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Last Sunday was my daughter Emilie’s 18th birthday so lots of preparations for that. We booked a nice Chinese restaurant in the New Forest for an evening meal with friends and close family. As we left the restaurant one of the girls in my car passed a skip in which was one of those plastic 6 drawer things useful for putting bits in the shed (£25 in Argos). I didn’t want it on my leather seats so she said she would have it on her lap on the back seat. As we drove back I offered her a mint and she was talking but I couldn’t hear what she was saying, so I asked the passenger if she could open up one of the drawers so we could as least see her mouth, I guessed 2nd one down, else would get her neck or eyes...any miscalculation and could get her boobs

THis made Jeanette (back seat, drawers on lap, one I was doing garden for) start laughing and as I drove I thought, she has an unusual laugh....

...bit further on and she is still "laughing" except she wasn’t laughing at all and had actually got mint caught in throat and was choking! We pulled over and passenger whacked her on the back and mint flew out.

I can imagine any passers by looking and thinking oh look another binge drinker doubled up by side of car.....lucky i didnt have to stand behind her with my hands gripped across her waist thrusting wildly in an attempt to perform the Himlich manouvre else, heavens knows what people would have thought we were doing!

Just shows that expression "nearly died laughing" can be true, still at least she didn’t leave her drawers on the back seat….

It's been a hectic few weeks with me doing a friends garden as a surprise whilst they were away in Florida for 2 weeks. Was like Ground Force, but with only me more like Ground to a halt. But just like the programme once she saw what I had done to her garden, she couldn’t stop crying. That having said I did offer to put the fence back, replace the shed I demolished, and returf the lawn, oh and replace the tree I cut down and which she planted in memory of the aunt who left her the money to buy the place.