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Wondering if any of you can help with my dilemma?

I would be most grateful for any advice you could give on this matter of deep concern to me, as I am now in two minds about what to do.

For sometime now I've suspected that my girl maybe having an affair. You know the sort of thing. The phone rings, I answer, someone hangs up.

Recently she has started going out 'with the girls' a lot and when I ask which girls it's always "Just some friends from work, you don't know them".

I always used keep an eye out for her taxi coming home, but now she always walks up the street, although I can hear a car setting off as if she has just got out of one around the corner.

The other day I picked up her mobile, just to see what time it was, and she went mental, screaming at me that I should never touch her phone again and why was I checking up on her.

Anyway, I have never approached the subject with her. I kind of think deep down I don't really want to know the truth.

But then last night she went out again and I decided that I would check up on her. I hid behind my car which I knew would give me a good view of the whole street so I could see which car she got out of on her return.

It was whilst I crouched behind my car that I noticed rust around my rear wheel arch.

Do you think I should take it into a body repair shop or should I buy some stuff from Halfords and try to repair it myself ??? ....

Maybe this advice from a problems column will help:-

 
Why Men Don't Write Advice Columns ...

Dear Walter:

I hope you can help me here. The other day I set off for work leaving my
husband in the house watching the TV as usual. I hadn't gone more than a
mile down the road when my engine conked out and the car shuddered to a
halt.

I walked back home to get my husband's help. When I got home I couldn't
believe my eyes. He was in the bedroom with a neighbour lady making mad
passionate love to her.

I am 32, my husband is 34 and we have been married for twelve years.

When I confronted him, he tried to make out that he went into the back yard
and heard a lady scream, had come to her rescue but found her unconscious.
He'd carried the woman back to our house, laid her in bed, and began CPR.
When she awoke she immediately began thanking him and kissing him and he
was attempting to break free when I came back. But when I asked him why
neither of them had any clothes on, he broke down and admitted that he'd
been having an affair for the past six months.

I told him to stop or I would leave him. He was let go from his job six
months ago and he says he has been feeling increasingly depressed and
worthless. I love him very much, but ever since I gave him the ultimatum he
has become increasingly distant. I don't feel I can get through to him
anymore.

Can you please help?

Sincerely,
Mrs. Sheila Usk

Dear Sheila:

A car stalling after being driven a short distance can be caused by a
variety of faults with the engine. Start by checking that there is no
debris in the fuel line. If it is clear, check the jubilee clips holding
the vacuum pipes onto the inlet manifold. If none of these approaches
solves the problem, it could be that the fuel pump itself is faulty,
causing low delivery pressure to the carburettor float chamber.

I hope this helps.
Walter

just go to halfords

heathy12 wrote:Wondering if any of you can help with my dilemma?

Is the GF any good at welding?

There must be a whole series of "problem page" type questions that briefly mentions a vehicle problem then the punchline is that either the answer or the questioners main concern is exclusively with the vehicle problem ignoring the 'relationship" bit altogether. I suspect there may be more of these being e-mailles around or even a joke website.

Any more??

sweet post.

made me smile

Very good

Excellent

If the wheelarch is rotten, then filler and paint is only going to fix it temporarily (whether it's DIY or proffessional). You really need to get the rot cut out, new metal put in and some good rustproofing afterwards. This takes serious time and effort, therefore you need to decide if it really is worth trying to fix.

It's a bit like relationships really - they are not maintenance free and if you don't keep an eye out a problem will be serious before you know about it. If it's something serious, a quick fix will never work in the long term, so either do what's needed to cut the rot out as soon as possible or it'll get beyond repair.

We have reached the level.........

Heres one.

A man is driving down the road and breaks down near a monastery. He goes to the monastery, knocks on the door, and says, My car broke down. Do you think I could stay the night?
The monks graciously accept him, feed him dinner, and even fix his car. As the man tries to fall asleep, he hears a strange sound; a sound like no other that he has ever heard. The next morning, he asks the monks what the sound was, but they say, We can't tell you. You're not a monk.
The man is disappointed but thanks them anyway and goes about his merry way. He could never forget this amazing sound and some years later, the same man deliberately breaks down in front of the same monastery.
The monks again accept him, feed him, and even fix his car.
That night, he hears the same strange mesmerizing sound that he had heard years earlier.
The next morning, he asks what the sound was, but the monks reply,
We can't tell you. You're not a monk.
The man says, All right, all right. I'm dying to know.
If the only way I can find out what that sound was, is to become a monk, how do I become a monk?
The monks reply, you must travel the earth and tell us how many blades of grass there are and the exact number of sand pebbles. When you find these numbers, you will become a monk.

The man sets about his task. Some forty-five years later, he returns and knocks on the door of the monastery. He says, I have traveled the earth and devoted my life to the task demanded and have found what you had asked for. There are 371,145,236,284,232 blades of grass and 231,281,219,999,129,382 sand pebbles on the earth.
The monks reply, Congratulations, you are correct and now you are a monk .
We shall now show you the way to the sound.
The monks lead the man to a wooden door, where the head monk says, the sound is behind that door.
The man reaches for the knob, but the door is locked. He asks, May I have the key
The monks give him the key, and he opens the door.
Behind the wooden door is another door made of stone. The man requests the key to the stone door.
The monks give him the key, and he opens it, only to find a door made of ruby. He demands another key from the monks, who provide it. Behind that door is another door, this one made of sapphire. And so it went until the man had gone through doors of emerald,...
...silver, topaz, and amethyst.
Finally, the monks say, This is the key to the last door .
The man is relieved to no end. He unlocks the door, turns the knob, and behind that door he is astonished to find the source of that strange sound. It is truly an amazing and unbelievable sight

. . But I can't tell you what it is because you're not a monk.

DON'T SWEAR AT ME;
I'M STILL HUNTING FOR THE IDIOT WHO SENT THIS TO ME!

Excellent!

That last one was on the transit forum a few weeks ago ;) I reckon we should have a "funnies" section on this site

That last one is better told orally... adding nights at the monastery, because of waiting for the breakdown service, parts, etc., where he gets closer to the source of sound each time, eventually getting to the outermost door, and elements to the quest, plus his memory of the sound as he quests, it can easily last half an hour plus

And then there's the story of Little Bill...

Hers one my old dad used to tell.........

In the early nineteenth centuary, 2 very rich big game hunters set off to deepest Africa on there quest for the biggest trophy they could find. After many months they eventually shoot the biggest Lion in Africa and make plans for there return to London. While waiting for transport home one of the hunters wakes to find this tiny, amazing looking creature crawling into his tent! He captures it in a glass tumbler and shows it to his friend, Its amazing he say what is it? they show it to all of the tribesmen and no one knows what it is, must be very rare they all say. They decide to try and keep it alive and take it to the natural History museum in London once there return. They start off feeding it grass which it eats, over the next few days it grows! so they start feeding it insects again it eats them and grows! By the time they are ready to leave Africa it is the size of a cat and eating mice. By the time they get to London it has grown to the size of a horse! The scientists at the history museum have never seen anything like it! its so rare they and never been seen before so they ask to the hunters if they would like to name it. They decide that as its so rare they would call it a Rare'ry. So the newest animal on the planet was named!
Several months on and the hunters have found fame and fortune by exibiting the Rare'ry the only problem was it wouldnt stop growing! it was the size of an elephant and still growing! Eventually it was so big it could hardly walk and was costing a fortune to transport it anyware also anyone who wanted to see the creature had done so. It was also costing a fortune to feed. The hunters decide that the time had come to get rid of it. Neither of them had the heart to shoot it and and what would they do with the body? They couldnt find anyone else to shoot it and it was to big to try and posion. Many weeks later they come up with a plan! They decided that the only way to get rid of the Rare'ry was to make its death look like an accident.
One of the hunters lived on a huge estate with some very steep cliffs, they would get the Rare'ry up there an tip it off the edge! everyone would think it was an accident and they would keep there respect. After many days of pushing and pulling the Rare'ry was at the edge of the steepest cliff on the estate. As they geared themselves up for a final push the creature started to make a noise, a deep growling rumbling noise started from deep inside......The Rare'ry had never made a noise before!! Astonished the hunters looked at themselves and waited to hear what sort of noise it would make. The noise got nearer and nearer to its mouth and eventually it Spoke!!!!
What did it say?...........


as it looked over the edge of the cliff?





It said.................................







Wait for it...............








"ITS A LONG WAY TO TIP-A-RARE'RY"..................................


Sorry! >>>>>>>> My old dad could spin that one out for hours,