What's pi$$ed me off today.........!!

I used to get my work colleagues phones and change the language to something random like Finnish. Would give me 30 minutes pleasure watching them swear as they attempted to get it back to English settings!!

 

Gee, you IT guys really know how to live it up!

 

Ha, you think. Anyway, why am I replying to this. I'm gonna be late for my tiddlywinks club!!!

 

I am on holiday. The sun is out and I have finished all the jobs I planned to do today. I take the cover off the bike so I can wash it and spend the afternoon playing on my favourite roads, and find the rear tyre busy going down. It has a nail in it. Apart from the fact I can't get the wheel out on my own, I can't figure out why it is not already flat. I haven't moved it since Wednesday night.
I was tempted to try blowing it up, ride a couple of miles up the road and call my breakdown company, but my concience won't let me do that. Fate would probably make me fall off, just to teach me a lesson.

 

if you want a hand to remove it emma I can pop over if you want?

 

Ah Emma, that is a pain. At least you have a new tyre waiting for you

 

That's very kind of you, Dean, but I think I shall be O.K. I had a look at my breakdown cover and it has homestart included. They won't take the wheel out for me but they will take me and the bike over to Taggs to get a new tyre fitted in the morning. And as Paul says, the new tyre is in stock and already paid for (Birthday present from my youngest!). I hope they'll come out nice and early so I can get some miles done on it, although BT016 pro's always feel very good right from the start. Any excuse to ride about for a bit will do.

 

Today's piss me off 02 plate espace driver smoking waving cigarette around flicks it out onto my tank bag, his face as I flung it back in his open window

 

Bobby Womack RIP

"The last soul man"

 

Experiencing a blown offside rear tyre at 70mph in my motor car (cough) on the A-1 this morning. It was not the startling loud BANG which I object to (although it wasn't pleasant at all); nor was it having to crouch at the side of the carriageway in a layby while juggernauts thundered past mere feet from me - though that wasn't exactly fun, I can tell you.

No, the really painful part was having to drive a supposedly speedy Hooligan's carriage with Loud Boy exhaust with a space saver spare wheel. The shame of it... The poor car looks as if it has only three legs.

And I could only go at 50mph - ish so all those trucks were just queuing up to inch by.

 

My car was rear ended on the school run on Friday afternoon by quite simply put, an idiot who should not be in control of a car (evidently she wasn't).

Now I am going through utter grief trying to sort it all out. Already had enough

 

I'm not going to say I 'Like' this - could we have an 'Empathise' button? All the stress of the insurance forms, claims - don't forget you had to forego a rideout 'cos of stiff neck... Maybe go see GP to check it.

 

I have the third party insurance company and solicitors ringing up and the calls seem like hours long each time which just gives me a headache

I guess the solicitors want me to lodge personal injury claim after claim and get them loads of cash but I just want the claim done and dusted and my car repaired. If I involve solicitors I can see what should be a fairly simple (sorry trying my best not to laugh here!!!) process being dragged on and on and on.

The third party insurers want to get me to sign things to get solicitors off their back. All of it involves money in one way or another.

I just want the car fixed, the emails, phone calls and other crap to stop and just get on with my life - not too much to ask is it? Just seems to be that as soon as someone rear ends your car everybody wants their pound of flesh

My neck and head start aching when I speak to anyone involved in this whole sorry affair. I am stressed to the max as I seem to be permanently trying to deal with getting the situation resolved and my REAL worry is that I will lose my car for my holiday in a few weeks and it is more than just a holiday. It will be the first time I have spent a whole week with my kids since my shitty divorce but the bloody insurance companies don't care. The courtesy car offered is not big enough and also my roof bars which are specific to my car are not allowed to be fitted to a hire car from the loaner company as it is classed as a modification!!! It would seem that I will need to get all the safety restraint stuff fixed on my own dime at the dealers just so I can put my kids in a safe car and then get the smashed rear end fixed when I return then claim these things back.

Really wish Friday had not happened

 

They go on engine size now, apparently a nationwide insurance swindle company agreement. As my 5 series is a 2.0 as I now want economy then I am being offered a merc c class. It is too small to put my three kids on the back seat what with the need for one car seat and one booster. As I told them, if I could have put the kids in a three series I would have bought a three series, I couldn't so I bought a five series. Falls on deaf ears!!

Up until two years ago I had an M5 that had the 5 litre V10 monster in it. When that got squashed by a lorry I was offered either an Aston Martin Vantage V8, erm, where do my kids go. A Maserati Quattroporte, too ostentatious for business use, or an M5 estate. I took the M5, they needed to put a new set of rear tyres on it after it had been in my tender mitts for three months , damn thing was way more oversteery than my saloon with the traction control off. Wish I still had my M5, at least I might get another five series.

Just stressed out, p!ssed off, and to be honest a wee bit grumpy

 

Being without work for the 3rd day, going to have to find something today. Does anyone work in the construction industry.

 

Depends on what you do? My bro in law is a site foreman type and gets contacted by agencies on a weekly basis offering him work

 

360 digger driver, and yes up until the day I left so was I. Was getting at least 1 agency calling everyday, and loads of texts for weeks, mostly very close as well. Had something for tomorrow but it fell through.

 

happens way too often, just had an elderly guy who got caught out last week with such a scam.. luckily he didnt get to the payment part but had t remove some crapware from his computer none the less