I HATE Wednesdays

**Paul in NZ** · 14th February 2007, 21:46

Bah! Everything goes wrong on wednesdays....

'Things' happen, bad things, things that stop me getting to wed night rides and wed night Classic Club nights. I REALLY wanted to go tonoght because it was ride / pub night... Sigh.....

Work.. argh... Daughter #3 was late, traffic was, well, traffic 'nuff said and I knew i was cutting it awful fine but... Headed over the Paekakareiki Hill road and come across brad (young canadian Guy been here 3 days) laying in the ditch beside Kawasaki.... 'D'oh.... Motorist in attandance gives me the thumbs up and I really need to get going 'cos I'm late...... Well I got 500m before the old - 'Cannot leave a fellow Motorcyclist in a ditch being attended to by motorists can I?' feelings kick in... Drat.... I do have a first aid kit in the tank bag... double drat and U turn

Oh well......

Hour goes by.... Interesting hour filled with Policemen who did not want any help figuring out what happened (painfully obvious) and they really don't like motorcyclists do they? Or maybe I should have shaved?

Holding the IV bag....

Stuff (you know)

He aint too bad but I'm no doctor, busted collar bone maybe?? Bikes - erm - secondhand!

tried to catch the lads - went to Makara Beach etc but too late...

argh..

I hates wednesdays....

**Chisanga** · 14th February 2007, 21:49

I'm picking your next one will be better. Good on you for going back and helping out

**Ixion** · 14th February 2007, 21:49

Karma, my young friend, karma. Be assured, the Biker Gods have taken note. And I hope Brad is not badly injured.

**scumdog** · 14th February 2007, 21:59

Me too Paul.
Spent ages re-configuring the shifter detent in my Thunderbird, put the column back together and checked all was well with the indicamator switch thingy - and it was Not well.
Front right indimacator played dead, then the outer right rear one.... then the inner right rear one... then the middle one - argh!!!!

No1 son and I spent an hour or more with test-lights, jumper wires and shit like that before I firgured (guessed?) the "magicblackboxwhatmakesthelightsblink" needed a look at - sho'nuff a set of the points inside were skew-wiff

I re-aligned them (the factory has a set-up that prevents them being misaligned but the obviously never consulte ME) and all was well - donch just love old-school 'lectrics ya can fix?

THEN CB arrived home from work while I was adjusting the starting inhibitor (that magic gizmo wot stop ya startin an automatic car in gear) and testing it - and then it did one of those things where the engine started - but the starter-motor didn't, turned key off but still it went on!

Yelled at CB to pull the battery lead off (No ribald comments from the cheap seats thanks!) as I had left it unbolted, she took one look at the big propellor thingy wizzing around near the terminal and promptly rebelled - blood woman!
Had to scramble from under tha dash and dash around the car m'self to rip the lead off! WEDNESDAYS??? arrgh!!!

**Grub** · 14th February 2007, 22:02

Originally Posted by Paul in NZ

Headed over the Paekakareiki Hill road and come across brad (young canadian Guy been here 3 days) laying in the ditch beside Kawasaki....

I'm with you about Wednesdays (well this one anyways). Go out to the bike to ride off to Valentines Day dinner and find I had parked it all day with park lights on ... arrggghhh. At least an hour before AA came.

Which corner Paul? I was finally over there around 6 and saw at least two new tyre skid marks into banks that weren't there yesterday. Maybe one of them was a bike one?

The guy who should have been in an ambulance was the dude who passed me in the twisty bits on the back wheel last night about 5:15. He v nearly lost it when the front came down as he fishtailed into the corner. Must have been within a mm of the tank slappers and a high-sider!

Ohhh, did I mention it was a big bore v-something (black of course - booooring) on dealer plates!

**NighthawkNZ:Me** · 14th February 2007, 22:10

I hate mondays, tuesdays... wednesdays I hate thursdays and fridays staurdays are ok, sundays not bad...

**Motu** · 14th February 2007, 22:15

Yeah,a day of surprises - I came home and found the dog had dug a huge hole in the back yard,check out the mound...there are two of them.The cats are not sure what to do with all the space.Andy up on top.Wish I had a bike at home....all that gravel....two big jumps...

**Chisanga** · 14th February 2007, 22:16

Originally Posted by Motu

Yeah,a day of surprises - I came home and found the dog had dug a huge hole in the back yard,check out the mound...there are two of them.The cats are not sure what to do with all the space.Andy up on top.Wish I had a bike at home....all that gravel....two big jumps...

Stop giving your dog speed

**Hawkeye** · 14th February 2007, 22:44

Oh! I don't know. I quite like THIS Wednesday.
Passed my full and got to ride the new bike. Bliss.....

**scumdog** · 14th February 2007, 23:04

Originally Posted by Hawkeye

Oh! I don't know. I quite like THIS Wednesday.
Passed my full and got to ride the new bike. Bliss.....

Just wait....just wait..YOUR Wenesday will come!

**James Deuce** · 14th February 2007, 23:08

I had an SDM (person is paid more than so must be a better and more important person) try to stitch me up by blaming me for a TelstraClear Router not working.

I work for Datacom.

I also have a bad Wednesday attitude, so I told him where to go. Have sit round in a little room and "work it out" with a bunch of people tomorrow.

This will mean Thursday will be bad too.

I wish I could trade motorcyclist in ditch for SDM in ditch.

Poor Brad.

**Macktheknife** · 14th February 2007, 23:31

Good on ya Paul, at least you did the right thing mate.
As for the rest of you..... I used to complain about having no shoes, until I met a man with no feet. It is all a matter of perspective.
Enjoy and ride safe.
Mack

**Gremlin** · 15th February 2007, 00:19

My boss went on holiday... I finished running around from client to client at about 8.30pm... nuff said.

I'm busy convincing myself the next week and a half are going to be better...

**unhingedlizard** · 15th February 2007, 07:19

Originally Posted by Motu

Yeah,a day of surprises - I came home and found the dog had dug a huge hole in the back yard,check out the mound...there are two of them.The cats are not sure what to do with all the space.Andy up on top.Wish I had a bike at home....all that gravel....two big jumps...

Yeh you know what those cats are doing? Waiting till your backs turned then gonna turn that mound into a litter box.