Discrimination? Vehiclism?

[vifferman]

We moved into our new building over the weekend, and today was the firstest day I took the VifFerraRi to work. I'd been thinking Big Thortz about where to park it, so I decided I'd try the bike-sized wrecktangle in front of the front door. I carefully backed it in, smack dab in the middle of the park, and towards the end furthest from the building, so as there was plenty of room to get past it on all sides. Beautiful! :niceone:
About quarter of an hour (that's 15 minutes, y'know), I get a call on my desk phone. Yay! A phone call! My first ever!!
It's "Some Bint", from downstairs (name carefully disguised to protect the innocent, and because I can't remember it).
"Hello, is that vifferman?"
"Yep."
"Blah blah blah blah it's not a good look blah blah blah access way blah blah blah blah customers blah blah blah blah blah it's not a good look blah blah blah it's not a good look park somewhere else blah blah blah and anyway it's not a good look".
"OK".
So I parked it around the side of the building, in one of the stupid tandem parks where if the first person in wants to leave before the person behind them, they have to first hunt them down, kill them, eat their liver, steal their car keys, and move their vehicle. No problemo for a motorbicyclist, of course - I'll just lane-split over, through, between or around, or go cross-country (motocross styles!) over the kerb/garden/lawn.

Anyway, I had no problem with moving it, as despite the lack of "No Parking" yellow lines, and my very thoughtful and careful parking, it was not unexpected. What has bugged me more'n'more as the day has trudged slowly towards Homing Pigeon time, is the purple bits in Some Bint's conversation. (And yes - they were purple at the time, i just didn't notice at first, due to my inshockedness.)
I mean, WTF?!?
"Not a good look".
WTF's up widdat?
Is my bike the worngA colour?
The worngA model?
Too motorbicycley (and perhaps, by definition or a process of elimination, not car-y enough)?
Is it because I haven't cleaned it in months, and it has a patina of Road Spooge instead of a brilliant Mr Sheen sheen? :spudwhat:

I suspect it's some sorta throw-away, unspoken, discriminatory, "We don't like your type around here" line, and that bugs me, even though I was prepared for having to move for more pragmatic or territorial reasons.
Maybe Some Bint is a Useless Driver, and I'd inadvertantly praked next to her prak (itwas right next to the door), and she couldn't manoeuvre her shitmobile [runs downstairs to confirm the model, only to find it's not there, and so unmemorable as to be impossible to remember even the colour or vague shape] into the 'generous' parking space, without an extra 1200mm to trundle over.

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Phew.....
I feel a bit better now. :mellow:

[gijoe1313]

Just remember to paint her windows with a rollerbrush and pan of used sump oil ... or do a doodoo on her bonnet ... stick a potato down the exhaust and some fish guts in the vent ... then call all the local KBers and prak their sprotsbikes so she can choose which one is a "good look" ...

Thanks for the rant and rave, I'm in the process of trying to get more two wheels at skool to take over the car prak! :devil2:

Oh yeah, was she hot? :jerry:

"Filthy Biker Scum lowers Business property values ... news at 10"

[scumdog]

So, has 'Some Bint' got some clout around your job?:spudwhat:

If not why did you listen to her??:weird:

[vifferman]

Just remember to paint her windows with a rollerbrush and pan of used sump oil ... or do a doodoo on her bonnet ... stick a potato down the exhaust and some fish guts in the vent ... then call all the local KBers and prak their sprotsbikes so she can choose which one is a "good look" ...
I'll just have to do some of them things "in my head", as she's a neighbour, so I have to Keep The Peace.
Or Piece.
Or Pies.
Or summat...


Oh yeah, was she hot?
Dunno, Man.
She sounded OK on the blower, at least until I mulled over her diatribe for a few hours...


"Filthy Biker Scum lowers Business property values ... news at 10"
Yeessss....
That's prolly it.
But as far as I know, we're all tenants.
Oh - as for her raving on about "our clients", I don't think I've seen any in the day and a half I've been here. :rolleyes:
Mebbe it's PMS, or sexual frustration, or boredom (what with having no clients and all that...)

I dunno.
She should've rung me back and thanked me, so I could ask her why she's a vehiclist.
Mebbe I'll have to prak on the footpath tomorrow so she phones again... :whistle:

[vifferman]

So, has 'Some Bint' got some clout around your job?:spudwhat:

If not why did you listen to her??:weird:
Um... solely because I'm a NiceGuy. Well... superficially nice, at least...
I suspect I'm actually suffering from low testosterone, or self-E-steam, or summat.

[tri boy]

So, has 'Some Bint' got some clout around your job?:spudwhat:

If not why did you listen to her??:weird:

"Front Desk" bimbo's are usually doing one of the bosses.
Might pay to slip her a length, um, i mean a box of chocolates or summit to soothe her mood.
(chauvinistic views are encouraged when replys are made to my comment. feminists can get back in the lunch room, and do the dishes):devil2:

[avgas]

Park it in the doorway and say that her car is parked in your park

[vifferman]

"Front Desk" bimbo's are usually doing one of the bosses.
Might pay to slip her a length, um, i mean a box of chocolates or summit to soothe her mood.
Actually, she didn't seem at all animated or emotional about it. Just too wordy, especially the repetition of "not a good look".
So I don't think any servicing or bribery is required. It definitely won't be forthcoming, or even seventhcoming.

[Swoop]

How dare she insinuate that a VFR isn't a good look.

What does she want? A hardley praked there?

I feel a callout of the "VFRPS Ready Reaction Force" is imminent.

[ManDownUnder]

Where's the new place of work? I'm up for a ride over there one lunchtime... park bikes f'n everywhere and bugger off for a boozy lunch

[vifferman]

My firstest and cunningest plan was to paint "M/C Praking Only - Towaway Enforced!" in yeller paint on my selected bike-sized wrecktangle.
I shoulda done that - I mean, no-one argues with the official yellow paint.

[vifferman]

How dare she insinuate that a VFR isn't a good look.

What does she want? A hardley praked there?

I feel a callout of the "VFRPS Ready Reaction Force" is imminent.
It's funny you should say that. One of my cunning plans (or was it a cunning stunt?) was to post on that KB website, and ask if anyone had some old dungery, oil-leaking, smoky, festering, rusty Pile'oCrap I could borrow.
Just to show her what a comparatively good look an RC46 really is. :yes:

[Disco Dan]

Do you know anyone who owns a hillbilly car? You know the type, every panel is a different colour... dents all over it and covered in rust... backfires and smokes everywhere... ? ? ?

I think you should turn up in that and park it out front... :devil:

Sounds like bike discrimination to me...

Had a similar thing with my work - one of the neighbors complained that my (factory fitted) exhaust was too loud... and I would have to park it on the road (out of sight and very far away since my work is down a very long driveway with heaps of homes along it. We managed to compromise, but after a few weeks I went back to parking it outside my office and had a conversation with the neighbor concerned.

If it is just the receptionist that is giving you trouble, tell her where to keep her opinions and continue parking there. Then wait until the boss gets wind of it and then you can tell him 'its a safety thing' etc etc

Problem Solved!

[vifferman]

Where's the new place of work? I'm up for a ride over there one lunchtime... park bikes f'n everywhere and bugger off for a boozy lunch
It's in the drive named after that there "mythological Greek god, the messenger of the deep. He is the son of Poseidon, god of the sea, and Amphitrite, goddess of the sea. He is usually represented as a merman, having the upper body of a human and the tail of a fish".
In deepest, darkest Albania.

[007XX]

"Front Desk" bimbo's are usually doing one of the bosses.
Might pay to slip her a length, um, i mean a box of chocolates or summit to soothe her mood.
(chauvinistic views are encouraged when replys are made to my comment. feminists can get back in the lunch room, and do the dishes):devil2:

3 inches is hardly considered a length darling! :lol: (sorry couldn't help meself...will go back to my dishes in due time :p)

Anyway, the boy's got a point...soothing the harrid front desk hyena is usually a good call, along with the accounting lasses...Maybe go an introduce yourself to start with, and slowly build up a bit of a rapport with her...drop in the odd compliment on the sack of potatoes she calls a dress every now and then, and you'd be surprised how much you can get away with.

Of course, don't make too many compliements, cos they might start to think the Vifferbabe is on the way out :nono:...but you get what i mean, I'm sure.

[FilthyLuka]

get a two stroke? A gt750 kettle preferably. Proceed to fumigate the entire building.

[007XX]

get a two stroke? A gt750 kettle preferably. Proceed to fumigate the entire building.

A perfectly good burnout with the VFR will do the same just fine...and it'll have more PHWOAR factor! :done:

[car]

My firstest and cunningest plan was to paint "M/C Praking Only - Towaway Enforced!" in yeller paint on my selected bike-sized wrecktangle.
I shoulda done that - I mean, no-one argues with the official yellow paint.

That's just what I thought, when I started parking at my new place of work. Right up until the security guard came out...

"You can't park there, mate."

"Why not?"

"Do you work here?"

"Yes, I've been here for about a month."

"You can't park there."

"But it says ``motorcycle parking for employees only'' and I'm and employee, and this is my motorcycle."

"Oh, yeah, well so-and-so usually parks over there," pointing to indicate the building next door's delivery bay with "NO PARKING!!!" and yellow crosshatch all over it.

"You mean I should move my bike out from under this sign that says``motorcycle parking for employees only'' and park it over there where it says ``NO PARKING!!!'' instead?"

"Yeah."

"No, I don't think so. If you want me to park there, you're going to have to give me that in writing, okay? Or take this sign down."

[vifferman]

"You mean I should move my bike out from under this sign that says``motorcycle parking for employees only'' and park it over there where it says ``NO PARKING!!!'' instead?"
That's just nuts.

At our old building, despite the proliferation of "Towaway" signs, I used to just park the bike either next to one of the Disabled Parking spaces, where there was a cross-hatched "No Parking" area, because the Disabled space was too far from any doors, so no-one ever used it (apart from able-bodied peoples). Alternatively, I used to park next to the garden, on the dotted yellow line, under a tree. No problems, but there would've been had anyone tried to remove my bike.

Talking about mentalness: what's up with 'wheelchair friendly' toilets? :spudwhat: In this 'new' building, and in the building I used to work in in Ponsonby, there are disabled toilets with wheelchair access. Great - how PC!
Except both offices are up three flights of stairs, with no other way into the building. :weird:
I suspect it's some useless piece of local gubmint bureaucracy that says all commercial buildings built after a certain date, or renovated after that date, have to have disabled facilities, regardless of whether said disabled folx can actually get into the building to use them.

At least it gives me more room to get changed outta my bike gear.

[pritch]

When I visited the Chateau Tongariro I suspected I might get a similar reaction to that you received and would have understood perfectly if I had.

On the other hand they told me I could park under the porch right outside the front door and that the staff would keep an eye on the bike during the night...

Very impressed I was.

[car]

That's just nuts.
...
At least it gives me more room to get changed outta my bike gear.

Speaking of nuts, my last long-term job, I just used to get changed in my office because the toilets were just too damned small to wrestle my fat can into my leathers. Woe betide anyone who wandered in unawares and caught me in my... unawares.

I'm reminded, also, of a guy I used to be acquainted with, who rode his GSX-R *everywhere*. A regular old, bold pilot, knee down everywhere. He told tales of the times he turned up at one office or another, in his leathers, asking if there was somewhere he could get changed, and he'd get varying levels of animosity from the desk staff. Right up until he emerged from the toilets in his Very Expensive Suit, which he'd carefully folded underneath his leathers, and they realised that he was in fact Senior VP of Hiring, Firing and Generally Owning Your Ass, Lady. Different story, then.

[vifferman]

... he emerged from the toilets in his Very Expensive Suit, which he'd carefully folded underneath his leathers.
Yeah, that used to amuse my fellow workmates in my last job, which had a formal dress code. I'd arrive in my road-spooge covered bike gear, then a few seconds later, there I'd be in suit'n'tie.
With the 'relaxed' dress code of my current job, I think I look more tidy in my newish bike gear, which costs about ten times what my typical office garb does.
But obviously Some Bint downstairs didn't see me arrive this morning.

[Blackbird]

Until I retired, I was mainly based at the Kinleith pulp and paper mill just south of Tokoroa. About 20% of senior staff there were bikers so it was hard to be discriminated against! The only grizzling was if just one bike occupied a car spot, but we normally doubled up anyway.

[Swoop]

Or take this sign down."
Different approach...

"You need to put another sign over there, saying more bike parking allowed here!"

[more_fasterer]

How dare she insinuate that a VFR isn't a good look.

What does she want? A hardley praked there?

I feel a callout of the "VFRPS Ready Reaction Force" is imminent.

Wot 'e said. I think the 2-smoker idea has more merit though. Particularly if you have to spend 10mins warming it up with loud blips of the the throttle, as all 2-smokers require...


Where's the new place of work? I'm up for a ride over there one lunchtime... park bikes f'n everywhere and bugger off for a boozy lunch

Great idea... there are some nice food houses on that road

[dangerous]

"Some Bint"

Unless that bint! is my boss I wouldnt be moving the fuker anywere... theres only one um... FUCK UM :Punk:

[Oakie]

"not a good look".

I'll put my serious HR hat on and advise you to park in the original very sensible place tomorrow and then tell her "I'm parking in the place you said yesterday I shouldn't park becasue it's not a 'good look'. I will continue to park there until you give me the reason in writing why it is not a good look".

This will result in

A) her shutting up
B) her getting someone higher up the food chain to scare you into compliance
C) her giving you a good reason and then you thanking her and moving to a more socially acceptable place.

[rat biker 08]

I have agood smokey bike . And its big n black .:lol:

[Usarka]

It's funny you should say that. One of my cunning plans (or was it a cunning stunt?) was to post on that KB website, and ask if anyone had some old dungery, oil-leaking, smoky, festering, rusty Pile'oCrap I could borrow.
Just to show her what a comparatively good look an RC46 really is. :yes:


Ahhh the old "turn down that music" trick where you gradually turn the stereo up until wife/girlfriend/mother/neighbour storms in and has a heammorrage. Then you turn it down to the volume whence it's started.

"That's better!"

[xwhatsit]

It's in the drive named after that there "mythological Greek god, the messenger of the deep. He is the son of Poseidon, god of the sea, and Amphitrite, goddess of the sea. He is usually represented as a merman, having the upper body of a human and the tail of a fish".
In deepest, darkest Albania.
I didn't know they had Triumph-engined Featherbeds in Albania?

That's why the VFR is a bad look. Too much plastic for a drive named that.

[vifferman]

It's prolly just as well I'm normally slow to get riled. I was talking to our ex-adminsitratorperson this morning, told her about Some Bint, and she said, "Was it Liz?".
"I dunno... too many words... missed the name..."
"Oh - well, if it was, she's the owner of the agency, AND the owner of the building. It wouldn't do to piss her off, seeing we're tenants..."

Mebbe the "not a good look" refers to the big "FOR SALE" sign on our front window. You know how it is: too much property on the market, sales are slow, any potential buyer's going to be put off by a road-spooge covered, slightly scratched 2001 VFR800 parked out front. :rolleyes:

[Crisis management]

I'm disappointed Viffer, I had just added a litre of 2 stroke to the DR's tank and was all ready to come out and lend some mildly smoky disreputable ambience to that star of the shore, home of murdered chooks and multi tasking soccer mums....

Back to plan B, cruise the cafes at Mount Eden then. :cool:

[vifferman]

I'm disappointed Viffer, I had just added a litre of 2 stroke to the DR's tank and was all ready to come out and lend some mildly smoky disreputable ambience to that star of the shore, home of murdered chooks and multi tasking soccer mums....
Well, you can still come anyway. About the only time I get out is when I go home at the end of the day, so visitors are welcome.
And there's plenty of bike parking in the garden, on the lawn, or in the various parks that are temporarily vacated. :shifty:
I'd imagine that whoever does the towaways doesn't have a lot of experience with mass removal of dirty, smelly bikes...

[Big Dave]

It's the first impression every business strives for - 'Dungers r us'. ;-P

[Ixion]

I gotta kettle. You want I should bring it over and point the zorsts at the front door. Bit of throttle and it'll set off all the smoke alarms and burglar alrams in the area.

Already had the fire brigade out once.

Is definately a good look though. Chrome. Shiney. And smells good.

[Crisis management]

It's the first impression every business strives for - 'Dungers r us'. ;-P

Philistine, true aesthetes would recognise the workmanlike honesty and environmental purity of the true dunger, a well used tool clearly kept and not discarded at the first sign of a brighter alternative.



You've been playing on photoshop for too long Dave.

[vifferman]

... a well used tool clearly kept and not discarded at the first sign of a brighter alternative.
That sounds very much like the VFR to me.
Maybe it is a dunger... :confused:

[Big Dave]

Twenty-five for speed limit
Motorcycle not allowed in it
You go to store on Friday
You go to church on Sunday
They call it Nutbush, oh Nutbush
They call it Nutbush city limits


Take a hard pill.

[Crisis management]

They call it Nutbush, oh Nutbush
They call it Nutbush city limits


Thats why I never stayed in Tenessee.....

[P38]

I'd butter her up ........ bring her chocolate muffins for a week or two.

Fatten her up a bit:devil2:

She wont even know what your up too:msn-wink:

[Oakie]

I'd butter her up ........ bring her chocolate muffins for a week or two. :

"Butter her muffin?" Sorry, that just sprung into my head from somewhere. Not sure from where though. As you were....

[Steam]

Some Bint
How exciting! You made an enemy on the very first day! Or rather, she did.
Now you can have fun plotting revenge, formulating the best anonymous yet satisfying method.

[vifferman]

Step 1 has been to remove the restrictor from the Satantune. :devil2:
I'm going to have to park around the front tomorrow - someone else can park in the awkward-for-cars tandem space or on the road.

The Steam-o-cycle would be an ideal candidate to park out front though, wooden tit?

[CookMySock]

moving into new sitations of any sort - you will always get some prick who tries to set the power-balance with you in their favour. Best thing IMO is to bash them severely one-time only without regard for consequence, and resoundly set the power-balance in your favour. Distasteful, I know, but unlikely you will have to repeat it. They will love you to bits after that. Bitch. ;)

DB

[Swoop]

You would be loved even more if you were a nice biker...
NOT like the nasty biker/s who come and do donuts on the front lawn outside the building...


(There is an area of grass outside your workplace???:scratch:)

:lol:

[vifferman]

(There is an area of grass outside your workplace???:scratch:)

:lol:
Only on two sides, but the asphalt on the other two sides is nice'n'smooth...
I used to be a real whizz (is that a pun? :scratch:) at donuts, back in the 70s. Could donut my lowly-powered CB175 and MT250 on virtually any surface...

[Swoop]

I used to be a real whizz (is that a pun? :scratch:) at donuts, back in the 70s.
I'm fairly good. I can sit and eat several at a sitting.

Do I get recruited into the :Police: now???:buggerd:

[vifferman]

I'm fairly good. I can sit and eat several at a sitting.
I could do with a donut right now - your post has made me hungry.
Time to go for a walk to start comparing local eateries.
:doh:NUT

[P38]

"Butter her muffin?" Sorry, that just sprung into my head from somewhere. Not sure from where though. As you were....

LOL

Yep that might work too.

Your obviously a thinking man :niceone:

[yod]

(There is an area of grass outside your workplace???:scratch:)
:lol:
you need grass for donuts? yeah me too

I'm fairly good. I can sit and eat several at a sitting.

Do I get recruited into the :Police: now???:buggerd:

go chief wiggum....

"im idaho!"
"good ralphy"

[swbarnett]

The only grizzling was if just one bike occupied a car spot, but we normally doubled up anyway.
The issue I have with this sort of complaint is that it generally doesn't matter what the vehicle is, the park is still only being used by one person.

[Gubb]

moving into new sitations of any sort - you will always get some prick who tries to set the power-balance with you in their favour. Best thing IMO is to bash them severely one-time only without regard for consequence, and resoundly set the power-balance in your favour. Distasteful, I know, but unlikely you will have to repeat it. They will love you to bits after that. Bitch. ;)

DB

The same way you did with the "International" thing?

P/T.

Kinda.