The breakdown was actually part of a Peugeot recall and cost work
nothing to fix.

So this weeks quiz is how many miles did I manage to drive after getting
the keys back until someone managed to drive into it?

Nearest answer will win nothing but I'll double my donation to Filey
RNLI (Jeff Layman's suggestion to donate to them).

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On 14/12/2022 04:49, ARW wrote:
> The breakdown was actually part of a Peugeot recall and cost work
> nothing to fix.
>
> So this weeks quiz is how many miles did I manage to drive after getting
> the keys back until someone managed to drive into it?
>
> Nearest answer will win nothing but I'll double my donation to Filey
> RNLI (Jeff Layman's suggestion to donate to them).
>
>
<1
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On 14/12/2022 04:49, ARW wrote:
> The breakdown was actually part of a Peugeot recall and cost work
> nothing to fix.
>
> So this weeks quiz is how many miles did I manage to drive after getting
> the keys back until someone managed to drive into it?
>
3 miles

> Nearest answer will win nothing but I'll double my donation to Filey
> RNLI (Jeff Layman's suggestion to donate to them).
>
>

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Probably a bit late to this, but my late father used to say that he would
swear that some days his car was invisible, and people seemed to always head
straight for the car. It did not matter what colour it was, but other times
all was good. Another phenomenon is the freshly repaired or new car
attraction syndrome, where it seemed that something would scrape the sides
or even the back during the days after it was first driven.

Myself, I think these are just variations of the laws of Mr Sod and Murphy.
A friend of mine came across this in a very expensive way some years ago.
She had bought herself a second hand aeroplane, and it had been serviced and
all systems tested. It was a Jodel, a very robust craft, but she still lost
it because on a flight from the Netherlands to Iceland a small hole or leak
of some kind developed in the fuel system and she had to ditch it in the sea
about a couple of hundred yards from the Icelandic coast. Insurance would
not pay up due to them saying that although she had paid her money, the
processing had not been finished. I think they eventually settled the claim,
but not in full.
So think of this the next time you get just a dent in a van.
Brian

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"ARW" <adamwadsworth@blueyonder.co.uk> wrote in message
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> The breakdown was actually part of a Peugeot recall and cost work nothing
> to fix.
>
> So this weeks quiz is how many miles did I manage to drive after getting
> the keys back until someone managed to drive into it?
>
> Nearest answer will win nothing but I'll double my donation to Filey RNLI
> (Jeff Layman's suggestion to donate to them).
>
>
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> Adam

I'd suspect a few hundred yards before somebody trying to do a three point
turn in the end of a turning reversed into the side of it, despite having
sensors.
Do you know a guy reversed into my leg once, in his haste to turn his
clamping wagon round to put a clamp on a vehicle in the opposite turning.
Luckily he did not break anything, I was just bruised. It reminds me of that
bloke whose insurance clame said. The streetlight was out and I backed into
my neighbours drive by mistake and collided with a tree I don't have.
Brian

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"The Natural Philosopher" <tnp@invalid.invalid> wrote in message
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> On 14/12/2022 04:49, ARW wrote:
>> The breakdown was actually part of a Peugeot recall and cost work nothing
>> to fix.
>>
>> So this weeks quiz is how many miles did I manage to drive after getting
>> the keys back until someone managed to drive into it?
>>
> 3 miles
>
>> Nearest answer will win nothing but I'll double my donation to Filey RNLI
>> (Jeff Layman's suggestion to donate to them).
>>
>>
>
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> If I had all the money I've spent on drink...
> ..I'd spend it on drink.
>
> Sir Henry (at Rawlinson's End)
>

On 14/12/2022 04:49, ARW wrote:
> The breakdown was actually part of a Peugeot recall and cost work
> nothing to fix.
>
> So this weeks quiz is how many miles did I manage to drive after getting
> the keys back until someone managed to drive into it?
>
> Nearest answer will win nothing but I'll double my donation to Filey
> RNLI (Jeff Layman's suggestion to donate to them).
>
>

22?
Mike

On 14/12/2022 04:49, ARW wrote:
> The breakdown was actually part of a Peugeot recall and cost work
> nothing to fix.
>
> So this weeks quiz is how many miles did I manage to drive after getting
> the keys back until someone managed to drive into it?
>
> Nearest answer will win nothing but I'll double my donation to Filey
> RNLI (Jeff Layman's suggestion to donate to them).
>
>

0 - on the basis that in this weather even the best of drivers could hit
it where it was parked ready for you

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ztpoEgTUQDc

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On 14/12/2022 14:02, Robin wrote:
> On 14/12/2022 04:49, ARW wrote:
>> The breakdown was actually part of a Peugeot recall and cost work
>> nothing to fix.
>>
>> So this weeks quiz is how many miles did I manage to drive after
>> getting the keys back until someone managed to drive into it?
>>
>> Nearest answer will win nothing but I'll double my donation to Filey
>> RNLI (Jeff Layman's suggestion to donate to them).
>>
>>
>
> 0 - on the basis that in this weather even the best of drivers could hit
> it where it was parked ready for you
>

Zero. Someone reversed into whilst I was collecting the keys from the
office.

On 14/12/2022 17:58, ARW wrote:
> On 14/12/2022 14:02, Robin wrote:
>> On 14/12/2022 04:49, ARW wrote:
>>> The breakdown was actually part of a Peugeot recall and cost work
>>> nothing to fix.
>>>
>>> So this weeks quiz is how many miles did I manage to drive after
>>> getting the keys back until someone managed to drive into it?
>>>
>>> Nearest answer will win nothing but I'll double my donation to Filey
>>> RNLI (Jeff Layman's suggestion to donate to them).
>>>
>>>
>>
>> 0 - on the basis that in this weather even the best of drivers could
>> hit it where it was parked ready for you
>>
>
>
> Zero. Someone reversed into whilst I was collecting the keys from the
> office.
>
a wummmin no doubt

On 14/12/2022 18:20, Jim gm4dhj ... wrote:
> On 14/12/2022 17:58, ARW wrote:
>> On 14/12/2022 14:02, Robin wrote:
>>> On 14/12/2022 04:49, ARW wrote:
>>>> The breakdown was actually part of a Peugeot recall and cost work
>>>> nothing to fix.
>>>>
>>>> So this weeks quiz is how many miles did I manage to drive after
>>>> getting the keys back until someone managed to drive into it?
>>>>
>>>> Nearest answer will win nothing but I'll double my donation to Filey
>>>> RNLI (Jeff Layman's suggestion to donate to them).
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>> 0 - on the basis that in this weather even the best of drivers could
>>> hit it where it was parked ready for you
>>>
>>
>>
>> Zero. Someone reversed into whilst I was collecting the keys from the
>> office.
>>
> a wummmin no doubt

Could be anything these days

http://wiki.diyfaq.org.uk/index.php/File:GNtoilets.jpg

is next to the same sex toilets.

What's the difference?

All the troughs have gone so you have to piss in the sink.

Someone reversed out of a parking space today, and stopped within a
couple of inches of hitting us. If they had hit us, even just damaging a
couple of panels would probably have written off our car, as it's over
16 years old.

On 14/12/2022 17:58, ARW wrote:
> On 14/12/2022 14:02, Robin wrote:
>> On 14/12/2022 04:49, ARW wrote:
>>> The breakdown was actually part of a Peugeot recall and cost work
>>> nothing to fix.
>>>
>>> So this weeks quiz is how many miles did I manage to drive after
>>> getting the keys back until someone managed to drive into it?
>>>
>>> Nearest answer will win nothing but I'll double my donation to Filey
>>> RNLI (Jeff Layman's suggestion to donate to them).
>>>
>>>
>>
>> 0 - on the basis that in this weather even the best of drivers could
>> hit it where it was parked ready for you
>>
>
>
> Zero. Someone reversed into whilst I was collecting the keys from the
> office.
>
And with your run of luck with vans they probably then argued it was all
your fault 'cos you shouldn't have parked it there.

ISTM the fund in need of donations is the
make-it-a-big-one-after-another-bloody-day-like-that

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On Thu, 15 Dec 2022 09:05:56 +1100, Robin <rbw@outlook.com> wrote:

> On 14/12/2022 17:58, ARW wrote:
>> On 14/12/2022 14:02, Robin wrote:
>>> On 14/12/2022 04:49, ARW wrote:
>>>> The breakdown was actually part of a Peugeot recall and cost work
>>>> nothing to fix.
>>>>
>>>> So this weeks quiz is how many miles did I manage to drive after
>>>> getting the keys back until someone managed to drive into it?
>>>>
>>>> Nearest answer will win nothing but I'll double my donation to Filey
>>>> RNLI (Jeff Layman's suggestion to donate to them).
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>> 0 - on the basis that in this weather even the best of drivers could
>>> hit it where it was parked ready for you
>>>
>> Zero. Someone reversed into whilst I was collecting the keys from the
>> office.
>>
> And with your run of luck with vans they probably then argued it was all
> your fault 'cos you shouldn't have parked it there.

Likely he didnt, that's why he had to get the keys from the office.

> ISTM the fund in need of donations is the
> make-it-a-big-one-after-another-bloody-day-like-that

I was not all that wrong then about reversing into it. I suppose most
vehicles are made of cheap plastic around the backs these days makes since.
Brian

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"ARW" <adamwadsworth@blueyonder.co.uk> wrote in message
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> On 14/12/2022 14:02, Robin wrote:
>> On 14/12/2022 04:49, ARW wrote:
>>> The breakdown was actually part of a Peugeot recall and cost work
>>> nothing to fix.
>>>
>>> So this weeks quiz is how many miles did I manage to drive after getting
>>> the keys back until someone managed to drive into it?
>>>
>>> Nearest answer will win nothing but I'll double my donation to Filey
>>> RNLI (Jeff Layman's suggestion to donate to them).
>>>
>>>
>>
>> 0 - on the basis that in this weather even the best of drivers could hit
>> it where it was parked ready for you
>>
>
>
> Zero. Someone reversed into whilst I was collecting the keys from the
> office.
>

On 14/12/2022 22:05, Robin wrote:
> On 14/12/2022 17:58, ARW wrote:
>> On 14/12/2022 14:02, Robin wrote:
>>> On 14/12/2022 04:49, ARW wrote:
>>>> The breakdown was actually part of a Peugeot recall and cost work
>>>> nothing to fix.
>>>>
>>>> So this weeks quiz is how many miles did I manage to drive after
>>>> getting the keys back until someone managed to drive into it?
>>>>
>>>> Nearest answer will win nothing but I'll double my donation to Filey
>>>> RNLI (Jeff Layman's suggestion to donate to them).
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>> 0 - on the basis that in this weather even the best of drivers could
>>> hit it where it was parked ready for you
>>>
>>
>>
>> Zero. Someone reversed into whilst I was collecting the keys from the
>> office.
>>
> And with your run of luck with vans they probably then argued it was all
> your fault 'cos you shouldn't have parked it there.

I actually have had similar in the past in my car. A car reversed out of
a driveway and hit my car. She got out her car and said "That's not my
fault - your car was not parked there when I pulled onto the driveway"

My van is tracked and records every time I speed and Lou also now drives
a tracked car at work.

She gets an email from her employer if she breaks the speed limit - I do
not:-)

BTW did you get the photo's of "that house " I sent you from my mobile?

On 15/12/2022 18:55, ARW wrote:
> On 14/12/2022 22:05, Robin wrote:
>> On 14/12/2022 17:58, ARW wrote:
>>> On 14/12/2022 14:02, Robin wrote:
>>>> On 14/12/2022 04:49, ARW wrote:
>>>>> The breakdown was actually part of a Peugeot recall and cost work
>>>>> nothing to fix.
>>>>>
>>>>> So this weeks quiz is how many miles did I manage to drive after
>>>>> getting the keys back until someone managed to drive into it?
>>>>>
>>>>> Nearest answer will win nothing but I'll double my donation to
>>>>> Filey RNLI (Jeff Layman's suggestion to donate to them).
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> 0 - on the basis that in this weather even the best of drivers could
>>>> hit it where it was parked ready for you
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Zero. Someone reversed into whilst I was collecting the keys from the
>>> office.
>>>
>> And with your run of luck with vans they probably then argued it was
>> all your fault 'cos you shouldn't have parked it there.
>
> I actually have had similar in the past in my car. A car reversed out of
> a driveway and hit my car. She got out her car and said "That's not my
> fault - your car was not parked there when I pulled onto the driveway"
>
> My van is tracked and records every time I speed and Lou also now drives
> a tracked car at work.
>
> She gets an email from her employer if she breaks the speed limit - I do
> not:-)
>
> BTW did you get the photo's of "that house " I sent you from my mobile?
>

Short answer: ahem, yes.

Longer answer: yes but I'd rationalised my Rules in Outlook and it ended
up in the equivalent of a locked filing cabinet stuck in a disused
lavatory which I visit only rarely. Sorry.
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