Unaugural 8.0 - Concise review

It was good.


BTH

 

Indeed it was. Thanks heaps BT, Minx. Also special thanks to Bamfy & James,
Peter, and Pisshead, for the loan of his crutches.

Blog coming soon

betty

 

I had a ball!

Mumph.

Actually the good side was that I did find a really good band last
night so the weekend wasn't a total loss for me.

Trudging back up the Princes Hwy yesterday arvo with a really heavy
backpack when the trains were down didn't put me into a good frame of
mind, but some damn fine music finished the day of much betterer.

Kev

 

Good weekend, thanks, and to whomever I said my bike weighed 3 or 400
kilos I apologize,I weighed it on the way back, 360 kilos with me on
it,which makes it about 280 with gear packed.(still,heavy to pick up
when it falls over.)

 

I assume you were sitting down...

JL

 

This is a repost from the roll call thread. Please ignore the other
post.

I had lunch at Albury and was back home by 6:30pm. I decided to do
the twisty-turny bit again because it was daylight so I came of the
Hume at Euroa and took the C366 to Merton (it was much better in the
day), then in to Melbourne via the Yarra Glen a.k.a. the B300. The
B300 gets steadily busier and busier until Lilydale (which is not a
gentle hill replete with lillys dancing in the sunlight -- it's just
a massive conduit into Melbourne). Not many people go TO Lillydale,
but a hell of a lot of people go THROUGH it, and fast.
One last mysery solved. Some people noticed I had an overnight bag
which had been hit hard. A shampoo bottle inside it had come apart,
somthering my toothbrush (yes it does taste bad) and something put a
crease in a metal can of shaving foam. It was all OK on Saturday
morning when I packed it, so how could that happen if the rucksack was
on my back all the time?
The answer is it was run over by a 4x4.
-- Annoyed on
I stopped for petrol at Gundagai (stopped singing too) on Saturday
afternoon and refilled.
NORMALLY I put my gloves on the ground in line with the bowser (so
it's protected from being kicked) and my helmet on top of my gloves,
but it was a bit awkward this time, so I put my helmet in between my
rear wheel and the bowser.
After paying, when I came out there was an impatient woman in a gold
Toyota 4x4 that had pulled up near to my bike (my bike was at the
front bowser, another car was filling up behind me). I wheeled my
bike to a parking space 10 M away and went back for my helmet, gloves
and knapsack.
At first I couldn't work out what had happened. She was already at
the bowser filling up, one glove was near her rear wheel but the
helmet was resting on the other glove -- in front of her car. I
realised her car had pushed my helmet one car-length along the
concrete and, because I have kevlar knuckle protectors, it just slid
along the ground.
I reasoned that she couldn't have shunted the helmet too hard because
it would have rolled off the glove if she had.
I said to her "You have run over my helmet" and she said "oh sorry" in
an off-hand way without looking at me or breaking her stride as she
walked in to pay. This really annoyed me because she probably thinks
helmets are indestructable and doesn't know they have to be replaced
if they get dropped (or that mine cost me $550) so I said something
about how it's like being kicked in the head and walked off fuming.
I nearly took her licence plate. If I had known she had crushed my
knapsack too I probably would have done something very bad and be
regretting it now.
What a bitch.
-- Annoyed off
Thanks again, BTH.

 

Sometime's you're better off just being unhelpful.

If it also involves inconveniencing an impatient 4x4 driver in a petrol
station queue, so much the better!


BTH

 

After all, she's driving a petrol 4x4, which are only driven by
commuter mums that like to pose.

 

It was

Thanks for all your time and effort.

G-S

 

Should I be posting you a homebrew care package?


BTH

 

Not needed, it's just a sprain and bruising but thanks for the offer

G-S

 

Thanks I will have a looksee.

 

I suspect that she was having as good a time as any 3 of the rest of us
put together.


BTH

 

I'm glad it was good, ....... maybe next year I will manage not to pike.

Though, I did build some brownie points on the mother's day front, so
have better chance next year That and my health seems to be
improving.

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Cheers
The Happy Drunk
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