Smile of the day - What is yours?

[garynortheast]

Originally Posted by Luckypants

I've had my VFR parked up for the best part of two years due to house move and lack of interest.... Yesterday I cleared out some of the garage crap and found my optimate. 24hours later and my faithful steed fired up on the second time of asking. I feel the love stirring again...........

http://forums.sv650.org/showthread.php?t=227816

[DarrenSV650S]

A scary government letter was waiting for me when I got home today. But it turned out to be a nice little tax rebate of £118 which will go nicely towards replacing my punctured tyre. Yin Yang

[Bibio]

Originally Posted by DarrenSV650S

A scary government letter was waiting for me when I got home today. But it turned out to be a nice little tax rebate of £118 which will go nicely towards replacing my punctured tyre. Yin Yang

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[Red ones]

Nearly six score

[punyXpress]

Yin Yang tyres are schuyt

[DarrenSV650S]

Originally Posted by punyXpress

Yin Yang tyres are schuyt

I probably could have got 2 or 3 Yin Yang tyres with that payout

[Sir Trev]

This could have gone in the gripe thread but on balance it was more funny than annoying.

Spent the day in that London, escorting Lady Poppy to a course she'd booked at Canary Wharf, went to the fascinating and free Design Museum, yadda yadda and picked the good Lady up again at 4 for the journey home. So far so good. The tube from CW was pulling in as we got off the escalator, super, easy walk from Baker Street to Marylebone, walked straight on to the 16:50 service to Oxford with 2 minutes to spare. Not bad. Trouble is the driver forgot to stop at High Wycombe... Cue lots of angry people all around us calling people who were waiting to pick them up but silence from the driver - no announcement, no apology, nothing. Just as we pulled in to the next station we had a mumbled excuse about technology failures but come on mate, you forgot! The only redeeming thing is Chiltern Railways held the train that should have already left the next station so we could go straight back.

[punyXpress]

Did it stop @ H W on the way back ?

[Sir Trev]

Originally Posted by punyXpress

Did it stop @ H W on the way back ?

Thankfully yes. We puled in just the next train from Marylebone arrived so there were two trainloads of us all trying to get out of the station at once

[maviczap]

Originally Posted by Sir Trev

This could have gone in the gripe thread but on balance it was more funny than annoying.

Spent the day in that London, escorting Lady Poppy to a course she'd booked at Canary Wharf, went to the fascinating and free Design Museum, yadda yadda and picked the good Lady up again at 4 for the journey home. So far so good. The tube from CW was pulling in as we got off the escalator, super, easy walk from Baker Street to Marylebone, walked straight on to the 16:50 service to Oxford with 2 minutes to spare. Not bad. Trouble is the driver forgot to stop at High Wycombe... Cue lots of angry people all around us calling people who were waiting to pick them up but silence from the driver - no announcement, no apology, nothing. Just as we pulled in to the next station we had a mumbled excuse about technology failures but come on mate, you forgot! The only redeeming thing is Chiltern Railways held the train that should have already left the next station so we could go straight back.

So maybe the dispute on Southern railways is valid. Keep the guards on the train to remind the driver to stop!