Daily Chat Thread 7th Feb

Ellidee

Lenny - Freudian slip ? :rotfl:

Burlesque_Babe

lennymfo wrote: »

What I wanted to say was "Do you have a small bottle of x perfume' instead what came was "Do you have a small bottom"

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Well, just call me Mystic Meg...........:rolleyes:

OH comes bustling in straight from work rather than going home first - 'right, what was wrong with the car??' Followed by '!!!!ing hell, how much??'........bustle, bustle, click, click, click, smug look...........'oh they are the same as the Rover parts'...........dear god they just had to be bloody Rover didn't they.........:rolleyes: ........£12 each plus delivery from a car parts place, so about £35 or so all in for the parts (if he had worked out what the problem was!!!!!). 'Well', I said, 'you couldn't have bled the brakes' - splutter, snort, male ego, Grant Mitchell-esque overload 'of course I could have bled the brakes'........:rolleyes: .........'well', I said, 'it obviously needed doing and I don't have a Haynes manual so that would have been £20 on top'............bustle, bustle, click, click, 'I wouldn't have needed a Haynes manual'.........:rolleyes: ..........yeah, right course you didn't - you said you did when you wanted to take the wheel off last time it happened!! :rolleyes: :rolleyes: :rolleyes:

"Well, it's done. I'm happy and I know the parts can be got cheaper but it was a problem that needed sorting today. The labour will have been factored in, it was sorted in 90 minutes and if I'd have left it any more, I could have damaged the car.....:p .."

(the bit was in my head, not done to him!!!)

Men..........:rolleyes:

And off he bustled into the night..............:rotfl:

GingerSte

lennymfo wrote: »

What I wanted to say was "Do you have a small bottle of x perfume' instead what came was "Do you have a small bottom"

He says that to all the ladies you know.

Personally I like a nice big J-Lo size one myself. But I'll take whatever's put in front of me!

Glad to hear the car's sorted out now Keren. If there's one thing you want to leave to the professionals, it's the brakes!

Lemon_Tree

hi laura, was it you who had probs at work with internet access? how did it go?

IA glad to hear your FIL is doing well, i bet you are both relieved.

ZTD

keren29 wrote: »

'Well', I said, 'you couldn't have bled the brakes' - splutter, snort, male ego, Grant Mitchell-esque overload 'of course I could have bled the brakes'........:rolleyes:

What he meant to say, is that *you* would have sat there pumping the pedal ("Stop pressing so hard it's going everywhere!" and "You're not pressing hard enough, it's sucked air in!") while he messed around in the wheel-arch, gradually losing his temper. Yes, I have been at both ends of that particular operation.

It was best to get it done. If the seals had failed catastrophically, you would have instantly had absolutely no braking until the last 2 milimetres of pedal travel when it would have suddenly locked 3 of your wheels. Assuming your right leg was good enough of course.

In any event a :shocked: and almost a PMSL event, but without the laughing.

And yes, been there too...

keren29 wrote: »

Men..........:rolleyes:

Hey!

ZTD

GingerSte wrote: »

He says that to all the ladies you know.

And some of the gents...

GingerSte wrote: »

Personally I like a nice big J-Lo size one myself. But I'll take whatever's put in front of me!

They each have their features which make them different but no better than each other.

jacs76

keren you have such a way with words your account of oh huffing and puffing was :rotfl: :rotfl:

my oh will mend mine at a push he did the brake discs and pads for my mot in dec but he hasn't got much excuse really if he can mend tanks im sure he can mend a peugeot there aint much difference is there

Burlesque_Babe

Unfortunately jacs, my OH has a long running and quite unfathomable love affair with all things Rover related -even though he drives a BMW - when he put on that little smile, raised an eyebrow and beckoned me to look at the screen because he had succeeded in finding the parts cheap, I just wanted to laugh when he said 'they are the same parts as a Rover'.......but I bit my lip..........hard.....

I think you should swap your car for a tank - no problem getting it fixed - lots of mechanics at Bovvy to do the work, spare parts at the Museum and getting through the traffic would be no problem - just drive over everything!!

jacs76

i couldnt cope with going no more than 2 mph though.

i'm stuck behind one most flipping days

ZTD

jacs76 wrote: »

i couldnt cope with going no more than 2 mph though.

i'm stuck behind one most flipping days

Oh, they go a lot faster than that. Cross-country is a tad better than a landrover too...