Nooooo!

SpinningJenny
SpinningJenny Posts: 889
edited June 2009 in Women
Set the scene:

Queue at Evans in Ye Old City of London, about 1pm...

I am standing in the queue, waiting to purchase stuff. Woman in front of me returning something she bought and didn't need, buying something else and asking the guy on the till what else she could buy for her bike.

Long Suffering Staff Member (LSSM): You could buy an inner tube, to have as a spare!
Her: (Big eyes) What do I need one of those for?
LSSM: In case you get a puncture.
Her: And...?
LSSM: You could change the inner tube - it's very useful to have a spare.
Her: What? Do it myself? Oh no I'll NEVER do that!
LSSM: Still, it would be useful...
Her: Oh, I suppose I could ask someone else to do it for me...

I swear, the look on her face was as if he'd told her she had to drink her own wee! :shock:

Is it just me..... or does that not make you all a bit AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHH! :roll:
Ned Flanders: “You were bicycling two abreast?”
Homer Simpson: “I wish. We were bicycling to a lake.”

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  • SleepyLea
    SleepyLea Posts: 127
    :shock: Oh dear. Put us lasses to shame...... You should have slapped her
  • Ditch Witch
    Ditch Witch Posts: 837
    Twice.
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  • Mrs Toast
    Mrs Toast Posts: 636
    Reminds me of my mother!

    Mom: My tyres are really low on air, the car doesn’t feel right
    Me: Put some air in then!
    Mom: Your dad and the boys are too busy
    Me: Well, why don’t we go to the garage now, and I’ll show you what to do
    Mom: I’ve got three bloody blokes over at that business, why should I have to do it?!

    She also tried to comfort me when I broke up with my first boyfriend with the immortal words, “It’s all right, love…he could never have gotten you a house.”

    Ah, emancipation, it’s a wonderful thing. :|
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  • SpinningJenny
    SpinningJenny Posts: 889
    :shock: :lol: :shock:

    I really, really wanted to but in on that little conversation, but I held back (for the love of god why!?!) which is most unlike me... perhaps because I could feel myself wanting to strangle or shake her, I don't know which!

    Mrs Toast - mums, eh :wink:
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    Homer Simpson: “I wish. We were bicycling to a lake.”

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  • blu3cat
    blu3cat Posts: 1,016
    yep makes me want to scream. This is definitely not just femailes who do this, as I have been in my LBS (proably buying s apre tube or something) and have seen a man walk in with a childs bike with a puncture and get them to fix it - I think they were charged £10 + bits. Best thing was the bloke asked how long it would take as it's a 20 minute drive to the shop!!!!! :roll:
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  • SpinningJenny
    SpinningJenny Posts: 889
    :shock: no way!

    i despair..... and i'm definitely not an expert.

    although to be fair, the first thing i was shown when i got my first proper bike when i was about 12, was how to deal with a puncture. i wasn't allowed out until i could do it all myself!

    aye, times were tough in them days.... when we lived in a paper bag outside the coal cellar...
    Ned Flanders: “You were bicycling two abreast?”
    Homer Simpson: “I wish. We were bicycling to a lake.”

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  • genspain
    genspain Posts: 43
    SpinningJenny wrote:
    Set the scene:

    Is it just me..... or does that not make you all a bit AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHH! :roll:

    No it's not just you, people like make me want to rip my own arm off just so that i have something to throw at them :lol:
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  • SpinningJenny
    SpinningJenny Posts: 889
    :lol::lol::lol:

    i was mentally ripping my arm off with my teeth, actually!
    Ned Flanders: “You were bicycling two abreast?”
    Homer Simpson: “I wish. We were bicycling to a lake.”

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  • Ditch Witch
    Ditch Witch Posts: 837
    It's definitely not just women. An ex of mine let the car run out of oil while swearing blind he'd been checking it.

    He later confessed that he didn't check it because he didn't know how and was too embarrassed to ask :roll:
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  • SpinningJenny
    SpinningJenny Posts: 889
    aaah, male pride :D

    that woman i think was planning on using her feminine wiles to get a good-looking stranger to help her in her hour of need...

    that don't work with ME missy!
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    Homer Simpson: “I wish. We were bicycling to a lake.”

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  • mea00csf
    mea00csf Posts: 558
    you seem to be being very harsh, some people just aren't good at that sort of stuff or have the confidence to give it a go if there's no one to show them.

    I built my bike from scratch so now know that a lot of stuff that i would have taken my old bike to a shop to do, was actually really simple. So i now have a similar "why don't you just do it yourself?" attitude to indexing gears for instance, which is a common job not all cyclists do. Why is that any different to an occasional cyclist not feeling confident changing a tube?
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  • Lizzie77
    Lizzie77 Posts: 53
    Years ago I worked in a small local garage. I worked in the shop and office and also helped out anywhere, being general dogs body. I used to help customers, mainly the older check their oil and tyres etc.

    Once a woman asked me if i had been to college to learn how to do this!!!!!!!!

    Hmmm, who's the dipstick???
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  • Dowse40
    Dowse40 Posts: 102
    My missus has just read this and said "If the thick bint can't change a tube she shouldn't be let loose on a bike".
  • nicklouse
    nicklouse Posts: 50,673
    Dowse40 wrote:
    My missus has just read this and said "If the thick bint can't change a tube she shouldn't be let loose on a bike".

    classic.
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  • 77ric
    77ric Posts: 601
    the more i hear this kind of thing, the more i think a compulsory test for bike riding is required. Nothing to severe just basic roadside repair and road/trail manners kind of thing.
    SpinningJenny wrote:
    aye, times were tough in them days.... when we lived in a paper bag outside the coal cellar...

    A paper bag, a paper bag, we'd have killed for a paper bag, we didn't even have a coal cellar. We lived under a large dock leaf. In the middle of a field. And there was 12 of us.

    and you think times were tough.
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  • nicklouse
    nicklouse Posts: 50,673
    77ric wrote:
    the more i hear this kind of thing, the more i think a compulsory test for bike riding is required. Nothing to severe just basic roadside repair and road/trail manners kind of thing.
    SpinningJenny wrote:
    aye, times were tough in them days.... when we lived in a paper bag outside the coal cellar...

    A paper bag, a paper bag, we'd have killed for a paper bag, we didn't even have a coal cellar. We lived under a large dock leaf. In the middle of a field. And there was 12 of us.

    and you think times were tough.

    you had a Dock leaf. and you lived in a field.

    you dont know how well you had it.
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  • supersonic
    supersonic Posts: 82,708
    Luxury. We all lived in a hole under a pebble. All 47 of us!
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  • nicklouse
    nicklouse Posts: 50,673
    You lived!
    "Do not follow where the path may lead, Go instead where there is no path, and Leave a Trail."
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  • supersonic
    supersonic Posts: 82,708
    When I say lived, we were t' walkin' dead son. We slept in coffins made from nails.
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  • nicklouse
    nicklouse Posts: 50,673
    supersonic wrote:
    When I say lived, we were t' walkin' dead son. We slept in coffins made from nails.

    What you could walk!
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  • supersonic
    supersonic Posts: 82,708
    Only on Wednesdays for 5 minutes before we went to work for a 29 hour day. On our knees, that have been replaced with bits o' wood.
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  • nicklouse
    nicklouse Posts: 50,673
    You dont know how good you had it.

    you had work AND bits of WOOD.

    not to mention Knees. :wink:
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  • supersonic
    supersonic Posts: 82,708
    Hehe!
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  • SleepyLea
    SleepyLea Posts: 127
    Fitting right in with the womens chit chat then lads? :wink::lol:
  • 77ric
    77ric Posts: 601
    SleepyLea wrote:
    Fitting right in with the womens chit chat then lads? :wink::lol:

    Gotta love the python, influences everthing. just about.

    Nicklouse, Supersonic

    well done lads, I've not laughed so hard in ages.
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  • nicklouse
    nicklouse Posts: 50,673
    laughed !

    How dare you.

    :wink:
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  • Ditch Witch
    Ditch Witch Posts: 837
    Dowse40 wrote:
    My missus has just read this and said "If the thick bint can't change a tube she shouldn't be let loose on a bike".


    to be fair, I couldn't change my tubes with my old tyres because of the bead. I just couldn't get the b.astarding things on the rims. Now I have folding ones, they go on and off a treat.
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  • SpinningJenny
    SpinningJenny Posts: 889
    Oh lovely chat boys! Welcome to the dark side :twisted:
    Ned Flanders: “You were bicycling two abreast?”
    Homer Simpson: “I wish. We were bicycling to a lake.”

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  • SpinningJenny
    SpinningJenny Posts: 889
    Dowse40 wrote:
    My missus has just read this and said "If the thick bint can't change a tube she shouldn't be let loose on a bike".

    Score! You have a good missus, Dowse40 - if she cycles, get her on here. We are currently recruiting! :wink:
    Ned Flanders: “You were bicycling two abreast?”
    Homer Simpson: “I wish. We were bicycling to a lake.”

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