So angry - locked bike

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  • secretsam
    secretsam Posts: 5,120
    downfader wrote:
    Just curious... does the tag have the frame number on and what the bike looks like? Otherwise whats to stop people stealing tags? Like I said, curious how it works.

    Tag is unique to bike - therefore bike type and owner are recorded, though doubt it's often checked

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  • Porgy
    Porgy Posts: 4,525
    I've had someone chain their bike to my bike at Sainsburys in Vauxhall Cross.

    It happened twice.

    Same girl both times!

    My wife reckoned she fancied me. I reckon she was a flipping nuisance. Two hours of my life I'll never get back.
  • DonDaddyD
    DonDaddyD Posts: 12,689
    Porgy was she fit?

    You could have said "If your so interested in chaining yourself to me, come over to my, bring hand cuffs and we can play next to the bed..."

    Bet she would have found a new place to lock her bike after that....
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  • Porgy
    Porgy Posts: 4,525
    edited September 2009
    DonDaddyD wrote:
    Porgy was she fit?
    depends if you like the scatterbrained ditsy type or not.
    You could have said "If your so interested in chaining yourself to me, come over to my, bring hand cuffs and we can play next to the bed..."

    :lol: Yeah, but what if she said yes? - my wife was waiting for me to get home with the wine!
  • Then go her place?

    Ask a silly question...
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  • Porgy
    Porgy Posts: 4,525
    Then go her place?

    Ask a silly question...

    I don;t know if you're married - but it's like living in your own tiny police state - unexplained absence of several hours on a midweek evening would not go unnoticed.

    I had enough trouble trying to convince my wife nothing was going on as it was!
  • prawny
    prawny Posts: 5,440
    Porgy wrote:
    Then go her place?

    Ask a silly question...

    I don;t know if you're married - but it's like living in your own tiny police state - unexplained absence of several hours on a midweek evening would not go unnoticed.

    I had enough trouble trying to convince my wife nothing was going on as it was!

    Several hours who you kidding.

    I agreed on the polic state though, it's like v for vendetta but worse.
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  • :D

    Do you have an untrustworthy face then? Or was it that you tried to sneak out with the fluffy pink set in your back pocket "just in case" and she noticed...
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  • Porgy wrote:
    don't know if you're married - but it's like living in your own tiny police state - unexplained absence of several hours on a midweek evening would not go unnoticed.

    Sunday mornings then? Take some civi clothes in your seat-pack to change out of the lycra. :D


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  • Porgy
    Porgy Posts: 4,525
    Bill Gates wrote:
    Porgy wrote:
    don't know if you're married - but it's like living in your own tiny police state - unexplained absence of several hours on a midweek evening would not go unnoticed.

    Sunday mornings then? Take some civi clothes in your seat-pack to change out of the lycra. :D

    she might have liked the lycra.

    Still - this was two years ago - and maybe she only liked my bike? I never bothered to find out. :oops:
  • DonDaddyD
    DonDaddyD Posts: 12,689
    Porgy wrote:
    Then go her place?

    Ask a silly question...

    I don;t know if you're married - but it's like living in your own tiny police state - unexplained absence of several hours on a midweek evening would not go unnoticed.

    I had enough trouble trying to convince my wife nothing was going on as it was!

    Not just marriage, women in general. Why must we be expected to do things together all time. I mean honestly... I don't mind the proper stuff, like shopping and cooking, sometimes but my GF was watching Eastenders so I went in the bedroom to sit in the dark and seconds later there she was wondering where and why I was gone...
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  • This reminds me of something that happened to me in Japan when I lived there 10 years ago. My hours of work were varied but I used the same local station to take the train to and from work.

    One day on the way out of the station as I was walking home a woman rushed up to me, shoved a note in my hand and hurried off, I barely even got a look at her, it happened so quickly. I opened the note and in broken Japanese English it said something to the effect of "I see you every day catching the train and would really like to go out with you for a drink or something to eat. If you are interested in meeting, my ph number is xxxxx".

    I was happily in a relationship at that time so I didn't pursue it, but it was quite a strange experience....
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  • Porgy wrote:
    Bill Gates wrote:
    Porgy wrote:
    don't know if you're married - but it's like living in your own tiny police state - unexplained absence of several hours on a midweek evening would not go unnoticed.

    Sunday mornings then? Take some civi clothes in your seat-pack to change out of the lycra. :D

    she might have liked the lycra.

    Still - this was two years ago - and maybe she only liked my bike? I never bothered to find out. :oops:

    It's not the mid-week unexpected hours away that I would find hard to hide, getting the smell of perfume and lipstick off the collar is likely more difficult. :)


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  • Porgy
    Porgy Posts: 4,525
    Bill Gates wrote:
    Porgy wrote:
    Bill Gates wrote:
    Porgy wrote:
    don't know if you're married - but it's like living in your own tiny police state - unexplained absence of several hours on a midweek evening would not go unnoticed.

    Sunday mornings then? Take some civi clothes in your seat-pack to change out of the lycra. :D

    she might have liked the lycra.

    Still - this was two years ago - and maybe she only liked my bike? I never bothered to find out. :oops:

    It's not the mid-week unexpected hours away that I would find hard to hide, getting the smell of perfume and lipstick off the collar is likely more difficult. :)

    tell her you're a transvestite :lol:
  • Porgy
    Porgy Posts: 4,525
    edited September 2009
    This reminds me of something that happened to me in Japan when I lived there 10 years ago. My hours of work were varied but I used the same local station to take the train to and from work.

    One day on the way out of the station as I was walking home a woman rushed up to me, shoved a note in my hand and hurried off, I barely even got a look at her, it happened so quickly. I opened the note and in broken Japanese English it said something to the effect of "I see you every day catching the train and would really like to go out with you for a drink or something to eat. If you are interested in meeting, my ph number is xxxxx".

    I was happily in a relationship at that time so I didn't pursue it, but it was quite a strange experience....

    Well, at the risk of sending this thread in a slightly odd direction....about the time I first met my wife, I was sitting on a District Line train minding my own business and this girl got on and sat at the other end of carriage. She was quite a looker, but she didn;t appear to be intersted in me - I glanced at her a couple of times.

    anyway I saw her tear a bit of paper out of a notebook she had in her handbag and scribble somehting on it. She walked to get off but just before she did she dropped the paper on a seat near me - without looking at me either.

    Once she'd gone I picked the paper up and looked at it, it said "Julia" with a phone number underneath.

    Apart from the obvious 1984 reference there - I did feel pretty good about myself for a while after that....never followed it up though - I was still married to my first wife, had become involved with my to be second wife.

    Women are like buses - none for ages - and then....
  • downfader
    downfader Posts: 3,686
    Porgy, you should have scared her off from chaining her bike up like that by asking to smell her shoes. :twisted: Works EVERY time! :twisted: :lol: :twisted:
  • Porgy
    Porgy Posts: 4,525
    downfader wrote:
    Porgy, you should have scared her off from chaining her bike up like that by asking to smell her shoes. :twisted: Works EVERY time! :twisted: :lol: :twisted:

    Next time 8)
  • and for all your obfuscation - your dear wife has now read that and boy are you in trouble when you get home.

    of course you haven't done anything wrong - its the admittance than in future that a lady might not instantly be able to see your taken status means she hasn't pressed her thumb into your forehead enough :wink:
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  • jimmypippa
    jimmypippa Posts: 1,712
    and for all your obfuscation - your dear wife has now read that and boy are you in trouble when you get home.

    of course you haven't done anything wrong - its the admittance than in future that a lady might not instantly be able to see your taken status means she hasn't pressed her thumb into your forehead enough :wink:

    Er....

    http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn17619-its-true-all-the-taken-men-are-best.html
    Unknown to the participants, everyone was offered a fictitious candidate partner who had been tailored to match their interests exactly. The photograph of "Mr Right" was the same for all women participants, as was that of the ideal women presented to the men. Half the participants were told their ideal mate was single, and the other half that he or she was already in a romantic relationship.

    "Everything was the same across all participants, except whether their ideal mate was already attached or not," says Burkley.

    The most striking result was in the responses of single women. Offered a single man, 59 per cent were interested in pursuing a relationship. But when he was attached, 90 per cent said they were up for the chase.
  • Porgy
    Porgy Posts: 4,525
    jimmypippa wrote:
    and for all your obfuscation - your dear wife has now read that and boy are you in trouble when you get home.

    of course you haven't done anything wrong - its the admittance than in future that a lady might not instantly be able to see your taken status means she hasn't pressed her thumb into your forehead enough :wink:

    Er....

    http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn17619-its-true-all-the-taken-men-are-best.html
    Unknown to the participants, everyone was offered a fictitious candidate partner who had been tailored to match their interests exactly. The photograph of "Mr Right" was the same for all women participants, as was that of the ideal women presented to the men. Half the participants were told their ideal mate was single, and the other half that he or she was already in a romantic relationship.

    "Everything was the same across all participants, except whether their ideal mate was already attached or not," says Burkley.

    The most striking result was in the responses of single women. Offered a single man, 59 per cent were interested in pursuing a relationship. But when he was attached, 90 per cent said they were up for the chase.

    well that explains why women come along like buses :lol:
  • Porgy wrote:
    well that explains why women come along like buses :lol:
    Hmm, I appear to have been conditioned to flinch when I see a sentence comparing women with buses. :shock:
  • suzyb
    suzyb Posts: 3,449
    Porgy wrote:
    well that explains why women come along like buses :lol:
    Not available after dark, on sundays or bank holidays :?
  • Porgy
    Porgy Posts: 4,525
    -null- wrote:
    Porgy wrote:
    well that explains why women come along like buses :lol:
    Not available after dark, on sundays or bank holidays :?

    Ha! You're missing out - in London they're available 24 hours every day! 8)
  • Erudin
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