What Grinds my gears archive B

[Easy-X]

[Ribenapigeon]

The venue was the local new stylee "Uni", so lots of Africans and a Starbucks manned/personed? by someone incapable of making a cup of tea but capable of charging £2:50 for the treating me to their performance of dipping a teabag in some milky hot water. Parking but only if you subjected yourself to some labyrinthine procedure of pre-registration and checking in. I just parked ten minutes walk away. There was an issue at the beginning of the day when an attendee told some factotum they had just registered their car with "the girl at the front desk", the little gnome like dweb looked like he was going to s#it himself at the information that someone had just completely circumvented the entire parking process, that or an employee being referred to by gender being a bit too much for his delicate constitution. Im back again tomorrow, so im going to grill "the girl" on motorcycle parking obv.

[stinkwheel]

[Ribenapigeon]

The daily rate for parking isn't bad at £1:50 its the fact you can't just pull out some pocket change of legal tender to pay it, instead you have to engage with some weird system that even the people administering it can't fathom.

[Easy-X]

Cheapest train to Cornwall: £70. Cheapest flight to Cornwall: £17

I still went on the train as Paddington is trivial to get to from where I live whereas the flight would have been from Stansted I might get a partial refund to cheer me up as the train arrived predictably late in St. Austell.
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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

[dave001]

[Easy-X]

I used to do a few jobs round Camden Lock way so I asked the geezer about parking. He gave me a roll of duct tape and pointed at the local Morissons
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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

[Ribenapigeon]

[recman]

Today I have a shitty cold.

[Ribenapigeon]

Spoke to "the girl". Motorcycles are free. Woohoo, wish id bothered to get my bike MOT'd when I was off on leave a few weeks back now. She was as annoyed with the parking arrangements as anyone else and agreed the colleges website is misleading and vague on the parking. Is there nothing in life which is actually a convenience these days?

[Ribenapigeon]

[stinkwheel]

[Ribenapigeon]

[Ribenapigeon]

Phewww, managed to dodge roll playing talking someone down from chucking themselves off a bridge. Theres still the afternoon session to go though

[Easy-X]

[Nobby the Bastard]

What causes the need for bureaucracy is the need to show value for money for every item due to the Public Accounts committee, National Audit Office audits, Freedom of Information requests used by journalists, and my personal favorite, The Tax Payers Alliance.
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trevor saxe-coburg-gotha:"Remember this simple rule - scooters are for men who like to feel the breeze on their huge, flapping cunt lips."
Triumph Sprint ST 1050

[dave001]

[stinkwheel]

[Ribenapigeon]

I wonder if thats the really great thing about being rich. Someone else deals with this stuff.

[Ribenapigeon]

[Easy-X]

"You were very convincing!"

I wasn't acting...
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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

[Ribenapigeon]

Keen as mustard support worker girl managed to save me from myself but still left me in possession of months worth of dangerous medication I'd been storing up.

[Nobby the Bastard]

I'd have just thrown myself off the metaphorical bridge in front of them all.

And then acted out either drowning or bleeding to death from the two shattered legs after taking a vote on how the story should pan out.
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trevor saxe-coburg-gotha:"Remember this simple rule - scooters are for men who like to feel the breeze on their huge, flapping cunt lips."
Triumph Sprint ST 1050

[stinkwheel]

I have an agreement with my boss that I will not be made to attend any such roleplay team building bullshit. I have made it clear I am incapable of taking such things seriously and will only play up, disrupting the session and probably upsetting the person who is running it. On the basis we will always still need someone to do the actual work about the place while these are going on, we've agreed that person is me.

It would appear the last one included deciding what breed of dog we were and a diatribe on why it's unhealthy to have your mobile phone next to your bed (not sleep hygiene, 5G rays!). We both now agree that it was very much for the best I didn't go because it would have concluded I am not a dog unless it's the sort of terrier that won't concede a point on pseudoscience and will continue to worry at it until long after it's dead. Also her fairground hypnotist style physical demonstration showing how she could easily push your arm down if you were holding a mobile phone in your hand would have landed up with her on the floor and me on a disciplinary.
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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.

[Ribenapigeon]