Swings and no roundabouts
It’s all very well living in Mountain Bike Land(tm) where boxes of ace bikes arrive, ready for testing, and we can sit in front of our massive computer screens pretending to work while watching Chris Akrigg videos, but some bits of the Real World occasionally poke in and remind us that we’re actually office workers with reasonably regular lives (and some nice bikes with no time to ride them).
No, I’m talking about normal things like washing machines. And small bike parts like Allen keys. It seems that at some point, I’d had an Allen key in my jeans when I washed them. The Allen key managed to then force itself through the wall of the washing machine drum. Though it was only 10 months old, this counts as ‘customer abuse/neglect’ and isn’t covered under warranty. So, one Allen key, with the power to fix a bike, also has the power to ruin a washing machine. Ho hum… So, £239 later I now have a washing machine that looks just like the old one. And then, later, I have to go and get my car from Mario’s ‘Cash Only’ Garage. It’s a good job we’ve just all had a pay rise…
April 10th, 2008 at 3:10 pm
Yeah, my lovely new-to-me car has just illuminated its engine warning light. Great. So I’ll be off to the local Ford garage for them to plug a computer into it then…
April 11th, 2008 at 12:13 am
Do you reckon if we all had a pay cut instead, Ford would be right on the phone asking us to test cars?
Hey, we could always take up Hummer’s offer if you need a runaround, Sim…