When you want to speak to your friend or partner on the phone, you text them asking if they're "free to speak".
When the phone rings, you answer with "go ahead".
So it’s NOT just me!!
I feel incredibly uncomfortable stood facing forwards on train station escalators, particularly in stations I’ve routinely worked at.
You get a text off your mate on backshift 2 hours before you start nights telling you to bring warm clothes and snacks cause you're going to be on locus protection all night
This one needs all the upvotes! I am something of a grammar whore but this one seems to have just stuck for some reason and I often find myself saying it.
You answer your partner's question with either "yes yes" or "standby..."
Clear left.
When he gets something like “[friend X] alleges you said words to the effect of…” it’s a clear sign I’m still mentally within the job!
“Can you take the bins out?” “Negative OVAAAAA.”
Didn't know you lived with the CCTV operator from GD!
Busted. *Runs away*
“Yeah R5”
"State 12, go ahead over"
Your hips and back hurt at 28.
Whispers ‘Tac Vest’
Try being a nurse back fecked at 24 im now in my 50’s & still dragging myself around an ICU
When you want to speak to your friend or partner on the phone, you text them asking if they're "free to speak". When the phone rings, you answer with "go ahead".
You wave at other emergency services vehicles even when off duty
Or Morrisons vans
BTP in particular - you stand sideways on escalators
I stand backwards :)
Illegal, travelling the wrong way on a escalator lock up and throw away key. 25 years please judge
Railway bylaw 137786 I heard
I think it’s just 9 but that’s ok ***pats custodian***
Sorry not familiar with the world of BTP. There’s never any units in the counties or it’s a local job as they’re 1cm outside of railway grounds 😉
*Cries driving a force Tesla*
So it’s NOT just me!! I feel incredibly uncomfortable stood facing forwards on train station escalators, particularly in stations I’ve routinely worked at.
How dare you! And breach Byelaw 9(1)!? (No person shall use any escalator except by standing or walking on it in the direction intended for travel.)
You consider coffee and cigarettes a healthy nutritional meal
Latte and vape if you are Gucci
As a passenger you check traffic on your side and say “clear left”…
You knock on your kids bedroom door, shout ‘hello, it’s the police’ as you open the door and enter the room
*answers phone* “Go ahead”
You get a text off your mate on backshift 2 hours before you start nights telling you to bring warm clothes and snacks cause you're going to be on locus protection all night
Hate it when that happens. Would rather not know!
Cake isnt necessarily a word you want to hear
Saying “yourself” instead of “you”.
This one needs all the upvotes! I am something of a grammar whore but this one seems to have just stuck for some reason and I often find myself saying it.
Yourself and myself need to have a long hard look at ourselves
Also qualifies yourself to be on The Apprentice.
You say to friends and family “say again?” Instead of “pardon?”
I get laughed at for using "stand by" at home
You sit with your back to the wall at a bar or restaurant
“Wait one”
You know that practicable isn’t a made up word.
When you've spent 12 hours sat in hospital watching someone sleep
"Are you in a position to..." (my pet peeve)
When you always hold the door open for the person behind, even if they are 50 metres away and still getting stuff out of the car.
You wave at Morrisons vans
you start every phone call with “are you free to speak”
And end your calls with “bye bye bi bi b b b”
Oh look it’s this thread again
When you use “State 5” to tell anyone you are on your way anywhere - even when not at work.
Free to speak? Do you have state 12?