Random Rants 79: [Impassionating Intensifies]

[tjs282]

Both our boys 'decided' to grow too big for their old bikes over the last 6 months, so this morning we all pedalled over to the bike shop on the other side of town (about 7.5 km each way), and laid out a little over 900 Euros on 2 new(ish) bikes, plus assorted upsold extras (pannier rack, bike lock, chain-brush, and a new pair of bike-gloves for me).

Spoiler :

As an extra service (for a small percentage, naturally!), the shop offers to sell on unwanted bikes, so the boys left their old bikes there and rode home on the new ones; if the old bikes really do get sold for the salesman's price-estimates, we should (eventually) get about 80-90 Euro back, which is better than a kick in the teeth.

But that is not my rant.

My rant is that when I went to do the usual Saturday grocery-run (about an hour after we got back from the bike shop), there were no accessible spaces left on the supermarket bike rack. So I left my bike locked and balanced on its kickstand at the end of the row. Yeah, I know, not the best idea, but I didn't have a decent alternative, and I've got away with doing it more than once in the past. Not this time though.

Because while I was inside, some jerkwad piece of **** crashed past/into my parked bike hard enough to knock it over sideways, snapping off the plastic eyelet at the fork-end of the mudgard-support, and bending the front mounting-bracket for that support outwards by about 45°, leaving the front mudguard swinging loose. And never mind hanging around to offer to pay for the damage (I'm willing to bet that I will have to buy a whole new mudguard, just to obtain the one small plastic fitting that actually needs to be replaced), or even just to apologise, that careless, clumsy, inconsiderate arse-monkey left my bike laying where it had fallen*, and scarpered.

Spoiler * :

Increasing the jerk-factor another couple of notches, they'd knocked the bike so hard that it was now lying inside the bounds of the adjacent disabled-only parking-space, blocking it.

Once I got home I spent the next hour or so dismounting the broken pieces, hammering both the brackets back into shape, and then straightening, cutting, and re-bending an old wire coathanger into an improvised replacement support. It's not pretty, but it should stop the mudguard hitting the wheel while I'm riding, at least until I can get back to a bike shop to buy the replacement parts (it was nearly 5 pm when I got done, so the shops were already shut(ting).

I really hate people sometimes...

 

[Birdjaguar]

Sorry for such bad news. ^^^

 

[Timsup2nothin]

Condolences @tjs282, but fwiw the condolences are tempered with relief because I was pretty sure the story was going to end with your bicycle in the back of someone's pickup truck and you walking home.

 

[Timsup2nothin]

Rant: I did a small plumbing job yesterday without considering the consequences of lying on my back with my shoulders in a cabinet and my ass on the floor. Today I can barely move, and tomorrow is likely to be worse rather than better.

EDIT: So Syns liked this post and now I'm left wondering if he is approving my writing skills or enjoying my discomfort...

 

[Birdjaguar]

Rant: I did a small plumbing job yesterday without considering the consequences of lying on my back with my shoulders in a cabinet and my ass on the floor. Today I can barely move, and tomorrow is likely to be worse rather than better.

EDIT: So Syns liked this post and now I'm left wondering if he is approving my writing skills or enjoying my discomfort...

That is always a question when liking rants. Are we being sadistic or approving someone's sharing? There is lots of liking going on in rant threads.... Maybe rant thread etiquette needs a thread.

 

[Snerk]

I for one take great satisfaction in knowing that Tim is in pain.

 

[Birdjaguar]

I for one take great satisfaction in knowing that Tim is in pain.

One vote for the sadist party.

 

[Synobun]

Rant: I did a small plumbing job yesterday without considering the consequences of lying on my back with my shoulders in a cabinet and my ass on the floor. Today I can barely move, and tomorrow is likely to be worse rather than better.

EDIT: So Syns liked this post and now I'm left wondering if he is approving my writing skills or enjoying my discomfort...

Commiseration, mostly.

When I was installing a bidet last month I realized the tube connecting the valve to the toilet was rigid despite being plastic, but I decided to try and bend it enough to fit regardless. It didn't work, but I spent 4 hours in that bathroom trying to make it work since I had already taken everything apart and didn't want to give up. Getting a breather, bending back over, getting a breather, bending back over, again and again because I wouldn't take failure as an option. By the end of it I was nearly delirious with the pain/overheating. I had the door closed and the mirror was completely fogged up, and the sweat was literally dripping off me.

I still ended up giving up, and I sadly put everything back together and had to pay for a plumber to come by and replace the tube and install the bidet. I didn't leave my bed at all for four or five days afterwards. I didn't have the good sense to realize that if something as simple as a basic chore can possibly have long-term consequences, I really should not have been bending myself into difficult-to-reach places again and again for hours, even if I really did want to accomplish something myself.

Anyways, liked your post because of shared misery.

 

[Timsup2nothin]

Commiseration, mostly.

When I was installing a bidet last month I realized the tube connecting the valve to the toilet was rigid despite being plastic, but I decided to try and bend it enough to fit regardless. It didn't work, but I spent 4 hours in that bathroom trying to make it work since I had already taken everything apart and didn't want to give up. Getting a breather, bending back over, getting a breather, bending back over, again and again because I wouldn't take failure as an option. By the end of it I was nearly delirious with the pain/overheating. I had the door closed and the mirror was completely fogged up, and the sweat was literally dripping off me.

I still ended up giving up, and I sadly put everything back together and had to pay for a plumber to come by and replace the tube and install the bidet. I didn't leave my bed at all for four or five days afterwards. I didn't have the good sense to realize that if something as simple as a basic chore can possibly have long-term consequences, I really should not have been bending myself into difficult-to-reach places again and again for hours, even if I really did want to accomplish something myself.

Anyways, liked your post because of shared misery.

Thanks Bro. @Snerk I will deal with you later.

 

[Tristan_C]

It's a shame to hear about Jeffrey Epstein's suicide. I understand he was in a position to name a lot of very wealthy and powerful people as rapists or pedophiles. That would have been awful for them. During the three hours in which cell guards were sent away from the area and cameras disabled so that maintenance could be performed, there was simply a convergence of unacceptable factors which eventually led to his suicide: hateful right wing rhetoric, new tariffs on China, Confederate statues, assault weapons, /pol/, her emails, Trump, Russians, and as always, racism. My thoughts and prayers go out to the victim and his family.

 

[Arakhor]

I can guess at the others, but uh, how did Chinese tariffs and assault weapons lead to Epstein's suicide?

 

[Valka D'Ur]

I can guess at the others, but uh, how did Chinese tariffs and assault weapons lead to Epstein's suicide?

I don't know what this is about, but I'm guessing that the post was sarcastic and the prisoner's "suicide" was really murder that was covered up.

 

[Broken_Erika]

The Truth is in Her E-Mails! It's obviously the work of Obama, Hillary, Soros and Mr. Banghazi to prevent him from revealing the access code to the Democrat Pedophile bunker beneath that pizza shop!

 

[Takhisis]

@Snerk I will deal with you later.

Could we have a sneak preview?

 

[hobbsyoyo]

That is always a question when liking rants. Are we being sadistic or approving someone's sharing? There is lots of liking going on in rant threads.... Maybe rant thread etiquette needs a thread.

For me it's always commiseration and approving of the sharing aspect. If anyone was wondering. I never mean harm with liking rants.

 

[Tristan_C]

I don't know what this is about, but I'm guessing that the post was sarcastic and the prisoner's "suicide" was really murder that was covered up.

I'm 80 delta in favor of it being a suicide... but yeah...

 

[Synobun]

For me it's always commiseration and approving of the sharing aspect. If anyone was wondering. I never mean harm with liking rants.

I want you to know: any like I've given you was a direct attempt at causing you grievous harm.

 

[Takhisis]

*rubs hands* the Takhification of Vincour continues… his new name even has as many characters as Takhisis…

 

[Kaitzilla]

It's a shame to hear about Jeffrey Epstein's suicide. I understand he was in a position to name a lot of very wealthy and powerful people as rapists or pedophiles. That would have been awful for them. During the three hours in which cell guards were sent away from the area and cameras disabled so that maintenance could be performed, there was simply a convergence of unacceptable factors which eventually led to his suicide: hateful right wing rhetoric, new tariffs on China, Confederate statues, assault weapons, /pol/, her emails, Trump, Russians, and as always, racism. My thoughts and prayers go out to the victim and his family.

The most blatant murder in US history.


All the rich and powerful people can breathe easier now.

The guards and the warden all got a million in a Swiss bank account no doubt.

 

[The_J]

Every effing time.
Was yesterday at a Salsa party.
I managed to dance with a nice girl. Exactly my type, nice to talk to, educated, big boobs.
We chatted nicely, and it was early in the night. So I told myself that I will ask her for another dance later, and get her number then.
Next time I saw her when she was leaving early from the party with her female friends.
I really need to get my feces together and not postpone stuff. I have missed out on so many chances in this area because I said “next time“ or similar things, and the “next time“ then never happened.
I am angry at myself .