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shmoogle
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Don't ever do errands for the wife

So the wife says to me... "can you just pop into Farnham for me and get those two cuddly toys?". I, being the caring and supporting husband that I am, agree. "That'll only take me 20 mins", I thought, "and I'll be back in time for Deal or No Deal".

I get to the car park in Farnham, discover I have no change and think "I can see the shop from here, no wardens about, I'll just pop over there and get them and be back in no time". I get to the shop and find a little sign saying "Closed - back in 20 mins". "Bugger", I thought. Went off to get some change for the car park knowing I'll now have to wait around. Get aforementioned change from handily placed newsagent in exchange for a Crunchie and a packet of beef flavour McCoys. Go back to the carpark to get ticket. The worst has happened in the 5 mins I've been away. One parking fine for £60 attached to my windscreen. Nice.

Waved my arms in despair for a short while before people look at me in an odd way. Went back to shop that's now open again to get cuddly toys. Get back to car again only to find some lowlife scum has smashed my nearside wing mirror glass. Housing's OK, but glass shattered to f**k.

I couldn't believe it. My willingness to be helpful around the house has ended up costing me £30 (as I'll pay before 2 weeks) and another £25 for replacement glass from my dealer. All that and I've missed the start of Deal or No Deal too!!

In future, if I am hanging around the house at a loose end I'll disappear off into the study pretending to speak to someone on the phone at length about something. I can look very busy when I need to - years of practice.

Thu Feb 16 2006 5:24pm

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Oh no you like Deal or No Deal Too! Good TV. RRS 2.7 TDV6 HSE Zambezi silver,Alpaca.
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Thu Feb 16 2006 5:27pm

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Unlucky mate..
These things happen! I smashed the side mirror on the 7 series not to long ago (fully documented on bm3w.co.uk) and the glass cost me hundreds to replace! was one of those auto dimming exterior folding jobbies.. and that was through a mate who works for Bmw and got it all trade and fitted for a drink!! robbing bastards! Past: Bmw M3 Coupe 57, 335d Coupe 56, Audi RS4 06, RR Sport TD HSE 05,

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Thu Feb 16 2006 5:28pm

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S - True about not doing errnads. When I smashed the RRS I was on the way to pick up nappies for Mrs VA (the baby wears them - not her, she prefers Tenna Lady!) RRS 2.7 TDV6 HSE Zambezi silver,Alpaca.
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Thu Feb 16 2006 5:30pm

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Very Annoyed wrote:
Oh no you like Deal or No Deal Too! Good TV.

It's strangely compelling. And I'm in stunned that Edmonds is back on the telly again, of course. One of these days I know Mr Blobby is going to come falling down the stairs and knock the banker's phone off the table.

Thu Feb 16 2006 5:34pm

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Look on the bright side - could have been worse, you could have come back to a flat tyre - and believe me thats expensive , dirty , time consuming and a real pig to do on the sport.

But, I know how you feel Shmoogle Be careful, these things always happen in 3's
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Thu Feb 16 2006 5:35pm

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My elder sis is on maternity leave right now, and she is the day time TV queen right now. She actively manages her schedule around not missing deal or no deal.. i watched a bit of it once when i was with her, and didn't find it to be that good....mm.. guess its good compared to other crap on at that time though.. Past: Bmw M3 Coupe 57, 335d Coupe 56, Audi RS4 06, RR Sport TD HSE 05,

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Thu Feb 16 2006 5:38pm

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Agree MDP, I'll be keeping them peeled. The wife's actually just taken it on one of her many "seeing people" outings - let's hope nothing happens to it when she has it. Although, unlike on this occasion I'd be able to blame her then! See, every cloud has a silver lining!

Thu Feb 16 2006 5:41pm

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kam100 wrote:
My elder sis is on maternity leave right now, and she is the day time TV queen right now. She actively manages her schedule around not missing deal or no deal.. i watched a bit of it once when i was with her, and didn't find it to be that good....mm.. guess its good compared to other crap on at that time though..

Must be doing well in the ratings as it's just blagged a primetime Sat night slot too! Albeit on channel 4, but the thought's there...

Thu Feb 16 2006 5:43pm

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Sympathies going out to shmoogle!, you must be mightily p****d

When ever something like that has happened to me I always feel like doing the best scene from 'Falling Down' where Micheal Douglas (nice wife by the way) get's out of the car in the middle of the freeway with a gun Currently: Carbon Black 535d
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Thu Feb 16 2006 8:06pm

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MDP wrote:
Look on the bright side - could have been worse, you could have come back to a flat tyre - and believe me thats expensive , dirty , time consuming and a real pig to do on the sport.

But, I know how you feel Shmoogle Be careful, these things always happen in 3's

MDP, did you ever consider going into the fortune telling business?

Guess what? As previously described, the wife took the RRS out late afternoon yesterday for some jolly or other. She rings up on her way back home saying that there were suspension failure messages all over the place. I, praising this site, told her it was a fairly common problem and to pull over, stop the car and restart it. This she did and indeed the messages cleared. Another phone call 5 mins later - "oh, there's funny noises coming from the wheels and that message is back again!". She'd stopped of her own accord this time so I got her to pop out and look around the car. What does she find? A flat tyre! Coincidentally, the front nearside... just under the smashed wing mirror.

Anyway - got her to not bother changing the tyre and called out LR Assistance. To their credit, they were there within 15 mins but it took the guy a full 30 mins to change the tyre. He apparently couldn't see any damage to it, so I'm taking it off to the local tyre place this morning to see what they can do for it, if anything. If I have to replace it I doubt I'll get much change out of £200. There's something fishy about all this (well, the mirror and the tyre at least - the parking ticket was my fault really)....

I've never had so much happen to one car in such a short space of time. Rear bumper ding, nearside rear door ding from an idiot in a car park, scuffed alloys and now a broken wing mirror and potentially replacement tyre. Obviously someone doesn't want me to be driving this car. I expect it's the local BMW dealer...

Fri Feb 17 2006 11:27am

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HUSH MY MOUTH

Unbelievable ...... sorry to hear shmoogle I have been there & you just feel so DOWN & pi**ed off!

BUT..... at least MRS Shmoogle was driving and incurred the inconvenience

All history now........as they say.... tomorrows another day & " Sh*t happens"

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Fri Feb 17 2006 11:39am

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Bad luck mate! RRS 2.7 TDV6 HSE Zambezi silver,Alpaca.
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Fri Feb 17 2006 1:00pm

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MDP wrote:

HUSH MY MOUTH

Unbelievable ...... sorry to hear shmoogle I have been there & you just feel so DOWN & pi**ed off!

BUT..... at least MRS Shmoogle was driving and incurred the inconvenience

All history now........as they say.... tomorrows another day & " Sh*t happens"

Did you know you are going to win the LOTTERY on saturday

Yep, Mrs Shmoogle needs to be careful that she isn't soon the ex-Mrs Shmoogle. Obviously I have blamed her as much as possible, almost to the point where she's offering to pay for some of it but even I'm not that mean

I'll need that lottery win to pay for all of yesterday's goings on!!

Just went over to the local tyre emporium and the flat tyre is jiggered - we wound it down out of it's cubby hole only to find the wife had driven on it too far and shafted the sidewalls. Added to which, none of his suppliers have a Goodyear in stock, but oddly the spare tyre is on a Continental. He can get hold of the relevant Conti for this afternoon, so he'll swap the spare tyre onto the "flat" alloy and then put the new Conti onto the offside front. He'll then put that Goodyear onto the spare and we're all done. Good job I've never used the spare yet, so I can get away with doing this.

Is it the weekend yet?

Fri Feb 17 2006 1:08pm

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No not yet - bad news comes in 3's RRS 2.7 TDV6 HSE Zambezi silver,Alpaca.
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Fri Feb 17 2006 1:10pm

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