Made me laugh

So, we're in the process of clearing a house after the demise of GiL.

There's quite a bit of furniture to go so we contacted one of these
house clearance/2nd hand furniture establishments.

They turn up today and the van driver/owner has such a thick Irish
accent that even *I* struggle to understand him (1)

During a tea break he recounts to me the story of his newly acquired
van. Turns out that it needed new clutch plates so he dropped the
gearbox and went off round the corner to pick up new ones.

Upon his return, there was no gearbox.

"Oi came back ter de van an' de feckin gearbox wus gone. Dare wus marks
on de pavement wha they dragged it. Feckin pikeys."

It made me laugh lots on what was an otherwise miserable day.


(1) Think Brad Pitt in Snatch

 

Heh.
Opportunism as an Olympic sport would have an all-pikey team.

 

there's a double-load of irony here, but it's not really fair for me
to comment on it, given you actually have less of an Oirish accent
than I do. And I'm not Oirish.

 

I was aware as I was typing it.

Heh.

 

EMFDYSI?

 

If it quacks like a duck...

 

or has a .sig like a retard?

 

Eh, motherfucker, did you steal it?

 

Occasionally.