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[INDENT]The sight of a broken-down machine is to the overhauler as a wayside corpse to a crow; he swoops down upon it with a friendly yell of triumph. At first I used to try politeness, I would say: 'It is nothing; don't you trouble. You ride on, and enjoy yourself, I beg it of you as a favour; please go away.' Experience has taught me, however, that courtesy is of no use in such an extremity. Now I say: 'You go away and leave the thing alone, or I will knock your head off.' And if you look determined, and have a good stout cudgel in your hand, you can generally drive him off.
** Jerome K Jerome,**
** Three Men on the Bummel, 1900**
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Jerome K Jerome is a good one. Got that from The Cyclist's Companion. He has other good things to say about the art of loafing about and generally doing nothing, which, aside from cycling, is another interest of mine.