What makes you grin? Antidote to grumpy thread

[EyesWeldedShut]

10 minutes ago, JeeExEll said:

Don't know if this is a grump or an anti-grump.

Was shopping on Monday and bought a few things. Went to buy something else and found my wallet was missing from my outside  jacket pocket. Went back the shop I was last in but it wasn't there.

- Boo  : (     Blocked my bank card online via my phone. Intended registering the loss with the police station in the morning.

- Tuesday morning I found that someone had found my address from my driving license and posted my wallet through my letter box.

- Yaay  : )

- Opened it to find they had taken  £190 in cash , my bank card, and bizarrely my electricity PAYG card. My driving license was still there.

Don't know what to make of it.

Am glad they left my driving license as it's the only photo ID I have and I need it to enrol in my next college course very soon and  then apply for course Bursary funding

God knows how long it would have taken DVLA to issue a replacement.

Maybe they intend paying my electricity for me. Here's hoping . . .

The person who found it and dropped it through your letterbox is most likely not the original/thief person? That one dumped it, your Good Samaritan found it and dropped it into your gaff??
 

[High Jetter]

15 minutes ago, JeeExEll said:

Don't know if this is a grump or an anti-grump.

Was shopping on Monday and bought a few things. Went to buy something else and found my wallet was missing from my outside  jacket pocket. Went back the shop I was last in but it wasn't there.

- Boo  : (     Blocked my bank card online via my phone. Intended registering the loss with the police station in the morning.

- Tuesday morning I found that someone had found my address from my driving license and posted my wallet through my letter box.

- Yaay  : )

- Opened it to find they had taken  £190 in cash , my bank card, and bizarrely my electricity PAYG card. My driving license was still there.

Don't know what to make of it.

Am glad they left my driving license as it's the only photo ID I have and I need it to enrol in my next college course very soon and  then apply for course Bursary funding

God knows how long it would have taken DVLA to issue a replacement.

Maybe they intend paying my electricity for me. Here's hoping . . .

My notes stay in my back pocket, i'll know if anything's being lifted there (proved twice). Did you leave wallet in store or maybe fell out?

[JeeExEll]

That did cross my mind but I'll never know. Have found purses and wallets in shops and in the street before. Always always hand them in intact,  check contents for any contact details.

[JeeExEll]

I last remember it being on the corner of the shop counter but I was putting stuff into a rucksack and there was a queue. I have mobility problems with sense of balance at the moment and was going as fast as I could. I may have left without it or it may have dropped out of my pocket when I checked my phone. 

Not life changing but I rather it hadn't happened.

[JeeExEll]

It wasn't like a pick-pocket thief scenario, just my own carelessness. Lesson learned.

[Matty]

At the end of a lot of overtime and saving we now have her dream porch and downstairs bathroom. A lot of late nights and Saturdays that represents.

The final touch was the only bit I cared about. A proper driveway. The best moment was delayed a few days by her car splitting its 17 year old header tank but tonight after mending and bleeding (and washing all the cars) I finally got my moment. Well chuffed.

[richardmorris]

22 minutes ago, JeeExEll said:

It wasn't like a pick-pocket thief scenario, just my own carelessness. Lesson learned.

Someone still stole and took advantage though.

[JeeExEll]

Absolutely but there's nothing I can do about it. Hopefully the bank has a system where if there's a cash machine request using a stolen card then it would be recognised and captured on CCTV. More worrying right at the time was that they had my bank card number and the 3-digit code on the back so for a short period could order stuff online. Or just swipe the card at any checkout and get free stuff at my expense. Moment of panic, but again, CCTV is your friend. Card was blocked within an hour though and I can pay for anthing myself online again  when new card arrives in a few days. My bank office checked my balance and paid out enough cash to keep me going.

An avoidable siuation but life goes on.

[JeeExEll]

The £190 in cash is written off in my mind already.

But what a shitty thing to do to someone.

[Matty]

20 minutes ago, JeeExEll said:

The £190 in cash is written off in my mind already.

But what a shitty thing to do to someone.

When you set about to live honest it's always a let down that some folk are snide and underhand. Disappointing but unfortunately that's how life is.

[myglaren]

 

[JeeExEll]

16 hours ago, Matty said:

When you set about to live honest it's always a let down that some folk are snide and underhand. Disappointing but unfortunately that's how life is.

It's only money. Started out with none and still got most of it left.

[hairnet]

Lol at swimming

The two divers were cook and bacon

Well i larfed

[hairnet]

So was lookjng for something to watch 

Saw celine dion thjng ( cooincidence after last night ?) dunno

But saw the cricket was on after it - oh ill watch that 

Not realising ive already aatched it at 7 pm then went to tescis

Been a long day

Blame thd Scandinavians @Saabnut

[EyesWeldedShut]

Looking for a Solar PV setup on eBay and found one seller with a sense of humour (or maybe they just take everything literally)

[myglaren]

 

[hairnet]

So bought this read last night cos.tv was garbage

Still kit read it

Listened to radio instead lol

Mold

[IronStar]

Found this on the market today. I don’t have an Atari 800, but it’s nice to see. Picked it up at a cost of 50p 😄

[Remspoor]

See Remspoor

http://www.dwotd.nl/2011/02/874-remspoor.html

[reb]

Someone on the forum has done something astonishingly kind for me. Big grin.

Will make a post revealing tomorrow!

[Spottedlaurel]

Nice view this morning:

And more importantly there are things like this to be seen:

 

Just some guy cruising around in a beige, diesel R18 estate. Don't mind missing out on FOTU when I get to see this sort of thing in its natural habitat.

[hairnet]

4 hours ago, Spottedlaurel said:

Nice view this morning

 

 

 when I get to see this sort of thing in its natural habitat.

me too

but worcestershire

[hairnet]

reading a bike thing hes started in washington state 

is now in mexico

is the gold thing corsa related?

[hairnet]

catching up with it now theyve done guatemala honduras

theyre in nicaragua now

[eddyramrod]

On 27/07/2024 at 22:59, hairnet said:

Lol at swimming

The two divers were cook and bacon

Well i larfed

Were they the toast of the Games?

 

I did a bit of Asda shopping this morning, and when I got to checkout, found the bill was cheaper than I expected.  So I joked with the cashier that I should go back in and get some stuff for the Food Bank trolley.  And by the time I got to the car, I'd decided to do exactly that.  I spent less than half my own bill but felt so great going through the same checkout.  We had a bit of banter about it.

So I was a few minutes later leaving Asda than I would have been.  I decided to drop into the nearby charity shop in search of diecasts.  My timing was unusually brilliant, because I did the Food Bank shopping, as a chap saw me rooting in a box of cheap toys and opened conversation.  Seems he has inherited his late dad's toy/model car collection and wants to rehome it, or at least as much as possible.  I will, of course, be taking photos...

[hairnet]

not that granada

thats not a sunset ❤️

im not jealous at all

[DVee8]

Two absolute cracking giffer repairs

 

[Cavcraft]

This should probably go in the 'grumpy' thread,  but...

 

I bought a very random item on eBay.  Says on the listing it'd be there 5-6 days later.  10 days later the vendor messages me

'You know I'm holiday, don't you?'

No, I didn't know. 

'Oh, I'll ask someone at home to post it for me'. 

Countless emails ensue with two 'proof of postage' photos.

This proof of postage obscured the date, the details of where it was being sent didn't match and it said they were returns to a shop.

'Oh, sorry. must have got wrong receipt'

Send me another photo. This photo has no tracking number, no company name, nothing.

'The Post Office took it' and then when asked for the actual tracking number, mysteriously 'The Post Office don't take parcels that size, it went through DPD'

Numerous requests for a tracking number and proof DPD have it. 

'Sorry, that wasn't the receipt'

Ask again for tracking number.

'It's on that receipt, which is the right one not the wrong one'

'Has it arrived yet?' (x about 10)

Opened a dispute so today he send me 'proof' of tracking, which is now Fed Ex and the tracking number doesn't exist.

'Has it arrived yet?'

And eventually it did, this afternoon.  With the receipt. The receipt which was clearly purposely stuck to the package and quite well sellotaped on.

And what did said receipt say?

Thank you for eating at McDonald's

407, Bradford Road,

Brighouse

1 BBQ  bacon crispy wrap

1 Mayo chicken

1 med fries

1 med coke 

[High Jetter]

4 hours ago, Cavcraft said:

I  bought a very random item on eBay. 

Cold burgers *shivers*

[reb]

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