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!
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.

[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!

Oh yeah, was she hot?

"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??

[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.
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...

[vifferman]

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

If not why did you listen to her??

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??

"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)

[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.

[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)

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

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 ...but you get what i mean, I'm sure.