cars and just about everything at one stage
Lost a wing mirror in a scuffle with pheasant at 80mph, and the local Ford Dealer reapirs were quoting something like £150+ (near $300 for the US ppl) so i went to their service desk, bought a wing mirror for £20 as a spare part, took it to a local resprayers near home, they sprayed it for £20 and I went and fitted it in the car park.

Europe (as in not including the UK) is one big mass rip off since they converted to that monopoly money Euro, you get ripped off with near every purchase you make everywhere. But nothing compares to London, just don't bother.

Turned down a not unconsiderable pay rise (for any other town) to work in Holborn, C London (i'd be travelling from just east of Salisbury) because

1, The Annual ticket is £3800+ ($7600 odd, yes Americans, our railways would charge that for 365 days a year travel for an hours journey in cattle class, probably standing most days, almost certainly late, if at all some days, and many other problems many hear know about)

2, about £5 ($10) a day parking at a station i'm not guaranteed a place

3, for a car i shouldn't need with a train journey to work now (£100's for car insurance, 87p a litre ($1.74 per litre) £160 odd Tax, cost of repairs being high e.t.c., as theres no bus service to the station from where i am (but dont get me started on how scummy and expensive that would be)

Anyhoow, after all that lot, plus the fact the 40% tax bracket would have been breached too with that payrise, it worked out over 50% worse off than my current amount so told them no thanks i'll stick to the motorways (argh, if they even try to charge that...) and drive 70miles a day to Guildford
(1_not_so_careful_owner, Sun 18 Feb 2007, 13:39, Reply)