I had an old Escort - it went for it's MOT and the guy got into the passenger side to check something and went through the floor. It didn't pass, which upset me, as there was nothing else wrong with it ............
You should have tutted and told him he needed to fix the damage he'd just done, or give you an MOT certificate
MOTs must be so boring for mechanics now. All they can tell you is you need new wipers or a bulb has gone....not the same excitement as 'Your steering wheel came off in my hands.'
Certainly missed a trick there didn't I? But I was young and wet behind the ears (a bit like if I'd been walking down the road by that café pictured earlier ........ )
Posh eh! Right,that same Mini had other comforts as well,the drivers seat wasn't fixed to the floor and always moved on braking,the petrol gauge didn't work but a stick was good enough in those days to see if I still had fuel, but the best one I can remember was it only had one wiper which went across the window down onto and over the bonnet then a continuous full circle.Never understood the need for an MOT! !
Actually, my wife's car (VW Touran, 2007 and before the dodgy emissions readings) failed it's MOT a couple of years back. They told me the wing mirror needed a new arm/mechanism for 200+ quid because "it came off in my hands" Big row followed and I have never been back to that dealer again. They had serviced VWs for me for over ten years. I found it hard to believe that a car that had been driven around for a year would not have shown the problem with the wing mirror.
Not quite. If your car fails its MOT you can often get a free pass inspection if all the faults are rectified within 10 working days. What tends to happen from this scenario is that owners see what they can get away with the first time round. They receive a list of failure points and correct them. What is supposed to happen is a complete re-test, but often it's just the corrected failure points that are inspected. So there still tends to be the odd entertaining car in the day. But agreed. The days of the Flintstone car are long gone.
Nowhere near enough. The poor guy had his oesophagus removed for crying out loud! I would suspect that Mr. Alf N'Safety might be looking into the practice of cleaning lines in bars, as every pub I've ever been in does exactly the same as that place.
Totally agree . When you see some of the Ambulance chasers out there , this poor sods life is in some ways ruined . I wonder if he will sue the Chain ? I realise he didn't get the money , my point is , he has good reason to sue , IMHO .
http://news.sky.com/story/1619126/housing-estate-looks-like-millennium-falcon Looks more like a balloon to me.
When I was managing pubs, I never once did my line cleaning during opening hours just because of things like that happening. It doesn't take long to do if you are organised so there's no need to do it whilst serving customers. The badge turned round/not turned round thing is ludicrous if that is indeed how they flag whether a beer line is full of caustic fluid or beer. Surely that is only to let bar staff know whether the beer is on or not? Some people are just ****tards. As part of my training, I was told a horror story about a pub customer who had asked the landlord if he could scrounge some line cleaner. The landlord said, Yeah, no problem I'll just put some in this empty Budweiser bottle for you. Of course the punter ended up going home and leaving the apparently full beer bottle on the floor by his chair...in the morning, a slightly alcoholic cleaner found it, thought it was his birthday and necked it. That was neat cleaning fluid so can pretty much dissolve organic matter, which it then proceeded to do killing the poor guy in just a few hours (although it probably couldn't have come quick enough for the victim). Obviously I treated the stuff with respect after that and used it accordingly.
The traditional Serbian Christmas meal is fish on Christmas Eve evening but turkey is creeping in the next day. Unfortunately (even in Serbia) American **** is slowly taking hold (like halloween / trick or treating). Fortunately (or maybe not) I'm not yet forced to go down the pub all evening to avoid trick or treaters! We run an English Language school and do pancake day every year (I'm slowly converting Serbs away from Nutella to sugar and lemon juice). Guy Fawkes night is strangely yet to catch on considering the Serbs love of fireworks and shooting live ammo in the air on new years eve.
