Priorities

[Drago]

Chap up the road from me has sold his Jag and now has an Aston Martin. Very nice.

He keeps it on his driveway, and as I jogged past this morning he had the door to his double garage up while he pottered about inside. As I jogged past I could see it was packed full of the usual stuff, garden furniture, barbecue, unremarkable looking bicycles, that sort of thing.

Only in Britain will someone leave a valuable £100,000+ car out in the weather and vulnerable to the light fingered, while a load of mainly worthless tat is locked dry and secure in the garage.

Anyone else spotted any examples of such daftness?

 

[TVC]

Yep, got a guy down the road, built a garage and leaves his car outside whilst a load of junk stays nice and dry.

 

[Supersuperleeds]

I was in the garage this morning pottering about when some ugly bloke came by looking like he was trying to jog. He should be on a bike the daft bugger

 

[Drago]

Big bloke, beard, bright red face, verge of a coronary?

 

[ufkacbln]

Ironically,the total value of my bikes IN the garage exceeds the value of the car OUTSIDE the garage

 

[MontyVeda]

My old man knocked down his single garage and had a double one built... thus making space for the car as well as the junk. I think it worked for the first few months but At least it's only a toyota.

 

[screenman]

Bikes and car in garage, bikes and other odds and sods in shed for me.

I do not know of many people who use a garage for the car, maybe rubbish accumulates to fill the space available for most people.

 

[skudupnorth]

My cars used to live in the garage along with any spares I had for them but since I met you lot, the bikes have moved in and the cars live outside !

 

[Supersuperleeds]

Big bloke, beard, bright red face, verge of a coronary?

Pretty much, built like Santa Claus but the beard was more grey than white.

 

[numbnuts]

Ironically,the total value of my bikes IN the garage exceeds the value of the car OUTSIDE the garage

One of my bikes equals the value of my car, if fact my insurance is more that the car is worth.

 

[Drago]

Personally, I have 2 garages, and I can't access either. When Drago towers was built in 1960 they left enough room to drive an Austin A30 down the aside to access them... just. Modern machinery simply won't fit down the gap (my Daughters old 107 did with the mirrors folded in, but it was scary close) so one garage is old tat, the other workshop and motorbikes, and my worthless 11 year old Kia goes on the drive.

 

[DCLane]

I've a garage but there's no way the car could ever get into it - it's in the back garden with no access. Oh, and the door's on the side to make getting bikes in and out easier

 

[cosmicbike]

My van won't fit on the garage, so I fill it with junk instead..

 

[Deleted member 26715]

Lived in our house for 30+ years, I can only ever once remember trying to put the car in the garage, then the only way to get out would have been through the tailgate you couldn't open the door wide enough to squeeze out, never tried again.

 

[alicat]

To me, all the situation says is that the owner of the Aston Martin (a) doesn't have enough storage for outdoor stuff and (b) isn't sufficiently worried about theft or environmental damage to his car. He sounds similar to 90% of the population.