I found these little stories rather amusing, thought I would share them with you.

CAR PARKING
The smallest kerbside space successfully reversed into by a woman was one
of 19.36m (63ft 2ins), equivalent to three standard parking spaces, by Mrs.

Elizabeth Simpkins, driving an unmodified Vauxhall Nova 'Swing' on 12th
October 1993. She started the manoeuvre at 11.15am in Ropergate,
Pontefract, and successfully parked within three feet of the pavement 8
hours 14 minutes later. There was slight damage to the bumpers and wings of

her own and two adjoining cars, as well as a shop frontage and two lamp
posts.

FILM CONFUSION
The greatest length of time a woman has watched a film with her husband
without asking a stupid plot-related question was achieved on the 28th of
October 1990, when Mrs. Ethel Brunswick sat down with her husband to watch
'The Ipcress File'. She watched in silence for a breath-taking 2mins 40
secs before asking "Is he a goodie or a baddie, him in the glasses?", This
broke her own record set in 1962 when she sat through 2 mins 38 secs of
'633 Squadron' before asking "Is this a war film, is it?".

INCORRECT DRIVING
The longest journey completed with the handbrake on was one of 504 km(313
miles) from Stranraer to Holyhead by Dr. Julie Thorn (GB) at the wheel of a

Saab 900 on the 2nd April 1987. Dr. Thorn smelled burning two miles into
her journey at Aird but pressed on to Holyhead with smoke billowing from
the rear wheels. This journey also holds the records for the longest
completed journey with the choke fully out and the right indicator
flashing.

JUMBLE SALE MASSACRE
The greatest number of old ladies to perish whilst fighting at a jumble
sale is 98, at a Methodist Church Hall in Castleford, West Yorkshire on
February 12th 1991. When the doors opened at 10.00am, the initial scramble
to get in cost 16 lives, a further 25 being killed in a crush at the first
table. A seven-way skirmish then broke out over a pinafore dress costing
10p which escalated into a full scale melee resulting in another 18 lives
being lost. A pitched battle over a headscarf then ensued and quickly
spread throughout the hall, claiming 39 old women.
The jumble sale raised £5.28 for local boy scouts.

GOSSIPING
On February 18th 1992, Joyce Blatherwick, a close friend of Agnes Banbury
popped round for a cup of tea and a chat, during the course of which she
told Mrs.Banbury, in the strictest confidence, that she was having an
affair with the butcher. After Mrs.Blatherwick left at 2.10pm, Mrs.Banbury
immediately began to tell everyone, swearing them all to secrecy.By 2.30pm,

she had told 128 people of the news. By 2.50pm it had risen to 372 and by
4.00pm that afternoon, 2774 knew of the affair, including the local Amateur

dramatic Society, several knitting circles, a coachload of American
tourists which she flagged down and the butchers wife. When a tired
Mrs.Banbury went to bed at 11.55pm that night, Mrs.Blatherwick's affair was

common knowledge to a staggering 75,338 people, enough to fill Wembley
Stadium.

GROUP TOILET VISIT
The record for the largest group of women to visit a toilet simultaneously
is held by 147 workers at the Department of Social Security, Longbenton.
At their annual Christmas celebration at a night club in
Newcastle-Upon-Tyne on October 12th 1994, Mrs. Beryl Crabtree got up to the

toilet and was immediately followed by 146 other members of the party.
Moving as a mass, the group entered the toilet at 9.52pm and, after waiting

for everyone to finish, emerged 2 hrs 37 mins later.

SINGLE BREATH SENTENCE
An Oxfordshire woman today became the first ever to break the thirty minute

barrier for talking without drawing breath. Mrs.Mavis Sommers, 48, of
Cowley, smashed the previous record of 23 minutes when she excitedly
reported an argument she'd had in the butchers to her neighbour. She ranted

on for a staggering 32 minutes and 12 seconds without pausing for air,
before going blue and collapsing in a heap on the ground. She was taken to
Radcliffe Infirmary in a wheelbarrow but was released later after
check-ups. At the peak of her mammoth motormouth marathon, she achieved an
unbelievable 680 words per minute, repeating the main points of the story
an amazing 114 times whilst her neighbour, Mrs. Dolly Knowles, nodded and
tutted. The last third of the sentence was delivered in a barely audible
croak, the last two minutes being mouthed only, accompanied by vigorous
jesticulations and indignant spasms.