Men... ahhhhhhh

[SatNavSaysStraightOn]

Perhaps some jewellery?
https://www.etsy.com/uk/listing/152531551/bike-part-necklace?ref=shop_home_active_18

luckily he knows me well enough not to waste money on jewellery.... I don't wear any.

Get some rim brakes, then use the chocolates as brake pads

2 of my 3 bikes have rim brakes, but I prefer to treat them to swisstop brake pads (one has to have them due to CSS rims)... waste of good chocolate otherwise.

Did he actually say it was a present for you? Or was it a present for the bike?

me sadly! and his mtb does not have squealing brakes!

That was a nice gesture. He could have gone into any old service station or spar corner shop and picked you up some chocolates at any time, but instead at some point in his day he thought of you, remembered your breaks and then went out of his way to go to a bike shop.

ahh - but he can't buy dairy free chocolate from any old service station or spar shop (and he was on his bike today) - I'm allergic to dairy products so a nice box of chocolates actually means a really nice box of chocolates, but sadly that means he actually has to think about buying them ... he would have been walking passed the bike shop in Stockton Heath on his lunch time walk .

 

[Ganymede]

Ah, SatNav, I'm afraid I'm with the blokes on this one. I would be really pleased if Mr G brought me some bikey stuff even if it was as a result of him whinging about the noise the previous day. But then, I'm a woman who has been given (in different years) an axe, a billhook, a froe, a pruning saw and a set of spanners by the man I love, at my request...

Never say no to chox, though, have to admit!

 

[SatNavSaysStraightOn]

Well what more can be added ? except he was not completly thinking his actions through ! What I would have done is buy you both lol lets face it that would have sorted one problem and prevented the other !!! me thinks he is still in need of further training perhaps ??

seems I have not managed to train him correctly. I've only been at it for 22 years I think... must try harder... now where is that walnut whip?

 

[SatNavSaysStraightOn]

Ah, SatNav, I'm afraid I'm with the blokes on this one. I would be really pleased if Mr G brought me some bikey stuff even if it was as a result of him whinging about the noise the previous day. But then, I'm a woman who has been given (in different years) an axe, a billhook, a froe, a pruning saw and a set of spanners by the man I love, at my request...

Never say no to chox, though, have to admit!

Any of those would have been fine, at my request. (and I have also had an axe & billhook over the years not to mention various sleeping bags, mountaineering boots.. it is just I didn't want or need brake cleaner, the brakes will stop squealing of their own accord, they just have a layer of grease on them from no use for a few months and being stored outside... chocolate I always need...

(I also hate unnecessary purchases and this is one of them imo... sadly...)

 

[Sara_H]

<rant mode on>

I can't find the suitable emicon for this, so please bear with me...

I should be sitting here pulling individual petals out of a daisy chanting, I love him, I love him not...

My OH has come home this evening with a present for me... apparently my squealing disc brakes on my mountain bike at the weekend were annoying him, so he has been to the bike shop and purchased me some "no squeal brake cleaner"....





I would have much preferred a box of chocolates or even a meal out... but brake cleaner?



thank you for listening... <rant mode off>

I got a set of tools for christmas..... I want jewelry. He's never bought me jewelry!

 

[PeteXXX]

If a man is walking through a forest and there's no woman to hear him, is he still wrong?

 

[Ganymede]

I got a set of tools for christmas..... I want jewelry. He's never bought me jewelry!

You have to say it out loud, or get one of your female relatives or mutual female friends to tell him. It's the only way.

 

[Vapin' Joe]

Any of those would have been fine, at my request. (and I have also had an axe & billhook over the years not to mention various sleeping bags, mountaineering boots.. it is just I didn't want or need brake cleaner, the brakes will stop squealing of their own accord, they just have a layer of grease on them from no use for a few months and being stored outside... chocolate I always need...

Women often say they'd prefer chocolate to sex. Well, keep stuffing chocolates down you and you'll never have to worry about having sex...

 

[SatNavSaysStraightOn]

Women often say they'd prefer chocolate to sex. Well, keep stuffing chocolates down you and you'll never have to worry about having sex...

with the miles I cycle, I need all the chocolate I can get... I am not exactly fat at a size 8 waist and my assos cycling kit is too large at size small... leg warmers are causing me problems as well - they are all too large... currently I need more chocolate not the none I currently have! It has to be at least 4 months since I last had a box of chocolates possibly longer because I think it was easter stock being sold off...

 

[Peteaud]

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I can't find the suitable emicon for this, so please bear with me...
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My OH has come home this evening with a present for me... apparently my squealing disc brakes on my mountain bike at the weekend were annoying him, so he has been to the bike shop and purchased me some "no squeal brake cleaner"....
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I would have thought --------

 

[Pat "5mph"]

Any of those would have been fine, at my request. (and I have also had an axe & billhook over the years not to mention various sleeping bags, mountaineering boots.. it is just I didn't want or need brake cleaner, the brakes will stop squealing of their own accord, they just have a layer of grease on them from no use for a few months and being stored outside... chocolate I always need...

Uhhhh .... keep the brake cleaner, put it away in the bike cupboard, then ask casually "when are you going to get me some of my special chocolate?"
Many moons ago I got a shouting because I gifted a car hoover to a car lover: he did not want it, he wanted to carry on using my household one, long extension cable trailing from upstairs into the on road parking
Little misunderstandings happen

 

[Sara_H]

You have to say it out loud, or get one of your female relatives or mutual female friends to tell him. It's the only way.

I have! He's been told many times!

 

[SatNavSaysStraightOn]

Uhhhh .... keep the brake cleaner, put it away in the bike cupboard, then ask casually "when are you going to get me some of my special chocolate?"
Many moons ago I got a shouting because I gifted a car hoover to a car lover: he did not want it, he wanted to carry on using my household one, long extension cable trailing from upstairs into the on road parking
Little misunderstandings happen

I waiting for the 'I want a new bike' after the 'it was hard coming home tonight....' I think he is after me cleaning his road bike again... comments have been made about it being like cycling through treacle and harder work than the touring bike or the mountain bike.... I have suggested tactfully that perhaps putting air in the road tyres and cleaning the chain once in a while would make it easier - but was sympathetic with the 'there was a stiff headwind tonight' understanding - not that I will get that tomorrow when I do twice the distance he does... oh well... I shall keep trying... and if I had a bike cupboard it could go in it...

 

[snorri]

Shamelessly lifted from Twitter today.
Here's a pic from a Lidl checkout somewhere in the UK. Is this the kind of thoughtful guy who might appeal to one of you ladies?


Edit Perhaps the pic is a bit small to see properly, but this guy is standing in the check-out queue beside him on the moving belt are just two items, a single rose wrapped in cellophane and a packet of contraceptives.

 

[SatNavSaysStraightOn]

PS I haven't had the heart to tell him, I just said thank you