The grumpy thread

[DSdriver]

12 hours warning, five minutes to move car.

[skattrd]

8 months after  I had a small bump in the boring I get a letter from the insurer saying they've not received an incident report from me and the other party is pursuing  a claim against me. There was me thinking the report I posted and emailed to them 8 months ago had been received, the claim processed and deemed not my fault.

 

The secondary (storage) partition on my laptop has disappeared

It's now time to try and recover it, the data and order a replacement drive before this one completely fails. Fingers crossed it's just a corrupt partition table and everything is still there (it's mostly backed up anyway) - edit: It was the partition table, now fixed and everything is intact.

[Rocket88]

Speedograph Richfield............instrument repairers to the monied classes [who obviously have no concept of time] Sent ye Olde Riley rev counter to them to be converted from mechanical to electric drive. "It'll be about 3 weeks sir" quoth they. It's now been 6, and they appear "not to be able to lay they're hands on it", which is another way of saying "we've lost the fecker". 

I can see a few terse telephone conversations in the not-too-distant future..............

[dugong]

New position comes up at work that would solve several problems. 
Told I'm not allowed to apply for it and that I wouldn't get it anyway even if the former wasn't the case.

For some reason they wonder why I don't want to go the work Christmas meal. Boggles the mind. 

[Bobthebeard]

For some reason they wonder why I don't want to go the work Christmas meal.

 

I only went to one 'Works Christmas Meal' and that was in 1989. Since then I have made all sorts of excuses and dodged every one of them.

Going to the dentist is preferable to any kind of 'Works Do', and I hate going to the dentist.....Although I do actually turn up at the dentists.

[dugong]

I only went to one 'Works Christmas Meal' and that was in 1989. Since then I have made all sorts of excuses and dodged every one of them.

Going to the dentist is preferable to any kind of 'Works Do', and I hate going to the dentist.....Although I do actually turn up at the dentists

Hear hear. Dental hygiene is no laughing matter. 

[Bobthebeard]

Hear hear. Dental hygiene is no laughing matter.

 

I also make excuses to avoid birthday parties, weddings , any kind of Christmas piss up events and generally anything involving strangers, discos and children.

Thankfully Autoshite has none of the above! Apart from strangers of course, but hey, we are family!

[dugong]

I also make excuses to avoid birthday parties, weddings , any kind of Christmas piss up events and generally anything involving strangers, discos and children.

Thankfully Autoshite has none of the above! Apart from strangers of course, but hey, we are family!

I like your thinking (although in my case it may be SAD). 

 

Next grump : Buy something from American eBay for MOTHA on November 26. Seller still hasn't dispatched it. They've had my money since then. I'm not getting that for Christmas, am I? Not if \ when HMRC get their hands on it. 

Least she'll have something nice to open in February. 

[Bobthebeard]

I like your thinking (although in my case it may be SAD). 

Next grump : Buy something from American eBay for MOTHA on November 26.

Least she'll have something nice to open in February.

 

Americans started 'Black Friday' and that ended up badly over here, maybe 'February Xmas' will do better?

[dugong]

Americans started 'Black Friday' and that ended up badly over here, maybe 'February Xmas' will do better?

I'm up for February Xmas. Ignoring people is always great fun. 

[chaseracer]

Told I'm not allowed to apply for it and that I wouldn't get it anyway even if the former wasn't the case.

This is unlawful, and it boils my piss.   

 

 

[RedSparrow]

I also make excuses to avoid birthday parties, weddings , any kind of Christmas piss up events and generally anything involving strangers, discos and children.

Thankfully Autoshite has none of the above! Apart from strangers of course, but hey, we are family!

 

On this subject I have to go to a friends party tomorrow night. Her flat is tiny and there will be several people there I don't like, to the point where I don't want to be in the same room as them.

 

For her sake I will probably go and pretend to have a good time through gritted teeth. At least it'll be good practice for spending Christmas with my family.

[vulgalour]

I stopped pretending I liked people at parties.  Eventually they stopped inviting me.  I value the friends and family I get on with, the rest of them can get to fuck.

[Cavcraft]

Put something in their drink that makes them shit themselves and some Rohypnol in your own drink so at least you can pull yourself at the end of the night. Just don't get them mixed up or you could be in for a very messy night.

[dugong]

It's alright, although I'm tired of having to defend myself over accusations of being anti social. 

I DON'T WANT TO GO TO THE CHRISTMAS MEAL BECAUSE I DON'T WANT TO GO, ALRIGHT?
MY BOSS AND ANOTHER COLLEAGUE I DISLIKE WILL BE THERE. I WILL NOT BE ABLE TO RELAX AND WILL END UP SAYING SOMETHING I WILL REGRET. 

WHY IS THAT SO HARD TO UNDERSTAND?!

[Cavcraft]

Looks like it's time to pull out one of my old favourites, chief:

 

'I might not be able to choose who I work with, but I can certainly fucking choose who I drink with' 

[RedSparrow]

I hear ya. For a lot of people I know me just not wanting to go is not good enough.

Then I get 'come on, it'll be fun' - how is it fun if I'm being forced or emotionally blackmailed into it?!

[jakebullet]

~wavey lines back to 1998~

I'm starting at a new shithole school because Barnsley college has stolen my old one for their grand expansion plans. It's a two year prison sentence without hope of parole.

 

I look out the window today and see the very same stolen school is getting flattened by rather large machinery. Barnsley college have no doubt done a deal with property developers same as they flogged the 6th form they used to own. At the same time, said college is planning on getting the town library for buttons from our stupid council to demolish it and build a new 'central' college site.

 

TL;DR Barnsley college are a bunch of cunts.

[dugong]

Then I get 'come on, it'll be fun' 

Me: 'No it won't, it'll be shit.'

 

Normally then I disappear off into the night with my foot to the floor. My poor clutch. 

[Angrydicky]

I'm such a miserable git I don't get invited to parties.

[hairnet]

12 hours warning, five minutes to move car.

almost a week........... they always know its coming

[Station]

I like your thinking (although in my case it may be SAD).

 

Next grump : Buy something from American eBay for MOTHA on November 26. Seller still hasn't dispatched it. They've had my money since then. I'm not getting that for Christmas, am I? Not if \ when HMRC get their hands on it.

Least she'll have something nice to open in February.

Bought daihatsu workshop manual three weeks ago on eBay. Paid and was marked as dispatched. Sent where is my item start of the week. Seller said they'd found it on a pile if stuff.

Today got a message asking if I still wanted it.

JESUS CHRIST!

[vulgalour]

I did conceded to after-work drinks when working at a call centre.  When asked why I didn't want to go I said I'd be bored.  They didn't believe me so I went, and I was bored.  When asked why I was leaving after only one glass of non-alcoholic drink I just said plainly "I'm bored".  They never invited me again, happily... they also seemed to take it rather personally but I don't care, they were the most boring one dimensional group of people I've ever had the misfortune to sit with in a pub.

[Mr Livered]

Lol! I like your style

[cort16]

Free drink at my Christmas night out so I'd have to be locked inside a bank vault or chained to a radiator in Lebanon not to go. It's a lunch time start and there's usually a dark area around 7-9 that I can't remember fuck all and I make a cock of myself before snapping back into the room. Last year I got in at 4am and spent the rest of the next  day hiding under my desk.

[RedSparrow]

Thing is this is a genuine friend but some of her other friends are annoying pricks.

[Conrad D. Conelrad]

When I was six I turned up at someone's birthday party, took my party bag with cake and toy and then demanded to go home. I was never invited to anything again. Actually now I think about it I had to be tricked into going to the party in the first place. I think I was told we were going to the dentist or something.

 

 

[dugong]

According to work I can cover someone else's shift tomorrow because they're off sick. I was told previously that this cannot happen because I am unfit* to work any other cover. 

Convenient.  

[Jon]

The worst thing about works do's is that invariably the conversation ends up about work, which is extremely dull. What other common factor binds so many unlike-minded colleagues together? Another social nightmare took place on New Years Eve a few years ago when I and Mrs_Jon went round my brother and sister in law's for a meal and drinks with them and their friends, all of which were new parents. Cue the guy who a couple of years previously was the life and soul of my brother's stag do now reciting "Don't kids say the funniest things" type anecdotes and everyone else but us two joining in. Never again. 

 

To an extent, it can be a little like that with owners club meetings. Somehow euphoria is to be gained from a load of men meeting up to chat about the fact that they own the same model of car. Genuinely useful clubs to be a member of and I don't knock them but the curmudgeon in me means I've been passive in the ones I belonged to.

[Cavcraft]

Arse licking, that's what binds most of them together.