ON THE ROAD AGAIN!!

Phew!

A friend came round this morning with an absolute doozey on the laptop I gave him.

He basically had a scam program that shut down his PC with a FALSE message stating it had been accessed by the Police, though they could not decide whether it was Cheshire or Loughton.

The full screen message quoted that he has been accessing child pornography and that he could be liable to a fine of £2,000 to £8,000 but could avoid this by paying a £100 fine and even had a PayPoint account set up?!

Being as he had just had been false charged by the Police because of actions that should never have taken place because the council and DWP have refused to help him with his Autistic and Attention Deficit Disorder child the pressure eventually exploded.

I looked at the screen and new immediately it was a scam. I knew he would never do anything like this and if anyone did they would not be stupid enough to bring the offending item to someone like me and would throw it in the nearest river. He was unconvinced and I pointed out that there would not be FINES for downloading child pornography there would be prison sentences and nothing else. Well unless your a famous celebrity or a rich or even better BOTH. Nor would they message you in this way therefore allowing you to dispose of said evidence.

Then I realised there was the use of bad English used and said it is an overseas scam and they obviously STILL think we have pots of money to do these things, lol, and be scammed, robbed and defrauded left, right and centre. This is the fault of the UK government by continually lying about how we are still something we are not and as well as throwing away our money they give out a message to the rest of the world's heartless and evil criminals come and scam us too as we have loads of cash.

It is also totally illegal to get into your computer in this way with no proof as you could have been J.K Rowling about to finish your first Harry Potter novel and this happens?! I also said that if he has anything like that on his laptop the first he would know of the Police knowing about it would be them bursting in the door and claiming all laptops on the premises.

However, despite saying all this what he had on his laptop was by far the most elaborate scam I had ever witnessed and very bold indeed to fill it with logos and symbols of the British Police Forces and I need to do some research to see if the Police know about it or done anything about it?!

Once he realised all was OK he left the laptop here as I could not see a way around the problem immediately, but first he took me to Halfords to get my skewers after being shocked out how much had gone on the last couple of weeks.

I asked a chap in Halfords about them and he said that they had just sold the last pair after I was in there yesterday?! Then after explaining to this new guy my problem he said "but the axles do not spin" and I disagreed but admitted it was confusing and both me and his colleague, Dave, had changed out minds several times. We disagreed several times before he then put me in my place and showed me and I said "my word your right!"

I explained that the grease came out which confused him and I decided I must have left more of a gap than I thought and will do this by feel. Loosen a fraction, spin the wheel, loosen a fraction, spin the wheel.

That saved my from buying a pair of skewers they had sold out of anyway and after my friend dropped me home I made the necessary adjustments, moved the axle along slightly and boom, all done!

At last now it will damn well stayt like that and if I have STILL done something wrong I will find out the hard way and if I am injured in the process well by then I will probably be able to hire the services of a solicitor of MY CHOOSING?!

Now I just noticed it is pi...pouring down with rain so I am NOT going out for even a test run on the bike and had better place it back in the shed?!

LMAO!

NOT ON THE ROAD AGAIN

Well for some reason I had it in my head to buy bike grease just in case but did not do it yesterday.

Today I went out to go to Enfield Council yet again, ooh and just you wait for the next post lol, and then later I cycled to Sainsburys and decided to go back to Halfords to ask what I had forgotten to, are the cone nuts supposed to be more than finger tight.

As I locked up my bike and looked down at my rear wheel I got my answer when I noticed a thick bulge of black grease around the edge where the rubber cop meets the metal on the wheel hub!!

GROAN!!

£5.99 for tube of grease back home after Sainsburys and I thought this will be quick as the wheel seems fine I just need to tighten the nuts so leave one where it is, loosen other side, move axle one way, fill bearings with grease, move other way, fill bearings on other side, tightne up the side I loosened and job done!!

Except once back in place the wheel did not want to spin very freely, on and off the bike several times and I cannot figure out what it is. I left it in the shed...AGAIN!!

I think I now know what to do but still think that skewer is a problem so now wondering if I should have just bought the pair of skewers from Halfords?!

I had intended to cycle to Waltham Abbey and visit a bike shop there, get the ONE rear skewer instead if having to buy TWO ad would probably be cheaper to boot, So likely to be 3 or 4 quid instead of 8 quid.

But the weather put paid to that plan!

For the love of god, will I EVER get this done?!

Panic Stations again and while trying to sort this out I had a very interesting conversation with a member of staff at the council who will remain nameless, lol...