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Evening all.
What a stupid day and I keep seeing the same Black Cat!!
I swear it looks at me weird. Not superstitious but if something happens again and I see that little ******* I'm gunna throw a rock at it's face (I have a good aim).
The following is fully intended to entertain although questionable and due to Sparky's very long absence it is highly likely many eyes will roll and an immediate lack of interest will ensue:
Came back from work this evening to find the main road to my house was blocked off by the council *insert circus song here* at both ends as they were resurfacing the road.
So, I drove around for ages trying to find anywhere that wasn't being worked on or a short cut but to no avail. Turns out, whatever road I wanted to get home had the fine stone chips on it. I had no choice but to turn onto the main road where one end had now been temporarily un obstructed. From here I quite literally nursed the car slowly up the main road.
By now it was too late to back out as I was being followed by two other vehicles and the road ahead looked like it was only just being freshly tarred (good luck other cars). So, turned into my car park where I've managed to pick up the blighted tar and it's nicely splattered the underside of the car including arches, side skirts, alloys, the lot.
I thought something was wrong as I heard scraping sounds from the wheels that was the stones and the tar all mixing up. Upon inspection I decided I wanted it sorting so I approached a council dude, let's call him Ed and explained the situation. He could clearly see what had occured and immediately phoned his council buddy (with a worrying look on his face).
He rang let's call him Pete and Pete eventually (20 mins later) turned up with half a can of (NOT BEER!!) tar removal spray. He sprayed around the car and told me it would dissolve the tar and wiped it with a few rags but upon our Pete's disappearance "got to go mate I'm needed down other end your car will be reet", the tar is still there and wiping it myself has done **** all. Don't even get me started on the tyres as they look like someone's spunked black tar all over them.
So, I went back to another van and spoke to let's say Lewis who looked in this instance really, really busy and asked him who I can ring to complain. He gave me a number of a stupidvisor and his name is actually Steve. Explained my situation to 'busy' Lewis and asked for a can of tar remover. His reply "Sorry mate can't give anymore out you've already had one".
Yeah, cheers Lewis, nice one.
So, after strolling up and down the car park trying to not well scream I have decided to approach this in the way of a not so pleasant (for Steve) phone call.
Steve will be informed that my beautiful race Blue Octavia VRS now has Blackish/Brown ***** marks dotted all over it and I've done enough wiping of rags on it for today and it's still obvious what's occurred.
He'll also be told that no letter was received warning us of the impending work and that there was no way I was leaving a car like that streets and streets away from my home overnight where it's out of sight. No sir ee.
Interestingly, you'll no doubt be thinking why did I turn into the road in the first place and possibly tell me I deserve it knowing it was undergoing work but again, it's where I flippn live.
The road didn't exactly need this so that's just adding salt to the wounds and I don't feel asking for my valeting money back is going to raise eyebrows. It was only done at weekend and I'm gutted this has happened.
Steve will probably throw the book at me claiming they're not liable for damage to residents property blar blar but at the end of the day I feel I'm well within my rights to put this forward.
Cheers.
What a stupid day and I keep seeing the same Black Cat!!
I swear it looks at me weird. Not superstitious but if something happens again and I see that little ******* I'm gunna throw a rock at it's face (I have a good aim).
The following is fully intended to entertain although questionable and due to Sparky's very long absence it is highly likely many eyes will roll and an immediate lack of interest will ensue:
Came back from work this evening to find the main road to my house was blocked off by the council *insert circus song here* at both ends as they were resurfacing the road.
So, I drove around for ages trying to find anywhere that wasn't being worked on or a short cut but to no avail. Turns out, whatever road I wanted to get home had the fine stone chips on it. I had no choice but to turn onto the main road where one end had now been temporarily un obstructed. From here I quite literally nursed the car slowly up the main road.
By now it was too late to back out as I was being followed by two other vehicles and the road ahead looked like it was only just being freshly tarred (good luck other cars). So, turned into my car park where I've managed to pick up the blighted tar and it's nicely splattered the underside of the car including arches, side skirts, alloys, the lot.
I thought something was wrong as I heard scraping sounds from the wheels that was the stones and the tar all mixing up. Upon inspection I decided I wanted it sorting so I approached a council dude, let's call him Ed and explained the situation. He could clearly see what had occured and immediately phoned his council buddy (with a worrying look on his face).
He rang let's call him Pete and Pete eventually (20 mins later) turned up with half a can of (NOT BEER!!) tar removal spray. He sprayed around the car and told me it would dissolve the tar and wiped it with a few rags but upon our Pete's disappearance "got to go mate I'm needed down other end your car will be reet", the tar is still there and wiping it myself has done **** all. Don't even get me started on the tyres as they look like someone's spunked black tar all over them.
So, I went back to another van and spoke to let's say Lewis who looked in this instance really, really busy and asked him who I can ring to complain. He gave me a number of a stupidvisor and his name is actually Steve. Explained my situation to 'busy' Lewis and asked for a can of tar remover. His reply "Sorry mate can't give anymore out you've already had one".
Yeah, cheers Lewis, nice one.
So, after strolling up and down the car park trying to not well scream I have decided to approach this in the way of a not so pleasant (for Steve) phone call.
Steve will be informed that my beautiful race Blue Octavia VRS now has Blackish/Brown ***** marks dotted all over it and I've done enough wiping of rags on it for today and it's still obvious what's occurred.
He'll also be told that no letter was received warning us of the impending work and that there was no way I was leaving a car like that streets and streets away from my home overnight where it's out of sight. No sir ee.
Interestingly, you'll no doubt be thinking why did I turn into the road in the first place and possibly tell me I deserve it knowing it was undergoing work but again, it's where I flippn live.
The road didn't exactly need this so that's just adding salt to the wounds and I don't feel asking for my valeting money back is going to raise eyebrows. It was only done at weekend and I'm gutted this has happened.
Steve will probably throw the book at me claiming they're not liable for damage to residents property blar blar but at the end of the day I feel I'm well within my rights to put this forward.
Cheers.
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