water is slightly hotter than that used to
    torture prisoners of war or sterilize surgical equipment - I sit.

    Now, the only thing worse than having your nether regions glued together, is
    having them glued together and then glued to the bottom of the tub....in
    scalding hot water.. Which, by the way, doesn't melt cold wax.

    So, now I'm stuck to the bottom of the tub as though I had cemented myself
    to the porcelain!! God bless the man who had convinced me a few months ago
    to have a phone put in the bathroom!!!!!

    I call my friend, thinking surely she has waxed before and has some secret
    of how to get me undone. It's a very good conversation starter. 'So, my butt
    and hoo-ha are glued together to the bottom of the tub!'

    There is a slight pause. She doesn't know any secret tricks for removal but
    she does try to hide her laughter from me.

    She wants to know exactly where the wax is located,'Are we talking cheeks or
    hole or hoo-ha?'

    She's laughing out loud by now...I can hear her. I give her the rundown and
    she suggests I call the number on the side of the box.

    YEAH...!!!!! Right...!!! I really want to be the joke of someone else's
    night!

    While we go through various solutions. I resort to trying to scrape the wax
    off with a razor .. Nothing feels better than to have your girlie goodies
    covered in hot wax, glued shut, stuck to the tub in super hot water and then
    dry-shaving the sticky wax off!! By now the brain is not working, dignity
    has taken a major hike and I'm pretty sure I'm going to need post-Traumatic
    Stress counseling for this event.

    My friend is still talking with me when I finally see my saving
    grace....the lotion they give you to remove the excess wax.

    What do I really have to lose at this point? I rub some on and OH MY
    GOD....DAMN that HURTS.....!!!!!!! The scream probably woke the kids and
    scared the ****ens out of my friend. It's sooooooo painful, but I really
    don't care. 'IT WORKS....!!

    It works !!' I get a hearty congratulation from my friend and she hangs up.
    I successfully remove the remainder of the wax and then notice to my grief
    and despair.....THE HAIR IS STILL THERE.......ALL OF IT...! So I recklessly
    shave it off. Heck, I'm numb by now. Nothing hurts. I could have amputated
    my own leg at this point.

    Next week I'm going to try hair color......
  • kelkelfatfat
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    That's brilliant!!! Extremely painful but brilliant!
  • bolsen21
    bolsen21 Posts: 22
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    why do you have to wait so long to take it again...go to a different testing station if possible and schedule it there who knows you may be able to get in next week!!!
  • rcatr
    rcatr Posts: 374 Member
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    Imagine some sausage roll shaped cellulite sitting right on your thigh when you're putting on that super cute bathing suit you've been working so hard to look hot in....HOT?! :noway: You know better than that. And really.. do we want to read the laundry list of what's in that sausage roll?
    And say the word "sausage roll" 20 times and see if it really sounds appetizing after that...does it? really? yuck. :sick:

    Go do something that will get your mind off of this, something good for you...clear your head, and tomorrow, sign up for the test again...AND PASS! you can do it! :flowerforyou: