Tell us something really trivial about your life Volume 40
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Byker28i said:
DickyC said:
The council have finally settled from our claim from 15 months agoIt was dark, if that helps.
/self-professed idiot
Thanks everyone. It was a bit weird, really. Yesterday I checked the tyres, found the bulge, had a think and remembered the awful clunk as the car went down the pothole some nights before but not only couldn't I remember where it was, I also can't remember why I didn't investigate it when I got home. Or stop and have a look the first chance I had. My phone has a light, I didn't need a garage or a row of shops to see what had happened. Years ago I would have made a right drama out of it. This time, I was glad it hadn't punctured and just carried on.
Standards are slipping.
Mrs C isn't averse to 4x4s. While I've known her I've had a Range Rover and two Discoverys. More to think about.
While I was contemplating how low profile tyre aficionados must be suffering, I remembered an incident ten years or so ago in traffic waiting at some lights. It was a junction with a right filter. In front of me was a Lamborghini. In front of him was an empty right filter lane. He couldn't join the lane because there were cars in front of him and a kerbed area beside him (median? is that right? sounds a bit legalistic). Eager to get on, he bumped up the kerb. Gordon Bennet. Why would you do that? Watching it made my blood run cold. At best he scraped two alloys, at worst he wrote off two wheels and two tyres. Anyway, the lights changed for straight on but the filter stayed red. He would have done better to wait and not damage anything.
Standards are slipping.
Mrs C isn't averse to 4x4s. While I've known her I've had a Range Rover and two Discoverys. More to think about.
While I was contemplating how low profile tyre aficionados must be suffering, I remembered an incident ten years or so ago in traffic waiting at some lights. It was a junction with a right filter. In front of me was a Lamborghini. In front of him was an empty right filter lane. He couldn't join the lane because there were cars in front of him and a kerbed area beside him (median? is that right? sounds a bit legalistic). Eager to get on, he bumped up the kerb. Gordon Bennet. Why would you do that? Watching it made my blood run cold. At best he scraped two alloys, at worst he wrote off two wheels and two tyres. Anyway, the lights changed for straight on but the filter stayed red. He would have done better to wait and not damage anything.
DickyC said:
While I was contemplating how low profile tyre aficionados must be suffering, I remembered an incident ten years or so ago in traffic waiting at some lights. It was a junction with a right filter. In front of me was a Lamborghini. In front of him was an empty right filter lane. He couldn't join the lane because there were cars in front of him and a kerbed area beside him (median? is that right? sounds a bit legalistic). Eager to get on, he bumped up the kerb. Gordon Bennet. Why would you do that? Watching it made my blood run cold. At best he scraped two alloys, at worst he wrote off two wheels and two tyres. Anyway, the lights changed for straight on but the filter stayed red. He would have done better to wait and not damage anything.
I seem to recall that Evo magazine tried to take a Diablo through a car wash and peeled the protruding edges from all four alloy wheels as the car was only just able to squeeze in with a liberal coating of baby oil.
This week will not be good at wecantevengetthatrightffs.net as we have a big BSI Audit over two days to maintain our ISO standard. Failure is not only not an option but will incur a LOT of financial strife if we fail it and i know for a fact that at least one member of staff has zero interest and will answer in their usual flippant way.
This will go down about as well as stepping barefoot in a really soft dog egg at 3am in the middle of brand new cream carpets.
I foresee our MD being very testy this week and one or two other people being on the receiving end of his germanic* attempt at motovational speaking**
* he is German
** a massive b
king in other words.
Good morrow fellow Trivialities everywhere
A day off today to get over the weekend, but we still have cleaning and shopping to do!!
At least the weather looks good for the day, so we might sneak in lunch out too!!
Dicky, as Magoo has already said, I'm afraid that tyre is toast!!
Enjoy your day whatever you're doing!!
A day off today to get over the weekend, but we still have cleaning and shopping to do!!
At least the weather looks good for the day, so we might sneak in lunch out too!!
Dicky, as Magoo has already said, I'm afraid that tyre is toast!!
Enjoy your day whatever you're doing!!
Bobberoo said:
Good morrow fellow Trivialities everywhere
A day off today to get over the weekend, but we still have cleaning and shopping to do!!
At least the weather looks good for the day, so we might sneak in lunch out too!!
Dicky, as Magoo has already said, I'm afraid that tyre is toast!!
Enjoy your day whatever you're doing!!
Yes, I appreciate that, thanks, Magooeroo. It wasn't an Is This Safe? post. It was a Look What I've Done post. Shortly to be followed by a How Much? post and then by an I've Replaced All Four (4) post. A day off today to get over the weekend, but we still have cleaning and shopping to do!!
At least the weather looks good for the day, so we might sneak in lunch out too!!
Dicky, as Magoo has already said, I'm afraid that tyre is toast!!
Enjoy your day whatever you're doing!!
I know myself well enough to make these predictions.
Flippin' 'eck, Dicky, that tyre of yours looks totally Bibendemmed! 
It's lucky you didn't attempt the drive oop norf to partake in the Brassington, for it may have decided to totally give up the ghost whilst you were proceeding at the approved rate of leptons and sent you hurtling into Oblivionland.
I would advise you to choose a random suitably severe pothole, photograph it with a measuring stick included, and send it with a pic of your tyre damage and a quote or bill from a supplier of black circles to the appropriate authority with a claim for full restitutionness.
Something needs to be done.
I shall write a stern letter to the Trivton Bugle and Gazette.
It's lucky you didn't attempt the drive oop norf to partake in the Brassington, for it may have decided to totally give up the ghost whilst you were proceeding at the approved rate of leptons and sent you hurtling into Oblivionland.
I would advise you to choose a random suitably severe pothole, photograph it with a measuring stick included, and send it with a pic of your tyre damage and a quote or bill from a supplier of black circles to the appropriate authority with a claim for full restitutionness.
Something needs to be done.
I shall write a stern letter to the Trivton Bugle and Gazette.
DickyC said:
Bobberoo said:
Good morrow fellow Trivialities everywhere
A day off today to get over the weekend, but we still have cleaning and shopping to do!!
At least the weather looks good for the day, so we might sneak in lunch out too!!
Dicky, as Magoo has already said, I'm afraid that tyre is toast!!
Enjoy your day whatever you're doing!!
Yes, I appreciate that, thanks, Magooeroo. It wasn't an Is This Safe? post. It was a Look What I've Done post. Shortly to be followed by a How Much? post and then by an I've Replaced All Four (4) post. A day off today to get over the weekend, but we still have cleaning and shopping to do!!
At least the weather looks good for the day, so we might sneak in lunch out too!!
Dicky, as Magoo has already said, I'm afraid that tyre is toast!!
Enjoy your day whatever you're doing!!
I know myself well enough to make these predictions.
DickyC said:
Yes, I appreciate that, thanks, Magooeroo. It wasn't an Is This Safe? post. It was a Look What I've Done post. Shortly to be followed by a How Much? post and then by an I've Replaced All Four (4) post.
I know myself well enough to make these predictions.
I know myself well enough to make these predictions.
No no no! Stop this self-flagellating at once.*It was a
* You're doing somebody in the Scrungeon out of a job!.
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