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What makes you grin? Antidote to grumpy thread


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Not sure if grin or grump, but on balance probably fits here better.  Cycling in to work this morning on my decrepit 1976 3-speed Raleigh Wayfarer, and some bloke in a Porsche Cayenne sat in traffic in the other direction bips his horn, winds his window down and offers to buy me a better bike.

You’ve pulled! Did you accept the offer?

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Not sure if grin or grump, but on balance probably fits here better.  Cycling in to work this morning on my decrepit 1976 3-speed Raleigh Wayfarer, and some bloke in a Porsche Cayenne sat in traffic in the other direction bips his horn, winds his window down and offers to buy me a better bike.

Did you offer to buy him a better car?

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We all remember this from Facebook over Christmas?

 

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Well, the rozzers caught them.

 

https://www.herts.police.uk/news-and-appeals/woman-charged-following-incident-at-tesco-in-rickmansworth-2601

 

 

Lucy Turner, aged 32, of Organ Hall Road in Borehamwood, has been charged with the following offences:

  • Attempted theft (from Tesco in Rickmansworth)
  • Causing serious injury by dangerous driving
  • Use of a motor vehicle on a road/public place without third party insurance
  • Driving whilst disqualified
  • Being the driver of a vehicle that failed to stop after a collision
  • Being the driver of a vehicle that failed to stop after a collision and failing to report the collision
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Getting on for a month since i put the offer in on the unit that was rejected,

 

It still sits totally empty, so that's already over £500 the landlord is down.

 

And i bet it'll still be empty this time next month

 

And the month after

 

And the month after.

 

The guy's going to end up thousands down and still have a unit in need of doing up at the end of it, all because he wanted top bucks right away.

 

Nae luck sunshine, should have taken my offer.

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I had a really quiet day at work today,  often this can result in boredom but fortunately I arrived prepared.

 

I wasn't prepared through organisation but through laziness.  I had planned to service the 405 earlier in the week but hadn't got around to it so had oil and filters in the boot.  I now have a freshly serviced car.  I did some welding earlier in the week and still had the kit in the boot.  This means that a door on the building I've been meaning to fix for about 2 years now has a fresh set of bolts attached.

 

Another grin was a big parcel arriving from Dome of this parish.  The result was a very full Peugeot on the way home to a very happy teenager.

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I had a really quiet day at work today,  often this can result in boredom but fortunately I arrived prepared.

 

I wasn't prepared through organisation but through laziness.  I had planned to service the 405 earlier in the week but hadn't got around to it so had oil and filters in the boot.  I now have a freshly serviced car.  I did some welding earlier in the week and still had the kit in the boot.  This means that a door on the building I've been meaning to fix for about 2 years now has a fresh set of bolts attached.

 

Another grin was a big parcel arriving from Dome of this parish.  The result was a very full Peugeot on the way home to a very happy teenager.

Issue 1 - 1273 of razzle ?  :-D

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I like them. We have two every days cars, a Nissan X Trail and ZX. I prefer the ZX by far

I've had numerous saxos, Picassos,a xantia and a xsara but never a zx. It's not bad at all for a 1.4. Think alternator bearings aren't great though and a noise like a droplink on driver side. Front and rear bumpers a bit scuffed up and outer indicator lense missing on driver side. Oh and stereo has no code!
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I've used this garage for 20 years or so. I rang yesterday morning for a service and mot on our 2006 V70. They said just to bring it down. My partner dropped it

about 12. they rang at 3 asking if I was picking it up! full service, mot, new rear discs and pads and they were busy welding the exhaust as the receptionist was talking to me. There's a few garages could take a lesson from that. If I have issues with my van they drop everything to get it sorted. It's like a formula one pit crew watching them.

 

 

https://www.facebook.com/pages/category/Automotive-Repair-Shop/Barrington-MOT-Centre-657190807717963/

 

It's worth having a look through their page at some of the stuff they do. There's a defender with the 'dreaded disease'.

£300 damage for a years motoring's not too bad. Cycling with my son 15 miles for it this morning.

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Two, maybe even three times a year at The Guardian, an editor falls asleep at the wheel and a warm hearted story somehow slips through to publication.

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2019/feb/23/400-toilet-rolls-how-feels-win-lifetime-supply

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Two, maybe even three times a year at The Guardian, an editor falls asleep at the wheel and a warm hearted story somehow slips through to publication.

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2019/feb/23/400-toilet-rolls-how-feels-win-lifetime-supply

 

What would you do with a lifetime's supply of loo rolls?

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