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- From: dourish@EuroPARC.Xerox.COM (Paul Dourish)
- Newsgroups: alt.peeves
- Subject: Re: A Definite Not-Peeve, involves money
- Message-ID: <1992Dec23.123503.19243@parc.xerox.com>
- Date: 23 Dec 92 12:35:03 GMT
- References: <mXmXVB3w165w@mantis.co.uk> <1h8ktcINN3h9@cardamom.compnews.co.uk>
- Sender: news@parc.xerox.com
- Reply-To: dourish@EuroPARC.Xerox.COM (Paul Dourish)
- Organization: Rank Xerox EuroPARC, Cambridge, UK
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- In article <1h8ktcINN3h9@cardamom.compnews.co.uk>, sjl@compnews.co.uk (Steve Lacey) writes:
- > tony@mantis.co.uk (Tony Lezard) writes:
- > :
- > : ObPeeve: It's just started getting cold enough here that you have to
- > : spend ten minutes every morning scraping the ice off your car before you
- > : can go anywhere with confidence. And same again in the evening.
- > :
- > Or scraping the ice off the *inside* of your car...
-
- At least your cars bloody start once you've done it. This is
- definitely today's peeve. A friend, away for the holiday, has leant me
- her car, which is good because I only recently, after many years of
- prevaricating, got my driving license. Now I want to practice.
- (Another time, we'll do the driving-in-Cambridge peeve, and the
- first-drive-after-passing-your-test-with-the-nervous-owner-of-the-car
- peeve.) But noooo..... and, since she's disappeared, I'm gonna have to
- find out for myself what particular kind of coaxing this car requires.
-
- Second peeve: Coming out this morning to find a note on the car saying
- "don't park here -- private property". I know that -- I LIVE HERE!
- Just 'cos I've not used my parking space for the last n years, some
- other bozo has decided that it's not only his, but that he has
- sufficient territorial rights that he can defend them by leaving
- snotty notes on my car.
-
- I was remarkably restrained in writing my response. I wonder how long
- we'll converse through notes under the wipers, or at what stage we
- start writing them on bricks hurled through appropriate windscreens?
-
- Jerk-off. Sigh.
-
- -- Paul.
-