family favours

gazeddy
gazeddy Posts: 305
edited August 2010 in The Crudcatcher
has any body ever found themselves doing these. ie mother in laws pc breaks you end up spending three days sorting it, brother in laws bike brakes you spend the next day or two fixing the bodges he kept it "rolling" with
I rode what you dug last summer

Comments

  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Posts: 79,665
    Oh god yes. All the bloody time.
  • projectsome
    projectsome Posts: 4,010
    yes! my aunt's pc was the worse. ended up swapping half the parts!

    my cousin is constantly downloading music from places like limewire :twisted: I told her I'm not fixing it again.
    FARKBOOK TWATTER Happiness is my fucking mood!
  • Kiblams
    Kiblams Posts: 2,423
    The last 2 visits from the father in law has lead to me working on his laptop, at least he payed for the new hard drive I guess :lol:
    HandsomeDog - OrangeCommuter
  • kaytronika
    kaytronika Posts: 580
    Perpetually.

    M-i-L's laptop turned up for repairs... The catch on the front was missing so I had to use a screwdriver just to get the thing open, then it shut down after 1 hours use without warning... Opened the case up and removed a metric ton of purple(?) fluff from the heat-sink. Finally get it up and running reliably and there's 300mb left on drive C: and 45 gb free on drive D: :roll:



    Sister called me to look at her bike. She bought it on Cycle to Work... A 2008 Kona Firemountain that has basically sat gathering dust for 18 months... Flat tyres, saddle down to the top tube. Better bike than the one I ride weekly. I set it up for her but refused to fit the bracket for the lock she bought. It'll stay there gathering dust for another 15 years no I imagine.
    --
    '09 Carrera Fury
    '94 GT Timberline FS
    '89 Saracen Tufftrax
  • cat_with_no_tail
    cat_with_no_tail Posts: 12,980
    That's what family is for.

    I'm constantly fixing stuff for our lot, and in return, my brother must have pretty much re-wired my entire house :lol:
    "Avan-TT"
    F*cking Fast 29er
    Rapid Rose Roady
    Bionicon Beast
    Rockhopper Communter
  • Twonk
    Twonk Posts: 17
    It's an occupational hazard

    "My internets are broken! HAVE YOU BROKEN IT BY FIXING THE LAST MISTAKE I MADE ON MY COMPUTER?!"

    "Deactivate 'Work Offline' mode in Firefox"

    "Oh. Thanks"
  • Gazlar
    Gazlar Posts: 8,083
    Oh yes. Mrs g's mum is a widow so I get all the best jobs. Last time we were there she wanted me to fix her soffits and fascias. She lives in a 3 story house and she knows I hate heights
    Mountain biking is like sex.......more fun when someone else is getting hurt
    Amy
    Farnsworth
    Zapp
  • .blitz
    .blitz Posts: 6,197
    24/7. I am flypaper for fixing things.

    Just for once, it would be great to turn to somebody else and say 'can you...'
  • bannedbiker
    bannedbiker Posts: 382
    Oh god yeah, I get it in waves! I get a few months with nothing, then all at the same time bro-in-laws (motor)bike will breakdown or he'll want tuning at the sametime dad-in-law's gearbox dies in his car just coinciding with a months worth of work the ma-in-law needs doing to her stables, normally around the same time my car/bike breaks, as well as my bro needing help with his bike or building his garage or chopping down a tree and my granparents needing somthing doing too... :wink:
    Giant Reign - now sold :-(
    Rockhopper Pro - XC and commuting
    DH8 - New toy :-)
  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Posts: 79,665
    Spent an entire Christmas, and the rest, helping a friend sort her new house out. Stripping paint, sanding down skirting boards, fitting carpets, fitting doors, painting, plumbing.
    I wouldn't mind except none of her other mates chipped in one little freaking bit.
  • Kiblams
    Kiblams Posts: 2,423
    yeehaamcgee wrote:
    Spent an entire Christmas, and the rest, helping a friend sort her new house out. Stripping paint, sanding down skirting boards, fitting carpets, fitting doors, painting, plumbing.
    I wouldn't mind except none of her other mates chipped in one little freaking bit.

    You slipped her one though right? :wink:
    HandsomeDog - OrangeCommuter
  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Posts: 79,665
    Kiblams wrote:
    yeehaamcgee wrote:
    Spent an entire Christmas, and the rest, helping a friend sort her new house out. Stripping paint, sanding down skirting boards, fitting carpets, fitting doors, painting, plumbing.
    I wouldn't mind except none of her other mates chipped in one little freaking bit.

    You slipped her one though right? :wink:
    Long story.
  • bannedbiker
    bannedbiker Posts: 382
    yeehaamcgee wrote:
    Kiblams wrote:
    yeehaamcgee wrote:
    Spent an entire Christmas, and the rest, helping a friend sort her new house out. Stripping paint, sanding down skirting boards, fitting carpets, fitting doors, painting, plumbing.
    I wouldn't mind except none of her other mates chipped in one little freaking bit.

    You slipped her one though right? :wink:
    Long story.

    So you did then?!
    Giant Reign - now sold :-(
    Rockhopper Pro - XC and commuting
    DH8 - New toy :-)
  • Thread8
    Thread8 Posts: 479
    Im always fixing people's bikes. gets tiring after a while. My dads DIY incapable too so i have to do all that as well :roll:
    Haro Thread 8
    Please help!

    "It's like parkour, on a bike"
  • VWsurfbum
    VWsurfbum Posts: 7,881
    Being in the motor trade for 15 years plus i always get people not only family asking can i fix/ look/ drive there car for them. Grr. I left the motor industry 4 years ago but still i get asked

    Also PC's, i'm sure as hell no expert (see old posts when i ask for help) but my wife seems to offer my services to help fix her munter friends PC's? :evil:
    Kazza the Tranny
    Now for sale Fatty
  • chedabob
    chedabob Posts: 1,133
    Because I do a computing degree at uni, it's naturally assumed I know everything about them. My dad keeps bringing computers in from work for me to fix. Not really complaining when I get paid £40 to run Malwarebytes and Windows Update :P

Categories