The grumpy thread

[DavidB]

On way to work this morning, left at 4am, planning to get into work at 7am, have my brekky and doss around for a bit.

Missed turn off on motorway. Plunge straight into traffic due to idiot having a crash. Spend 1 1/2 hours going through 3 miles of standstill traffic to turn round because I missed my turn off.

Get into work 9.00!

[gordonbennet]

Just taken the dogs out and met up with a mate on his way to work. Told me he's just had his bike (Suzuki DR-Z 400) knicked from work. He was doing a charity stint for them and they left the school gates open and lads just walked in and wheeled it away.

 

CCTV and witnesses. The police have given him a crime reference number and.... that's it!

 

Why am i not surprised.

 

My ex's dad had a phone call off plod that his small motorbike had been found by plod, near a small supermarket on a rough estate....hitched me trailer and we shot over there within 1/2 an hour, too much trouble for plod to ask the shop owner if they could prop the bike in his back yard? fuck me no they  left it propped against the wall outside supermarket back gate, plod buggered off, bike nicked again before we got there.

 

This country as we often say is bollocksed.

[dave21478]

Apparently my brother in law fell asleep on the motorway yesterday while driving a new-ish Renault tipper. He woke up as the wing mirror made terminal contact with a roadside sign of some kind.

 

Hopefully the replacement cost of an massive, all electric, heater, super duper wing mirror with built in indicators will have taught him a lesson.

[AlabamaShrimp]

Stupid po faced bitch at the post office. Took about 5 eBay parcels in she's the slowest typer in the world then she gets in a shit about me wanting to send a phone (my fault I should have said it was something else) "does is have a battery?", "it has to be in a ridged pack, look on how terms and conditions, blah, blah, blah"....

 

So came back with it. Will send it tomorrow at a different post office where it will be toys or something

[castros_bro]

Why am i not surprised.

 

My ex's dad had a phone call off plod that his small motorbike had been found by plod, near a small supermarket on a rough estate....hitched me trailer and we shot over there within 1/2 an hour, too much trouble for plod to ask the shop owner if they could prop the bike in his back yard? fuck me no they  left it propped against the wall outside supermarket back gate, plod buggered off, bike nicked again before we got there.

 

This country as we often say is bollocksed.

 

Some twats stole my Hodna PC50 (moped) but plod found it 10 days later dented and broken but with a rider on it, they locked the moped up is a secure compound as it was evidence. After the case had done I took the release document to the secure compound and the moped had gone..…eventually traced to a breaker yard in Kent via DVLA and V5.

[Louise2cv]

Is this askimg what is in the parcel thing a new idea?

 

I felt like telling them to mind their own beeswax.

 

As it was I said I don't know (something matt was ebaying) and she just waited until I did make something up, so what is the point of that then?

[tooSavvy]

I've met loads of disabled people since I became one and ....

 

can this be a Verrry L888888 entry into 'AS Quote of 2014'.??

 

TS

[saucedoctor]

I was sending something to someone on here. The bird in the Post Office asked me what it was.

 

I said "It's a cigarette lighter socket for a car". She then asked "Has it got diesel in it?"

 

I replied "No." She rejoined "Are you sure?"

 

I asked her whether she had a fag lighter in her car, she replied in the affirmative, I further asked if she'd ever had to put diesel in the fag lighter.

 

Fair play to her, she laughed.

[Rocket88]

When, pray tell, did "dents" become sodding "dints".!   It's bloody DENT!!!!!

[tooSavvy]

Apparently my brother in law fell asleep on the motorway yesterday while driving a new-ish Renault tipper. He woke up as the wing mirror made terminal contact with a roadside sign of some kind.

 

Hopefully the replacement cost of an massive, all electric, heater, super duper wing mirror with built in indicators will have taught him a lesson.

 

... so is HE an ar$e, or his EMPLOYER [too long hours..??]

 

my 'shovel-load' had me planned making calls at Mansfield, nr Manchester & north Liverpool - down & back from Wallsend.

 

I pointed out that 8.5Hr driving left nowt for working.... so I did Mansfield (stopping to snap those Xmas tree jobbies!) and headed home... still got in the house late.

 

Glad he didn't hit anyone (and I bet he is too!!)

 

 

TS

[chaseracer]

When, pray tell, did "dents" become sodding "dints".!   It's bloody DENT!!!!!

 

Around the time 'bumbers' and 'cills' arrived in the fucknugget automotive lexicography, ie. because Ebay...

[AnthonyG]

Private number plate yet ditchfinder tyres?

 

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Did they have any tread? Parked next to a 07 plate 911 GT3 or whatever the ultra sporty one is, the front tyres (or at least the near side one) were bald as a babies head.

 

I think the 30 something owner may have thought I was admiring it, I did think about mentioning something about the tyres but he looked a bit of a cokehead so decided discretion was the better part of valour. Even a 7 year old one of these has to be £40-50k or so, yet he can't afford to replace the front tyres?

 

I suspect he spends the vast majority of his after-tax income on paying off the loan....and the coke habit.

[dave21478]

... so is HE an ar$e, or his EMPLOYER [too long hours..??]

 

my 'shovel-load' had me planned making calls at Mansfield, nr Manchester & north Liverpool - down & back from Wallsend.

 

I pointed out that 8.5Hr driving left nowt for working.... so I did Mansfield (stopping to snap those Xmas tree jobbies!) and headed home... still got in the house late.

 

Glad he didn't hit anyone (and I bet he is too!!)

 

 

TS

A bit of both, I think. It put the shits right up him though, so I reckon changes will be made.

[Mr_Bo11ox]

I'm gonna say theres more to it than luck I'm afraid!!! Maybe review your roundabout strategy.

[Mr Livered]

Did they have any tread? Parked next to a 07 plate 911 GT3 or whatever the ultra sporty one is, the front tyres (or at least the near side one) were bald as a babies head.

I think the 30 something owner may have thought I was admiring it, I did think about mentioning something about the tyres but he looked a bit of a cokehead so decided discretion was the better part of valour. Even a 7 year old one of these has to be £40-50k or so, yet he can't afford to replace the front tyres?

I suspect he spends the vast majority of his after-tax income on paying off the loan....and the coke habit.

What do you mean, he looked like a cokehead? How can you tell? Was his nose melted or something?

[daveb47]

What do you mean, he looked like a cokehead? How can you tell? Was his nose melted or something?

[panhard65]

Ebay mongs have made it to a new level. I put my Juvaquatre on ebay as it isn't very nice to drive and french vans are making silly money at the moment. It is on as a classified ad and I had a call Saturday morning from a very nice chap who really wants it but can't get up here until next monday. He paypals me a decent sized deposit just to hold it for him. I have since had 4 other people offer the asking price which I have turned down but kept their number saying if he lets me down I will call you. Last night I get this message from some nobber.

New message from: alanalbo46 (6)  

dodgy twat you sound, taken a deposit, i wouldnt trust you as far as i could shit

 

Now what the fuck is he on ? How on earth can you be considered untrustworthy and dodgy because you have taken a deposit on an item you are selling. What has happened to this country that we have spawned so many idiots.

[DavidB]

I think we should all send this message to him

 

 

[Cavcraft]

Mail him back and tell him to check his naval as an indication of how far he can shit, as it seems to be dribbling out of his mouth.

[chaseracer]

Member since 2011, feedback of 3?  Does he drive a Fabia and wear a fake plod uniform?

 

Ignore/avoid.

[dave21478]

I have just found out that facelift Freelander mk1 headlight guards are obsolete and now in massive demand by the dorks on the forums. Some div just paid over three hundred quid for a used pair.

 

I saw a pair in the scrapyard the other day on a car that was just about to be crushed. Typical.

 

[dollywobbler]

Enlighten me?

 

Well, I can't actually understand what you were ranting about, but if you see a situation develop and allow it to brew up, then get angry with it, you don't really have the right to be grumpy about it. Too many people these days seem to drive around looking for a reason to get pissed off with someone else. It's a lot less hassle to just take a deep breath and keep out the way of the idiots rather than provoking them.

[hairnet]

When, pray tell, did "dents" become sodding "dints".!   It's bloody DENT!!!!!

dint is a small dent - youre not northern are you

[Cavcraft]

Well, I can't actually understand what you were ranting about, but if you see a situation develop and allow it to brew up, then get angry with it, you don't really have the right to be grumpy about it. Too many people these days seem to drive around looking for a reason to get pissed off with someone else. It's a lot less hassle to just take a deep breath and keep out the way of the idiots rather than provoking them.

 

 

This.

 

I still get annoyed by other motorists, but as DW rightly points out, it's best just to stop looking for knobs and to ignore them if you do encounter any.

[320touring]

This.

 

I still get annoyed by other motorists, but as DW rightly points out, it's best just to stop looking for knobs and to ignore them if you do encounter any.

What if you have interior and exterior mirrors fitted?i keep seein the same one every day;)

[Rocket88]

_{Worth remembering that eleventy.0987776% have absolutely no idea what they're doing behind the wheel of a car. . Just treat every other roaduser as a potential clunge stroking cockwhisk, and adjust driving style accordingly.}

[AlabamaShrimp]

Think I'm confused. What I wrote might not have made sense.(I was annoyed) But how is me nearly getting the side of my car run into on a roundabout me 'looking for knobs'?

[Louise2cv]

Do you know what I hate about roundabouts?

 

People who treat them like a generosity competition. You are supposed to give way to the right, not decide to stop on the roundabout and wave the people giving way on. There is one such roundabout locally where the practise is so common that the people that ought to be giving way just sail on because they expect you to stop, whether or not that means pulling out in front or driving at the side of your car.

[dollywobbler]

Mr Shrimp - it's entirely possible that we're just not understanding what you were trying to say. It reads as if you spotted someone who was a potential danger but rather than keep a wary eye on him, you drove in a way which led to an almost-crash. It might be worth re-writing it if that wasn't the case.

 

Louise - the Welsh seem to have different rules for roundabouts. I only wave cars onto a roundbabout if I've stopped because my exit is blocked, and I don't want to clog the roundabout up by just stopping in front of them. It's amazing how many nincompoops don't do this, then wonder why the roads are always jammed up.

[Louise2cv]

You know you are becoming one of the locals round here if you spot a friend coming down the road in the other direction and just wind your window down and stop for a chat as you pass, regardless of who is behind you.

 

Phact.