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  On 13/06/2022 at 12:15, Rocket88 said:

I left working for the AA five years ago ( recovery driver) back then, we handled pretty much everything “ in house”, with very little being subcontracted. Not any more….. both RAC and AA increasingly subcontracting work out, members increasingly paying a fortune for very variable standards of service 

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Yeah I've gotta say I was surprised when this little flatbed turned up - it was only a 3.5 tonner so it's overweight on the rear axle even with a focus on. Bloke said he'd been called in as a backup but his main truck was off the road and he'd told them he could do the job but only collect small cars. Reckoned they had sent him out to 5 vans already that night and he reckoned he wouldn't get paid for any of the failed jobs.

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  On 13/06/2022 at 12:28, cobblers said:

Yeah I've gotta say I was surprised when this little flatbed turned up - it was only a 3.5 tonner so it's overweight on the rear axle even with a focus on. Bloke said he'd been called in as a backup but his main truck was off the road and he'd told them he could do the job but only collect small cars. Reckoned they had sent him out to 5 vans already that night and he reckoned he wouldn't get paid for any of the failed jobs.

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Most of the issues are caused by totally inexperienced call centre staff…. Not necessarily their fault, as they are taught to ask the same questions of every caller, and under no circumstances use any initiative….

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The microwave has shat itself. Ma says "well it was working yesterday". V helpful, everything that's ever broken was probably working right up to the point it stopped working.

Had a fun shop tour trying to find one that's simple to operate for the blind. Ended up with a crappy 700W job from asda.

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  On 13/06/2022 at 13:39, jakebullet said:

The microwave has shat itself. Ma says "well it was working yesterday". V helpful, everything that's ever broken was probably working right up to the point it stopped working.

Had a fun shop tour trying to find one that's simple to operate for the blind. Ended up with a crappy 700W job from asda.

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We just got a dead simple one from Morrisons for my Grandparents when theirs shat itself. Two dials, job's a good 'un.

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  On 13/06/2022 at 11:56, cobblers said:

Yup I had the same with the RAC about ten years ago......

 

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My favourite* was when a mates van blew the engine big style just hitting the M25 from Dover...... I dragged it to the services and we made the call. Gave them the services name and we  were clockwise direction on M25. Van showed up quite quickly actually but of course, no use and called in the cavalry....  7 fucking hours and many calls later - he showed up. The job had been listed for the flatbed with just the services - he'd been on the other side of the fucking motorway hours earlier and hadn't had the sense or inclination to call or check.

We'd rolled over from Germany - the van was worth some coin - but it took 5mths to get it returned to his place and by then it was covered in various dents and scrapes. He was not a heppy bunny,,,,,,,

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The last time I used the RAC they sent their* recovery crew to another country.

The time before that they refused to attend because I couldn't give them the exact postcode of a roundabout on the A24 outside Lewes (pre-smartphone era).

I'm not an RAC member anymore.

I understand the AA aren't much better (they left us stranded too because MrsDC's supposedly all-singing Club Toyota AA entire household total-peace-of-mind membership turned out to be nothing of the sort on the one occasion we needed to call on it).

A plague on both their houses.

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A day late admittedly, but yesterday seemed to be ‘treat me like a tosser day’.

 

As a driver of Bavarian Tosser Mobiles, I do understand that people will treat me like a tosser. I try and be more courteous than the usual, in the hope of some mind changing. Yesterday was on another level, probably not helped by it being Sunday.

First instance: following a slow moving vehicle, towing another. Fair enough, my giffermatic 1993 320i probably wouldn’t get a safe overtake in. Neither would the Porsche Uglymera that attempted a poorly timed overtake before diving between i and said slow moving vehicle. Good lady called him a dickhead. I shrugged, these things happen.

 

Second instance: entering the M4 at Jct 12. Two lanes entering. I’m accelerating down the slip road, when an angry man in a modern Citroen SOOV goes for the aggressive undertake. Good lady called him a dickhead, I shrugged. I think many people are still releasing their anger at 90s Bavarian Tosser Mobiles. These things happen.

 

Third instance: Leaving the M4 at Jct 11. Having seen the above SOOV pilot undertake a coach, I’m moving from lane 3 (having overtaken the coach) back to lane 1, this being a filter lane to exit the M4. This chap seems to now take umbrage at the shit old WankerWagon being ahead of him. Proceeds to then undertake me on the hard shoulder. Good lady called him a dickhead. I was quite annoyed now, and thought about giving him what for. Decided against it, as these things rarely go well.

 

Fourth instance: We’ve been to Marks and Expensive, driven back a junction down the M4 (no angry SOOV pilots thank Christ), and I nipped to get some petrol. On the big roundabout at Jct 12 of the M4, someone then proceeded to do a lane change while I’m in passing alongside of them. Good lady calls them a dickhead, I at this point ask “Is there a sign in my forehead that says wanker? Because everyone seems to know something I don’t”.

 

I get that people get it wrong, as we all do, but to any other Shiters face this sort of ‘argh’ behaviour when out on the roads? I don’t know if it’s “Old car = poor wanker” or what.

 

Aaaand breathe. To finish, here’s a couple of a lovely Open Corsa A spotted at ‘Swiss classic world’ I stumbled upon while there a couple of weeks ago. Boxed Arches have a lovely soothing effect.

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  On 13/06/2022 at 14:22, JakeT said:

A day late admittedly, but yesterday seemed to be ‘treat me like a tosser day’.

 

As a driver of Bavarian Tosser Mobiles, I do understand that people will treat me like a tosser. I try and be more courteous than the usual, in the hope of some mind changing. Yesterday was on another level, probably not helped by it being Sunday.

First instance: following a slow moving vehicle, towing another. Fair enough, my giffermatic 1993 320i probably wouldn’t get a safe overtake in. Neither would the Porsche Uglymera that attempted a poorly timed overtake before diving between i and said slow moving vehicle. Good lady called him a dickhead. I shrugged, these things happen.

 

Second instance: entering the M4 at Jct 12. Two lanes entering. I’m accelerating down the slip road, when an angry man in a modern Citroen SOOV goes for the aggressive undertake. Good lady called him a dickhead, I shrugged. I think many people are still releasing their anger at 90s Bavarian Tosser Mobiles. These things happen.

 

Third instance: Leaving the M4 at Jct 11. Having seen the above SOOV pilot undertake a coach, I’m moving from lane 3 (having overtaken the coach) back to lane 1, this being a filter lane to exit the M4. This chap seems to now take umbrage at the shit old WankerWagon being ahead of him. Proceeds to then undertake me on the hard shoulder. Good lady called him a dickhead. I was quite annoyed now, and thought about giving him what for. Decided against it, as these things rarely go well.

 

Fourth instance: We’ve been to Marks and Expensive, driven back a junction down the M4 (no angry SOOV pilots thank Christ), and I nipped to get some petrol. On the big roundabout at Jct 12 of the M4, someone then proceeded to do a lane change while I’m in passing alongside of them. Good lady calls them a dickhead, I at this point ask “Is there a sign in my forehead that says wanker? Because everyone seems to know something I don’t”.

 

I get that people get it wrong, as we all do, but to any other Shiters face this sort of ‘argh’ behaviour when out on the roads? I don’t know if it’s “Old car = poor wanker” or what.

 

Aaaand breathe. To finish, here’s a couple of a lovely Open Corsa A spotted at ‘Swiss classic world’ I stumbled upon while there a couple of weeks ago. Boxed Arches have a lovely soothing effect.

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E36 320i automatics are lovely.

I may be biased after owning one a couple of years ago. I now have a 323i manual complete with an M-tech body kit. The absolute weapons it seems to attract out on the open road do somewhat ruin my enjoyment of it sometimes. Just the other day I had an E90 in front of me notice me as we entered a tunnel. Cue them dropping into second gear and gunning it. I stayed in fourth at 1,500rpm thinking "alright, whatever..."

In comparison my mk8 Civic blends into the scenery.

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  On 13/06/2022 at 14:22, JakeT said:

I get that people get it wrong, as we all do, but to any other Shiters face this sort of ‘argh’ behaviour when out on the roads? I don’t know if it’s “Old car = poor wanker” or what.

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Yep... but I think owning a smaller motor does get you bullied a bit too in my case.

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  On 13/06/2022 at 14:47, AnnoyingPentium said:

Yep... but I think owning a smaller motor does get you bullied a bit too in my case.

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I never got bullied in my Mk1 Ford Ka.  I put this down to the fact that the passenger side was covered in dents...

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  On 13/06/2022 at 15:55, GrumpiusMaximus said:

I never got bullied in my Mk1 Ford Ka.  I put this down to the fact that the passenger side was covered in dents...

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Note to self: go out and take a mallet to the side of the Fabia.

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  On 13/06/2022 at 15:58, AnnoyingPentium said:

Note to self: go out and take a mallet to the side of the Fabia.

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Grow a beard and wear your hair long.  Also, a drum kit in the back helps.

I did once overtake a Pagani Zonda in my Ka on the A2 near Dartford.  That was the highlight of my driving life.

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  On 13/06/2022 at 15:59, GrumpiusMaximus said:

Grow a beard and wear your hair long.  Also, a drum kit in the back helps.

I did once overtake a Pagani Zonda in my Ka on the A2 near Dartford.  That was the highlight of my driving life.

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I've got short hair, no beard, and just an electric drumkit since I sold the conventional kit... so I can solve two of those three issues. 😂

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Get a slightly rusty Pearl double-braced boom stand and stick it slightly out of the passenger window.  Works well.  There was the time that I'd been playing a show and had so much gear in the car that I could only use 2nd and 4th because of a stand obstructing the gear stick - but that didn't really matter in the Ka...

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  On 13/06/2022 at 14:46, Supernaut said:

E36 320i automatics are lovely.

I may be biased after owning one a couple of years ago. I now have a 323i manual complete with an M-tech body kit. The absolute weapons it seems to attract out on the open road do somewhat ruin my enjoyment of it sometimes. Just the other day I had an E90 in front of me notice me as we entered a tunnel. Cue them dropping into second gear and gunning it. I stayed in fourth at 1,500rpm thinking "alright, whatever..."

In comparison my mk8 Civic blends into the scenery.

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Agreed. Not the fastest, but a nice micro barge. Great noise, too!

The m-tech bits are nice, a set of sport seats would be nice. I find the standard ones are a little too flat for faster corners.

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  On 13/06/2022 at 13:39, jakebullet said:

The microwave has shat itself. Ma says "well it was working yesterday". V helpful, everything that's ever broken was probably working right up to the point it stopped working.

Had a fun shop tour trying to find one that's simple to operate for the blind. Ended up with a crappy 700W job from asda.

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When I was welding for a living my foreman would state " IT WAS  ALRIGHT YESTERDAY" when I told him my plant had died - which was often.

Eventually I pointed out the titanic was alright when it sailed out of Southampton.

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I've been servicing the cooling system on the Ibiza. (Coolant temp sensor, fan switch, thermostat and fresh coolant), one of the bolts snapped so, I tried to get them at my local motor factors, my local hardware store, to no avail, so tried the Seat dealers, last Tuesday/Wednesday, said they would be in at the end of the week, got a call this morning to say they were in, my grandpa collected them while I was at college (last day today), so he took the old one (the other one snapped) in to see if it matched, the guy in the dealers said that the old ones should have never been in (fairly sure they were the original bolts). Went to fit it back together and they were too big, what a good waste of £4.40, so my grandpa found two bolts in a box in his garage that we used instead. Now it is all back together and fixed.

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Today turned into a right fuck on when I couldn't actually get on the train I wanted

The whole.point was not to ride down

Ffs - length of the a49 here now

Refund off train lot tomorrow when I decide to rant at them

3 Carriage trains ffs

It's not 1965

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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  On 13/06/2022 at 18:44, J W Pepper said:

I've been servicing the cooling system on the Ibiza. (Coolant temp sensor, fan switch, thermostat and fresh coolant), one of the bolts snapped so, I tried to get them at my local motor factors, my local hardware store, to no avail, so tried the Seat dealers, last Tuesday/Wednesday, said they would be in at the end of the week, got a call this morning to say they were in, my grandpa collected them while I was at college (last day today), so he took the old one (the other one snapped) in to see if it matched, the guy in the dealers said that the old ones should have never been in (fairly sure they were the original bolts). Went to fit it back together and they were too big, what a good waste of £4.40, so my grandpa found two bolts in a box in his garage that we used instead. Now it is all back together and fixed.

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At least you managed to get something from a VAG dealer. I've nearly caused a rammy twice in Ingram Skoda in Ayr. First time was the cheeky cunt at parts and service telling me my car was too old for him to care, so scrawled a part number into a bit of paper and told me 'good luck, m9'. Second was the same fucker, but when I needed a part number for an item and he told me they don't give out part numbers... :huh: 

Not going back into that bit again. Got the first lot of parts (door card clips) on eBay and the second lot (headrest guide tubes) from a fella on Briskoda, so that was that.

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  On 13/06/2022 at 14:22, JakeT said:

A day late admittedly, but yesterday seemed to be ‘treat me like a tosser day’.

 

As a driver of Bavarian Tosser Mobiles, I do understand that people will treat me like a tosser. I try and be more courteous than the usual, in the hope of some mind changing. Yesterday was on another level, probably not helped by it being Sunday.

First instance: following a slow moving vehicle, towing another. Fair enough, my giffermatic 1993 320i probably wouldn’t get a safe overtake in. Neither would the Porsche Uglymera that attempted a poorly timed overtake before diving between i and said slow moving vehicle. Good lady called him a dickhead. I shrugged, these things happen.

 

Second instance: entering the M4 at Jct 12. Two lanes entering. I’m accelerating down the slip road, when an angry man in a modern Citroen SOOV goes for the aggressive undertake. Good lady called him a dickhead, I shrugged. I think many people are still releasing their anger at 90s Bavarian Tosser Mobiles. These things happen.

 

Third instance: Leaving the M4 at Jct 11. Having seen the above SOOV pilot undertake a coach, I’m moving from lane 3 (having overtaken the coach) back to lane 1, this being a filter lane to exit the M4. This chap seems to now take umbrage at the shit old WankerWagon being ahead of him. Proceeds to then undertake me on the hard shoulder. Good lady called him a dickhead. I was quite annoyed now, and thought about giving him what for. Decided against it, as these things rarely go well.

 

Fourth instance: We’ve been to Marks and Expensive, driven back a junction down the M4 (no angry SOOV pilots thank Christ), and I nipped to get some petrol. On the big roundabout at Jct 12 of the M4, someone then proceeded to do a lane change while I’m in passing alongside of them. Good lady calls them a dickhead, I at this point ask “Is there a sign in my forehead that says wanker? Because everyone seems to know something I don’t”.

 

I get that people get it wrong, as we all do, but to any other Shiters face this sort of ‘argh’ behaviour when out on the roads? I don’t know if it’s “Old car = poor wanker” or what.

 

Aaaand breathe. To finish, here’s a couple of a lovely Open Corsa A spotted at ‘Swiss classic world’ I stumbled upon while there a couple of weeks ago. Boxed Arches have a lovely soothing effect.

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Try driving a classic ( one with adequate power to cope with modern traffic or worse one that looks like a a competition car).

The reaction seems to be it's old therefore slow which also means it will stop as it's not going fast, also I'm not getting stuck behind that slow old thing.

Or if in the latter I believe the reaction must been hah he thinks that's fast I'll show him ( ensue very dangerous overtaking manovoures)

As both above situations will obviously cause male impotence & /or  penis shrinkage .

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Spent two weeks of awesome honeymoon/holiday in Cape Verde. Felt good. Felt refreshed.

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Guts rumbling since we landed at Manchester this morning. CODE BROWN early warning alarm. Hoofted it back up the M6 to get home. 

£2.06 a litre at the services? Fuck it, no time to hunt. In it goes. Every second counts! 

Brown laser and chundering all day just in time for going back to work tomorrow. Fantastic. 😂

Back to reality. Duvet. Couch. Cat. 

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Posted
  On 13/06/2022 at 15:55, GrumpiusMaximus said:

I never got bullied in my Mk1 Ford Ka.  I put this down to the fact that the passenger side was covered in dents...

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I used to push in like a twat, going over the Runcorn Bridge every day in the rush hour. In a mk2 cavalier. I once wound down the window and said, "Let me in, or find out whether my car is insured and in my name or not. Does it look like it is ? " 

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  On 13/06/2022 at 14:22, JakeT said:

A day late admittedly, but yesterday seemed to be ‘treat me like a tosser day’.

 

As a driver of Bavarian Tosser Mobiles, I do understand that people will treat me like a tosser. I try and be more courteous than the usual, in the hope of some mind changing. Yesterday was on another level, probably not helped by it being Sunday.

First instance: following a slow moving vehicle, towing another. Fair enough, my giffermatic 1993 320i probably wouldn’t get a safe overtake in. Neither would the Porsche Uglymera that attempted a poorly timed overtake before diving between i and said slow moving vehicle. Good lady called him a dickhead. I shrugged, these things happen.

 

Second instance: entering the M4 at Jct 12. Two lanes entering. I’m accelerating down the slip road, when an angry man in a modern Citroen SOOV goes for the aggressive undertake. Good lady called him a dickhead, I shrugged. I think many people are still releasing their anger at 90s Bavarian Tosser Mobiles. These things happen.

 

Third instance: Leaving the M4 at Jct 11. Having seen the above SOOV pilot undertake a coach, I’m moving from lane 3 (having overtaken the coach) back to lane 1, this being a filter lane to exit the M4. This chap seems to now take umbrage at the shit old WankerWagon being ahead of him. Proceeds to then undertake me on the hard shoulder. Good lady called him a dickhead. I was quite annoyed now, and thought about giving him what for. Decided against it, as these things rarely go well.

 

Fourth instance: We’ve been to Marks and Expensive, driven back a junction down the M4 (no angry SOOV pilots thank Christ), and I nipped to get some petrol. On the big roundabout at Jct 12 of the M4, someone then proceeded to do a lane change while I’m in passing alongside of them. Good lady calls them a dickhead, I at this point ask “Is there a sign in my forehead that says wanker? Because everyone seems to know something I don’t”.

 

I get that people get it wrong, as we all do, but to any other Shiters face this sort of ‘argh’ behaviour when out on the roads? I don’t know if it’s “Old car = poor wanker” or what.

 

Aaaand breathe. To finish, here’s a couple of a lovely Open Corsa A spotted at ‘Swiss classic world’ I stumbled upon while there a couple of weeks ago. Boxed Arches have a lovely soothing effect.

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Sounds like Reading to me, oh, wait, it was😱

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  On 13/06/2022 at 14:22, JakeT said:

A day late admittedly, but yesterday seemed to be ‘treat me like a tosser day’.

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It was drive like a tosser round here. Dawdlers, the 30 in a 40 then 40 in a 30 brigade, those signalling right approaching a mini-roundabout then going straight ahead, cyclists taking the piss with the HC changes. Oh, and fucking potholes.

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WOW - All hell broke loose at stupid o'clock this morning. A neighbour is having major works done on their property (one of many actually as this place is rebuild central as they're all loaded) we're the 'normal' kids on the block in amongst diplomats and old money...... they don't like us unless they need technical help!

I digress - the workers needed power off apparently - but didn't tell anyone, no note dropped in or anything. Just kill it............ which almost became literal.

The old dear 2doors up has a live in nurse and so does the lady opposite... Their assistance machines all lost power and backups kicked in. I noticed all power gone and went to investigate - to be met by frantic live in nurses calling ambulances because if the batteries karked it - they were in deep shit. Massive argument with several neighbours all descending on the guys working. Power restored silently with no-one admitting who killed it.

Watching a load of retirees threatening the power, telecoms and supply guys was entertaining at least.

Now awaiting the aftermath - they won't be letting this go - it was bloody idiotic to just kill power to half the street without any notice or checking.

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Business centre still getting arsey about me having my vans parked here. They're all used regularly, all commercial vehicles and 2 of the 3 are owned by my company. I'm always at work well before anyone and leave after everyone else so to the part timers from the council it looks like my stuff never leaves. I rent two units and have a max of 2 vehicles parked outside overnight, with 5 in total in the day including my staff

There's a delivery company with one unit who have 30+ vans parked overnight and 30+ staff cars here all day and somehow I'm the problem? 

The next time they give me grief I think I'll struggle to be as polite as I usually am

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Bloody sickened, my desk faces out to Newsham Park and it's nice lake, I saw a bit of activity earlier and turns out it was the RSPB trying to rescue a Coot that had a small crossbow bolt through it's neck, Fire Brigade also attended but couldn't catch the little bugger. RSPB are coming back with reinforcements to get it. It seemed active enough so I assume the bolt has missed any vital bits but Jesus wept what cunt would do something like that   

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  On 14/06/2022 at 13:02, cobblers said:

Business centre still getting arsey about me having my vans parked here. They're all used regularly, all commercial vehicles and 2 of the 3 are owned by my company. I'm always at work well before anyone and leave after everyone else so to the part timers from the council it looks like my stuff never leaves. I rent two units and have a max of 2 vehicles parked outside overnight, with 5 in total in the day including my staff

There's a delivery company with one unit who have 30+ vans parked overnight and 30+ staff cars here all day and somehow I'm the problem? 

The next time they give me grief I think I'll struggle to be as polite as I usually am

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How does it break your lease agreement ? 

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  On 14/06/2022 at 15:25, New POD said:

How does it break your lease agreement ? 

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Not a word in it about parking or storing vehicles, but they have sent me an email saying "any vehicles not related to business purposes will be presumed abandoned and will be towed away 😅". Other tenants have a "no motorhome" clause but mine is missing that too.  My big camper van is my personal vehicle, the other 2 vans are loosely for business purposes (one a VW T25 pickup and one a T6 transporter, both commercial vehicles) so my argument is that I have driven to work in my personal vehicle. Everything gets used once or twice a week, but since I'm always here at 6:30 and leave at 7pm, it looks like they all never leave.

There's a new manager on the business centre and they've got a bee in their bonnet about trivial shit like this while the rest of the place falls apart and is overrun with waste and the internet/phones don't work.

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