Who's already book their Ferry for 2004 ?

[Dark Warrior]

Mr Zarse

The offer of counselling is a kind one... I will discuss with SWMBO and ask her if it's OK for another regular evening out 'confonting my inner demons...'

I fear however, that the only day free will be a Tuesday...

DW

[gibberish]

Well said DW.  Totally agree

[gibberish]

With comments re ACO etc

[Dark Warrior]

Mr Gibberish

An excellent idea re the petition... I would suggest though, that the French reputation (please accept my apologies Gilles... no personal offence is intended) for intransigence and a refusal to listen to anybody (especially if you speak English) would make the exercise pointless...

Andy Z's comment about having people shot could be better applied to the blundering administrators at the ACO.... get rid of them and get somebody runnning the show who has a grasp on reality and could treat the running (of some elements) of The Great Race with common sense and respect that it deserves...

Gilles, allez le revolution...!!!


DW

[gibberish]

DW

I suspect that you are depressingly correct  

However, if gilles could knock-up a french letter (letter in french) which we could all copy, and post hundreds of them to the ACO, it might make a point

[Dark Warrior]

Gilles may be wise to consider the 'french letter' wording.... I understand that they actually (unless opened unintentionally) prevented any 'knocking up'...!!!

[BigH]

Ahhh.. DW it's you! How's the Esprit and yourself?

Sadly, as has been seen before on this forum, all of the discussions on tickets spiral like fag ends in a urinal, towards that plughole (and rather tasty air freshener) that is the ACO.

I assume MRI are English, so I'm a tad stymied as to why the ACO should be so keen to offload tickets to them. I suppose there's some sort of clerical saving to be made by having one recipient of heaps of tickets, rather than vice versa, but is that a good enough reason? Don't get me wrong though DW, I can understand your reasons for using them, and anyway, you have your eyes open and know what to expect. Unfortunately some poor saps believe their marketing and leave with a poor experience of the race.

No, I agree, a petition would be useless, so if it must be an open season on MRI, then so be it. Uncle Albert could pick them off from quite a range, and I think it would give him more pleasure than holding a .45 to the back of their heads. And can we smear their reps with something that would make them irresistable to Gnasher and his devil dog chums?
H

[Dark Warrior]

H

Great to hear from my friend, hope that you’re well…

The Esprit… ? Yep, she’s well, however some of the counselling I alluded to in the response to Andy Z is with a psychiatrist… What other woman would refuse to move from the pub car park, standing absolutely silently, refusing to say a word… leaving me to plead with her to come home…  not to leave me open to the giggles, nudges and the sign of the ‘O’ made by putting thumb and forefinger together and moved gently back and forth, from other patrons… and to cap it all when she did move, it was with some other bloke who took her away to ‘find out what was wrong…’

But she’s back now in great health, going at it like a train and leaving me all breathless and sweaty… and continuing to bleed my wallet dry as I struggle to keep her in the manner to which she has become accustomed… love hurts…

As regards MRI (or Page & Moy) and the ACO, beats me too mate…!!

In all seriousness though, if the ACO had a bloody clue what they were doing and I felt I could rely on them, of course I’d deal direct… but they’re a shower and I don’t... And looking outside of the debate on this forum its just an unfortunate fact of life… If somebody can’t be bothered or doesn’t have he requisite skill to do something themselves, then somebody will come along and do it for them and make a turn… Think international rugby tickets, theatre booking agencies and all of us, when it comes to selling (or buying) our houses…

However, if anybody has 6 MB I’ll have them now… just please don’t use the traps after I’ve released the pigeons for the long flight home…

Stay well…

DW

[Russ]

DW,

Perfectly understand the need to keep everyone together on the same camp site etc.  And I think it just goes to show the superior quality of the whole event if (and lets face it, it's pretty much all of us) people are happy to pay extra if it's the difference between going or not going. The "bloated plutocrats" and "crypto-capitalist bastards" and may I add... "can't organise a p*ss up at Le Mans f*ckwits" at MRI know this of course.

...Always up for a bit of MRI bashing...  

I've been one of the "poor saps" that BigH speaks of, and whilst I was happy at the time of booking to pay the extra for the notion of securing tickets after stupidly leaving it quite late... it wasn't the price that was the problem. If they had delivered what they said we had paid for, then fine, but they didn't. No, No, No, No...  

In most lines of work, mistakes can be forgiven, circumstances sometimes are unavoidable, but gross incompetence deserves all the hot metal a .45 can deliver.  

If you charge people £50 each to get into a bar for what is generally as big a drinking weekend as it is racing weekend... you'd have to be some top flight dumb arse mother f*cker to not get enough beer in... and to f*ck up so badly that it only lasts an hour of a 24 hour race. I can only assume the person in charge of beer supplies was a T-Total monk who had been told to expect a few people who like a little tipple on a nice day...

How hard is it to understand "These guys all drink like fish when they come to Le Mans, so as we've sold 5000 tickets, we'd best purchase 50,000 cans on a sale or return basis"

Jesus... I'm not even in the Bar/Catering/hospitality industry, I've only been to Le Mans twice and yet this little gem came to me without to much effort!!!

nuff said.  

[pretzel]

Russ,

I think you summed it up well. It's 10 years since I took a trip courtesy of an agency and have yet to hear a convincing argument to make me think again.

P.