View Full Version : Can't wait.
Now, normally I'm a very patient person.
No, really.
Honestly. I am, OK.
If I have to wait for something, be it in the post, or simply saving up I'm cool with that.
I can sit idly by on platforms waiting for a late train, though this is mainly as I'm probably happily occupied within my own head. :roll:
Even traffic jams don't get me in a fuss if I'm in the car.
But all these things are certainties; things that are going to happen or items I know I am goign to get.
However, now I am sitting here bugging myself up the wall whilst waiting on the possibility of someone saying yes so I can get something I want... next week.:smt026:smt090:smt026
Does anyone else get twitchy waiting for any single particular thing?
Mr Speirs
24-09-08, 01:49 PM
What you getting??
Depends on what it is... I mainly hate waiting in doctors surgery's as time seems stop in them.
What you getting??
Hopefully a saddle for my horse.
It's a really nice treeless one (a Heather Moffett one for the equine nerds out there ;)) that are normally about £1k - but there's one on eBay for £600.
Problem is it ends this evening and I know I don't have the money...
... but I will by the end of next week.
Sure, I could bid and then bum about delaying with posting a cheque etc, make weak excuses by email and basically faff until the middle of next week then send one...
... but I just can't bring myself to be that type of person. :oops:
So instead I've emailed them explaining up front why I haven't bid yet and would they either a) wait a week until I send a cheque, b) accept a post dated cheque or c) wait a week and as they are only a couple of junctions up the M1 I'll pop up and give them cash on collection.
Now, I trust me.:twisted: But I know it's a slim chance that they will. In the mean time it's sitting there with no bids on and taunting me. :(
I waited a whole month for my exhaust to arrive from the states, the whole time being told it would be with me the next day.
To tease me even more they sent me the wrong one first time around.
When the right one eventually got to the UK the delivery company lied and said they had tried to deliver it to my work (Where I had been sat everyday for a month watching vans come and go) In the end I just went to the depot and picked it up my self I got that impatient.
Worth the wait though.
I'd have just bidded and faffed about a bit.
I'd have just bidded and faffed about a bit.
That's because you, sir, are a tease.
A consumate tease. :cool:
That's because you, sir, are a tease.
A consumate tease. :cool:
I do try... now I just need to dig out the fake ebay ID and bid on all the 600 quid saddles I see.
HERE (http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=260288758567&_trksid=p3907.m32&_trkparms=tab%3DWatching), after all, I wouldn't want you to go to too much effort. ;)
Aaaany way - I don't mind waiting in the Doctor's. I have more than enough fun making up diseases that I think the other people in the waiting room are suffering from. :twisted:
dizzyblonde
24-09-08, 02:39 PM
I was like this at the weekend..knowing I was getting Pete n Lissas engine and loads of trick bits.. bouncing off the walls. Shame I still can't find that top yoke Im Indoors has hidden .. hmmmph
I'm so glad your going to get on your horse. Have you actually managed to ride him yet?
dirtydog
24-09-08, 02:44 PM
I'd have just bidded and faffed about a bit.
I would have done that as well :rolleyes::rolleyes:
I had a real fight or flight response to an ebay ad ending this week, waiting for my sniped bid to be placed and see if i'd won it, and for how much.
I didn't win it, but have since had a 2nd chance offer, but now I'm not so keen :smt102
I was like this at the weekend..knowing I was getting Pete n Lissas engine and loads of trick bits.. bouncing off the walls. Shame I still can't find that top yoke Im Indoors has hidden .. hmmmph
I'm so glad your going to get on your horse. Have you actually managed to ride him yet?
Now that I'd be Ok with - knowing the engine was going to get there eventually n stuff. Mind you, I think I too would be a tad frustrated knowing there was a top yoke in the house somewhere, just waiting to be used.;)
As for the horse, yeah - he's been gradually brought back into work over the past couple of months and is now getting quite fit. Problem is he can get very tense in the back and then resorts to pacing, which is what I'm trying to educate him out of... as well as the fact that he's changing shape/muscle growth etc so frequently that he's had three different saddles in the last 10 weeks!:shock:
High withers too so he's a begger to fit. :roll:
Hence the real need/want for this saddle.
Bah!
I think I may just go and attack my (somewhat) overgrown back lawn for a bit of violent therapy.:compress:
Id bid for it, then post the cheque the next day, cheques normally take 3 days to clear I beleive so if you won it tonite and posted it tomoz it would get picked up thurs night, possibly delivered by sat , in the bank poss monday cleared by weds maybe thurs, job done.:D
New pictures of your mucly steed required :cool:
I remember the first pictures then the pictures of him looking 10 x better.......if he's looking better than the last pics I'm impressed he looked huge and full of muscle then.
Live on the edge. Not bid for it then knock her on the price when it doesn't get sold ;)
missyburd
24-09-08, 03:26 PM
New pictures of your mucly steed required :cool:
+1 :D
Hope you get it K, it looks a lovely saddle. Just out of interest, is shopping for saddles much like clothes shopping on ebay i.e. is it difficult to tell how things will fit?
+1 :D
Hope you get it K, it looks a lovely saddle. Just out of interest, is shopping for saddles much like clothes shopping on ebay i.e. is it difficult to tell how things will fit?
Probably, does me ar$e look big in this ? ;)
Yay.
I got in from the yard at 8.07 (that auction finished at 8.05 :roll:) and it hadn't sold. I then get a message asking if I still wanted it... yadda yadda yadda... end result, she's actually going to be coming my way this weekend so will bring the saddle over so I can fit it you Leo - then if all's good I'll pay her a cash deposit with the rest in a post-dated cheque and she'll leave the saddle with me.
See - honesty pays - some people can be both trusted and trusting - and the world ain't that bad a place sometimes. :)
Oh, and this is my bad boy now:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v205/spazmutt/Leo/Leo0407081.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v205/spazmutt/Leo/Leo0407082.jpg
"Got an itch Mum."
+1 :D
Hope you get it K, it looks a lovely saddle. Just out of interest, is shopping for saddles much like clothes shopping on ebay i.e. is it difficult to tell how things will fit?
Yeah - which is why he's gone through so many - all have been ebay bargains for less than £100 - selling one to finance the next as he's changed shape.
At least now he'll have one that can alter with him and stop his chiropracter raising an eyebrow each time she see's him wondering what he'll be wearing next. ;)
dizzyblonde
24-09-08, 09:15 PM
He is looking absolutely brilliant. You really have done well. I remember the first thread when you said the owner had lost interest and left him. hadn't he been saved from death in the first place?
How old is he BTW?
busasean
24-09-08, 09:15 PM
lovely horse!! we used to have horses when I lived in Germany - still scare the **** out of me though!!! horses hate me and know when you are frightened of them! i cant see for the life of me why the saddle is so expensive? good luck with it.
I've been waiting 2 months for an SV...bloody date keeps changing!! >.<
He is looking absolutely brilliant. You really have done well. I remember the first thread when you said the owner had lost interest and left him. hadn't he been saved from death in the first place?
How old is he BTW?
Thanks - he has done me proud... which is all the more a snub to the daft bint who abandoned him. She saved him from the knacker with dreams of re-training him as a show-jumper and qualifying for the Horse of the Year Show or soemthing, then found out about his dodgy leg and gave up.
But the boy's come good for me and we've recently popped over the occasional 3' fence.:smt026 He loved it and is building up himself evenly without needing to compensate for his tripod nature. ;)
It's still early days, he'll hitch his foot forward with his hip rather than pick it up properly, but he's improving week on week.
All it costs me is time, dedication and a hell of a lot of reading up on physiotherapy and rehab... but he pay's me bak with interest and who knows - by the time I finish my degree I may even end up going down this path again as a career choice.
I cant see for the life of me why the saddle is so expensive? good luck with it.
Hand-made, quality craftsmanship and materials. Something lacking from may things these days.
Hand-made, quality craftsmanship and materials. Something lacking from may things these days.
My friend's father goes around the country training people in the art of saddle making (I'm sure there is another name for it, but can't for the life of me remember it). Put it this way, he earns enough just from the training to live comfortably and drive an M6. :)
dizzyblonde
24-09-08, 09:54 PM
All it costs me is time, dedication and a hell of a lot of reading up on physiotherapy and rehab... but he pay's me bak with interest .
He looks like he already is paying you back, in a whole load of ways. You really shoud be proud of yourself.
SoulKiss
24-09-08, 11:21 PM
Good news in getting the saddle :)
missyburd
25-09-08, 10:03 AM
Wow what a beauty he is! Congratulations K, you've certainly worked wonders, an amazing transformation :D
Blue_SV650S
25-09-08, 10:05 AM
I am very impatient* myself ...
*{double checks he typed that correctly and grunts manly like} :lol:
Blue_SV650S
25-09-08, 10:08 AM
Oh, and this is my bad boy now:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v205/spazmutt/Leo/Leo0407082.jpg
Looks like a girl horse to me ...
It also looks like it needs a few more pies ... . . . . .
Live on the edge. Not bid for it then knock her on the price when it doesn't get sold ;)
;)
Congrats you got it anyway :)
missyburd
25-09-08, 10:10 AM
it also looks like it needs a few more pies ... . . . . .
Have you seen what he looked like before? :rolleyes:
Blue_SV650S
25-09-08, 10:15 AM
Have you seen what he looked like before? :rolleyes:
Ah, just read some of the blurb (and remembered from before) ... he was abandoned/neglected horse ... :shock: .... I feel a bit bad now .. .. ... . :eek: ... only a bit mind!!! :D
Good on you for sorting him out K :kiss:
Yay.
Oh, and this is my bad boy now:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v205/spazmutt/Leo/Leo0407081.jpg
"Got an itch Mum."
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v205/spazmutt/Daz/P100063025.jpg
Give the lady a medal if you ask me.........congratulaions on both your efforts and winning the saddle.
http://forums.sv650.org/showthread.php?t=107372
Ah, just read some of the blurb (and remembered from before) ... he was abandoned/neglected horse ... :shock: .... I feel a bit bad now .. .. ... . :eek: ... only a bit mind!!! :D
Good on you for sorting him out K :kiss:
Hee hee - he does still need to put a bit of extra 'padding' over the ribs for this winter, but the remaining 50 kilos or so I would like to see him still gain should be made up with more muscle.:cool:
As for looking like a 'girl' horse - trust me, he'd make you feel like a 'little boy' if you were to compare. :smt047
So, of course, now I know I'm getting the saddle and just have to wait a couple of days I'm all cool n groovy...
... and also kinda bored and missing that twitchy little fit. :roll: No pleasing me is there!:D
MiniMatt
25-09-08, 03:30 PM
£600? Eeep! Horseys sure aint cheap...
... how much is a saddle for an SV650? Surely with an appropriately sized hammer....
...hmm, ok, nevermind :D
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