Heroes & Villains, the Aston Villa fanzine
Heroes & Villains => Heroes Discussion => Topic started by: Legion on February 20, 2019, 07:47:36 AM
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From his son:
"Guys, strange request for a favour, my Dad, Chris Nicholl (younger Villa fans might need to ask there Dad's who he was/is) is really suffering memorywise, so much so and this is no joke, he's forgotten where he parked his car outside of the ground somewhere. It's a dark gray jaguar with the licence plate B12 CJN.
He's driven round with the police a fair bit but to no avail!
If anyone spots it near the ground or in fact anywhere, would you be so kind as to let us know? He's a bit stingey in his old age but I'm sure a reward of some sort could be arranged!
Long shot I know but thanks to anyone willing to help an ex-Villa legend!
Much appreciated!"
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If he has a smartphone he could use the timeline feature in maps to check where he had been?
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If he's stingy, he may have eschewed being a smartphone-droid.
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You would think a former cup winning captain would have a space reserved in the North Stand car park...
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Has he reported it stolen? Great player, great guy but not the sharpest needle in the sewing box. In case you think I am being over critical I frequently forget what car I am currently driving. When I go to the races I tie a helium balloon to float above my car so I can find it in the car park.
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Eek Leeg, could you have made the thread title more specific - my heart sank when I saw it!!!
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You would think a former cup winning captain would have a space reserved in the North Stand car park...
Absolutely....
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He's stingey but he's got a Jag, that doesn't make sense.
I hope he finds it :)
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Has he reported it stolen? Great player, great guy but not the sharpest needle in the sewing box. In case you think I am being over critical I frequently forget what car I am currently driving. When I go to the races I tie a helium balloon to float above my car so I can find it in the car park.
Are we talking a type of balloon that festoons a kid's pram post Happy Meal (yeeesh), or a larger affair that lifts the car up a tad?
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If it's a newish car, then he just needs the JLR app that tells you where the car is parked. You can even make the alarm bleep and the lights flash.
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I have a re-occurring dream about not being able to locate my car having parked it previously. I have no idea why, I'm not into cars particularly and would never own one expensive enough to worry about.
The dream almost became reality a few weeks ago. Having done a very long day at work I went to fetch my car from the erm, rather opportunistic space that I had parked it in (in town) only to find a van in it's place. I stopped dead in my tracks on the other side of the road, trying to work out if I had parked somewhere else, if it had been nicked or removed by the council. After a 30 second panic/trying to work the situation out I took a couple of steps nearer to find the van had in fact parked up close to my car, hiding it from view. The sigh of relief was matched only by my utter embarrassment at having stood on the kerb looking like a twat.
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About forty five years ago I left the jewellery quarter to head to Villa Park for a night game I parked in one of the side streets leaving a case of jewellery in the boot, after the game I walked to where I thought I had parked to realise I hadn't really taken enough notice of the surroundings. It took me a good hour to walk down every side street until most of the cars had left before I found it. I have always been very careful from then on about where I leave my car but I too have anxious dreams about not finding the car and always wake up in a foul mood. Good luck Chris.
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I have a re-occurring dream about not being able to locate my car having parked it previously. I have no idea why, I'm not into cars particularly and would never own one expensive enough to worry about.
The dream almost became reality a few weeks ago. Having done a very long day at work I went to fetch my car from the erm, rather opportunistic space that I had parked it in (in town) only to find a van in it's place. I stopped dead in my tracks on the other side of the road, trying to work out if I had parked somewhere else, if it had been nicked or removed by the council. After a 30 second panic/trying to work the situation out I took a couple of steps nearer to find the van had in fact parked up close to my car, hiding it from view. The sigh of relief was matched only by my utter embarrassment at having stood on the kerb looking like a twat.
Years back I parked the silver Nissan Micra I had at the time in a supermarket car park in Acocks Green. I remembered that I had parked it next to a white transit van and easily located it when I came back to it with my shopping. When I jumped into the car I noticed some stuff I had left on the passenger seat was gone. I then noticed a big air freshener I didn't have hanging on the rear view mirror. It turned out my Micra was parked on the other side of the van and my key had allowed me to open and jump into someone else's car. When I went through a phase of owning sports cars they were always a nightmare to find in car parks as they were so low. When I drove an Audi Quattro estate with rails on the roof and later a high Vauxhaul Frontera with rails on top it was great as they stood out above most other vehicles in car parks.
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Anyone wanna buy a Jaguar, private number plate but don’t let that put you off!
Sorry Chris, hope you find it. The wife probably has it.
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When I started my first job I went out on a survey with the boss, a larger than life bull of a man just demobbed from the Royal Navy. He drove a big black Austin 16 saloon. On the way back from the survey a car behind started honking and flashing him. He drove faster. The honking continued. He drove faster. My boss became angrier and angrier as we hurtled along. "Brian" he commanded "take down his number" I obeyed. "What is it?" "GON 120 Mr Satchwell" "HIS number, not mine you fool" "That is his number Mr Satchwell". Back in the day car keys were very similar with a very small range of patterns and black Austin 16s were very common on the streets of Brum.
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1977, League Cup first replay at Hillsborough. On the outskirts of the city my Dad asked a factory nightwatchman how far to the ground. "About a mile, mate". There was a car park nearby with spaces so we parked up and started walking. It took ages, more like three or four miles than one, and the first half was well underway when we got there. Of course, after the match we had no idea where the car was. Wandering the streets of Sheffield until late into the night, we chanced upon a copper on patrol and told him of our problem. The fact that we'd parked opposite a factory, and I remembered the car park was next to a railway line, was enough information for him to send us in the right direction. We got home at about two in the morning.
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I might be wrong but after the sad death of Ian Ross he is one of only 4 living ex Captains who have lifted a trophy for the Villa.
GIVE HIM A CAR PARK SPACE!
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I might be wrong but after the sad death of Ian Ross he is one of only 4 living ex Captains who have lifted a trophy for the Villa.
GIVE HIM A CAR PARK SPACE!
Does the 4 include JT (Cup of Traditions) & Stan Staunton (Inter Toto 2001)?
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NRC for the Peace Cup?
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Has said car been located yet?
Had it been a Vauxhall Corsa it would be in bits by now and the components distributed across the City
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I might be wrong but after the sad death of Ian Ross he is one of only 4 living ex Captains who have lifted a trophy for the Villa.
GIVE HIM A CAR PARK SPACE!
Five. Mortimer was injured for the second leg of the Super Cup so McNaught was captain. Add Richardson and Townsend.
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I might be wrong but after the sad death of Ian Ross he is one of only 4 living ex Captains who have lifted a trophy for the Villa.
GIVE HIM A CAR PARK SPACE!
Does the 4 include JT (Cup of Traditions) & Stan Staunton (Inter Toto 2001)?
Wasn't it Schmeichel in the 2nd leg of the Intertoto final? That's what Rob Bishop's book says anyway. I remember thinking that when Schmeichel held the cup it was almost lost in the palm of his hand. The size of the cup accurately indicated the importance of the competition.
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I was thinking Nicholl, Mortimer, Richardson & Townsend but those other major trophies clearly slipped my mind.
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I was thinking Nicholl, Mortimer, Richardson & Townsend but those other major trophies clearly slipped my mind.
There’s been 4 at Wembley who are Dixon, Ross, Richardson and Townsend. Nicholl lifted the cup at Old Trafford.
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Technically it's 5 at Wembley
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There was Wembley, Hillsborough and Old Trafford for one trophy. Saw every minute. Except the winning goal in the fog,
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Last year I was sent for a consultation appointment to Heartlands Hospital. I had only ever been there once before and that was for surgery some years earlier. This time, unlike previously, I drove there and parked in what I thought was an easy place to find in their super large car park. I had no idea though just how enormous that hospital is. After my appointment I was also to discover just how super enormous the car park is. It took me more than half an our to track my car down. It's an awful feeling staring at a sea of cars whilst having no idea where your car is, since the place where you thought it was parked wasn't where it was actually parked. It's literally the stuff of nightmares.
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Just after I'd passed my test I volunteered to drive 3 of my mates to a gig at the NEC.
All was fine until we came out after the gig and couldn't find the car. After ½ hour of walking around we realised we were on the wrong car park.
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I have spent over an hour looking for my car on a car park only to be told that I had gone shopping in my now ex-wife's car.
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You could start my Austin Atlantic with a paper clip. I used to leave it with the paper clip in place outside our house in Sparkhill hoping it would be pinched.
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I thought I had got lucky one time but it was only my sister's husband borrowing it one night.
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On our last day in Orlando we parked our hire car in a Mall car park whilst doing some last minute shopping - unbeknown to me there were several exits from the mall into different car parks - I was adamant that the car had been stolen and we called the police .......just as they arrived my wife informed that we had come out of the opposite side of the Mall to the one we had entered .... the cop just looked at me and smiled " don't worry, it happens all the time sir" - I just know he was thinking " what a gormless thick English prick"
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It can happen in familiar places as well - some years ago, I was working for a company that had their own four-storey car park.
Every morning, I parked at the ground level and used the stairs in order to get that extra little bit of exercise. After about six years of doing this daily routine, I arrived at work one morning and discovered that the ground level was closed due to maintenance. No problem. I parked my car on the next level, spent a long day at my office - and when I was finally leaving, I went down to the ground level as usual in order to drive home.
My car was nowhere to be found. Many other cars were parked there, but not mine. Some very uncomfortable minutes before it finally dawned on me.