Small rant

[Exonian]

You guys and girls ought to try living where I live.

Wash car.
Dry car.

Go inside, drink tea and wring out wet socks.

Come outside again in dry footwear to put cleaning gear away.

Survey car already covered in a layer of building site dust.

Cry.

[Booth11]

You guys and girls ought to try living where I live.

Wash car.
Dry car.

Go inside, drink tea and wring out wet socks.

Come outside again in dry footwear to put cleaning gear away.

Survey car already covered in a layer of building site dust.

Cry.

There, there, Mr Ex. 

Let me dry your tears.......and make you another nice cup of tea. 


If you will choose to live on these swanky new housing estates 

Do you not have a usable garage to protect your pride and joy?

[dubber36]

Having a clean car between October and March in the sticks looks so out of place. Whilst the two daily cars are being neglected over the next few months, my OCDness is satisfied by seeing my shiny Mk2 tucked up in the garage, hooked up to it's life support machine until the sun comes out again. Which reminds me, I must SORN it before the end of the month.

[Booth11]

Having a clean car between October and March in the sticks looks so out of place. Whilst the two daily cars are being neglected over the next few months, my OCDness is satisfied by seeing my shiny Mk2 tucked up in the garage, hooked up to it's life support machine until the sun comes out again. Which reminds me, I must SORN it before the end of the month.

Aw. How many times do you go and gaze fondly at the pampered Mk2 over the winter?

I couldn't care less if my car doesn't 'fit' into the 'accepted' community vision for winter cars. Sometimes, it's dirty, very often it's clean!

[Optimus prime]

Also on the subject or crazy drivers trying to kill people. On the way home I was being followed by a white van towing a grass cutter or something similar, and we were both behind a tractor (Shock!) I looked out and decided it wasn't safe, but the white can decided it was and pulled out to take us both....whilst towing. The tractor had to brake, as did I, and the oncoming cars pretty much had to stop and move over to allow the van through......not cool........I then promptly overtook them both lol (when it was actually safe)

Exactly why I run dash cams back & front atleast you capture the idiot that causes any incident, instead of them driving off out of sight while everyone else is in a heap or worse!

[dubber36]

Aw. How many times do you go and gaze fondly at the pampered Mk2 over the winter?

I'm more often cursing it for taking up valuable bike space in the garage. It's parked over to the one side as far as it will go, but it's still tight with 7 bikes on the other side. No one dares try to get a bike out other than me. I have thought about erecting a simple partition to protect the car, but haven't go round to it.

One of my other reasons for moving/building is to be able to have more adequate garaging.

[Exonian]

You guys and girls ought to try living where I live.

Wash car.
Dry car.

Go inside, drink tea and wring out wet socks.

Come outside again in dry footwear to put cleaning gear away.

Survey car already covered in a layer of building site dust.

Cry.

There, there, Mr Ex. 

Let me dry your tears.......and make you another nice cup of tea. 


If you will choose to live on these swanky new housing estates 

Do you not have a usable garage to protect your pride and joy?

Err, thanks for the cuppa!

I think I was a bit naive as to quite how bad it would be. Same for noise and working shift work whilst they're building. Until you've experienced it you just don't quite realise how godawful the experience is!!!

I lived in a nice concrete haven nearly all my life so was used to a few puddles and a bit of occasional dirt but not this relentless filth.
Eww!

The car is garaged but the modern garages are still built to accommodate Austin A30's not modern bloated cars. I have to fold the mirrors in to get through the opening, and one of the reasons, if not the only reason, I went back to a 5 door was to make it easier getting in and out within the garage confines. The cheapest house with a double garage on the estate was about £80k dearer, and when you're getting to that sort of money I'd want a fair bit more land and value. House prices in my neck of the woods are at Home Counties levels but wages are third world. Besides, my house is as much as I'd spend on any house and 30 miles up the road it would be tens of thousands cheaper. It's ridiculous.
I did consider staying in my old house and buying a bit of a mad car for a year or two but that would have been wasteful really.
In fact my old house's 1960's garage was bigger than I have now and that wasn't exactly a cavern.
Grrrrrrrr!

[Exonian]

Aw. How many times do you go and gaze fondly at the pampered Mk2 over the winter?

I'm more often cursing it for taking up valuable bike space in the garage. It's parked over to the one side as far as it will go, but it's still tight with 7 bikes on the other side. No one dares try to get a bike out other than me. I have thought about erecting a simple partition to protect the car, but haven't go round to it.

One of my other reasons for moving/building is to be able to have more adequate garaging.

The answer would be to store the 16v inside the house in a glass cabinet.
Face it, it's a far prettier thing than any ornament you'll ever buy!

 

[dubber36]

It would easily fit in the conservatory, but I've been over ruled on that one. 

[Booth11]

Aw. How many times do you go and gaze fondly at the pampered Mk2 over the winter?

I'm more often cursing it for taking up valuable bike space in the garage. It's parked over to the one side as far as it will go, but it's still tight with 7 bikes on the other side. No one dares try to get a bike out other than me. I have thought about erecting a simple partition to protect the car, but haven't go round to it.

One of my other reasons for moving/building is to be able to have more adequate garaging.

Yes!  Triple bay garage with inspection pit.  Two bays for cars and the third for bikes and associated paraphenlia.  And a tiny house adjacent for the family as an afterthought!