Mayday! Mayday! Wifey suggests selling bike!!

Still a bit of an open sore eh Marty?
Clem

 

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If trees had cunts women wouldn't have a friend in the world!
Clem

 

lol

 

Hehehehe also add Professions and correlations.
HTH

 

Time to buy another viffer!

 

Next my mother will get in on the act and my brother will follow

Then just tell them the same thing **** OFF!

Take it out and wash it and say if you want a car go get it

 

It's OK Dale; the ledger is still 124,733 to 27 in favour of "their" so
every little bit helps!
("There" is the absolute leader on 2,143,772)
Clem

 

It'll heal up when the kid turns 18... in about 2016.

Nev..
'03 ZX12R
'02 CBR1100XX

 

Can you divorce an entire family and get a new one that likes bikes?

 

I'm soooooo glad you added that last bit....

Nurses, ambos and doctors see the worst of every side of life, not just
bikes. Probably because we see the end result of many forms of behaviour
end up in the emergency room or worse. And we see more of it - how many
nasty bike,car or powertool accidents does the average non-hospital-worker
see in a year, compared with what comes through the doors of a major city
hospital? And if you do see a nasty crash, what sort of psychological
effect does it have on you? Imagine that multiplied by probably 40 or 50 or
100 a year...

Of course, the converse is often true too - give em good examples! We used
to cop heaps about riding from our fellow nurses and the docs, particularly
the orthopaedic and plastics/reconstructive ones. Now, years later, a lot
of them are thoroughly corrupted, to the extent of getting their own bikes
(had a ride organised from work last year, there were around 20 bikes
there), and the others have come to grudgingly accept that riding a bike
isn't necessarily a trip to an early grave or the orthopaedic ward, and in
fact are envious. They have seen that it is possible to ride a bike and not
end up with limbs full of metal, that you can go out, do a big trip, have a
great time, and not get hurt. Slow process, but positive reinforcement does
work!

 

Perhaps you could try......

"You know, maybe you're right dear, but to keep me sane, we should get maybe
another, cheaper bike for me. I saw this one in the paper the other day, it
needed new brakes, a new exhaust, and the head needed redoing, but it came
with 3 other complete bikes for spares. 4 for the price of 1, how good is
that. Of couse we'd have to move the car out into the street so I had more
room to work on it in the garage, but that's ok, we'll just keep the
umbrellas near the door for when it rains."

If you get that far without being interrupted with something along the lines
of "you know, maybe you should just keep the bike you already have" then
you've got REAL problems, and should get out now!!!

 

At which point more storage space is sourced and the cycle
continues....right?

--James
ZZR250==>ZX9R
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A random quote of nothing:

BOFH excuse #290:

The CPU has shifted, and become decentralized.

 

Cool - this is the best line of attack I've seen so far

Don't get me wrong, I love my wife but I know she hates my bike. So all the
"replace wife" type ideas (whilst mostly humourous) don't really fit my
long term plans for happy families. We need a compromise - so like you
suggest, make KEEPING the bike the compromise and everyone is happy and
balance is restored to the force.

--James
ZZR250==>ZX9R
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A random quote of nothing:

The only solution is ... a balance of power. We arm our side with exactly
that much more. A balance of power -- the trickiest, most difficult,
dirtiest game of them all. But the only one that preserves both sides.
-- Kirk, "A Private Little War", stardate 4211.8

 

just got worse......my parents are suporting her

mh

 

Just leave the yellow pages by the phone, opened to the divorce lawyers page, with a few numbers circled. Next to that,
leave a bike catalogue, with a few bikes circled. Draw smiley faces on both. She'll get the idea!

Damien
GPX250 (stolen) -> CBR600

 

by the sounds of it you are up for a new kitchen ,bathroom or whatever
it is to keep her happy

that's called compromise

 

Now start spelling "correlation" correctly and I won't have to jump on a
plane to come down there to pull your fingernails out one by one.

IK,
who spends all bloody day calculating cross- and autocorrelations among
signals which otherwise look like the EEG of someone who'd just ridden an R1
for the first time.

 

PROFESSIONS

 

look out

Smee and IK on the loose with the big red pen

 

Jules beat me to it...