Scuba's Second try - Sink or Swim!

scubaangel

Do to it? Put the front wheel back on after my Dad transported it and my ex 'fixed' it last year. Happily I reckon the other bike in the shed is in better condition but that one isnt mine so I don't want to use it unless mines going to be time consuming/expensive to fix as it has a bigger frame so is a touch awkward for me what with my not being as tall as that particular bikes previous owner.

I blush far too bloomin easily, drives me nuts, suspect the guys have realised it hence this mornings conversations - conversations I'm perfectly happy to join in with other than that they cause me to blush.

I have pain killers in my bag at work anyway, still suffering from toothache on and off but not often enough or long enough to make me get organised to go to the dentist and get the fillings fixed.

I suspect he will, he wants me to find him some filthy women - I intend to direct him to the trainee accomodation block, girls corridor, hardly ever see them without a liberal splatter of mud or other muck.

And you have no idea of the strange names I encounter daily, along with the oddly coloured cords/chinos, and tweed jackets!

ZTD

scubaangel wrote: »

Do to it? Put the front wheel back on after my Dad transported it and my ex 'fixed' it last year.

The only way you can legitimately "fix" something and have bits drop off it, is if a vet "fixes" a dog... :eek: :shocked:

scubaangel wrote: »

Happily I reckon the other bike in the shed is in better condition but that one isnt mine so I don't want to use it

Who's is it?

scubaangel wrote: »

unless mines going to be time consuming/expensive to fix

It sounds like it'll probably be OK. Maybe a new cable and a bit adjustment. If everything was seized, then a large investment in plusgas and a swear box would be called for.

scubaangel wrote: »

I blush far too bloomin easily, drives me nuts, suspect the guys have realised it hence this mornings conversations

I was going to put a comment here - but don't know you that well...

scubaangel wrote: »

- conversations I'm perfectly happy to join in with other than that they cause me to blush.

Unfortunately, I have a similar problem with laughing. I could string people along a lot further in a joke if I didn't laugh...

scubaangel wrote: »

I have pain killers in my bag at work anyway, still suffering from toothache on and off but not often enough or long enough to make me get organised to go to the dentist and get the fillings fixed.

We shall nag you about that from now on. You'll have to go to the dentists to get a pain in your arrse to subside...

scubaangel wrote: »

I suspect he will, he wants me to find him some filthy women - I intend to direct him to the trainee accomodation block, girls corridor, hardly ever see them without a liberal splatter of mud or other muck.

"Other" muck? :eek:

scubaangel wrote: »

And you have no idea of the strange names I encounter daily, along with the oddly coloured cords/chinos, and tweed jackets!

Oxford or Cambridge? :rotfl:

scubaangel

Yup but this is a man who thought the solution to a broken toilet flush was to call the letting agent and wait a week for them to send someone, whilst being driven slowly insane by the sound of constantly running water, while mine was go to the builders merchant with the broken part, smile sweetly and ask if they happened to sell one then fit it myself sending the reciept to the letting agent.

It's the other one my Dad brought down for us last summer, the ex used it a few times so I presume it's in a better state than mine as he's the type who can't drive a car with a chipped windscreen - so a bike with slight malfunctions would probably have caused his head to implode.

Some of them work in the stables as part of their sports afternoons.

Not quite think posh military rather than posh higher eduction centres.

ZTD

scubaangel wrote: »

Yup but this is a man who thought the solution to a broken toilet flush was to call the letting agent and wait a week for them to send someone, whilst being driven slowly insane by the sound of constantly running water, while mine was go to the builders merchant with the broken part, smile sweetly and ask if they happened to sell one then fit it myself sending the reciept to the letting agent.

You can't do that! That's *far* too practical...

scubaangel wrote: »

Some of them work in the stables as part of their sports afternoons.

Hmmm...tasty...

scubaangel wrote: »

Not quite think posh military rather than posh higher eduction centres.

So Maj D'Odgee Double-Entendre then...

scubaangel

Cycled to work today, it was not fun, 7.9 miles in 70 minutes, would have been quicker but after I had a minor issue with a pavement and a moron on a motorbike overtaking too close I ended up wheeling the bike up the hill to work from the gate. The guys at the gate called the police for me as they saw what happened and have it all on CCTV, but I'm uninjured (although I have a spectacular bruise on my knee, thigh and hip) and the bike is in no worse condition now than it was before I set off for work so don't see the point.

Am going to drive to work tomorrow and cycle home, am just hoping that by then I won't be too sore particularly after the fall. If I am I'll drive home again and collect the bike on Tuesday - ideally after my mate has had a look at it, although hes insisting on showing me what needs doing so I can do it myself in future, while if I have the same problem in future I was just planning to ask a friend again....

ZTD

scubaangel wrote: »

Cycled to work today, it was not fun, 7.9 miles in 70 minutes, would have been quicker but after I had a minor issue with a pavement and a moron on a motorbike overtaking too close

Oh dear! :eek:

scubaangel wrote: »

I ended up wheeling the bike up the hill to work from the gate. The guys at the gate called the police for me as they saw what happened and have it all on CCTV, but I'm uninjured (although I have a spectacular bruise on my knee, thigh and hip)

So you're uninjured apart from your injury?

scubaangel wrote: »

and the bike is in no worse condition now than it was before I set off for work so don't see the point.

A conviction and a few points on his license with the attendant rise in insurance will probably convince said motorcyclist not be be such a nob in future.

After all, if you'd overtaken him in such a fashion while being in your car - I'm sure he would have had plenty to say.

scubaangel wrote: »

Am going to drive to work tomorrow and cycle home, am just hoping that by then I won't be too sore particularly after the fall. If I am I'll drive home again and collect the bike on Tuesday - ideally after my mate has had a look at it, although hes insisting on showing me what needs doing so I can do it myself in future, while if I have the same problem in future I was just planning to ask a friend again....

It depends on whether it's a five minute fix or not. You won't want to wait a few days just for a bit twiddle with a screwdriver - will you?

You'll want your twiddling to be immediate...

scubaangel

Its a bruise, I've done as bad after a night out on high heels! The only broken skin I have is the blister on my thumb which burst while I was wheeling the bike in to work (I was wheeling it because as I came off I managed to jam one of the brakes under the rim, one of my customers pulled it out for me in return for a free coffee).

True, the police were talking about coming up to see me at work tomorrow so they can collect the CCTV footage while they're there, I'll see what they say.

I'm hoping it is a 5 min fix but until I can actually work out what the problem is I have no idea, so tomorrow night I reckon I'll be doing some googling to try and work it out.

Since its taken me almost 4 months to put air in the tyres I reckon I can leave the twiddling almost indefinately given the weather is going to turn in to not fun for cycling weather pretty soon.

ZTD

scubaangel wrote: »

Its a bruise, I've done as bad after a night out on high heels!

What you do to people on a night out, is not my concern...

scubaangel wrote: »

The only broken skin I have is the blister on my thumb which burst while I was wheeling the bike in to work (I was wheeling it because as I came off I managed to jam one of the brakes under the rim,

How did you have a blister on your thumb?

scubaangel wrote: »

one of my customers pulled it out for me in return for a free coffee).

Not much you can say really...

scubaangel wrote: »

I'm hoping it is a 5 min fix but until I can actually work out what the problem is I have no idea, so tomorrow night I reckon I'll be doing some googling to try and work it out.

I thought your mate was going to work out the problem?

scubaangel wrote: »

Since its taken me almost 4 months to put air in the tyres I reckon I can leave the twiddling almost indefinately given the weather is going to turn in to not fun for cycling weather pretty soon.

Crisp autumn days are idea for cycling. And cycling is better than walking in the rain.

scubaangel

From cycling, same as the three small blisters at the base of my fingers, happily for me as a leftie all of these are on my right hand.

My mate is, but I need to take the bike back to work first so if I can fixit before I risk another 7 mile ride I will do!

Crisp? It's gone from warm and dry to cold and raining here, if it decides to stay dry then I'll agree but in the meantime its cold and miserable and not fun cycling weather when you're just getting back in to it.

In the morning I need to go back in to work to collect my car, am thinking I might walk, since running seems like hard work and taking the bike back seems somewhat counter productive, while getting the train means spending money.

scubaangel

Pysching myself up for the walk in to work, its drizzling pretty steadily at the moment, but I need the car tomorrow morning so need to go get it today.

Written up a mystery shop I did yesterday, am feeling a bit bad about it as in the real world the service I got would have been fine but in the mystery shopping world it will get the staff member a slap on the wrist and some retraining (depends on company policy). But no point feeling too guilty it's my job to report what happened which I did.