The grumpy thread

[clayts450]

On 8/23/2019 at 11:24 AM, clayts450 said:

FFS, must have dropped my phone when I got out of the car yesterday.

Thankfully, modern tech means I have been able to trace exactly where my phone is down to the door number, and send them a message asking them to ring me.  After picking up my phone, the finder went to the park in the afternoon, stopped off at the doctors, caught a number 17 bus home and got home at 5.25pm after popping into Tesco (exact address known).

Fuck me, Big Brother most certainly is watching us.

Anyway, hopefully the honest finder will be accommodating and give me my damned phone back tomorrow.

Got my phone back - lovely couple, wouldn't take a reward. Nice to know there are still a lot of genuinely nice people out there.

[clayts450]

21 hours ago, Iamgroot said:

Trying to tax a car with the new keeper supplement of the V5 and it has an 11 digit code not 12, you will have to go to a post office, the wonderful website helpfully tells me. the logbook was issued in the last week, why not put the right bastard code on it!? Grrrrr.......

Pretty sure you can just stick a leading zero on that number and it should work - sure I've read that somewhere before. May be bollox, but worth a go.

[xtriple]

Having decided last night to get to 'sleep early' and then have a 'productive day' today, I failed miserably in both regards. I stayed up most of the night watching shit films, woke early and watched MotoGP until I fell asleep (about 10 minutes before the bit I wanted to watch came on!) and woke up about 4;00 p.m. Normally this would be impossible as two dogs would have given me a severe booting/woofing at by about 1;30 as they want to go to the park but not today. One was fast asleep blocking the gate and the other was fast asleep cuddling the fridge - yes, it is effin' HOT and neither of them seem remotely interested in going out/doing anything energetic/anything at all.

So in time honoured tradition, I have done and achieved precisely sweet fuck all apart from pulled my loose front tooth out when I cleaned my teeth this morning.

I am now layng on the floor and thinking about going back to sleep as I am tired after so much activty and stress. I did manage to take Chester round the block this morning before I fell asleep so his 'needs' have been seen to, lessens the guilt dontcha know  

[DoctorRetro]

27 minutes ago, clayts450 said:

Pretty sure you can just stick a leading zero on that number and it should work - sure I've read that somewhere before. May be bollox, but worth a go.

I think it is a 2.

[Mrcento]

One of my pet birds died this morning. Losing any pet is so hard, no matter what, you always feel fucking useless because it happened.

[Iamgroot]

1 hour ago, clayts450 said:

Pretty sure you can just stick a leading zero on that number and it should work - sure I've read that somewhere before. May be bollox, but worth a go.

I tried a 0 after I read it here on another post, but it didn't work unfortunately

1 hour ago, TheDoctor said:

I think it is a 2.

Haven't tried a 2, tried 4 and 6 though because they were on another couple of logbooks I have here ?

[LightBulbFun]

if its just a single digit then just try 0 through 9 until it works  

[Iamgroot]

13 minutes ago, LightBulbFun said:

if its just a single digit then just try 0 through 9 until it works  

I was just doing that actually, computer says...

 

So it still won't let me do it ?

Thanks anyway guys

[LightBulbFun]

sounds like your having about as much luck as I did with the new keeper slip for my Invacar!

https://autoshite.com/topic/32723-invacar-model-70-acquired-and-general-ramble-thread-index-on-page-1-phase-2-finding-a-suitable-driving-schoolinstructor-getting-lessons-and-a-licence/?do=findComment&comment=1841306

it basically said "the previous keeper has not told the DVLA that your the new keeper"

right until they issued the new V5 in my name at which point my "new keeper slip" stopped working since the new V5 (that I did not yet have at that point) had a new number

so I just had to wait for the V5 to show up in the post and then SORN her with the new 11 digit number

[myglaren]

My son was going to sorn his bike, hasn't used it for a year due to injuries when he came off is a few years ago.

They have send him a reminder and he has to enter the 11-digit code on it to tax/sorn it online.

There is no code :(

[LightBulbFun]

4 minutes ago, myglaren said:

My son was going to sorn his bike, hasn't used it for a year due to injuries when he came off is a few years ago.

They have send him a reminder and he has to enter the 11-digit code on it to tax/sorn it online.

There is no code

on both 2012 and 2019 V5s I have for REV,  the 11 digit code is displayed in several locations

so I would be a bit worried if its entirely missing from all locations on the V5 of that bike!

[myglaren]

Not the V5 but the tax reminder, he thinks it will be different - related to this year's tax.

I have just sailed through the process each year without taking a lot of notice, always been simple enough.

 

Other son and new girlfriend were supposed to be here for the holiday, was out this morning and bought loads of fresh food, texted him to leave his car at the front of the house and mine is buried round the back.

Text reply - "I think you have the wrong number"! - he's forever changing phones and numbers.

Tried another number for him.  Not coming after all, just came home from Seattle this morning and has to submit some work for his PhD.  Said he had emailed me yesterday.

He sent the email to all his siblings but forgot to copy me in.  Been doing this for months now.

[LightBulbFun]

13 minutes ago, myglaren said:

Not the V5 but the tax reminder, he thinks it will be different - related to this year's tax.

 

 

well it probably wont hurt to try the 11 digit number from the V5 anyway?  

[myglaren]

Probably not.

He seems to be hoping for another reminder.

[dozeydustman]

I can describe my grump with an emoji.

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Mrs d, madam and myself have been talking on the big white telephone since silly o’clock this morning.

Tittybiscuits

[Tamworthbay]

I was about to head off to The Wigginton pub for a classic car meet, checked up on their page to make sure it was still on the be met by a message stating that ‘as long as your car qualifies for historic vehicle tax you are welcome to attend’. Mine is 38 years old so doesn’t, so presumably I am unwelcome. Well fuck off Wigginton, I will get a pub lunch at the far superior Feathers in Lichfield, the landlord loves my car even though it isn’t quite 40 years old.

[Tadhg Tiogar]

3 minutes ago, Tamworthbay said:

.... ‘as long as your car qualifies for historic vehicle tax you are welcome to attend’. Mine is 38 years old so doesn’t, so presumably I am unwelcome....

So near, yet so far.

[Tamworthbay]

Just now, Tadhg Tiogar said:

So near, yet so far.

To be fair, it’s more the sentiment. I am sure they probably let me in but nothing stinks of a ‘real classics only’ with real being the kind of boring shite that gets polished but never driven. It will be full of boring old bastards who would not like the pile of car park receipts in the centre console, or the mud under the arches. It has saved a trip, and the food is great at the Feathers.

[SiC]

But you know if they didn't put a criteria in, the car park would be full of Focus STs

[Tamworthbay]

Just now, SiC said:

But you know if they didn't put a criteria in, the car park would be full of Focus STs

Several local meets, none of the others have an age limit, never seen a Focus ST at any of them, wouldn’t mind if I did as long as the other stuff is there as well.

[chaseracer]

4 hours ago, Tamworthbay said:

...I will get a pub lunch at the far superior Feathers in Lichfield, the landlord loves my car even though it isn’t quite 40 years old.

That menu looks good.

[Tamworthbay]

7 minutes ago, chaseracer said:

That menu looks good.

It is, the food is always good there. Mike, the landlord, is a top bloke and loves his live music. I went past the Wigginton on the way, there were all of three ‘classic’ cars in the car park, so much for that one. Sat on sofa now watching a bridge too far.

[chaseracer]

2 minutes ago, Tamworthbay said:

It is, the food is always good there... Sat on sofa now watching a bridge too far.

Me too!

We should organise our own Lichfield meet.

[Tamworthbay]

Just now, chaseracer said:

Me too!

We should organise our own Lichfield meet.

That sounds a plan! Plenty of places we could meet up.

[Floatylight]

That sounds a plan! Plenty of places we could meet up.

Sounds like a plan!

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[EssDeeWon]

Going somewhere on BH weekend.

Bird im seeing invites me to a colleagues BBQ / Garden party 60 miles away in the neighbouring county  "its not that far" well about 60 miles, anyway I reluctantly accepted but decided against taking the car because I don't really enjoy driving far anymore, the leisurely driving experience is always ruined by contestants for the wacky races in their Aldi's and other fast german cars, and its boiling and  I don't fancy getting stuck on the M25.  I decided public transport, possibly the worst decision so far in 2019.  Replacement buses where there should be a train, takes 3x longer but still the same price as a train? hmmm what other industry do you still pay the same for a substandard service? Nearly FOUR hours each way.  

Never again on a BH weekend with poxy buses involved, not for anyone.  Yes I could have driven but the roads heading this way today were jammed anyway with everyone heading to Southend, why you would bother i'll never know but either way an utter ball ache and i'm glad to be home, logged on here and watching hubnut.   (deep breath and relax)

[Garythesnail]

Today's grump - the MGTF of many colours decided that 4th gear was sufficient for all our needs on the way home from a trip to the shops.

[xtriple]

Having bought Phoebe an expensive new dog bed, she is laying, next to it! I have put her on it, encouraged her on it, threatened her with vivisection but she still prefers the floor.

Bloody women - even if dogs it seems are contrary.

[SiC]

21 minutes ago, xtriple said:

Having bought Phoebe an expensive new dog bed, she is laying, next to it! I have put her on it, encouraged her on it, threatened her with vivisection but she still prefers the floor.

Bloody women - even if dogs it seems are contrary.

Is it because the new dog bed doesn't smell like her bed? Maybe put an old blanket or a piece of any of your old clothing on it. 

She is probably worried that it's not her bed and she shouldn't be sleeping on it!

[BL Bloke]

6 hours ago, chaseracer said:

We should organise our own Lichfield meet.

I'd be up for that.