A bad week

[nirvana]

a) My car broke down a few weeks ago, 1 hour on motorway, soaked on one rainy day in god knows how long (with allied risk of short circuiting myself). BMW dealer suggests timing chains might be broken. Anyone who knows the modern diesel engine on the 3 series knows this is fairly major. Oh shit.

Pay car dude to move to another shop. Coupla weeks later - confirmed, car fixed bill is £2300

b) In August I got pulled for speeding, paid the conditional offer and was pretty teed off with myself as barring motorways I'm normlly pretty religious about observing speed limts.

It was returned a few weeks later as I'd only sent the paper license, they couldn't accept payment as they need the photocard too. Couldn't find it and had to apply to DVLA. By the time I got it I had already received a letter saying the case was being referred to magistrates and there could be no correspondence. Did the guilty by post thing for a court date of 26/3. Then received a letter saying I had to attend instead - today. Thought they'd seen the amazing clarity of my case begging for the fine not to be increased due to circs etc.

At court I summarised my mitigation - ie I paid, it was returned, by the time I could pay the case had already been referred. In summary, I didn't try to avoid payment but cirucmstances blah blah. I was thinking what a good job I did and the bench seemed smiley and caring, except for the bastardo in the middle

She didnt really listen, i asked if she listened but she moved on to the fine of £615 pretty swiftly. I said that was very expensive for losing a photocrd. She said they don't have much discretion. I then ranted  a bit. Joke, idiots, why are they called a court if they have no discretion, how much had she raised this week, why was the offence of losing a photocard 10 x that of speeding. By this time she asked if she could speak and I said something along the lines of 'I don't really give a shit'. She had the last laugh though as she mentioned the 5 points on the license.

I did an Oliver and requested 'make it more, why not'. At least she didn't take me up on that

Cost £615 + 5 pts

c) I need a tree removed. A tree. A big one mind. One that needs expert attention.

Experts are expensive - total cost first quote £2900

One week -£5815, + 5 pts

Aah, that was cathartic - crying a bit but I'll be OK

[Claw75]

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[Graham C]

That sucks, not sure how the week could improve to make it better, but I genuinely hope it does

Chin up

[nirvana]

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lol, that may be true for you but I normally run good :-)

[Claw75]

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lol, that may be true for you but I normally run good :-)

heh.

the run good is having a car that can incur a 2.3k repair bill that's worth paying and a house with a garden big enough for a nice tree.  this is the variance kicking in yo.

glad you didn't get electrocuted though.  hope the rest of the week is awesome!

[nirvana]

That sucks, not sure how the week could improve to make it better, but I genuinely hope it does

Chin up

It's bad but I'm fortunate, I can pay this stuff so can boil it down to 'it's just money'.. with a few days whining first anyway :-)

[nirvana]

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lol, that may be true for you but I normally run good :-)

heh.

the run good is having a car that can incur a 2.3k repair bill that's worth paying and a house with a garden big enough for a nice tree.  this is the variance kicking in yo.

glad you didn't get electrocuted though.  hope the rest of the week is awesome!

Spot on

[EvilPie]

Hilarious

[gatso]

just do the tree next week. that's this week's costs halved. no need to thank me

[WPIL]

Re the Tree - had one taken out a few years when we moved into our new house (2007?) and it cost £200 think it was local contractor in Garston and they took it away
Re your bad week - anytime I've seen you, you are always in a good mood, happy, smiley so I am sure you will bounce back - prob due a final table next week perhaps!
Hope to join you there

[nirvana]

just do the tree next week. that's this week's costs halved. no need to thank me

This is excellent, plus I have 14 days to pay the fine so basically I'm getting all het up about nothing

[nirvana]

Re the Tree - had one taken out a few years when we moved into our new house (2007?) and it cost £200 think it was local contractor in Garston and they took it away
Re your bad week - anytime I've seen you, you are always in a good mood, happy, smiley so I am sure you will bounce back - prob due a final table next week perhaps!
Hope to join you there

ALways wondered who the WPIL was and never got round to asking - who are you ?

Garston's close, Ima look up contractors there

[tikay]

just do the tree next week. that's this week's costs halved. no need to thank me

Genius - gatters saves Glenn over £2,000 in a week. Incredible value.

 

[tikay]

a) My car broke down a few weeks ago, 1 hour on motorway, soaked on one rainy day in god knows how long (with allied risk of short circuiting myself). BMW dealer suggests timing chains might be broken. Anyone who knows the modern diesel engine on the 3 series knows this is fairly major. Oh shit.

Pay car dude to move to another shop. Coupla weeks later - confirmed, car fixed bill is £2300

b) In August I got pulled for speeding, paid the conditional offer and was pretty teed off with myself as barring motorways I'm normlly pretty religious about observing speed limts.

It was returned a few weeks later as I'd only sent the paper license, they couldn't accept payment as they need the photocard too. Couldn't find it and had to apply to DVLA. By the time I got it I had already received a letter saying the case was being referred to magistrates and there could be no correspondence. Did the guilty by post thing for a court date of 26/3. Then received a letter saying I had to attend instead - today. Thought they'd seen the amazing clarity of my case begging for the fine not to be increased due to circs etc.

At court I summarised my mitigation - ie I paid, it was returned, by the time I could pay the case had already been referred. In summary, I didn't try to avoid payment but cirucmstances blah blah. I was thinking what a good job I did and the bench seemed smiley and caring, except for the bastardo in the middle

She didnt really listen, i asked if she listened but she moved on to the fine of £615 pretty swiftly. I said that was very expensive for losing a photocrd. She said they don't have much discretion. I then ranted  a bit. Joke, idiots, why are they called a court if they have no discretion, how much had she raised this week, why was the offence of losing a photocard 10 x that of speeding. By this time she asked if she could speak and I said something along the lines of 'I don't really give a shit'. She had the last laugh though as she mentioned the 5 points on the license.

I did an Oliver and requested 'make it more, why not'. At least she didn't take me up on that

Cost £615 + 5 pts

c) I need a tree removed. A tree. A big one mind. One that needs expert attention.

Experts are expensive - total cost first quote £2900

One week -£5815, + 5 pts

Aah, that was cathartic - crying a bit but I'll be OK

I would so loved to have witnessed the Glenn rant.

Did you offer her the Car Park?

[smashedagain]

Oh man, just got all excited having seen this. Thought it might have blown down in the night. It's bloody windy up here