Smile of the day - What is yours?

Originally Posted by Littlepeahead

A while back Mr LPH decided he knew better than the parking sensors, in a car park, resulting in a big scrape to the front wing and bumper. We were quoted £1500 from the first company. Then found a local chap, he did a fantastic repair and re spray, he also fixed all the little dents where people have opened their car doors onto our car, sorted out the stone chips on the bonnet, even washed the car. The cost? £195.

Genuinely nice man to deal with too.

Was he Polish? Genuine question.
I only ask because I was quoted £400 to have a big dent sorted out.
Called at another garage to be greeted by a nice Polish guy who quoted me £80!
He was rammed with work but said he'd do it within the week, which he did, and a very nice job too!

[timwilky]

Sign outside my local as I drove past this morning.


"If you only want one drink, go to communion"

The landlady gripes about those who have spent all their brass elsewhere turning up at last orders expecting to get a late one.

[Sir Trev]

Pedestrians. This nearly went in the Gripe thread but in reality pedestrians make me laugh. When you're gently cycling down a town centre road and a headphone-and-hoodie-wearing ped' steps off a pavement into your path just a metre or so ahead of you a quick tinkle on the bell and avoiding action usually suffices. When the by now jolly startled ped' starts shouting obscenities at you for "not looking where you're going" I usually shout back to perhaps "practice what you preach" as I did this morning on my way back from the Post Office - one doddery old lady glared at me as if I were the devil for daring to be cycling on a road but I could see several other people laughing at the ped' for being a numpty. When another blind ped' crossed a cycle path in front of me a few minutes later without bothering to see if there were any cycles on it the same thing happened - this time I could hear a jolly sensible white van man laugh at the ped' telling him the different coloured tarmac, prolific blue signs everywhere, the outline of a bicycle painted on the ground and the warning sign right beside him were quite a clue as to his lack of intelligence quotient (albeit in a slightly more Anglo Saxon way). Brightened up my day a little.

[DarrenSV650S]

Trev do you ever watch any of RJ's pedestrian reaction videos?

https://youtu.be/9avNDbrZm4w

https://youtu.be/xik_PTaiRzM

Point me to this man forthwith! My BMW needs some tlc paintwise, and i don't mind rewarding good work even if i have to travel to get it done.

Seriously though, good tradesmen should be rewarded by recommendation.

Originally Posted by Littlepeahead

A while back Mr LPH decided he knew better than the parking sensors, in a car park, resulting in a big scrape to the front wing and bumper. We were quoted £1500 from the first company. Then found a local chap, he did a fantastic repair and re spray, he also fixed all the little dents where people have opened their car doors onto our car, sorted out the stone chips on the bonnet, even washed the car. The cost? £195.

Genuinely nice man to deal with too.

[Littlepeahead]

He's in Witham, Essex, so not that far from you.

[Sir Trev]

Originally Posted by DarrenSV650S

Trev do you ever watch any of RJ's pedestrian reaction videos?

https://youtu.be/9avNDbrZm4w

https://youtu.be/xik_PTaiRzM

(Un?)fortunately my elderly Raleigh commuter hybrid doesn't have the same sort of raspy bark to its exhaust to help let blind peds' realise I'm there. It's more of a wheezing permanently-out-of-breath type of noise...

[pookie]

Add an air horn !

[andrewsmith]

Or stick an air tank on and fog horn

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[Kenzie]

Hey LPH, does he do rust repair?