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silvercar

mystic_trev wrote: »

I think I've just had my most unproductive day ever. Most of it of it has been spent trying to credit £10 to a cellular Ipad. EE….. what a croc of !!!!!! :mad:

I found online chat really helpful.

silvercar

PasturesNew wrote: »

Why I wanted a garage, apart from the obvious comfort value and potential storage space for a few things, was the aspect of 'security' as to whether you're at home or not.

I dislike trundling my goods/possessions to the car if I'm going away as you never know who is watching. I used to work away Mon-Fri and, with a garage, you can load up the night before and just be seen driving out of the garage when you're off for a week... nobody knows. Also, with the door closed, nobody knows if you're in/out.

I always know when a certain set of neighbours are away. They trundle their noisy wheeled suitcases down the road to pick up their taxi round the corner, so avoiding their taxi driver knowing where they live. Their "out" lights then come on at specified times that bear no relation to their usual pattern of light usage.

silvercar

Wheezy wrote: »

You forgot the bit about crawling through your boot - I remember your garage pic!
Our garage is now taken by Mrs. Wheezy new-ish car, so my poor old Mazda sleeps outside.
It's a small garage, room for a car, 2 racks with beer/wine and tools, westie's travel crate, a hozelock thingy and some bits and bobs.

The irony is our oldest smallest car is safely tucked up in the garage and the other 2 are out in the cold.

lostinrates

The outlander sales man was trying to sell the car on a feature where there is an app that pre warms the car so you can tell the car to start warming from bed.

Fir pointed out this might be dubious use to us, as we still have to traverse the garden or farm yard to the car. Might suit town/city/cottage dwellers better.

Salesman then moved on to electric seat function. Fir got quite excited and said, what does that do then? Sales man said it moved car seat position. Fir said, haven 't yet had a car where seat isn't adjustable. Salesman said, yes but this is electric buttons, not just levers. Fir said ( grinning but a little sad) , what an anticlimax. I thought it might be an ejector seat or something. Its really under delivering.....adjusting seats which have always been adjustable.

I can just tell we are car sales people's worst nightmare.

PasturesNew

lostinrates wrote: »

The outlander sales man was trying to sell the car on a feature where there is an app that pre warms the car so you can tell the car to start warming from bed.

Fir pointed out this might be dubious use to us, as we still have to traverse the garden to the car. Might suit town/city/cottage dwellers better.

Salesman then moved on to electric seat function. Fir got quite excited and said, what does that do then? Sales man said it moved car seat position. Fir said, haven 't yet had a car where seat isn't adjustable. Salesman said, yes but this is electric buttons, not just levers. Fir said ( grinning but a little sad) , what an anticlimax. I thought it might be an ejector seat or something. Its really under delivering.....adjusting seats which have always been adjustable.

I can just tell we are car sales people's worst nightmare.

What I'd like is one that fills itself up. Nothing worse than having to go to the petrol station, hope there's not a queue, hope the pump is working that you've pulled alongside, getting out (hoping the pump will reach), standing there in a howling gale while it fills.... tip toeing over all the spilt diesel and other cr4p, crossing the forecourt, hoping your feet won't slip (due to spilt diesel on the bottom of them) once you step across the tiled floor, queue/wait while others are served.... give your pump number, wait, wait, get your card back, go back out to the car and drive away again.

I do hate filling up.

vivatifosi

PN, there's a Silentnight miracoil mattress coming up as a lightning deal on Amazon just over 10mins. Not sure how much it will be, current price £309.

vivatifosi

lir, I so much wanted you to buy a Laguna. Luna the Laguna sounds lovely.

Nikkster

End of year feedback meeting with my line manager last thing this afternoon (let's ignore that there are still 5 weeks left - the year is over apparently)...

...A surprisingly pleasant experience! Phew

vivatifosi

Now £205 for double. 34% off. Nearly all claimed. JL better?

vivatifosi

PasturesNew wrote: »

I believed the JL was a whole bed/mattress....

Absolutely. It depended how much it went for and before they come up you don't know, so all you can do is watch them. Some of the stuff has been 80% off, which would have been an absolute steal and easy to get a bedframe for. However at that price you didn't miss much.