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I got a phone call the other day from the place that did the rebore and crank grind on my RV8 earlier this year:-
ME: Yeah? (Paraphrasing)
THEM: You left a Rover V8 block, heads and crank here yonks ago and the boss wants to know if you want 'em back or shall we bin 'em?
ME: Ermmmm.... nope. My engine's back in one piece in the car, they're not my bits.
THEM: Oh right. 'Cos it's just that if you don't want any work doing to them, can you pick them up or we'll scrap 'em.
ME: No, my engine has been done; it's all sorted, they're not my bits.
THEM: Ah. So you don't want them then?
ME: Look, if you're giving bits away, I'll have the heads, but they're not mine. Brian did all the work on my engine months ago, it's done 3000 miles since then. That engine is someone else's. I remember him showing me it.
THEM: So..... they're not your bits then?
ME That's righhhhhht....
Look, I know what you'll all say : I should've taken the motor and said nowt. But what if the real owner turns up? And anyway, I've just bought another lathe and my garage is starting to fill up. And the compressor on my air conditioning is tits-up and it's 400 quid for a new one, and I need air con at the moment 'cos my daughter has hay fever and it takes the crap out of the air. And I have to pay for that week in Monaco. What with fuelling the helicopter and paying the yacht crew's wages, times are hard. Money doeasn't stretch as far as it used to.... slept in a rolled-up newspaper in the gutter etc. etc.
Ian
ME: Yeah? (Paraphrasing)
THEM: You left a Rover V8 block, heads and crank here yonks ago and the boss wants to know if you want 'em back or shall we bin 'em?
ME: Ermmmm.... nope. My engine's back in one piece in the car, they're not my bits.
THEM: Oh right. 'Cos it's just that if you don't want any work doing to them, can you pick them up or we'll scrap 'em.
ME: No, my engine has been done; it's all sorted, they're not my bits.
THEM: Ah. So you don't want them then?
ME: Look, if you're giving bits away, I'll have the heads, but they're not mine. Brian did all the work on my engine months ago, it's done 3000 miles since then. That engine is someone else's. I remember him showing me it.
THEM: So..... they're not your bits then?
ME That's righhhhhht....
Look, I know what you'll all say : I should've taken the motor and said nowt. But what if the real owner turns up? And anyway, I've just bought another lathe and my garage is starting to fill up. And the compressor on my air conditioning is tits-up and it's 400 quid for a new one, and I need air con at the moment 'cos my daughter has hay fever and it takes the crap out of the air. And I have to pay for that week in Monaco. What with fuelling the helicopter and paying the yacht crew's wages, times are hard. Money doeasn't stretch as far as it used to.... slept in a rolled-up newspaper in the gutter etc. etc.
Ian
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I had to make do with nettles whilst kipping in a glass merchants wheelie bin the other night.......
Nettles? Wheelie bin? Utter luxury!
I remember once being moved on from the gutter by a constable, and having to spend the night wrapped in some discarded fibreglass matting, huddled together in the cooling water outlet at Sellafield.... but we were 'appy!
Ian
quote:
Nettles? Wheelie bin? Utter luxury!
I remember once being moved on from the gutter by a constable, and having to spend the night wrapped in some discarded fibreglass matting, huddled together in the cooling water outlet at Sellafield.... but we were 'appy!
Ian
You were lucky. I used to dream of living in fibreglass matting. There were 10 of us who used to live in a cardboard box t' side o't' M11, wit' nowt eat but our own toenail clippin's
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