Posted: Thu 10 December, 2009 | Author: Lyle | Filed under: Driving, Thoughts, Work-related |
Normally, you’d think that the car park for my office is a fairly secure place.
It’s on a small industrial estate, and has big barred gates (allbeit ones that are open through the day) that have notices on about “No unauthorised entry” and the like. It’s fairly small, and I tend to park in the corner of it, due to usually being one of the first to arrive.
Today though – and this is on the account of the people who saw it, I didn’t – some fuckwit old bastard came in to our carpark while (apparently) visiting the Post Office sorting office next door, swung round into the parking space next to mine, and put a scratch down the side of my car. He then backed out, pulled away, went into the sorting office, did whatever he had to, and fucked off. No attempt was made to come into our office and say “Sorry” or anything.
It’s not a big scratch, and it really just joins the collection. Fortunately I’m not precious about my car, and – as I’ve always said before – plan to drive it into the ground, so one scratch more or less isn’t really relevant. I should probably get them fixed, but with the time I spend driving (and thus nowhere near, for example, a body shop) I can’t be arsed. Maybe sometime in 2010. Maybe.
But all the same, I’m pissed off. I know I’ve scraped another driver’s bumper and not done anything about it, but that was in a multi-storey car park in the middle of London. Yes, I could’ve left a note on the windscreen or something, but I didn’t. But here it’s a car-park for one office building (which only has one company in it) so it’s a bit different.
So all told, I’d just like to say that the driver of the car with the registration M521BNH is an utter, utter cunt. He’s also bloody lucky he didn’t do it to either of the director’s cars – currently a Bentley Continental, a Porsche and a fucking boat-like Audi Q7.
Posted: Sat 5 December, 2009 | Author: Lyle | Filed under: Domestic, Driving |
Yesterday, the handbrake on the car loosened significantly. It’s still working, but it’s pretty much at the limit now, rather than where it was.
Looks like I’m going to need to book it in for a service fairly quickly come Monday. For the moment the handbrake’s working OK – but this is obviously the warning sign that things are going to get worse sometime soon. So, time to get it fixed before that happens.
Always a joy, this car servicing/fixing lark…
Posted: Sun 15 November, 2009 | Author: Lyle | Filed under: Driving, Travel |
A quick thanks to Yorkshire Soul, who has managed to write a post that gives me a reason to go to San Francisco.
That just looks like so much fun. (Although I don’t think it would be worth the flight just to do that, of course)
Posted: Thu 12 November, 2009 | Author: Lyle | Filed under: Domestic, Driving, Own Business, Travel, Work-related |
This month is looking like it’s going to be a heavy one for mileage.
With the new job, I’m travelling roughly 70 miles a day, which works out as 350 miles a week before we’ve even started. So that’s 1,400 miles this month already.
In addition to that, November holds two trips to the NEC – one last weekend, one at the end of the month. That’s 140 miles each way, so another 560 added to the total.
Combine that with the normal weekend stuff, and it’s up over the 2,000 mile mark for the month.
I’m sure there’s other stuff I’ve forgotten too, so that’ll get added on when I remember it.
I don’t mind, to be honest – in many ways it’s just kind of a fact of life that I do a lot of driving. Hell, that’s why I ended up buying a sodding Ford Mondeo – the fact it’ll shrug off doing that kind of mileage without a hitch.
Posted: Mon 9 November, 2009 | Author: Lyle | Filed under: Driving |
When I’m driving, I have to admit that in some ways I’m really competitive. Not in an “I’m going to beat that car off the lights” way, though.
No, instead I take the “Estimated arrival time” from the satnav (when I’m using it) as a challenge. I want to see how much time I can shave off that ETA. It’s childish, I know – but I still find myself doing it.
As usual, it’s not to the point of dangerous driving or anything, but I still find it a fun challenge. Of course, it helps most of the time that the satnav is really conservative when it comes to estimated timings…
Posted: Sun 8 November, 2009 | Author: Lyle | Filed under: Business, Driving, Own Business, Travel, Work-related |
There’s not likely to be many updates today – we’re off to the NEC for Herself to visit a show there. Of course, it’ll have some interest for me as well (companies without websites, and all that malarkey) but the odds are that I’ll spend some time writing bits on the laptop, and/or reading a book. Yes, I’m taking both, just so I’m prepared.
No idea what to expect, to be honest – it might be interesting, it might not. Either way, it’s a three-hour run each way. We’ll see.
Posted: Wed 21 October, 2009 | Author: Lyle | Filed under: Driving, News, Thoughts |
Even by my standards, this particular story of a driver in Switzerland who broke 15 laws in 11 minutes is pretty impressive.
The list included :
- overtaking an unmarked police car in heavy rain at 100mph
- speeding
- driving on the hard shoulder
- running a set of red lights
- failing to stop for police.
And after all that, he also (unsurprisingly, I suppose) also failed a drugs test.
I suppose if you’re going to do it, you might as well it properly.