John-
That was a brilliant solution given your storage
situation.
You are much to kind. I would have kicked a dent in
his door and found a new place to part the saloon.
Chad
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John Macartney wrote:
Date: Fri, 13 May 2005 12:28:57 +0100
From: "John Macartney"
<standardtriumph@btinternet.com>
Subject: Today's 'courtesies'
A month ago, I moved house from the country to a small
country town
where
on-street parking is a major problem and there is no
garage for my
much-loved and fully restored Triumph 2.5PI saloon.
Rather than leave
it
outside our new home and risk it being broken into /
vandalised /
stolen, I
was able to store it in an off-road parking area
alongside my mother's
house
and not sell it as I thought I'd have to do..
I don't like leaving the car outside and in any case,
the land on which
it
is parked is Mum's property. Alongside my 'parking
slot' is another
that's
allocated to a rented apartment property. Into this
apartment has
recently
moved a somewhat arrogant young man who drives one of
those German WW2
coal-scuttle helmets on wheels, in the form of an Audi
TT. IMHO hardly
an
attractive car but they seem to go quite fast and
probably attract high
levels of bank repayments for ownership.
Anyway, I had to visit Mum early this morning and
while there, checked
out
the Triumph to ensure everything was well - and noted
a piece of paper
under
a windscreen wiper.
Removing and reading its contents, it went thus:
"If this piece of junk was properly parked, but
preferably where it
belongs
in a scrapyard where it can no longer pollute the air
we breathe, I
might be
able to park my own car and more importantly, get out
of the driver's
door.
Thank you."
Anger turned to humour when I realised that if I
turned the Triumph
through
90 degrees so it occupied half of Mum's slot and half
of his, he'd have
far
more room to enter and leave his own car, whichever
way he parked it.
Well
pleased with my work but wishing I had this list
immediately to hand to
solicit a suitably ascerbic reply, I stuck his note on
the inside of
the
Triumph's driver's door window and wrote at the bottom
- "Something
like
this?"
Jonmac
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