Date   : Thu, 14 Sep 2006 13:02:34 +0100
From   : "Ian Wolstenholme" <BBCMailingList@...>
Subject: Re: Car boot finds!

I agree, I don't have a car or a driving licence or any petrol,
but I do have a Mother.

Best wishes,



Ian

----- Original Message -----
From: jgh@... (Jonathan Graham Harston)
To:  bbc-micro@...
Sent:  13 Sep 2006 23:06:14 +0100
Subject: [BBC-Micro] Re: Car boot finds!

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"Ian Wolstenholme" <BBCMailingList@...> wrote:
> This little lot wasn't bad....
> http://www.beebmaster.co.uk/GreatestFind/Greatest.html
> ...especially since it was all free!!!!!!
 
I wouldn't exactly call it free.
 
There's the cost of getting a driving license, the cost of owning
a car, the cost of filling it with petrol and getting there, the
cost of finding the car boot sales exist and finding where they
are.
 
It completely locks out the 40% of the population who don't have
a car.
 
(I was once advised that a settee I was throwning away would not
be collected, and I should take it myself to a tip on the other
side of Sheffield, even after I had pointed out that I wouldn't be
able to get it on the bus.)
 
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