I hate it when I go to buy stuff, like planks of wood, posts, lengths of rope etc. When I ask for stuff in feet and inches, some folk will stand there and glaze over.
And buying a bike helmet? It's either small, medium or large...which is no help to me. And neither is 56cm, 57, 58cm etc. I take anywhere from a 6/78 to 7/8, depending on the make.
Everything's in mms. Does nobody do imperial or "foot n inches" anymore?
I went to help a young guy who tried to be all cool hip and trendy, by buying a british bike to impress his mates, then asked
me round to see why none of his sockets would fit....
Yup....you know what's coming.
He went and bought a socket set and spanner set from Argos. Then, set about trying to remove, force, then f*ck up the nuts on the bike. When I got there a lot of it was rounded off.
So, I whipped out my spanners (not a euphemism).
"Yeah...and, I have spanners too". Really? So this being a 1/2 inch, and these being 7/16", 3/8", 9/12" etc, what the hell are you doing using metric? You need proper spanners. He too, like the young guy at the wood shop, just glazed over.
I walked away when he said "
but MY sockets fitted...it must be the fact that the nuts are old and worn and a "bit loose" in the new socket set. I mean, this is a BRAND NEW set, so I'm gonna take it back and say it's cheap crap and doesn't fit stuff.....he ranted on:
bloody Chinese, making cheap sh1te that doesn't fit sod all.......
There are some folk you just can't edjumacate. I fear the continuation of riding old bikes (no, not a euphemism for that 80 year old slapper down the road with the dayglo lipstick, who will "do things to you" for a fiver...) will be a rare thing in 30 years time, as the younger generation have no clue, and are losing interest fast, in "the old ways".
And I ain't
that old y'know.
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