Friday, 4 December 2020

Pizza and the Hose Clip

- Hello! Gordon's pizza?
- No sir it's Google's pizza.
- So it's a wrong number? Sorry
- No sir, Google bought it.
- OK. Take my order please
- Well sir, you want the usual?
- The usual? You know me?
- According to our caller ID data sheet, in the last 12 times, you ordered pizza with cheeses, sausage, thick crust.
- OK! This is it ...
- May I suggest to you this time ricotta, arugula with dry tomato.?
- What? I hate vegetables.
- Your cholesterol is not good, sir.
- How do you know?
- We crossed the number of your fixed line with your name, through the subscribers guide.
We have the result of your blood tests for the last 7 years.
- Okay, but I do not want this pizza!,I already take medicine ...
-Excuse me, but you have not taken the medicine regularly, from our commercial database, four months ago, you only purchased a box with 30 cholesterol tablets at Chemart.
- I bought more from another chemist’s.
- It's not showing on your credit card statement
- I paid in cash
- But you did not withdraw that much cash according to your bank statement
- I have have other source of cash
- This is not showing as per you last Tax form unless you bought them from undeclared income source.
-WHAT THE HELL?
- I'm sorry, sir, we use such information only with the intention of helping you.
- Enough! I'm sick of Google, Facebook, Twitter, WhatsApp. I'm going to an island without internet, cable TV, where there is no cell phone line and no one to watch me or spy on me
- I understand sir but you need to renew your passport first as it has expired 5 weeks ago.

“Eureka Moment”

There was a Eureka moment yesterday when I realised I had a solution to my hose clip conundrum.  Rather than buy a clip I could use a 3 inch length of the 20mm PVC water pipe I’d just thrown into the rubbish bin.  By cutting part of the side of the pipe out with a hacksaw I could make a clip.

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After cleaning up the rough edges from the hacksaw blade it was Sikaflexed to the vertical end of the side locker wall.

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If the Sikaflex doesn’t hold I’ll secure the clip with a couple of machine screws.  I do like a simple and cheap solution.

1 comment :

Dave said...

Hi Tom

On our caravan we have a drain tube for the toilet water supply. As it is clear it is dual purpose, sight level guage and drain tube.

The top pushes into a protuding pin that seals it off that keeps it clean as well as a clip.

Is it worth having the top of yours go into a short length of pvc pipe closed at the top to keep the end clean?