Post by rachelg on Jan 29, 2008 0:17:55 GMT -1
ahhhhhh here goes.....
sunday..
the day started well with a 2-1 win for matthews team,we were enjoying the rather blustery game,enjoying taking PHOTOS....innocent photos of our son and his fellow team members who love nothing better than to see their action packed picks up there on face book later in the day,for everyone to ponder over,debate the angle of the shot,and duly congratulate each other on what amazing football they played....NOTTTTTTTT.....my poor innocent hubby was told by the oposing teams manager and child protection officer to stop taking photos , he needed the permission of ALL the players parents to take pics!!!! most of the lads are over 18!!!
grrrrr very angry daddy doesnt like the new footy pervert label!!!
then....on to buy new car,much wanted and waited and saved for 4x4 to tow much wanted and waited for and saved for trailer.....ok some may say a bit strange that the man arranged to meet us in a mutual location ? some may say it strange to not have his name on the log book ? and some may say it strange that he drove it on our test drive ? some may even say it strange that he had 2/3 different homes........but we are very trusting people and he seemed nice so we decided to believe all his reasonable explainations.....the car was immaculate,beautifully kept,had 2 previous owners 1 of which was nottingham forest football club,full service history......john was impressed,i was somewhat daunted but i will get over it!
deposit left...
then.....on to meet middle son,who is borrasic broke,has no job and "had" sold his scooter for some much needed £ssssss....he needed to deliver the bike and we didnt want him in a "dodgy area" with just his girlfriend to pick him up...so we met him at his girlfriends parents house ,we went in,matthew arrived , he had parked his scooter outside,locked, we talked for less than 5 minutes went out and......................bingo.....it was gone...stolen.....wheeled away in less than 5 minutes!!!.....and guess what?
....all the documents were in the seat ready to hand over!!!...hahaha.....police werent very interested,yep stolen scooter,dodgy area,so what?
very devastated son....
then.....went to big brothers for some family TLC only to be nagged into believing that the man whom we had just left a deposit with was probably a dodgy geezer and the cars probably nicked......so panick set it,we rung the seller asked a few questions,did a hpi check and all seems well....phew.....momentarily pleased / relieved that perhaps we havent been the most stupid gullable idiot twits,we could have been!!!!!
monday..
bright and sunny....still very sad for the lovely scooter,but heyho get the insurance company rung........
bingo....youve won the booby prize......and todays booby prize is....the news that your only covered for THIRD PARTY....not 3rd party fire and theft...just third party...so no claim to be had.....
did you know that there is 3 catagories? well i didnt when I INSURED IT......
ok...now very late for work,ringing round checking this to be true and not being scammed by said insurance company,dvla,etc.....
so.......much later in the day.....john goes to fetch the much waited for anticipated 4x4......gets 200yds down the road and realises the brakes are stuffed,grinding,thumping,stuffed,so 3 point turn and goes back,points out this to the man who jumps in drives it round the block and not a single noise to be heard!!!!!....he tells john to go home in it and let him know.....he has come home in it and it grinded clunked and groaned all the way.......johns rung the chap up and to our astonishment he has agreed to have it back friday and take it to HIS mechanic who will look at it and do any repairs if necessary....we will wait and see shall we?? do we believe there is some hope or not
ahhh yes forgot the middle of the day.....john came home to find the firebrigade parked outside our house!!!.....matt had turned the "electric" hob on to cook some bacon and smoke came puthering out from under the hob unit,the smoke alarm in the other room (that he thought was a carbon monoxide alarm" went off and he thought he was either being gased or going to blow up......"electric hob".....ahem....hes 18 not 8yrs old......firemen were cool about it but said they thought the hob could be faulty maybe an electricall prob,so dearly beloved has taken it to pieces,cant find anything wrong and now cant put it back together again..!!!!!
so hows that sound for a great episode on.......
sunday..
the day started well with a 2-1 win for matthews team,we were enjoying the rather blustery game,enjoying taking PHOTOS....innocent photos of our son and his fellow team members who love nothing better than to see their action packed picks up there on face book later in the day,for everyone to ponder over,debate the angle of the shot,and duly congratulate each other on what amazing football they played....NOTTTTTTTT.....my poor innocent hubby was told by the oposing teams manager and child protection officer to stop taking photos , he needed the permission of ALL the players parents to take pics!!!! most of the lads are over 18!!!
grrrrr very angry daddy doesnt like the new footy pervert label!!!
then....on to buy new car,much wanted and waited and saved for 4x4 to tow much wanted and waited for and saved for trailer.....ok some may say a bit strange that the man arranged to meet us in a mutual location ? some may say it strange to not have his name on the log book ? and some may say it strange that he drove it on our test drive ? some may even say it strange that he had 2/3 different homes........but we are very trusting people and he seemed nice so we decided to believe all his reasonable explainations.....the car was immaculate,beautifully kept,had 2 previous owners 1 of which was nottingham forest football club,full service history......john was impressed,i was somewhat daunted but i will get over it!
deposit left...
then.....on to meet middle son,who is borrasic broke,has no job and "had" sold his scooter for some much needed £ssssss....he needed to deliver the bike and we didnt want him in a "dodgy area" with just his girlfriend to pick him up...so we met him at his girlfriends parents house ,we went in,matthew arrived , he had parked his scooter outside,locked, we talked for less than 5 minutes went out and......................bingo.....it was gone...stolen.....wheeled away in less than 5 minutes!!!.....and guess what?
....all the documents were in the seat ready to hand over!!!...hahaha.....police werent very interested,yep stolen scooter,dodgy area,so what?very devastated son....
then.....went to big brothers for some family TLC only to be nagged into believing that the man whom we had just left a deposit with was probably a dodgy geezer and the cars probably nicked......so panick set it,we rung the seller asked a few questions,did a hpi check and all seems well....phew.....momentarily pleased / relieved that perhaps we havent been the most stupid gullable idiot twits,we could have been!!!!!
monday..
bright and sunny....still very sad for the lovely scooter,but heyho get the insurance company rung........
bingo....youve won the booby prize......and todays booby prize is....the news that your only covered for THIRD PARTY....not 3rd party fire and theft...just third party...so no claim to be had.....
did you know that there is 3 catagories?
well i didnt when I INSURED IT......ok...now very late for work,ringing round checking this to be true and not being scammed by said insurance company,dvla,etc.....
so.......much later in the day.....john goes to fetch the much waited for anticipated 4x4......gets 200yds down the road and realises the brakes are stuffed,grinding,thumping,stuffed,so 3 point turn and goes back,points out this to the man who jumps in drives it round the block and not a single noise to be heard!!!!!....he tells john to go home in it and let him know.....he has come home in it and it grinded clunked and groaned all the way.......johns rung the chap up and to our astonishment he has agreed to have it back friday and take it to HIS mechanic who will look at it and do any repairs if necessary....we will wait and see shall we
?? do we believe there is some hope or not ahhh yes forgot the middle of the day.....john came home to find the firebrigade parked outside our house!!!.....matt had turned the "electric" hob on to cook some bacon and smoke came puthering out from under the hob unit,the smoke alarm in the other room (that he thought was a carbon monoxide alarm" went off and he thought he was either being gased or going to blow up......"electric hob".....ahem....hes 18 not 8yrs old......firemen were cool about it but said they thought the hob could be faulty maybe an electricall prob,so dearly beloved has taken it to pieces,cant find anything wrong and now cant put it back together again..!!!!!
so hows that sound for a great episode on.......
Here's to a sound running vehicle, some thief who decides to return the scooter and some better times ahead 
Believe me, after being on war duty, I sincerely doubt the bathroom situation will put him off. LOL, he'll consider everything posh to what he's been living with, and most importantly, he'll be surrounded by family 
