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You know how a couple of weeks ago my computer kinda started smoking and is now completly ruined?
Well, last night, I was driving from me mum's home in Romford to good old Walthamstow (about a 20 drive late at night). 5 Minutes from home, my radio starts crackling. The car feel funny, so I pull over, and get out. Look through the bonnet grills, and see a fire. Lovely. Panick. Run to the petrol station. Say my car's on fire. They say that there is nothing they can do. So I apologise and walk back to my car. Shit loads of smoke coming form it now. Big black billowing clouds. Fire noticable. I stop panicking, run back to the petrol station, and bang on the door asking to use the phone. Amasingly they let me in. Phone fire brigade. Tell them. They ask for the road name. I have no idea. Neither do the petrol owning guys. Fortunatly someone outside does. Anyway, fire brigade come, douse car in water. Ruin all my clothes in the back. All my CD cases are now water-damaged (although the CD's still work). Half the carboretor has melted away. The front and side windows have been smashed in. And the bst part is, I had to push it half a mile to my house at 5 in the morning with only one mates' help. Uphill.
So, the moral is: All petrol station employee's in Walthamstow are pillock's.
And my car's a write-off. So don't ask for any lifts.
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The First One
A lovely little thinker, but a bugger when he's pissed
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Hmm. What were the names of those two gangsters in that Monty Python ep who tried to, er, sell fire insurance to an army base?
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"Nice little tank you've got there guv'nor...be a shame if something accidentally happened to it"
On reflection I don't think pillockness is limited to petrol station employees in Walthamstow, the ones near me are fairly dim too. It seems to be spreading to the local take-away Macdonalds. It is the same everywhere else? Is there an upper limit to potential employee's IQ? Is the phrase "I'd like two quarter-pounders with cheese, two large fries and two apple pies" too complex for the average person to grasp? It certainly was last night. The 'assistant' (and I use that term in its loosest possible way) insisted that what I really wanted was a 'Millennium Meal' (cue trumpet fanfare) not because it was a better offer or worked out cheaper but because it contains a free scratchcard and I might win upto �50.
It was an effort but I managed to contain my excitement and declined the offer.
But I digress. Back to the burning car. Electrical fault was it? Small consolation I know but I suppose you were insured ok. Lastly, you will be given friendly advice about always keeping a fire extinguisher in the car. They are useless. I wouldn't trust most units sold for in car use to put out a match.
The First One
A lovely little thinker, but a bugger when he's pissed
Member # 35
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That's the sketch. Did you refuse the non-refusable offer the Vercotti brothers offered you, Liam?
Oh, well, sucks to be you! You can always buy my car if you want. Brakes are f***ed and the clutch is worn out, but it goes. Only 95,000 on the clock. About time I got a new car. . .
Any consolation I did once see a worse situation. One chilly morn as I was driving up to a queue of traffic I saw the car in front smoke. Then the guy got out and started legging it. A bout ten seconds later a burst of flame blew off the bonnet and as I screeched to swerve into a side road I could see the guy's car ablaze with flames darting up over 10 feet.
I wonder what the petrol attendants would have done if you'd driven into the station and THEN said your car was on fire. Might've made then jump to it a bit more...
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Saltah'na
Chinese Canadian, or 75% Commie Bastard.
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How big was the fire?
Know someone who had a similar situation. Had a 2 Litre bottle of water in the trunk. Saw the fire, opened the hood, and doused the flames without much problem.
But it may not be an entirely good idea. That fire was an electrical fire. If you have a grease fire, that could cause problems.
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