What made you feel good today?

[Citroënbender]

A few moments there could have been excruciating if they’d gone badly.

[Tonz]

someone mentioned a bike.
Was there a bike there? motor push? confused I was watching something else move graciously

Filled my ride up with diesel.. still had enough in the bank for $2 worth of hot chips

[Tassie f100]

Originally Posted by TrVrPhiLpsiNdstrys

Filled my ride up with diesel.. still had enough in the bank for $2 worth of hot chips

Your tank must be smaller than mine or you have a bigger bank account.lol

[marty351]

Originally Posted by TrVrPhiLpsiNdstrys

Filled my ride up with diesel.. still had enough in the bank for $2 worth of hot chips

$2 for hot chips!? Now that would make me feel good!

[sneaky]

Originally Posted by marty351

$2 for hot chips!? Now that would make me feel good!

it was probably only 3 chips

[.:4:.]

So tuesdays is the day i go for dinner with my kid. My mum orginises it because as much as she dislikes... anyhow. I got on to her early to say its Melbourne cup day so no chance of getting a table for dinner.
So i really dislike crowded and noisy places/situations. So i said no for today. It was 2 against 1, my kid chimed in. So i was ganged up on.
So to remove a busy place full of drunk idiots, i said I'll get the food and we'll do a picnic at the park.
My kid wanted to do rc anyways.
So i got korean chicken and some sides. So 3 times what i would order for myself, as 3 people were eating. My kid liked it. My mum, she is built like a twig. She went hard.
So my kid liked it, my mum oddly enough really liked it.
What i liked the most was not being in a noisy space. On most normal tuesdays my local isnt packed or noisy, and good meals plus drinks for 3 people is around $70.
But i cannot deal with crowds of people, so yeah, food was $96, but the food was good and it was peaceful. Yes i didnt tell my mum what i spent on food, she would kill me.

[marty351]

Ironically, Macca's had $1 large fries today. And of course I only just learned of this.

[FoxtrotGolfXray 5.0]

Originally Posted by marty351

Ironically, Macca's had $1 large fries today. And of course I only just learned of this.

Yeah, but those things are not the same as chips! IMHO.

[marty351]

How very conceited.

[Citroënbender]

Originally Posted by FoxtrotGolfXray 5.0

Yeah, but those things are not the same as chips! IMHO.

Which means it’s OK to have both on the same day! Just like manoush and Italian pizza; one doesn’t exclude the other later on.

[marty351]

Souvlaki & Kebabs. It's all in the meat. Mostly.

[five 7]

Crowdy Bay campsite. Things don't get any better.

[five 7]

"Correction" Indian Head campsite Crowdy Bay.

[Citroënbender]

Watched a soft, pinky-orange sunrise after letting the cat out to do his business. Managed nearly five hours’ sound sleep overnight - a win. Today is a “car stuff” day, first full one for two weeks.

[jaydee]

Originally Posted by Citroënbender

Watched a soft, pinky-orange sunrise after letting the cat out to do his business. Managed nearly five hours’ sound sleep overnight - a win. Today is a “car stuff” day, first full one for two weeks.

Is that you slowsnake?

[.:4:.]

I like native animals. Today in my backyard there was a healthy looking blue tongue lizard cruising about. I left it alone to do whatever it does, it wasnt hurting anything. Its not something seen too often in a suburban backyard.

[Citroënbender]

Seeing the back of an FG Falcon yesterday. It was one job I really didn’t need in my life; hopefully problems now sorted.

[ford71V8]

Had a small win with the wifes car.
Fan for Heat/ac was intermittently operating. Intermittent faults can be painful but all good so far.
I of course removed far more trim then necessary which added time but all back together

[.:4:.]

So i do not condone bullying.
Anyrate, at dinner with my kid who is in year 7, he often talks about what other kids get in trouble for for bullying. Man kids are soft these days. So i never tell my kid what we used to get upto back in my day. Dont want to salt his mind.
Anyhoo, my mum was out with us, she is a retired teacher so understands bullying and such.
My kid was telling a lame story of how a kid got in trouble for bullying because he changed the colour of the bic 4 colour pen of the kid on the desk beside from blue to red.
Yawn..
Surprisingly my mum didnt get up me for telling my kid this one. So the weakest bullying thing we did back in my day. School camp. There was a high ropes course. One bloke was deathly afraid of heights but didnt want to get teased so did it anyways. He froze up top. Took 4 staff to get him down safely. We didnt tease him about that at all. He just earnt the nickname ropes. So mental ****ery as for the next few years in passing every school day people would say hi ropes.
After that story my kid thought that was cruel. My mum apologied for laughing, then said its mean but pretty smart.

[FTE217]

Hehe good one 4.
Yer I avoid telling my kids as they grew up what I got up to for today they’d consider it near on jailing material lol…….

I had forgotten what a good feeling it is helping out a frustrated angry consumer today.
I used to be a lot more involved in our customer service long ago amongst many other tasks but I always loved being at the coal face.
Today this guy was so ****ed due to 2 things.
Somehow our website contact section emails weren’t getting through to our team plus it was a eBay purchase that this company didn’t respond to his needs as well.
Somehow he got through to us and I jumped to call him.
2 times it rung out with no msg bank option so I tried again late today.
I let him go saying his peace as you do then I explained the circumstances and gave him the satisfaction he expected for it’s no skin imo keeping a consumer happy instead of not - the cost in the big picture is stuff all and far more worth his word of mouth amongst his network onwards.
Next he tells me the eBay crowd came back with an apology and advised unfortunately they found out the product has a 12mth Warranty.
Well that’s great Not - the product has a 3yr warranty !! I advised him.
Tells you how much to be careful buying on the net.
Funnily he could have bought our same product from local outlets but obviously eBay you save some bucks.
This could have had serious repercussions for us being originally he was going paste all the probs he had originally on his SM and all.
I see a lot of eBay stores selling our product/s and wonder wtf they buy it from for its not from us - maybe some of our distributors but you can also buy excess stocks from companies online etcetc trouble is we can’t control any of this.
Big picture is this guy is happy as Larry, had a great discussion with him and he’s already sent Thankyou emails and appreciated talking to someone instead of the fibre hwy.
Made my day.


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[.:4:.]

I used to work in a service role. And providing a solution was satisfying.
So say a customer had something that was no longer in production that had died. Called a few other places who sent people out that all said nope, cant get that...
So get the call, heaps salty client as they are sick of hearing no, and you say yep, cant get that anymore, however. So you give the options. All of a sudden the salty client turns into your best friend. If a product is no longer made, thats just that, but dont just say no, there is usually some form of newer replacement.
So, the reason i ended up having so many good clients. Well, solutions. If theres an issue thats within the job description, if others say no, they're in the wrong industry.

[ford71V8]

High ropes !

[marty351]

Reported for bullying*

[champ]

I just watched the "last 24 hours" Ford video again when they produced the last falcon just before Ford left the country - again LOL. Love it every time! Makes me so proud to have grown up with Ford and to have been lucky enough to own Fords all my life and have been a part of it!

[tbro4123]

Originally Posted by .:4:.

I like native animals. Today in my backyard there was a healthy looking blue tongue lizard cruising about. I left it alone to do whatever it does, it wasnt hurting anything. Its not something seen too often in a suburban backyard.

Like these blokes? Thankfully the developers didn't distroy everything and over 20 years the flora and fauna has recovered including the brown wiggly ones. Also helps no cats running around.







Scared the youknowwhats out of me when I just glance around and saw his head only, he was in the house but not anymore.





This one lives outside and is a champion bug catcher


We occasionally have carpet snakes come visiting the neighbours and eating their birds but hey "that's life" unless your the bird.


Terry aka Tbro

[Citroënbender]

My elderly neighbour had a fall the other week, ten days in hospital and they paroled her late Friday afternoon. We get along well because we’re both socialist ratbags, she was raised in the Riverina during the Depression - knows the landscape and frugality firsthand.

It’s just nice to have someone decent next door. I didn’t mind one bit sitting with her in the hospital most of Friday while they finalised discharge, and bringing her home in the Territory.

[jaydee]

Dog was going nuts outside.
Checked and found a monitor goanna about a metre plus long clinging to the brickwork for dear life.
I live in suburbia, where'd he come from, don't even get bob tails.
Anyway, got a towel, grabbed him up, put him in a zip up bag and took him for a drive.
There's a national park a few kays away with lots of bush and wet land, dropped him off there.
He bolted, good luck mate.

[.:4:.]

Knocked something low down on my eventually list today.
So the sunbed/engine cover/ heaps of storage space cover on my boat has 2 gas struts. Many years ago one of the ball things the gas strut attaches to snapped. Simple, turns out the wreckers had 7000 of them as theyre the same as a falcon. So was that.
So a long time ago, the ball thing snapped off on the other side. Not the end of the world as 1 gas strut will hold up the engine cover, but 2 is more then 1.
I had a spare ball thing for the gas strut. Didnt go to scientific removing the broken bit from the engine cover, vice grips and a nut ****er. A socket and ratchet would be too polite. That bit was easy. The corroded broken off bit in the cup of the gas shock¿. Last time it was simple, pop the clip out and tap it out. Not this time. It was in there. So drilled it out and worked it out, casualties being 1 snapped screwdriver and 1 snapped drill bit, so not terrible. Wrangled the gas strut onto the new ball, this thing is strong and a lot longer then that of say a bonnet strut. But got that bad chicken on, clip back in. Happy days.