rsv_mark
enthusiast
Reged: 16/11/2006
Posts: 269
Loc: Leamington.....via Oulton Park
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Bear with me -this could take a while.
Its tuesday after the bank holiday. A bloke takes his car to the dealers for a major service and was feeling good. He had a lump sum price for the service which included a good discount, a courtesy car and a valet. Everything was routine apart from a couple of minor niggles that he asked the dealership to check but as it was 10 months since he bought it as an ex demonstrator, there was nothing that a major service wouldn't pick up......surely?
So after arriving at the dealership at 8.30am, there paper work was turned around very efficiently and he signed on the dotted line for the courtesy car.
'Going far sir? If so could you replace what ever fuel you use?'
'No - I have a couple of errands to run in town and then I'm going to the dentist. Will it be ready by 11.30?'
'Of course - no problem sir.'
So off goes our new friend into town. After an hour or so he returns to the (new) courtesy car to find it has been keyed. Some complete so and so has run a key along it and with a sinking feeling he calls the dealership and reports the damage. Unfortunately the excess is £500 on every claim on the courtesy car insurance......so he has to accept a bill is coming.
After the dentist (wait it gets better) he gets back to the dealership. His own car is fine and he enquires about his alloy wheels which were not as smart as they were when he bought it.
'These wheels have been resprayed sir'
'By who?'
'Likely to be the dealership you bought it from.'
'Can they do that - they didn't tell me when I bought it?'
'Yes sir - they don't have to tell you.....only if you ask.'
'But who asks 'have the wheels been resprayed on a practically new car?''
'Precisely sir.'
Cue dispute with dealership.
Wait - the best is yet to come.
Off goes our new friend to his local big city for a meeting with one of his work colleagues. Its a nice day and he needs cheering up so he gets on his bike and tootles off on his favourite route through the countryside.
After a really good meeting he gets on his bike to return home. He is a reasonably ok rider, very aware and used to city centre traffic.
He is stationary at a busy roundabout waiting for a gap and indicating right.......when bang! A fugging cab shunts him up the jacksy and pushes him out into the path of on coming traffic. Thankfully the traffic misses him and he manages to stay on.......he wheels back the bike and inspects the damage - lots of bent, broken and cosmetically damaged back end of his pride and joy.
Cue massive rant at the cab driver and a thoroughly bad day.
If you haven't guessed, I had a a fucking bad day yesterday and need cheering up. My RSVR is looking very bent and almost £3000 of damage. BASTARD!!!!!!!!!!
Rant over - tea and sympathy required.
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Chez
enthusiast
Reged: 16/10/2007
Posts: 317
Loc: Gloucestershire
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Sorry to hear that mate  .
They say it happens in 3's so you should have had your fill of shit for a while...
I normally find tea & a spliff helps 
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monkiboi
old hand
Reged: 11/11/2006
Posts: 1080
Loc: Tattooine
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Shit. That is a bad day.
I'm hoping that the cabs insurance is paying out for the bike?
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BigHam
veteran
Reged: 12/11/2006
Posts: 1420
Loc: Letchworth, UK
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A very bad day.
Sorry to hear that chap, hope it all gets sorted.
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cbreddie
newbie
Reged: 21/05/2009
Posts: 47
Loc: Rochdale, Lancashire
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bad luck mate, I am usually the one to have bad luck.
I have spent the last 4 days refitting the bathroom with new tiles etc, only for my wife to say "yeah it looks ok".
"OK? , OK?" after all that blood sweat and money you would have thought she couldve said something better than "OK" Women!!! you just cant please them!!!
Just went outside to find that I had a flat tyre. On inspection it turns out that the other rear tyre is fooked aswell. I have just ordered 2 for the front yesterday, and now I need 2 for the back aswell.
Thats just cost me £300 for tyres and £700 for the bathroom
Not as bad as your day, just hope my bad day makes you feel a little better.
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chappers
Carpal \'Tunnel
Reged: 31/12/2006
Posts: 6701
Loc: Mind your own business
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That's a pretty shit day.
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Say what you think and think what you say.
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Biggles
Carpal \'Tunnel
Reged: 05/05/2007
Posts: 3089
Loc: Orion arm of the milky way
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ooooooh ferk. that was a painfully very bad day. nope cannot top it...
although last Sunday when I was going round a blind lefthander in Dorset, I saw a car (on his side of the road, no prob) but then was confronted with a fully dressed Police Bike + full disco BLIND OVER TAKING the car on my side of he road. I just managed to veer left enough to get out of his way. He of course had nowhere to go and just looked surprised. Naughty, very, very naughty.
If we connected it I think I would have qualifide for a worse day, as it is, Inspector knacker of Dorset owes me a pint I think.
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Quote me as saying I was miss-quoted.
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immy
veteran
Reged: 09/11/2006
Posts: 1350
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I will send Bubba and his bib n brace clad mates over with their bow and arrows to sort out the people
Things can only get better.surely? 
(some of you must remeber the film with Burt Reynolds having a bad day in the backwoods??? or am I that old  )
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shinybusa
Pooh-Bah
Reged: 08/01/2008
Posts: 1989
Loc: away with the fairies..
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[quote}
(some of you must remeber the film with Burt Reynolds having a bad day in the backwoods??? or am I that old )
you ARE that old...........
ARE you Burt Reynolds??? The Bandit........
Or Roscoe P Coltrain..The Sheriff..??? 
Who would Hazard a guess....... 
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chappers
Carpal \'Tunnel
Reged: 31/12/2006
Posts: 6701
Loc: Mind your own business
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Quote:
you ARE that old...........
ARE you Burt Reynolds??? The Bandit........
Or Roscoe P Coltrain..The Sheriff..???
Who would Hazard a guess.......
It was sheriff Buford T. Justice in Somkey and the Bandit. Roscoe was in Dukes of Hazard. "Gotcha ears on liddle fat buddy"
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xxrider
Carpal \'Tunnel
Reged: 07/11/2006
Posts: 2604
Loc: Somewhere over the rainbow.......
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That, my friend, is a thoroughly CRAP day by anyone's standards!
I haven'y had a crap day on a bike for bloody weeks, 'cos the new job has conspired to dump me with the company car for the past SIX weekends in a row.
And the bloody weather we've been having has only made not having my bike at home even fugging worse.....
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shinybusa
Pooh-Bah
Reged: 08/01/2008
Posts: 1989
Loc: away with the fairies..
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Quote:
Quote:
you ARE that old...........
ARE you Burt Reynolds??? The Bandit........
Or Roscoe P Coltrain..The Sheriff..???
Who would Hazard a guess.......
It was sheriff Buford T. Justice in Somkey and the Bandit. Roscoe was in Dukes of Hazard. "Gotcha ears on liddle fat buddy"
Ahh I DO stand corrected... 
I was a very small child when they were on tv though.....an easy mistake to make after a gallon or 3 of Cider..
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