Nothing handles like a rental car - a book of confessions
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wst said:
aving worked the floor at Amazon, you get to see some of the low-production books like this, there's a section of the warehouse which is always getting freshly-printed books on its shelves. You get such delights as "Natural Harvest - 50 recipes for semen" and "Mein Kampf" up that end. It's a real rollercoaster when the scanner says to go to those aisles.
I bought that for a friend for Christmas a few years ago.He opened it in front of his girlfriend's parents.
He was not amused.
I also bought him a great Lance Armstrong coffee table book of photos from his racing years. Just after the scandal broke.
I'm not allowed to buy him stuff anymore.
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tting Peugeot! 
BTW my holiday rental was a 1.5D Renault Megane, so just one level above the utter contemptible pugs. The dash lights up red when it's in sport (which it was in 100% of the time) I liked that, and it had the cheek to have proper sports seats. It's comedy tyres don't like corners very well and could even break traction when pressing on, how it managed I'll never know! Also the narrow power band was woeful. Horrible car which was driven it like I stole it! Brilliant.
tting Peugeot! BTW my holiday rental was a 1.5D Renault Megane, so just one level above the utter contemptible pugs. The dash lights up red when it's in sport (which it was in 100% of the time) I liked that, and it had the cheek to have proper sports seats. It's comedy tyres don't like corners very well and could even break traction when pressing on, how it managed I'll never know! Also the narrow power band was woeful. Horrible car which was driven it like I stole it! Brilliant.
Had been vaguely wondering where my book had got to, since I was planning on having it as reading material for two holidays last month (1st world problems, I know). Just now the wife comes upstairs to my office with it in her hand, "this arrived for you weeks ago, but it got buried on the hall table, sorry". Oh well, it'll go in the bag for my next work trip.
Still, it's probably for the best, as the poor Vivaro and Leon I had on my two trips would have suffered somewhat more, given sufficient inspiration. Not that carting my tribe around for two weeks doesn't count as suffering.....
Still, it's probably for the best, as the poor Vivaro and Leon I had on my two trips would have suffered somewhat more, given sufficient inspiration. Not that carting my tribe around for two weeks doesn't count as suffering.....
phew....had to do some digging through my bookmarks to find this thread!
I was was one of the original backers and just wanted to say thanks for an awesome book Rich!
The reason for the post - I just came across a picture I took (I think with the intention of posting at the time) of the inside cover of my book. I was half joking when I requested the picture but Rich fulfilled the brief excellently - I'll let you all guess what I asked for exactly.
I've also since purchased "Confessions From Quality Control" and can say it's just as good a read.
p.s. If your drawing skills are toffee - mine must be bin juice
I was was one of the original backers and just wanted to say thanks for an awesome book Rich!
The reason for the post - I just came across a picture I took (I think with the intention of posting at the time) of the inside cover of my book. I was half joking when I requested the picture but Rich fulfilled the brief excellently - I'll let you all guess what I asked for exactly.
I've also since purchased "Confessions From Quality Control" and can say it's just as good a read.
p.s. If your drawing skills are toffee - mine must be bin juice
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