Tell us something really trivial about your life (Vol 26)
Discussion
New chap in the office; started on Monday. Looks normal, sounds normal, but seems more than usually reserved. I mean, it's a funny old game contracting, you start somewhere and you sound them out and they sound you out and you either fit in or you don't. This guy isn't taking any soundings. He just sits. There is no interaction at all.
He doesn't go in for any goose booing.
He doesn't go in for any goose booing.
Who was talking about the Jeep Renegade recently? The guy I sit next to has a Grand Cherokee that's in for a service today and he's brought in a Renegade courtesy car. It's brilliant. 6 speed petrol, 40mpg. It's well equipped, comfortable, spacious and with jen-oo-ine trunk space. (Translation: it has quite a reasonable boot.)
Very Good. TT Car Reviews gives it 8/10.
Very Good. TT Car Reviews gives it 8/10.
My 5 cylinder Audi Coupe Quattro had an intermittent, irritating, tick-tick noise from the top of the engine. I took it to my then favourite garage and asked if they could investigate. I dropped it off in the morning and went back in the evening for their diagnosis. Horrified, that's a good word. When I went into the works they had the engine stripped down.
"What are you doing? I asked you to tell me what you thought the noise was."
"You can't drive it like that. It's the big ends."
"I don't think so. The noise is at the top. And you can't start stripping an engine without asking."
"Tell you what, if we're wrong, we won't charge you."
They were wrong but they gave me a bill anyway. Mind you, I have never paid it despite several vague threats and a proposed reworking of the bill to include just the cost of parts used without the labour charge but which looked uncannily like the original bill.
It was one or two hydraulic lifters sticking.
"What are you doing? I asked you to tell me what you thought the noise was."
"You can't drive it like that. It's the big ends."
"I don't think so. The noise is at the top. And you can't start stripping an engine without asking."
"Tell you what, if we're wrong, we won't charge you."
They were wrong but they gave me a bill anyway. Mind you, I have never paid it despite several vague threats and a proposed reworking of the bill to include just the cost of parts used without the labour charge but which looked uncannily like the original bill.
It was one or two hydraulic lifters sticking.
EvoDelta said:
Bad news. How long do they normally last for?
It varies. The first and worst was 12 hours; 3 in the morning until mid afternoon. I woke up with the room spinning as if I was pissed. To begin with I couldn't stand up and made it to the khazi on my hands and knees to throw up. They've got milder and shorter since. With luck it won't turn into anything worse than dizziness. If it does I'll be in the Travelodge again. Marvellous.How people live with the chronic condition - Meniere's Disease - I do not know. It must be bloody awful
Chunkymonkey71 said:
We should play to our strengths. Our acapella rendition of 'the sideboard song' by Chas n Dave is always a winner.
Not a dry eye in the house!
I couldn't agree more.Not a dry eye in the house!
I'll tell you something else an' all he's never got a job
He hangs around the betting shop the lazy little yob
Deeply moving.
Watched TFI Friday. It was good. Once every twenty years will be fine.
Also, at dinner, I used my fork upside down. It was the peas wot dun it. Had there been mash (to squidge the peas on to a correctly orientated fork) everything would have been fine. But there wasn't. And, do you know what? The world didn't fall off its axis.
Also, at dinner, I used my fork upside down. It was the peas wot dun it. Had there been mash (to squidge the peas on to a correctly orientated fork) everything would have been fine. But there wasn't. And, do you know what? The world didn't fall off its axis.
Gretchen said:
I'm going to be wearing my swimsuit and a rain mac with wellies and carrying a bucket and crab lines. Heaven knows what I'll catch... Probably pneumonia.
No, dressed like that you'll catch several older men in macs and wellies - and only macs and wellies. How many times must we tell you?My composure is sufficiently recovered to speak of last weekend's foray under the Mercedes.
The story so far: three or four years ago we decided to SLK was the keeper. Since we bought it in 2003 it has had a very easy life and was giving in to that era of Merc rusty wings slower than most. I explained to the body shop - who had done an excellent job on the black Audi - that we wanted a nice job, that I would remove the under wing splash guards and have a good old clean round before they got the car. This was agreed and formed part of the quote. When I took the splash guards off, I discovered a layer of leaves, a layer of leaf mould and an layer of compost; the latter effectively blocking the drain slots. I cleaned out the nearside but for some reason baulked at the offside which houses the washer reservoir. I explained all this to the bodyshop. They said that, in addition to the rust and dent repairs (13 car park door dings and a dent in the bootlid), they would:
* Remove the washer reservoir
* Clean out the grot
* Hose through both sides and right through both sills
* Allow to dry thoroughly
* Waxoil in all the voids
* Replace a splash guard fastening I had sheared off
Last weekend I did the leaf mould clean again and had a much delayed check on what the bodyshop had actually done. I have no idea why I decided against taking the reservoir out last time, it's a piece of cake.
Quiz Question: How many tasks on that list of jobs did they do?
The story so far: three or four years ago we decided to SLK was the keeper. Since we bought it in 2003 it has had a very easy life and was giving in to that era of Merc rusty wings slower than most. I explained to the body shop - who had done an excellent job on the black Audi - that we wanted a nice job, that I would remove the under wing splash guards and have a good old clean round before they got the car. This was agreed and formed part of the quote. When I took the splash guards off, I discovered a layer of leaves, a layer of leaf mould and an layer of compost; the latter effectively blocking the drain slots. I cleaned out the nearside but for some reason baulked at the offside which houses the washer reservoir. I explained all this to the bodyshop. They said that, in addition to the rust and dent repairs (13 car park door dings and a dent in the bootlid), they would:
* Remove the washer reservoir
* Clean out the grot
* Hose through both sides and right through both sills
* Allow to dry thoroughly
* Waxoil in all the voids
* Replace a splash guard fastening I had sheared off
Last weekend I did the leaf mould clean again and had a much delayed check on what the bodyshop had actually done. I have no idea why I decided against taking the reservoir out last time, it's a piece of cake.
Quiz Question: How many tasks on that list of jobs did they do?
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