The grumpy thread

[cobblers]

12 hours ago, meggersdog said:

The saga continues.

Came into work on the Saturday and the woman is sat in her car. Told me she was here for the repairs "thought you were booked in for Friday " says I. She got angry and threatened to slap me. Told her the garage owner would be there at 9 am and walked off. He had booked her in for the Friday and offered to take her home .As he is there alone on Saturdays he wouldn't have offered a lift. Rebooked for Thursday .

On the Wednesday she phoned me to tell me she wasn't coming and had changed her mind and won't be having the work done.She then phoned the garage three times to say the same thing. As I was locking up she phoned me again to say the same thing. Heard nothing more until today.

Today she turned up demanding her MoT certificate. Have you had the work done then ? "didn't need any" came the reply. What about the headlight not working. "well the police inspector said it was disconnected and doesn't know why you failed it doesn't need any tyres" But I hadn't failed your tyres I failed the driveshaft cvs did you get them fixed. "doesn't need fixing there is nothing wrong" and "I want my MoT"  I was still doing the paperwork on an MoT so told her I need to inspect the car first and would be another ten minutes. " haven't got time, I need to be in Stamford. Just give me my MoT" oh dear,that's not how it works I need to look at the repairs.Off she went almost driving into a passing car. Police duly informed and they will be sending someone out to her for a welfare check. Don't know how to tell her that the ten days retest is up and would need another complete test.

 

This sounds 100% exactly like my nan apart from my nan would be more polite about it. It's the onset of dementia in someone who has always had their own way in life, so their confusion comes out as aggression/anger rather than them questioning themselves. 

My nan forgot her pin number and ended up banned from the local shop as she would just keep going back in every few hours and being really stroppy that her card didn't work and "what were they going to do about it? I need to buy my dinner!"

[meggersdog]

@cobblers my thoughts exactly about this old lady. My staff and nextdoor all agree she shouldn't be out on her own and certainly shouldn't be driving alone. Hopefully the police will act on the welfare check . 

[louiepj]

I have sent three sellers on the bay messages about items I need to buy. Not a single reply yet.
My need for instant communication in this digital age is not being satisfied and I am throwing my electronic toys out of my pram in anger.

[jakebullet]

2 hours ago, GrumpiusMaximus said:

@jakebullet RSPCA.  People that do this shit to innocent animals should have it done back to them three times over.  I fucking hate it.

RSPCA website says "we're not interested in noisy dogs or dogs being kept outside". I should contact council and make a noise complaint, and if the council man thinks the noise is because the dog is suffering the council man can then contact rspca. Council noise complaint site says you must keep a noise diary for 4 weeks before you can complain. So that's a lot of dog dumped in a cold shed.

Hopefully this latest wheeze of his will end soon with the dog going to someone else.

[Tadhg Tiogar]

19 hours ago, Wack said:

The dog has eaten something that's given her the squits , she's not a barker , just stands at the back door and scratches but that's not a lot of use at 3am 

Got up at 6 to a brown pool of liquid squirted about a foot , luckily laminate floor not carpet but fuck me did it stink , cleaned it up 

About 9am I thought I can still smell it,  or can I , it's psychological once it's up your nose 

No , I'm sure I can smell it then I saw it 

Turns out a king Charles spaniel's arsehole is exactly the same height as the top of a boot , a big squirt right in it 

 

What is it with you and dodgy canine digestive systems?

[Wack]

7 minutes ago, Tadhg Tiogar said:

What is it with you and dodgy canine digestive systems?

It's all part of pet ownership , when this one goes that'll be it , no more dogs 

[Tadhg Tiogar]

Just now, Wack said:

It's all part of pet ownership , when this one goes that'll be it , no more dogs 

I was about to ask if there was a pie involved with the latest one, but I suspect you didn't fall for that this time!

[Wack]

She's eaten something in the garden , no idea what 

[tooSavvy]

I should be joyous - rug rat turns 15 tmozz..🥂

However, the CanadaGoose coat has [effectively] torpedoed any whistful thumbing through eBay tat-thread 🥺

[Wack]

8 minutes ago, tooSavvy said:

I should be joyous - rug rat turns 15 tmozz..🥂

However, the CanadaGoose coat has [effectively] torpedoed any whistful thumbing through eBay tat-thread 🥺

Thankfully both my kids would never wear anything with a label on it 

My son had a plain black pair of Nike trainers for 3 years , in the end I had to throw them away while he was asleep 

The only time I got a shock was when my daughter asked for a pair of Dr Martens boots £180 

[Remspoor]

On 10/25/2021 at 3:46 PM, vulgalour said:

Sub optimal.  I've got repair panels to sort it, but I'm at the mercy of the British weather which is currently trying to make sure the car is under water.

The results of acid rain?

[MikeR]

5 hours ago, Wack said:

Thankfully both my kids would never wear anything with a label on it 

My son had a plain black pair of Nike trainers for 3 years , in the end I had to throw them away while he was asleep 

The only time I got a shock was when my daughter asked for a pair of Dr Martens boots £180 

Doc Martins are nearly 200 notes !! , last time I bought a pair  they were 30 quid in the army store , and they wore out !

[Wack]

6 minutes ago, MikeR said:

Doc Martins are nearly 200 notes !! , last time I bought a pair  they were 30 quid in the army store , and they wore out !

These are like if Frankenstein asked for a pair 

 

[anonymous user]

5 hours ago, Wack said:

It's all part of pet ownership , when this one goes that'll be it , no more dogs 

I said that several years ago when Bob the dog bit the dust.

Which is why I now have four dogs.

[MikeR]

5 hours ago, Wack said:

It's all part of pet ownership , when this one goes that'll be it , no more dogs 

after owning Greyhounds and there sensitive belly's and resultant hose pipe ring piece .

I am finding owning a JRT  terrier type dog and its chomp anything jaws quite refreshing ....

wood chip , plastic toys , fabric toys , sticks , plants , travel , stress , our food , his food , anything he finds ....

anything that goes down that biscuit chute comes out firmly digested in a pick up able lump at the top of the garden !!!

[Wack]

15 minutes ago, MikeR said:

after owning Greyhounds and there sensitive belly's and resultant hose pipe ring piece .

I am finding owning a JRT  terrier type dog and its chomp anything jaws quite refreshing ....

wood chip , plastic toys , fabric toys , sticks , plants , travel , stress , our food , his food , anything he finds ....

anything that goes down that biscuit chute comes out firmly digested in a pick up able lump at the top of the garden !!!

That's why we feed her kibble , what comes out is a soft version of what goes in , normally , until she eats something in the garden she's not supposed to 

[Remspoor]

On 10/25/2021 at 9:08 PM, Fumbler said:

The gritter has just gone past. Perhaps the gritter hasn't gone past as there's no salt on the road. Crisis averted.

 

On 10/25/2021 at 10:25 PM, sheffcortinacentre said:

Was one driving round my estate last week ( not actually gritting) god knows what that's about????

[Fumbler]

4 minutes ago, Remspoor said:

 

I'm bracing myself already. Next week is supposed to be chilly.

[hairnet]

Saw one of the Kia ev6 things in Norfolk last week

From the back

My eyes still hurt

[Zelandeth]

Funny how things hit you more some days than others.

Stumbled across a couple of tracks in my audio library.  My automatic line of thought goes along the line of "I'll need to play that next time I'm out with my folks, think they'd like that..."

Not likely given Mum passed away in 2014 and Dad barely a year later. 

Dad going never really hit me to be honest...in a lot of ways he already had back in 1994, he came out of hospital after the brain haemorrhage a completely different person to who went in.  We never really was eye to eye after that, especially as I tended to not take his nonsense and would just tell him when he was being daft and self destructive. 

Mum though, seven years on my brain hasn't even vaguely figured out how to reconcile that she's gone.  Fact that it happened very suddenly was a part there, and that I was the only one of the friends or relations I'm aware of who never really had a chance to sit down and talk to her in the last few days didn't help either.  No great surprise that was because I was wrangling my father.  She died while I was driving back from dropping him off at the pub, where I'd begrudgingly agreed to drop him off to avoid him making a huge scene (again) in the hospital.

Just an hour to have a chat would have done.  There were a few aspects to my life I'd never discussed for reasons of being foolishly self conscious and worried she wouldn't have approved, and always had planned to sort that.  Never got the chance did I?

Something which was a high point most times when I was out visiting at the weekends (I usually did all the driving then) was sharing what music had caught my attention over the last few weeks as we had pretty similarly eclectic tastes so it was always interesting sharing that.

It's a silly little thing, but it's one that I miss more than pretty much any other.  I just keep forgetting that "Next time" isn't ever going to come.

I guess a snippet of the lyrics of the first song which prompted this this evening fits..

"What you call home is a box full of memories, forever lost, but good enough to keep."

Sorry, that turned into more of a pointless ramble than it was meant to.

[New POD]

2 hours ago, Zelandeth said:

Funny how things hit you more some days than others.

Stumbled across a couple of tracks in my audio library.  My automatic line of thought goes along the line of "I'll need to play that next time I'm out with my folks, think they'd like that..."

Not likely given Mum passed away in 2014 and Dad barely a year later. 

Dad going never really hit me to be honest...in a lot of ways he already had back in 1994, he came out of hospital after the brain haemorrhage a completely different person to who went in.  We never really was eye to eye after that, especially as I tended to not take his nonsense and would just tell him when he was being daft and self destructive. 

Mum though, seven years on my brain hasn't even vaguely figured out how to reconcile that she's gone.  Fact that it happened very suddenly was a part there, and that I was the only one of the friends or relations I'm aware of who never really had a chance to sit down and talk to her in the last few days didn't help either.  No great surprise that was because I was wrangling my father.  She died while I was driving back from dropping him off at the pub, where I'd begrudgingly agreed to drop him off to avoid him making a huge scene (again) in the hospital.

Just an hour to have a chat would have done.  There were a few aspects to my life I'd never discussed for reasons of being foolishly self conscious and worried she wouldn't have approved, and always had planned to sort that.  Never got the chance did I?

Something which was a high point most times when I was out visiting at the weekends (I usually did all the driving then) was sharing what music had caught my attention over the last few weeks as we had pretty similarly eclectic tastes so it was always interesting sharing that.

It's a silly little thing, but it's one that I miss more than pretty much any other.  I just keep forgetting that "Next time" isn't ever going to come.

I guess a snippet of the lyrics of the first song which prompted this this evening fits..

"What you call home is a box full of memories, forever lost, but good enough to keep."

Sorry, that turned into more of a pointless ramble than it was meant to.

I don't understand grief.  

My wife has completely fallen apart, and this week has received a significant sum of money from the sale of her parents house and it's sent her into another spiral of doom.  She obviously would give it all away if she could spend just one more day with her parents. 

[timolloyd]

3 hours ago, Zelandeth said:

Funny how things hit you more some days than others.

Stumbled across a couple of tracks in my audio library.  My automatic line of thought goes along the line of "I'll need to play that next time I'm out with my folks, think they'd like that..."

Not likely given Mum passed away in 2014 and Dad barely a year later. 

Dad going never really hit me to be honest...in a lot of ways he already had back in 1994, he came out of hospital after the brain haemorrhage a completely different person to who went in.  We never really was eye to eye after that, especially as I tended to not take his nonsense and would just tell him when he was being daft and self destructive. 

Mum though, seven years on my brain hasn't even vaguely figured out how to reconcile that she's gone.  Fact that it happened very suddenly was a part there, and that I was the only one of the friends or relations I'm aware of who never really had a chance to sit down and talk to her in the last few days didn't help either.  No great surprise that was because I was wrangling my father.  She died while I was driving back from dropping him off at the pub, where I'd begrudgingly agreed to drop him off to avoid him making a huge scene (again) in the hospital.

Just an hour to have a chat would have done.  There were a few aspects to my life I'd never discussed for reasons of being foolishly self conscious and worried she wouldn't have approved, and always had planned to sort that.  Never got the chance did I?

Something which was a high point most times when I was out visiting at the weekends (I usually did all the driving then) was sharing what music had caught my attention over the last few weeks as we had pretty similarly eclectic tastes so it was always interesting sharing that.

It's a silly little thing, but it's one that I miss more than pretty much any other.  I just keep forgetting that "Next time" isn't ever going to come.

I guess a snippet of the lyrics of the first song which prompted this this evening fits..

"What you call home is a box full of memories, forever lost, but good enough to keep."

Sorry, that turned into more of a pointless ramble than it was meant to.

I can totally empathise. Grief comes in waves and there’s no time limit on that tide.

It’s frustrating how the brain can ‘trick’ you into certain reactions, like wanting to share something with someone who is no longer here.

 

[MikeR]

12 hours ago, MikeR said:

after owning Greyhounds and there sensitive belly's and resultant hose pipe ring piece .

I am finding owning a JRT  terrier type dog and its chomp anything jaws quite refreshing ....

wood chip , plastic toys , fabric toys , sticks , plants , travel , stress , our food , his food , anything he finds ....

anything that goes down that biscuit chute comes out firmly digested in a pick up able lump at the top of the garden !!!

strangely this has happened since yesterday , cant be mice can it ....

or could it be a certain dog ?

but a whole loaf into a terrier ?????

 

[somewhatfoolish]

He'll be shitting like a sausage machine after that; even with VALU bread an entire loaf has a lot of fibre.

[MikeR]

1 hour ago, somewhatfoolish said:

He'll be shitting like a sausage machine after that; even with VALU bread an entire loaf has a lot of fibre.

just found out it was not the  dog ,

rats ? have got in from a other back garden behind the greenhouse  , gone around our garden  , under the garage door and bingo .

the track has now been blocked off , now I just need a load of bait ..  and a few traps .....

a whole loaf in one night , and not one sign of droppings !!

had a basin full with  the mice over the spring chewing up the shed stuff , I suppose this is what a new build does to the wild life ..

moves it on !

[sierraman]

I know I’m a tightwad but isn’t £40 a bit expensive to reseal 2 tyres? The pressure is dropping a couple of Psi a week, literally wants the tyre taking off, rim cleaning up and refitting with plenty of paste. Can’t be more than half an hours work. This is at the local tyre under the arches type place so not one of these big outfits. 

[myglaren]

14 hours ago, MikeR said:

Doc Martins are nearly 200 notes !! , last time I bought a pair  they were 30 quid in the army store , and they wore out !

After two pair of standard school shoes only lasted weeks, I bought my daughter a pair of Doc Martins.

£80 - she knew the shop owners.  She was 13 then, is 37 now and still has them.

In the meantime she has bought many other pairs at stratospheric prices.  The first ones never seem to wear out.

[3VOM]

1 hour ago, myglaren said:

After two pair of standard school shoes only lasted weeks, I bought my daughter a pair of Doc Martins.

£80 - she knew the shop owners.  She was 13 then, is 37 now and still has them.

In the meantime she has bought many other pairs at stratospheric prices.  The first ones never seem to wear out.

I may be talking crap here but I think Docs used to be made in the UK then production moved abroad, so her first pair could be made on a UK last by a UK craftsperson and be better quality as a result. Could be urban legend though.

[juular]

1 hour ago, sierraman said:

I know I’m a tightwad but isn’t £40 a bit expensive to reseal 2 tyres? The pressure is dropping a couple of Psi a week, literally wants the tyre taking off, rim cleaning up and refitting with plenty of paste. Can’t be more than half an hours work. This is at the local tyre under the arches type place so not one of these big outfits. 

Typically I've paid £10 a wheel for that.

[sierraman]

4 minutes ago, juular said:

Typically I've paid £10 a wheel for that.

Found a local place for £15 a wheel which sounds a bit more like it. The tyres have 5mm of tread and only 2 years old still so no sense binning them off. Thinking maybe the first place basically would rather sell me some new tyres.