He touched my car

[theclaud]

I'm sure you do, I was just giving Claud a simple way to distinguish you.
I tend more to navigate by pubs and police stations rather than petrol stations but I could pass that way.

So there is no greenman?

 

[Canrider]

For instance, we often get people turning round in our driveway. Other than a few gouges in the paving, it causes little disruption to us but the few times that I've been out there when it has happened, I've left the driver concerned in no doubt what his future brings if he does it again.

This is entirely cultural, given that it happens without any comment across the vast swathe of gun-toting, car-fetishising NAmerica.

By the same token, I'd have no issue with someone taking a picnic in the local park, whereas I'd be vexed if someone tried it in my front garden, not least because it is mostly slate and limestone shale and you could never get your rug to lie flat.

What about a dog (on a lead) crossing over part of it?
What about kids at play running across it?
What about kids at play running through your backyard?

Now there's something that's changed in the past 30-odd years..

 

[dellzeqq]

Screenman - are you not tempted to do custom bike paint jobs?

 

[dellzeqq]

This is entirely cultural, given that it happens without any comment across the vast swathe of gun-toting, car-fetishising NAmerica.
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indeed. And in some of the Midwest (and maybe other parts as well) there's no garden fences between front or back gardens. It's all terribly un-English

 

[screenman]

Dellzeqq, no way would I want to do paintwork on bikes, least of all I have no interest in painting and I would certainly not want a drop in income, £ per hour for that sort of thing tends to be not that high. Also all that dust and fumes plays havoc with your cycling.

Reiver, Are you always short tempered or just when things are not going your way? There are many times that you should leave a job to an expert and dent removal is one of them. You could always drop it in and I will have a look at it for you. There is a common misconception that dents will just pop out, I had a call yesterday from a guy wanting a dent removed on an old Mondeo, he did not like my quote and told me the dent would just push out if he put his hand behind it, so I asked him why he called me.

 

[dellzeqq]

Adrian I have far more interests than the two you list.

Is this still in Balham, I had it in the very early eighties. Looked a bit different then with grass out the front and I had it mainly for car sales. I remember the grocers shop opposite getting robbed almost daily. Brilliant little gym around the corner that I used to go to full of top lifters. Memories.

east side, between Balham and Tooting Bec? If so it's still there

 

[screenman]

That is the place, must pay a visit sometime. Thanks.

 

[asterix]

No, I'm the sort of road user who respects others on the road. I have one more than one occasion had drivers beeping at me for not overtaking cyclists when I have been behind one because I felt there wasn't enough room without it being a close pass.

There, that's better. You had me worried at first.

 

[Norm]

What about a dog (on a lead) crossing over part of it?
What about kids at play running across it?
What about kids at play running through your backyard?

Now there's something that's changed in the past 30-odd years..

Are you now not even waiting for me to answer before throwing your prejudices out there.

 

[screenman]

Reiver, your bit about myself and green houses gases, take a look at what I have been doing the last 25 years to negate that.

I have kept 25,000 windscreens possible a lot more from going to landfill, I have carried out thousands of PDR jobs that would otherwise have needed bodyshop work, big ovens etc. I am happy that my business is slightly green.

 

[Canrider]

Are you now not even waiting for me to answer before throwing your prejudices out there.

Hey, you're the one claiming someone putting a hand on a car is in some way comparable to setting up a picnic on their front lawn...

 

[Sheffield_Tiger]

Well, I wouldn't do it. And I'd think that anyone doing so on my car was being presumptious and rude - I'm not precious about my car, I carry strange dogs around that fill the thing with hair, sometimes fleas if from the pound, might have an accident #1 or #2 and almost always scratch the door sills or bumper scrabbling in and out.But I CHOOSE to use my car that way, simple thing is it's not a decision for someone else to make for me.

Why I don't do it:
1) I would feel rude doing so
2) I might slip and cause damage to the car, myself or my bike
3) The driver may be sitting in gear with the clutch down. The clutch pedal could slip, the clutch cable snap or the slave cylinder seal pop
4) With trucks, I may be putting loose clothing too near to securing straps or rope hooks that could snag

 

[Longshot]

Quick check with all you car lovers, you wouldn't mind if it was a Prius would you?

Mind what?

 

[simon.r]

Quick check with all you car lovers, you wouldn't mind if it was a Prius would you?

As an ex-Prius owner I'd mind more. The Prius seemed to have particularly 'soft' paintwork which scratched very easily.

 

[green1]

As an ex-Prius owner I'd mind more. The Prius seemed to have particularly 'soft' paintwork which scratched very easily.

All jap cars have soft paint.