The grumpy thread

[anonymous user]

3 hours ago, sierraman said:

Top tip, know what the fuck you need to order before you get to front of queue in Toolstation to save annoying everyone else behind. 

And, before you stand in the queue to collect your online order, for God's sake make sure you have actually ordered from Toolstation and not Screwfix. 

(Oh, that was me)

[comfortablynumb]

I don't care how long they take in McDonald's.

I hate the stuff 🤢

[matt79]

4 hours ago, sierraman said:

Top tip, know what the fuck you need to order before you get to front of queue in Toolstation to save annoying everyone else behind. 

Bonus points if this person drove off in a 2007 doom blue Vauxhall Zafira

[Metal Guru]

45 minutes ago, anonymous user said:

And, before you stand in the queue to collect your online order, for God's sake make sure you have actually ordered from Toolstation and not Screwfix. 

(Oh, that was me)

Easily done. I can think off a few places where they are next door to each other.

[auntiemaryscanary]

2 hours ago, anonymous user said:

And, before you stand in the queue to collect your online order, for God's sake make sure you have actually ordered from Toolstation and not Screwfix. 

(Oh, that was me)

I'm a bit of an aluminium foil hat about deleting cookies on my phone. After which the phone thinks* I'm in a random location. Won't be first time I've gone to my regular Toolstation to click & collect to find my phone picked their Crystal Palace store when I needed Nottm.

[IronStar]

I’m shuffling around bank accounts to take advantage of savings account that’s giving 4.01% yield vs 0.00% I have now. Why is this a grump? I just got stopped by automated antifraud, freezing the transaction and marking it for a review on Monday. I didn’t even do a full clean, I started with 1/3 of the sum first. Fucksake. 

[Metal Guru]

1 hour ago, IronStar said:

I’m shuffling around bank accounts to take advantage of savings account that’s giving 4.01% yield vs 0.00% I have now. Why is this a grump? I just got stopped by automated antifraud, freezing the transaction and marking it for a review on Monday. I didn’t even do a full clean, I started with 1/3 of the sum first. Fucksake. 

All this security is BS. There’s nothing to suggest fraud is getting any less but banks just put hurdles in the way of ordinary people trying to run their lives with as little hassle as possible. 
I have a LPA on my mother’s accounts. She’s not senile or anything, just has no idea of online banking and phone banking takes 30-60 minutes to get through. You would think a LPA would allow me to do anything I could do with my own accounts , but opening new accounts (to move money earning virtually no interest), is an enormous hassle.

[Pieman]

On 06/09/2024 at 01:34, maxxo said:

So living at my parents again has led to a good few arguments but nothing major

sister came back today probably for a bath

i told her under no uncertain terms to leave the immersion on for more than an hour as the thermostat has failed

Everyone else in the house remembers and I’m getting a new one from toolstation tomorrow

guess what she did?

left it on, boiled the cylinder and filled the loft with steam

then had the audacity to scream at me saying it’s my fault 

quite a grump for today that was

still the cold tank full of scalding water did a cracking job of cleaning the bog when I gave it a few flushes and ran a few taps to try and cool it before it melted

Sounds like my family.  My sister could probably try to slit my throat and according to her and my parents it'd still be my fucking fault.

(The worst example was when I tested positive for Covid, did my test and trace thing which you had to do at the time, and the selfish bitch threw a massive tantrum cos she couldn't go and see her BF....and my parents took her side!  I was following the law of the country at the time, yet even after I recovered I was the one treated like a criminal for weeks.  Eventually I blew my top properly at all of them including some language people don't tend to use towards their own parents.  I will never properly forgive them for that though.)

[artdjones]

18 hours ago, Metal Guru said:

At least you don’t get people in shops writing cheques any more.

No, but have you ever stood behind a house wife in a supermarket queue when you're in a hurry? It's like the concept that they actually have to pay for the stuff is new to them. Dig out their bag from under the groceries, search in their bag for their purse, unzip their purse, find their loyalty card, scan it, then carefully try to make exact change. This after making sure each of their five shopping bags is carefully stowed in the exact order they prefer. Even though the shop has a row of packing benches behind them to be employed for that exact purpose after paying.

[artdjones]

7 hours ago, Pieman said:

Sounds like my family.  My sister could probably try to slit my throat and according to her and my parents it'd still be my fucking fault.

(The worst example was when I tested positive for Covid, did my test and trace thing which you had to do at the time, and the selfish bitch threw a massive tantrum cos she couldn't go and see her BF....and my parents took her side!  I was following the law of the country at the time, yet even after I recovered I was the one treated like a criminal for weeks.  Eventually I blew my top properly at all of them including some language people don't tend to use towards their own parents.  I will never properly forgive them for that though.)

Have you ever thought of leaving home?

[Metal Guru]

4 hours ago, artdjones said:

No, but have you ever stood behind a house wife in a supermarket queue when you're in a hurry? It's like the concept that they actually have to pay for the stuff is new to them. Dig out their bag from under the groceries, search in their bag for their purse, unzip their purse, find their loyalty card, scan it, then carefully try to make exact change. This after making sure each of their five shopping bags is carefully stowed in the exact order they prefer. Even though the shop has a row of packing benches behind them to be employed for that exact purpose after paying.

The thing that annoys me most in supermarkets, is when they open up a new till and you’re first in line with a full trolley of groceries. The second person then starts unloading as soon as you do leaving you about 4ft of conveyor. If you actually point out it would be quicker for them to let you unpack first , they’re either confused (how? Somehow the quicker you get your goods unpacked, mine will move faster?) or hostile. 
Or even worse, you’ve already unloaded and they start moving you stuff up to make room for theirs, squashing your bread and breaking eggs etc, the things you put last.

[castros_bro]

20 hours ago, comfortablynumb said:

I don't care how long they take in McDonald's.

I hate the stuff 🤢

In Germany their menu has beer listed.

[Dyslexic Viking]

Helping dad with changing the hydraulic pump on a tractor, everything went well except that the new pump had fine threads while the old one had coarse threads and the new pump did not come with new bolts and no mention of this, so of course the threads in the new pump are now broken after using the old bolts.

So the new pump has to come off and see if we can fix it.

[myglaren]

31 minutes ago, castros_bro said:

In Germany their menu has beer listed.

They had that in 1972, Denmark as well.

[myglaren]

43 minutes ago, Metal Guru said:

The thing that annoys me most in supermarkets, is when they open up a new till and you’re first in line with a full trolley of groceries. The second person then starts unloading as soon as you do leaving you about 4ft of conveyor. If you actually point out it would be quicker for them to let you unpack first , they’re either confused (how? Somehow the quicker you get your goods unpacked, mine will move faster?) or hostile. 
Or even worse, you’ve already unloaded and they start moving you stuff up to make room for theirs, squashing your bread and breaking eggs etc, the things you put last.

my usual shop is one or another Lidl.  With Farmfoods, Food Warehouse, B&M sometimes.  Never get that, everyone seems quite sensible and patient.  Those of us with a lot of stuff always wave those with only a handful of items in front of them.

Occasionally go to ASDA, Morrisons & Tesco.  Very different there, particularly ASDA. Awful place and onl use it when I have to go to the doctors as it is in the same complex.

[comfortablynumb]

54 minutes ago, castros_bro said:

In Germany their menu has beer listed.

I don't know how pissed I'd have to be before I'd even manage to smell it 

[myglaren]

It was a very long time ago and despite the reputation we used a McD while on the way to Cologne.  3 a.m. and deserted but lots of very fresh stuff there, freshly made bread, decent coffee etc.

 

Tried a couple here, dire.

[Spiny Norman]

To be fair it's not just housewives who arrive at checkouts like it's their first time in a shop, I sometimes man the trade counter at our place and there's always that one arriving at the till after scanning all their stuff annouces they've left their trade account card in the van or in another pair of overalls meaning we have to go digging about in the computer to find their account and tag them on the till, then they'll pull out a wad of cards an inch thick from an almost round wallet full of receips from 2019 and start searching for the one that has funds on it. Often finding their trade card in the process.

It's bad enough when it's regular shopping trollies, but it doesn't take many big A frame trollies full of  8x4 ply, 3 meter lengths of CLS and barrow loads of cement to cause a jam that winds halfway up an aisle.

[Metal Guru]

3 hours ago, myglaren said:

my usual shop is one or another Lidl.  With Farmfoods, Food Warehouse, B&M sometimes.  Never get that, everyone seems quite sensible and patient.  Those of us with a lot of stuff always wave those with only a handful of items in front of them.

Occasionally go to ASDA, Morrisons & Tesco.  Very different there, particularly ASDA. Awful place and onl use it when I have to go to the doctors as it is in the same complex.

I always let people with one or two items through but no one has ever let me through when I’ve only got a couple of things. Morrison’s staff seem to think it’s ok to go to the front of the queue without asking. (With their lunch tbf. I get their time is limited but they don’t even ask, just walk past you like you don’t exist). Never seen it in other shops.

[comfortablynumb]

3 hours ago, myglaren said:

It was a very long time ago and despite the reputation we used a McD while on the way to Cologne.  3 a.m. and deserted but lots of very fresh stuff there, freshly made bread, decent coffee etc.

 

Tried a couple here, dire.

Yeah, biggest issue I've seen is that at, say, 3am, what competition is there? I've worked nights, had  travel distances early on the morning etc, and if you need a coffee, what alternatives are there?

We stopped at the ferrybridge services a couple years ago, early AM, don't know why they bothered, EVERYTHING was shut, apart from the bogs

[calebaaront]

So this happened. Right when the Mrs and I needed the car as we had a hospital appointment. £65 later. Tyre weld actually did surprisingly well 

[Boycie]

On 06/09/2024 at 16:33, comfortablynumb said:

I don't care how long they take in McDonald's.

I hate the stuff 🤢

Read the story about the burger left for a year my scientists .....a tad to many preservatives me thinks , if I take step daughter then all I'll eat is the fries

[New POD]

14 hours ago, comfortablynumb said:

Yeah, biggest issue I've seen is that at, say, 3am, what competition is there? I've worked nights, had  travel distances early on the morning etc, and if you need a coffee, what alternatives are there?

We stopped at the ferrybridge services a couple years ago, early AM, don't know why they bothered, EVERYTHING was shut, apart from the bogs

The alternative is planning. 

A flask?

A Primus stove?

A Travel Kettle? 

A camping container with fresh water? 

Add some cheese sandwiches in a cool bag? With ice blocks.

Add a banana.

Add some UHT milk, a sealed plastic container with 1345 rice Krispies and a spoon.

Usually this idea comes into my head just after forking out for motorway prices. 

Just ask "what would granny have done?" 

[barefoot]

1 hour ago, New POD said:

Just ask "what would granny have done?" 

What would Scooby Doo?

[beko1987]

16 hours ago, comfortablynumb said:

Yeah, biggest issue I've seen is that at, say, 3am, what competition is there? I've worked nights, had  travel distances early on the morning etc, and if you need a coffee, what alternatives are there?

We stopped at the ferrybridge services a couple years ago, early AM, don't know why they bothered, EVERYTHING was shut, apart from the bogs

This is mostly when I use a mcd's. Travelling home from a concert with my dad at 12.30/1am, both needing a piss and not having eaten since 3pm the day before... 2 plain chicken sandwiches and a large piss water 7 up at the drive through is perfect! (then a piss in the bushes afterwards as the building is always closed 😡) 

 

Saying that if I'm somewhere during the day and there is a choice I go KFC anyway 😂

When I've been wandering town centres and seen their local maccas 96 deep at every self service kiosk though... McFuck that. 

[comfortablynumb]

That's fine @newpod when the organisation is on your side, yes I do use a camping stove regularly, but when I've got an emergency call from, say, Anglian water, when I'm not supposed to be on call, the alternatives are pretty slim

Granny wouldn't have been driving a sewage tanker 

Btw I'm allergic to bananas 😁

Edited September 8, 2024 by comfortablynumb

[Popsicle]

Maccys is great for somebody on the road a lot, a lot are open 24/7, cheap, decent coffee or tea, £1.99 for a wrap of the day to keep the weary traveler going and easy to drive through or nip in for a McShit or McPiss.

[somewhatfoolish]

3 hours ago, comfortablynumb said:

dThat's fine @newpod when the organisation is on your side, yes I do use a camping stove regularly, but when I've got an emergency call from, say, Anglian water, when I'm not supposed to be on call, the alternatives are pretty slim

Granny wouldn't have been driving a sewage tanker 

Btw I'm allergic to bananas 😁

Does that not make the drive-through a bit challenging? 😁💩

[comfortablynumb]

1 hour ago, somewhatfoolish said:

Does that not make the drive-through a bit challenging? 😁💩

I can drive through, no problem.

It's what's left afterwards that's the problem.....😱 

Btw I don't drive shit tankers any more, in both meanings 😁

Edited September 8, 2024 by comfortablynumb
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[beko1987]

1 hour ago, comfortablynumb said:

I can drive through, no problem.

It's what's left afterwards that's the problem.....😱 

Btw I don't drive shit tankers any more, in both meanings 😁

"please let me in for a piss or I'll empty the tanker right here in your drive thru lane"