The grumpy thread

[MarvinsMom]

oooh your playing hookie!!

 

you'll be getting in trouble......

[Slappy]

Car has developed a random smell very quickly of rotten cabbage, and I could have sworn that I've not dropped anything organic.

 

Or maybe I did spill a bit of takeaway latte the other day by accident. Either way, I'm gagging!

[chaseracer]

Cabbage latte?  How very du jour...

 

[Mr_Bo11ox]

Pissed down most of last weekend . Nice for 2.5 days while I am stuck in the office. Woke up this moring and its fucking pissing down again. FFS

[doobietoo]

You live in the wrong part of the country its lovely here, sunny t-shirt weather, perfik for crawling under cars

[Parky]

Insurance says I can claim for tile damage provided I don't mind paying £250 excess, £150 voluntary excess, and losing 2 years NCB and accepting it as a fault claim.....

Fuck that. One silver wing located on a scrapper in Doncaster and on its way to me for £60 delivered. Fingers crossed it is actually the right part for the right car in the right colour. Despite assurances from the lady I just have a feeling I will be back next week effing and blinding about some cock up somewhere....

And Allianz can FRO

Well yes, it is the right part in the right colour but they sent a picture to me to mention that the wing had a poorly repaired scratch, rust on the arch, and rust spots over the panel. Did I still want it?

 

No thanks....the quest continues.....

[Cavcraft]

Half time at the Cavcraft Arena and in the lively encounter between Skills* Vs Fiesta brakes, the brakes are about 87-0 up. I'm  piss wet through, pissed off and covered in oil/dirt/grease/FAILURE.

Unless I find a supersub soon (which may actually happen) this bastarding car will find itself battered repeatedly with a rusted vented disc brake and I'll throw a party when the twatting thing gets weighed in.

[Richard]

What bit of the job are you struggling with?

[gm]

on the way to work in the Audi, someone* made a farty smell and when I opened the window there was a twang and the glass stopped moving down - that's going to be fun tonight

 

I slid the glass back up manually but there's nothing to stop it sliding down again, let's hope it's an easy fix, I don't have a day off until next Saturday

[Cavcraft]

What bit of the job are you struggling with?

 

 

Turned out the caliper is shagged. It wouldn't go back to get the new (discs and) pads on as it seems bollocksed, I'm not spending any more money on the sodding thing, so have put the old disc and pads back on and will try and offload it like it is, with a stipulation it's trailered away.

 

Fortunately my son came home and he diagnosed the problem, as the above may make it appear I know what I'm doing. 

[Aston Martin]

Ladies and gentlefellows, welcome to the Fiesta mk7 bulb change...

 

 

Its not the worst job in the world, I guess it's better than trying to get your fingers in a tiny hole...

[Angrydicky]

I see so much of that in Essex. Generally I have learned to stay out of the way of blinged up Rangies and Ford Galaxy people carriers with "Addison Lee" on the back as you have no frigging idea of what they are going to do next.

There is the most awful RR Sport I've ever seen running around Southend at the moment. Bright pink, with tinted windows and the "RANGE ROVER" lettering on the bonnet and boot replaced with chrome lettering that says "BELLA ESSEX". Christ, makes me ashamed to be from Essex. (I've never seen, or have any intention of seeing TOWIE either).

[scaryoldcortina]

I got cut up on the tyne bridge today by a black Overfinch rangie with the reg N*UFC.

[Parky]

Amen Dicky. Sadly I have had to take to telling people I am from Kent or East London to avoid the comparisons with those Oxygen thieves

[andrew e]

KENT!!! Parky - I'm sending you the soap to wash your mouth out!

[Des]

You shouldn't be ashamed to be from Da 'Thend, regretful maybe. I developed an aversion to driving in Essex many years ago, had to go in last week after managing about four years of avoidance, passing on work, doing Kent the wrong way round the M25, that kind of malarkey. Must say I found it the same as anywhere else in the South these days, I have to admit to being prejudiced as it now seems that the wave of appalling selfish arrogant driving behaviour just started earlier in Essex. Three fucking decades earlier.

Their roads are in better nick, covered in rubbish mind.

[vulgalour]

Driving home from Coventry last night, I fell asleep at the wheel on the A127 and crashed into a coned off section of roadworks.

 

Lesson learnt! Don't drive tired Fortunately, there were no other cars around and no one was working there at the time.

You're both stupid and lucky, but you already know that. Driving tired is as dangerous as driving drunk, best not to do it. Hopefully the only damage really is a dent to the car and your pride.

[cobblers]

I got cut up on the tyne bridge today by a black Overfinch rangie with the reg N*UFC.

 

The driver of a vehicle with a football related personal plate is the absolute lowest form of humanity, whether they're the manager of the club or some prick in a Zafira.

[Cavcraft]

Might be a toon player trying to get 3 points.

[Cheggers]

Let's hope it doesn't get to court if he does get caught...guaranteed to go down.

[HH-R]

Just come back from a weekend in Coventry, fuck me it's expensive daaaahn saaarf.

 

£12 to park at Birmingham NEC. £12. Twelve pounds. To rest a vehicle on a piece of tarmac.

£2 for a 500ml bottle of water. Fuck that, I'd sooner die of thirst.

Thought the hotel was taking the piss asking nearly £12 for a full english breakfast, but Wetherspoons were still asking nearly £8 and I just about inhaled it in one. Tiny.

£4.75 for a pint of Peroni in some wanky pub that used flowery language and stupid serving things (what's wrong with a plate?) to try and cover up that they're essentially asking £12 for bangers and mash.

 

Up yours NEC, I don't like being gouged in a captive audience so I will never darken your door again.

[Mr Lobster]

I got cut up on the tyne bridge today by a black Overfinch rangie with the reg N*UFC.

One of the parents at sons school drives an Overfinch with a private plate...

 

Couple of weeks back I dropped small Lobster at school and sets off. It's a village school and the road ends up double parked so I lets a couple of cars through and as there's plenty of space sets off. Bint in chav RR comes up at speed, refuses to pull into any of the spaces she passes and makes me squeeze past. Hey ho, I shake my head and forget about it.

 

Just as I get to the office I get a text.

 

It's from chav RR Bint who has my number somehow and recognised me. Apparently I should have moved out of her way as I was driving a 'matchbox car' and she was driving a Range Rover which needs more space than my 'matchbox car'

 

Presumably she needs a big car to carry her massive sense of entitlement around with her. Still, I showed the text and dash am footage to a few people in the pub who laughed their collective arses of at her so it's all good.

[Rusty_Rocket]

Coventry is 'down South'?!

 

I live in a place called Rye, which is near the South coast.  You can get proper grub for very little monies.. but you have to go to the right places, I'd say the NEC isn't ever going to be cheap!

[Angrydicky]

One of the parents at sons school drives an Overfinch with a private plate...

 

Couple of weeks back I dropped small Lobster at school and sets off. It's a village school and the road ends up double parked so I lets a couple of cars through and as there's plenty of space sets off. Bint in chav RR comes up at speed, refuses to pull into any of the spaces she passes and makes me squeeze past. Hey ho, I shake my head and forget about it.

 

Just as I get to the office I get a text.

 

It's from chav RR Bint who has my number somehow and recognised me. Apparently I should have moved out of her way as I was driving a 'matchbox car' and she was driving a Range Rover which needs more space than my 'matchbox car'

 

Presumably she needs a big car to carry her massive sense of entitlement around with her. Still, I showed the text and dash am footage to a few people in the pub who laughed their collective arses of at her so it's all good.

Genuinely LOL-ing my arse off at that. What a turd that woman is.

 

I hate people like that, it's all "Oh look at me, I'm more important than you because I've got shitloads of cash and a fancy house/car/fur coat".

 

N.b. not all wealthy people are like that, most are fine, but some are unbelievably rude and arrogant.

[Tamworthbay]

One of the parents at sons school drives an Overfinch with a private plate...

Couple of weeks back I dropped small Lobster at school and sets off. It's a village school and the road ends up double parked so I lets a couple of cars through and as there's plenty of space sets off. Bint in chav RR comes up at speed, refuses to pull into any of the spaces she passes and makes me squeeze past. Hey ho, I shake my head and forget about it.

Just as I get to the office I get a text.

It's from chav RR Bint who has my number somehow and recognised me. Apparently I should have moved out of her way as I was driving a 'matchbox car' and she was driving a Range Rover which needs more space than my 'matchbox car'

Presumably she needs a big car to carry her massive sense of entitlement around with her.

one of the things I love about driving old cars is putting them in the middle of my lane when idiots try this. When its get really tight it's fun to drop the window and talk loudly about how you don't care about your paint but whatever is coming past is going to look a mess with a massive gouge down the side. If they are truly stupid I am happy to sit there and make them reverse up, on occasion I have even turned the engine off and got out and just leaned on the car smiling. You get massive amounts of abuse when they finally realise you aren't moving and they may as well reverse up. I dream of it happening when I am on the way to the bridge with a car not registered to me, I would get out, drop the keys down the nearest drain and walk off laughing.

[HH-R]

Coventry is 'down South'?!

 

I live in a place called Rye, which is near the South coast.  You can get proper grub for very little monies.. but you have to go to the right places, I'd say the NEC isn't ever going to be cheap!

Aye, about 4 hours south for me I'd not have bothered going had I known what the parking charge was just out of principle.

[dean36014]

Think you'll find as a Coventry lad that NEC is birmingham thankfully. You should have popped into our motor museum, its genuinely worth a visit and free admission too. Other than that Coventry is gradually turning in to a University city. Every spare building is getting converted into student accomodation or getting flattened and rebuilt as ......student accomodation. Hopefully all this influx of people might kick start a dying city that was once a English version of Detroit motor city.

[vulgalour]

Oh but Lobster, you have her text number now.  Wouldn't it be terrible if you did something irresponsible with it?  There's so many things she could be signed up to in a moment.  Not that I'd condone such petty behaviour of course.

[HH-R]

I'm not sure if we stayed in Coventry or Birmingham. There were signs for the Jag plant?

[HH-R]

On the "my car is bigger than yours so you should move", someone came in to work asking if anyone was leaving because there was no spaces. I was so I went out to move my car (the Panda at the time). The person was having a right moan, pointing at a Fiat 500 and saying that it's so small it shouldn't be allowed a space. Soon went quiet when we got to my car.