Reply to: Very short term accommodation - back of van?

[keninparis]

Could try one of those websites the back-packers use - sofa surfing or something. Could get a Bob too in one of these places.

[TimberWolf]

I might get lucky and they'll be female bobs. Some stunning fembobs in Bollywood.

Talking of Bollywood:

Best Action Scenes Ever!!! (Indian Robot Endhiran) - YouTube

lol

[PAH]

You going to share with Bobs then?

I might get lucky and they'll be female bobs. Some stunning fembobs in Bollywood.

Talking of Bollywood:

Best Action Scenes Ever!!! (Indian Robot Endhiran) - YouTube

[TimberWolf]

Going to 'case the joint out' at the client site to find a suitable empty room where I can hang my 'Meeting in progress. DO NOT DISTURB!' sign on the door and doss down in my bed-in-a-bag.

Hopefully said room will be adjacent to the shower and kitchen facilities, then I can cordon the whole area off with my 'DANGER: ASBESTOS CONTAMINATION. DO NOT ENTER!' tape.

You going to share with Bobs then?

[PAH]

Going to 'case the joint out' at the client site to find a suitable empty room where I can hang my 'Meeting in progress. DO NOT DISTURB!' sign on the door and doss down in my bed-in-a-bag.

Hopefully said room will be adjacent to the shower and kitchen facilities, then I can cordon the whole area off with my 'DANGER: ASBESTOS CONTAMINATION. DO NOT ENTER!' tape.

[BlasterBates]

Safer to stick with the van or some cardboard boxes, or as Tony suggested the supermarket bins.

[TimberWolf]

More likely what will happen is that they'll put you up in a shelter full of druggies and mental cases, who will nick your stuff and stab you with HIV infected needles, and that's on a good night. That's why homeless people avoid those places.

[PAH]

There must be a grooming service available for the 'homeless' as you don't see them tripping over their beards.

That gives me another idea. Turn up at the nearest social services to the client and blag some free accommodation as "I've been kicked out by the landlord and have nowhere to sleep".

They usually put you up in a b&b or hotel when there's not a local hostel/refuge available. I'll book up all the cheap rooms then they'll put me up in the posh hotel.

[TheFaQQer]

What about shaving and not ponging after a few days? Electric shaver and plenty of deodorant?

Service stations tend to have facilities there.

[TimberWolf]

What about shaving and not ponging after a few days? Electric shaver and plenty of deodorant?

Yeah, it's a well known fact that it's impossible to shave in a van

[PAH]

I doubt it's a problem for him. Working class people often smell.

Just had a brainwave. Forget about cleanliness, if I pong after a few days on site it'll just encourage them to let me work 100% from home.

[d000hg]

What about shaving and not ponging after a few days?

friend of mine is a kitchen fitter and he more or less lives in his van all week, little bed built in the back, flat panel TV cooker, van heater, its no different to being a lorry driver sleeping in their cab and its your own space and you can wake up to a different car park every morning

I doubt it's a problem for him. Working class people often smell.

[PAH]

friend of mine is a kitchen fitter and he more or less lives in his van all week, little bed built in the back, flat panel TV cooker, van heater, its no different to being a lorry driver sleeping in their cab and its your own space and you can wake up to a different car park every morning

What about shaving and not ponging after a few days? Electric shaver and plenty of deodorant?

[Peoplesoft bloke]

What Spaceman said

OK then, but in Chef terms, it's like someone incorerctly describing sparkling wine as Champagne.

[Peoplesoft bloke]

Was there anything significant about yesterday?

Some planetary alignment?
Change in the atmosphere?


M3 fooked all day because of two accidents
M4 fooked London bound because of rubber necking a Westbound accident & everyone using it to get around the M3 problem
M25 fooked & 3 lanes shut because some idiot decided to drive his or her car on its roof at junction 8 turn off
Dived off at the M25 @ J10 A3 to avoid the delays and fook me there was a multiple pile up on the A3 London bound

WTF was going on yesterday?

Clue - you were in the South of England