Bodge JobsIf you can't fix it with a hammer and a roll of duck tape, it's not worth fixing at all, my old mate said minutes before that nasty business with the hammer and a roll of duck tape. Tell us of McGyver-like repairs and whether they were a brilliant success or a health and safety nightmare.
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Scaryduck LIKES EGG, Thu 10 Mar 2011, 11:58)
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Bodge gone (expensively) wrongBack in the days of yore (final year of sixth form), my girlfriend, my best mate and I decide to cut school for a day and see the sights of the local city. To get there, we borrow his dad's wheels.
Now, my mate's dad was a seriously anal bastard, and kept track of the exact mileage of his pride and joy. To get around this, once we'd returned the car to the garage (after the parking valets had ragged the shit out of it - another QOTW methinks), we put it up on jacks and ran it in reverse - a suitable attempt at a bodge, I think you'll agree.
When the bodge doesn't work, instead of letting me clock the car, my mate decides to kick the crap out of the car's bumper, causing it to come off the jacks, and, as it was still running in reverse, it shot out of the back of the garage, and down a rather steep hill, getting totalled in the process.
I'm just glad that I wasn't there when his dad got back!
(, Tue 15 Mar 2011, 23:23, 4 replies)
Don't worryit was only a replica, built on an MG chassis.
(, Tue 15 Mar 2011, 23:41, closed)
Oh dear.Seen Ferris Bueller's Day Off lately, have we?
(, Wed 16 Mar 2011, 0:06, closed)
/missingthepointofthejoke
(, Wed 16 Mar 2011, 11:29, closed)
He did get to see your girlfriend naked though.(, Wed 16 Mar 2011, 17:41, closed)
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