A NapD apology!
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What a day!
Finished night shift at 7am
Colin (Pokerface) arrives at 1145 for a ride
Set off, Colin gets mega ill
Get to near where Colin parks
I continue
Car drives past me very slowly with woman shouting out of the passenger window and pointing at me on the Macc-Congleton Road, couldn't hear her but I assume she was shouting abuse as I was giving it a huge dose of QuadPowertm about a metre and a half from the curb, so I shout 'shutup!' back at her (witty ain't I?)
30s later I get a puncture
Get home, 3hr ride, realise my £165 Rapha Stowaway was no longer in my jersey pocket!!
PANIC!!
Retrace my ride in the car.
Parked up where I changed my puncture, nowt there so thought 'sod it, I'll go home and cry'.
Set off back home then thought I may as well go and have a look further up the road.
The result - a little bright orange bundle of joy on the edge of the road.
WOO HOO!
Then it dawned on me what the woman was shouting at me for.
:oops: :oops: :oops:
So, to the lady with a face like a bulldog licking pi55 off a nettle in the passenger seat of P reg silver vectra estate between Macc and Congleton tonight -
Finished night shift at 7am
Colin (Pokerface) arrives at 1145 for a ride
Set off, Colin gets mega ill
Get to near where Colin parks
I continue
Car drives past me very slowly with woman shouting out of the passenger window and pointing at me on the Macc-Congleton Road, couldn't hear her but I assume she was shouting abuse as I was giving it a huge dose of QuadPowertm about a metre and a half from the curb, so I shout 'shutup!' back at her (witty ain't I?)
30s later I get a puncture
Get home, 3hr ride, realise my £165 Rapha Stowaway was no longer in my jersey pocket!!
PANIC!!
Retrace my ride in the car.
Parked up where I changed my puncture, nowt there so thought 'sod it, I'll go home and cry'.
Set off back home then thought I may as well go and have a look further up the road.
The result - a little bright orange bundle of joy on the edge of the road.
WOO HOO!
Then it dawned on me what the woman was shouting at me for.
:oops: :oops: :oops:
So, to the lady with a face like a bulldog licking pi55 off a nettle in the passenger seat of P reg silver vectra estate between Macc and Congleton tonight -
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glad to see you got it back at least!
shame you weren't wittier since she will remember you for that =pCoveryourcar.co.uk RT Tester
north west of england.0 -
Hey NapD if you are really, really, really sorry; but given your description of her I doubt; then how about a quick e-mail to your local rag.
She isn't going to see you apology on here is she?0 -
Just make sure you have lots of Horlicks tonight so you can sleep.
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plowmar wrote:Hey NapD if you are really, really, really sorry; but given your description of her I doubt; then how about a quick e-mail to your local rag.
She isn't going to see you apology on here is she?
I've updated it on twitter. Everyone follows me on twitter so it'll be fine.0 -
Can't your traffic colleagues assist you in tracing said P reg Vectra or are their proper rules against that? 0
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lets be fair, she was probably some how the cause for you dropping it and in all likeliness was giving you abuse
so sleep easyCrafted in Italy apparantly0 -
She probably was shouting abuse at you... For being a nancy-boy Rapha customer. If you could lip read I bet you'd have seen "£165 for a fold up jacket? Are you chuffing insane?""In many ways, my story was that of a raging, Christ-like figure who hauled himself off the cross, looked up at the Romans with blood in his eyes and said 'My turn, sock cookers'"
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Blimey....training after last night shift...thats keen..?
Still no doubt its good for body clock alignment ... :roll:
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disgruntledgoat wrote:She probably was shouting abuse at you... For being a nancy-boy Rapha customer. If you could lip read I bet you'd have seen "£165 for a fold up jacket? Are you chuffing insane?"
You weren't wearing the Tweed Cycle suit, silk Chainring scarf and leather musette bag as well, were you ?
If so she probably was shouting at you leave your overpriced pak-a-mak at the side of the road 0 -
NapoleonD wrote:What a day!
Finished night shift at 7am
Colin (Pokerface) arrives at 1145 for a ride
Set off, Colin gets mega ill
Get to near where Colin parks
I continue
Car drives past me very slowly with woman shouting out of the passenger window and pointing at me on the Macc-Congleton Road, couldn't hear her but I assume she was shouting abuse as I was giving it a huge dose of QuadPowertm about a
metre and a half from the curb, so I shout 'shutup!' back at her (witty ain't I?)
30s later I get a puncture
Get home, 3hr ride, realise my £165 Rapha Stowaway was no longer in my jersey pocket!!
PANIC!!
Retrace my ride in the car.
Parked up where I changed my puncture, nowt there so thought 'sod it, I'll go home and cry'.
Set off back home then thought I may as well go and have a look further up the road.
The result - a little bright orange bundle of joy on the edge of the road.
WOO HOO!
Then it dawned on me what the woman was shouting at me for.
:oops: :oops: :oops:
So, to the lady with a face like a bulldog licking pi55 off a nettle in the passenger seat of P reg silver vectra estate between Macc and Congleton tonight -
It happens when you have had a WRUF shift at work.bagpuss0 -
If you couldn't hear her, your hope is she didn't hear you!0
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matthew h wrote:If you couldn't hear her, your hope is she didn't hear you!
Come on she's a woman. They can hear bloody everything :twisted:0 -
NWLondoner wrote:matthew h wrote:If you couldn't hear her, your hope is she didn't hear you!
Come on she's a woman. They can hear bloody everything :twisted:
And, forget nothing..................... :P0 -
she drives a vectra - shes probably used to abuse0
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All I can ever do on the bike is either give people the evils or tell em to **** off knobhead. It must be adrenaline or something but I can't think fast enough on the bike what to say. Some guy in my village said something to me, I could not hear him though, so I just shouted abuse at him, felt like a ride idiot after, I think he was saying "Nice Bike".0
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dmclite wrote:NWLondoner wrote:matthew h wrote:If you couldn't hear her, your hope is she didn't hear you!
Come on she's a woman. They can hear bloody everything :twisted:
And, forget nothing..................... :P
Unless its things you want for Christmas for the bike, then they don't hear and if they did they bloody well forget!0 -
dmclite wrote:NWLondoner wrote:matthew h wrote:If you couldn't hear her, your hope is she didn't hear you!
Come on she's a woman. They can hear bloody everything :twisted:
And, forget nothing..................... :P
Unless its when they get it wrong :roll: 0 -
that could have droped on your rear mecgoing downhill slowly0
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Sicknote wrote:dmclite wrote:NWLondoner wrote:matthew h wrote:If you couldn't hear her, your hope is she didn't hear you!
Come on she's a woman. They can hear bloody everything :twisted:
And, forget nothing..................... :P
Unless its when they get it wrong :roll:
They're never wrong! Not even when they're wrong!0 -
It's my fault. All day riding behind him, admiring his awesome QuadPower™ - I should have mentioned that his jacket was dangerously close to falling out!
In case anyone hasn't seen my thread in TRAINING about dehydration - I'm posting here to say a big thanks to NapD for getting me home safe after I got really ill on our ride and I am STILL suffering the after-effects of severe dehydration. It must have built up over a period of time, but hit me like a shovel to the face on this ride.
Lost all energy, got a stonking heaqdache, chiils, fever, etc, etc. Had to be nursed back to my car and have spent the last few days in bed and sucking back fluids!
NapD is a class act all the way, Good thing we're in the same cycling club!
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