Woman sets trap, man walks in - Tell us your version
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Kermit power said:
My wife only ever did it once. It was mothers' day, and she said not to worry about it as it was all commercial rubbish anyway. When she then got the hump that she didn't get anything on mothers' day, I just replayed the conversation and asked her why she'd bother to say she didn't want anything if she actually did?
'I don't want'means either:
'I want the expensive one with the flowers, chocolates and champagne option'
or:
'That's not what I said.'
HTH
Pit Pony said:
Car hunting with woman helping to make descisions.
You dont end up with an MV6 3.2 petrol om9ega
Anyway, wife has a Juke. She needs an auto,
It must be a straight swap, or lower priced. Juke value £5.5 k ish
It needs to have 5 doors, but slightly smaller thsn the juke.
It needs to be cool. And not french.
So not a vauxhall. Or a renault.
Sounds easy right.
Mileage is an issue. Not sure why. She only does 5k a year but anything over 60k is frowned upon.
Has to be petrol.
We had arranged to go and see an old A class A200 turbo and a A200 non turbo CVT
Both woukd result in 2.5 k our way. Which i figure would pay for a new gearbox.
It took 2 weeks to hone 100,000 cars for sale down to 6 in the whole of the UK.
30 minutes in the company of her sister and her niece last night, and there's a further requirement. None of these people have driven an automatic ever.
I need to find her an automatic with an electronic hand brake. Becuase i need to respect her irrational belief that just putting it in park is not safe.
She has an issue with pain in arm and shooulder so using a handbrake results in pain hence needing an auto.
Try that as a search.
In our price range. Top spec astra from 2011 with all options ticked
And a renault scenic. Same age.
Theres 3 cars with 50 miles we can view. It took me 4 hours to find them.
That wasn't a trap, that was involuntary blitzkrieg. You dont end up with an MV6 3.2 petrol om9ega
Anyway, wife has a Juke. She needs an auto,
It must be a straight swap, or lower priced. Juke value £5.5 k ish
It needs to have 5 doors, but slightly smaller thsn the juke.
It needs to be cool. And not french.
So not a vauxhall. Or a renault.
Sounds easy right.
Mileage is an issue. Not sure why. She only does 5k a year but anything over 60k is frowned upon.
Has to be petrol.
We had arranged to go and see an old A class A200 turbo and a A200 non turbo CVT
Both woukd result in 2.5 k our way. Which i figure would pay for a new gearbox.
It took 2 weeks to hone 100,000 cars for sale down to 6 in the whole of the UK.
30 minutes in the company of her sister and her niece last night, and there's a further requirement. None of these people have driven an automatic ever.
I need to find her an automatic with an electronic hand brake. Becuase i need to respect her irrational belief that just putting it in park is not safe.
She has an issue with pain in arm and shooulder so using a handbrake results in pain hence needing an auto.
Try that as a search.
In our price range. Top spec astra from 2011 with all options ticked
And a renault scenic. Same age.
Theres 3 cars with 50 miles we can view. It took me 4 hours to find them.
MarkwG said:
That's out of date, the female age is increasing to meet the male, & both are increasing to 66 by October next year. It's also only the age at which you can claim a state pension, you can "retire" whenever you want to.
It's a sliding areangement. I was 65 in March and my pension starts in September."How old are you?"
"Sixty five and a half."
Yesterday I dropped Mrs C's phone. Despite it clearly being an accident the trap was immediately set. I apologised. There was silent glowering. I apologised again. The trap sprung! Aaaaargh! Help! Help! I hadn't apologised correctly.
Love her to bits. Don't understand her half the time but, y'know.
Love her to bits. Don't understand her half the time but, y'know.
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