On 09/07/17 09:46, John Dunlop wrote:
Joy Beeson:

I'm tempted to cross-post this to alt.usage.english -- I dithered so
over whether to say "unshipped" "shipped" or "re-shipped". The
incident was unshipping, but it was shipping that got my fingers dirty.

You could carry a pair of latex gloves for those on-the-road repairs.
They take up almost no space, and if you're careful they're reusable
dozens of times.

I agree that they take up almost no space.

But when it's hammering down with rain and the traffic thunders past you
at 60 mph and your chain has wrapped itself around the spokes of your
rear wheel and you were already running late, one does not have to
venture too far into the realms of fantasy to hypothesise that the
integrity of your latex gloves might just be the last thing on your mind.

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