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This is how feckin' idiotic bosses back themselves into a corner of their own making.
So she inspected your boots.....was she really going to contemplate knocking back your request, and if she wasn't, why bother inspecting them? The dummy woman couldn't then win either way.
Some people end up in positions of authority, and they really shouldn't be.

We were discussing much the same the other day when one of our number let slip that his missus was very upset that he'd bought another bike against her wishes. Bearing in mind that he has maybe another additional 6/7 bikes what difference does one more make to her? Another said he always had to sell one to buy another as for reasons unknown she would get upset if the total rose to more than two. My old girl has absolutely no interest in old bikes (or even new bikes) but we both find it astounding that some women get so demonstrative over their husband's hobby. Do wives whose husbands like guitars, stamp albums or railway modelling act in this way too?
As long as the bikes aren't parked in the house and money isn't coming out of household funds, WTF does it matter?
I'm sure that deep-down she's pleased I'm knocking up something on the Myford than down the pub or looking up the local naughty women on t'Interwebby..

I reckon there's too many dentists, doctors and other wealthy people ride bikes these days for too many negative perceptions from non-riders to still exist.
Dunno about snobbery; even packs of ageing Power Rangers have time for a chat over a cup of tea, although Hardly-Worthitson riders (when out en-masse with riding marshalls and all that old toss) seem to develop a "if only you were as wealthy as us" attitude to other riders.
I can live with it though...continually being called "dude" or "bro" by some pot-bellied Sporty rider with a red hanky tied around his head gets to be vomit-inducing after a while.

That's the only way to ride 'em over bumps.
I get hip-ache too on a couple of my bikes, and the Scott makes my coccyx hurt for days afterwards.
The latest recruit (an RE WD/CO in real oily rag condition) has an old and scruffy Lycett fitted; might even be comfortable it's so worn!

Up to quite recently you couldn't give those buggers away...how things have changed! That bike has the look of an "unridden resto" to me, so maybe expect the usual teething problems?
Is the tank a different colour to the rest of it? Optical illusion most likely.
I was never a fan of strokers either until I discovered Smirnoff   err Scotts, I meant to say.. 
Should be a fun bike to ride.

It may actually be the same age. BSA, like any business, didn't want to get stuck with redundant immovable spare parts, and when some storeman pointed out in 1952 that he still had two gross of the older and smaller headset bearings left, the foreman told the frame shop that he wanted the smaller-sized headstock for the next two hundred frames. Problem solved.
This assumes that the numbers stamped on the frame are consistent with 1952, obviously.

That's a good idea. Once barn finds had a hen sitting on top and some hay hanging off them, now an alleged barn find is often pictured in a suburban street...