Trivial things that make you annoyed beyond expectations?

[ColinJ]

Have you thought of using cold water to make yer cuppa, thereby removing the heat and thus saving a teabag.

Or just drinking cold water and saving the cost of the teabag!

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

Have you thought of using cold water to make yer cuppa, thereby removing the heat and thus saving a teabag.

Or just drinking cold water and saving the cost of the teabag!

Are you two even British?

 

[lazybloke]

Nah, by far worse is spilling milk in a car. I did this years ago and despite cleaning it up as much as possible the stink when it dried out was horrendous.

My car STANK after a litre bottle of Southern Comfort in the rear footwell smashed (an emergency stop made it fall against the back of my seat rails).

Had to remove the seats so i could get the carpet out for a good hosing down.
Spent a week driving a car with a bare metal floor and only the drivers seat in place. Astonishing how noisy a car is when you take out the carpet.

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

My car STANK after a litre bottle of Southern Comfort in the rear footwell smashed (an emergency stop made it fall against the back of my seat rails).

Had to remove the seats so i could get the carpet out for a good hosing down.
Spent a week driving a car with a bare metal floor and only the drivers seat in place. Astonishing how noisy a car is when you take out the carpet.

You mean, you weren't drinking it at the time?

 

[lazybloke]

You mean, you weren't drinking it at the time?

This was in the time when random stops by plod were still a thing!
I Remember being stopped twice in one ten mile journey because of a bulb out; but it must be 20+ years since my last stop.

 

[ebikeerwidnes]

My car STANK after a litre bottle of Southern Comfort in the rear footwell smashed (an emergency stop made it fall against the back of my seat rails).

Had to remove the seats so i could get the carpet out for a good hosing down.
Spent a week driving a car with a bare metal floor and only the drivers seat in place. Astonishing how noisy a car is when you take out the carpet.

Had a similar problem with my first car - a Ford Fiesta

someone had previously put a centre console in involving drilling 4 holes through the bottom of the floor
then taken it out again

as a result water could splash up in the wet and make the thick padding under the carpet wet
and then it stayed wet and got mouldy and all that

it ended up absolutely stinking

I ended up taking all the seats out and found the holes and wet carpet which I ended up soaking in soapy water and hoseing clear
several time

then it took a couple of weeks to dry

during which time I was driving around in a car with no carpet or soundproofing of any kind

I can confirm it is LOUD!!

 

[Electric_Andy]

Powdered milk is handy to keep for such an event. Ny

The smell goes away after a week or so, then a week after that a far worse smell appears. I ditched the carpet !

A friend of my dad's was recounting a similar incident and next time they met my dad asked if he'd managed to get rid of the smell. "Yes, I sold the car!"

That happened to my mum in about 1990. We had a Vauxhall Cavalier, she spilled cream in the boot. It smelled, then went away, then came back. It literally stank for the whole time we had the car!

 

[Webbo2]

Slightly off thread. Some one I worked with put some kippers in his mates car engine just as he was going off in it for his honeymoon. He got a lift from his mate about 6 weeks later and the car stank of fish but he dare not admit what he done.

 

[PhotoNic69]

Slightly off thread. Some one I worked with put some kippers in his mates car engine just as he was going off in it for his honeymoon. He got a lift from his mate about 6 weeks later and the car stank of fish but he dare not admit what he done.

I did a similar thing when my flatmate left and went to live with his girlfriend in Ireland. He had a vw beetle. I shoved a raw Sardine in the rear footwell air vent. [evil grin/]

 

[Jameshow]

Threads that have no relation to cycling....

Most of new post threads aren't about cycling!🤮

 

[Pblakeney]

Threads that have no relation to cycling....

Most of new post threads aren't about cycling!🤮

Including this one! 😂😂😂

 

[Electric_Andy]

Threads that have no relation to cycling....

Most of new post threads aren't about cycling!🤮

To be fair, this subforum is general chat! Maybe a specialist site reached saturation point, where every question about what bike, and what saddle, has been answered?

 

[ebikeerwidnes]

To be fair, this subforum is general chat! Maybe a specialist site reached saturation point, where every question about what bike, and what saddle, has been answered?

Have we finally answered the question of which lube to use???


(asking for a friend?)

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

Have we finally answered the question of which lube to use???


(asking for a friend?)

For your bottom bracket?

 

[ebikeerwidnes]

For your bottom bracket?

personally I get a professional to lube my moving parts