Re: Garages.. again

Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, platypus <monotreme@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> typed
Muck wrote:
The garage I got my disk bent at, then subsequently replaced by, have
asked for the old disk back. The trouble is that I asked the owner
what I should do with it after he paid for the replacement, he said
that I should keep it. This puts me in a spot, as I gave it to a
mate, and he’s chucked it out. The last thing the garage owner said
to me, is …. You’d better get that disk back, because it’s mine. It’s
worrying me, because I woke up this morning thinking about it.

Should I just give him the scrap value for the disk (about 15 pence),
or just run away and not go back there?

Tell him you were talking about it to a mate from one of the bike mags, who asked you a lot of questions and took the disc away to be checked by an independent engineer and photographed.

<G> You're an evil bugger, and no mistake.

--
Wicked Uncle Nigel - "He's hopeless, but he's honest"

My position was (and, to be honest, largely remains) one of complete ambiguity.
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