What Grinds my gears archive B

[Kawasaki Jimbo]

Supermarket clubcards. Nosey bastards. If they’re so keen to proclaim cheap prices just do it.

[hellkat]

People who let their toddlers walk down the steps of the underground station at rush hour.
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Not nearly as interesting in real life.

[recman]

[Easy-X]

If the parents are thick then the kid probably is too. Evolution at work
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Royal Enfield Continental GT 535, Husqvarna Vitpilen 401, Yamaha XSR700, Honda Rebel, Yamaha DT175, Suzuki SV650 (loan) Fazer 600, Keeway Superlight 125, 50cc turd scooter

[P.addy]

[pepperami]

[P.addy]

Cats, specifically my "little" Norwegian Forest kitten, he isn't a fan of the food/steals my other cats food, however its giving him a dicky belly.... and he has a fair bit of hair, and wet poo... cue shit smeared items as he runs at 100mph onto your lap.

He also hates water, like most cats, so is fearful of the bath and a wash.. unless you wish to die a death of a 1000 cuts.

I love him, but I'd rather change shitty nappies than have to change my clothes for the 2nd time before 10am because of poop...

[ThunderGuts]

Being threatened verbally (and physical threats) by some total random person who then chased me. I got away, but I'm seething about the whole incident. Perhaps I should have stood my ground but who knows what they might have had on them or what their true intentions were; these days could be anything up to and including a gun, although a knife is more probable (of course it might have all been hollow threats). I am actually a bit surprised at myself how annoyed I am. The guy looked a mess physically, plenty of hallmarks of drug abuse so given I didn't provoke the situation, I can only assume it was either a case of mistaken identity or totally screwed up mentally (or both).
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TG.

[Easy-X]

A paranoid schizophrenic off their meds would pick a fight with anyone. Don't get annoyed, it's the urban equivalent of running from an angry bear!
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Royal Enfield Continental GT 535, Husqvarna Vitpilen 401, Yamaha XSR700, Honda Rebel, Yamaha DT175, Suzuki SV650 (loan) Fazer 600, Keeway Superlight 125, 50cc turd scooter

[Freddyfruitba...]

[ThunderGuts]

That sounds a lot scarier; I consoled myself with the knowledge that this took place nowhere near home. Something like that literally on my doorstep wouldn't be fun!

Funny how it plays on your mind; I am intermittently getting irrational desires to go out and find him (obviously I won't do that though!). Not sure what I'd do if I did actually find him.
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TG.

[Islander]

[pepperami]

[P.addy]

[stinkwheel]

Youtube: Spacebar toggles play/pause.

Amazon: Spacebar toggles play/pause.

VLC media player: Spacebar toggles play/pause...


BBC iPlayer: Spacebar toggles closed caption subtitles.
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“Rule one: Always stick around for one more drink. That's when things happen. That's when you find out everything you want to know.”
I did the 2010 Round Britain Rally on my 350 Bullet. 89 landmarks, 3 months, 9,500 miles.

[stinkwheel]

[Robby]

[stinkwheel]

What I now refer to a "atidying". The act of making things look like they are tidy but actually increasing the degree of disorder. Mrs stinkwheel is a past master at this.

So earlier today she casually mentioned she'd tidied the books off my bedside table back onto the bookshelf. Now I'll freely admit this was getting somewhat out of hand and did resemble an advanced level game of jenga with books stacked maybe 10 high in some areas so I thanked her very much and said it was thoughtful of her.

Got myself nice and sleepy, ready for bed tonight. In the room to find my bedside table totally empty except for the one book I'm currently reading.Cue me instantly wide awake and in a slight state of panic. There was a whole lot of other stuff on there.

One could successfully argue that a bedside table is not an appropriate place to keep a motorcycle logbook, a bag of custom-size dished canoe gunwale washers, a set of assorted slow running jets and a selection of other small and easily lost fiddly items and bits of paperwork. One could equally argue that they were put there so I knew where they were.

The other factor here is that Mrs stinkwheel does not actually know what many of these items are so me asking her at some point in the future "Have you seen my bag of pilot jets/micro USB adapter/cow milking needle/dimmer control module? They were on my bedside table." will not elicit any sort of useful reply, or even an outright denial of having seen them.

Cue me spending the last half hour running round the house locating numerous small but imoprtant items I'd put somewhere I knew where they were but which are now officially "lost". So my carb jets were in a hot chocolate tin on a shelf in the kitchen (along with several other objects I thought I had previously lost) which I think I could make a damning argument for being just as inappropriate a place as my bedside table. My logbook was on a pile of old bank statments in the living room.... I could go on.

It's reminiscant of the time I was supposed to be going on a bike run to the Highlands and a good hour later located my helmet in a cardboard box on top of the wardrobe in the spare room. Or loading the bike for another trip and eventually finding all the bungees in the house collected up and stuffed in a waterproof pannier cover in the airing cupboard.
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“Rule one: Always stick around for one more drink. That's when things happen. That's when you find out everything you want to know.”
I did the 2010 Round Britain Rally on my 350 Bullet. 89 landmarks, 3 months, 9,500 miles.

[chickenstrip]

[stinkwheel]

[chickenstrip]

[Ribenapigeon]

[ThunderGuts]

Idiotic kids with fireworks setting them off in the street. Honestly haven't they got anything better to do? I would say ban fireworks, but they'd still procure them from somewhere.
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TG.

[hellkat]

[Freddyfruitba...]