The grumpy thread

[bub2006]

My sat nav is pissing me off. Unless I type in a postcode it only shows me Street addresses in Scotland. I bought it second hand,belonged to a volvo driver previously I believe.

[J-Rod]

Im glad im not the only one who finds the roads faster and more frantic every time I go out. I had to drive into Southend yesterday which I hate doing. It seems that your not allowed to let anyone change lanes nowadays, instead you speed up for no apparent reason because mr dickhead might lose 5 seconds off his journey time. 

The A1 around Stevenage at rush-hour is just as bad. The amount of times I've nearly been forced into collecting someone by the onramp there. Mind you, that said, the A1 generally seems to be driven by people who can't drive. Herds of them. 

[greengartside]

Got a phone call at work about an hour ago from SWMBO. Mum's been taken to hospital as apparently she's had half an hour's sleep over three days, is now delusional and can't remember who any of our family is. Combine that with a problem passing wee and we think she's got an UTI.

 

Now at home and the ambulance is picking her up about now. Dad is taking me to hospital to see her.

 

I won't lie and thought the worst had happened when I was handed the phone. I felt sick.

 

Please don't fall out with your parents as you never know when they won't be around.

[xtriple]

Sorry to hear that, sure she'll be okay though.

 

I fell out with my Mum and she had been dead for 5 years before I found out. That was a 'funny' moment!

[purplebargeken]

Just......... deep sigh.

[Sealtainn]

Yeah, I got a phone call from Mom a few weeks ago saying Dad had been to hospital for an Angiogram (after having had a couple of stents put in a couple of years ago). They gave him the results and said they were keeping him in as he needed an urgent heart-bypass. I felt utterly helpless as they were in Bristol and I was all the way up here. Phoned my Boss and he told me not to worry about work and just get my arse down there which I did.

Within a week he'd had surgery and is now well on the road to recovery - well as much as anyone can be with someone like my Mom looking after them

Stuff like that just makes you realise how trivial most stuff is. Whenever Mrs Seal goes out, I always tell her that I love her and tell her to drive carefully because you just never know.

All the best to your Mum, Greengartside

[greengartside]

Thank you, as she has got cancer I just immediately thought the worst when I got 'the call'.

 

The ambulance guys can't find the house as they still haven't picked mum up after an hour and a half.

 

Luckily SWMBO's mum is a call dispatcher at the Ambulance Service so she will be kicking a few asses to find out where it is.

[dave21478]

Im glad im not the only one who finds the roads faster and more frantic every time I go out.

 

Faster and faster, but nobody seems to know HOW to drive fast...everyone here is happy to point n squirt on the straights, but cant get round a bend quickly to save themselves.

Im no Jenson Button or anything - not by a long shot. In fact, most of my time is spent wobbling along in a tired old diesel Freelander on knobby AT tyres - performance and handling it most certainly aint, but I can still out corner most folk without even thinking about it, which can be frustrating as hell as I catch up to these goons in the twisties and they shoot off on the straights leaving me unable to overtake.

 

Get the braking done early, get in the right gear BEFORE the corner, slow in, late apex, fast out powering up through the gears, its not hard. But all I see is people plowing in way too fast, turning in too early, having to dab the brakes half-way round, then you see the exhaust tip vibrate as they labour the engine in too high a gear trying to pull out of the corner with no momentum, then the inevitable puff of diesel reek as they drop it to third and nail it along the straight up to the next corner where they do exactly the same as before.

I dread to think what sort of MPG these fools get.

[NorfolkNWeigh]

Faster and faster, but nobody seems to know HOW to drive fast...everyone here is happy to point n squirt on the straights, but cant get round a bend quickly to save themselves.

Im no Jenson Button or anything - not by a long shot. In fact, most of my time is spent wobbling along in a tired old diesel Freelander on knobby AT tyres - performance and handling it most certainly aint, but I can still out corner most folk without even thinking about it, which can be frustrating as hell as I catch up to these goons in the twisties and they shoot off on the straights leaving me unable to overtake.

 

Get the braking done early, get in the right gear BEFORE the corner, slow in, late apex, fast out powering up through the gears, its not hard. But all I see is people plowing in way too fast, turning in too early, having to dab the brakes half-way round, then you see the exhaust tip vibrate as they labour the engine in too high a gear trying to pull out of the corner with no momentum, then the inevitable puff of diesel reek as they drop it to third and nail it along the straight up to the next corner where they do exactly the same as before.

I dread to think what sort of MPG these fools get.

There's little more satisfying on the road than making progress in a slow or poorly handling car, smoothness and momentum are the key to feeling very smug and superior .

I'm usually dissapointed that no one else ( read 'er-indoors) ever notices the supreme skill involved though.

[vulgalour]

GGS:  Hope Mum gets better soon.  Sounds like she has the right people looking out for her.

 

 

I have just learned there was a pair of Princess sills at Beaulieu Autojumble for £40. Beaulieu is a 600 mile round trip for me which is a big part of why I didn't go and now I'm wishing I had, or at least sent people with shopping lists.

[purplebargeken]

A general 'get well' to the various poorly parents. It's all a bit of a reminder that our nearest and dearest are not invincible, no matter what we might think.

 

Take care folks.

[ruffgeezer]

Then there was that 'hilarious' incident with the 106 Rallye wheels where the seller hid behind the returns scheme and lied her arse off about the state of the tyres she sold me.

 

You still got those wheels Mr Doug Gone? Or does one have to commit to a filthy knoblar van to acquire such trinkets?

[dugong]

GGS:  Hope Mum gets better soon.  Sounds like she has the right people looking out for her.

 

 

I have just learned there was a pair of Princess sills at Beaulieu Autojumble for £40. Beaulieu is a 600 mile round trip for me which is a big part of why I didn't go and now I'm wishing I had, or at least sent people with shopping lists.

I was there. I go to the International Autojumble every year for work, even with my horrendous track record of arriving late because of a stupid MG6 and [redacted] the following year which was [redacted] for [redacted].

 

I've brought stuff back for people before; I bought Minimad some hilariously porous Lancia Beta Montecarlo alloys for his Lada last year.

[dave21478]

I have bought one of these new fangled smart telephones. I had one last year and it was shit, binned it after a few weeks use due to it needing recharged every twenty minutes. Lets hope this one is better.

Anyway, it arrived today so I went to bang my sim card in and it takes some stupid wee version of a normal sim card - WTF?

Looking at my providers website, they can supply a wee one but it costs €15, which I think is a bit of a fucking cheek when I pay them every month for the fucking contract anyway. Gotta buy it though eh? so I placed the order.

 

And now I have googled it and you can just cut the normal one down with a pair of scissors.

 

FFS.

[Cavcraft]

I was putting air in my tyres recently at one of those 20p for two minutes air jockeys.

 

Anyway, as I was finishing up and putting the dust caps back on a baldy Ned twat in an Audi started mumping about the time I was taking to complete said operation.

 

He said that he was in a rush to get to work, like the two minutes he would save by being first in the queue would have made a difference.

 

 

 

 

 

 

I HEART people like that, I really do. You should have just said 'oh shit, I put the wrong pressure in' then just have redone them all. 

[MarvinsMom]

I HEART people like that, I really do. You should have just said 'oh shit, I put the wrong p

ressure in' then just have redone them all. 

 

the baldy cock jockey had done that with me i'd have had to go back into the shop for something,

then look for my keys,

go back into the shop,

find my keys,

go and get some monies out of the bank,

get in the car...... etc..

 

i just love inconveniencing wankers like that.

[Slappy]

My Dad would agree wholeheartedly with the slow in fast out methodology, and that used to piss off my Mum no end (my Dad enjoys brisk journeys along rural roads, he would have made for a fine rally driver in his youth!). This has rather rubbed off onto both myself and my sister, to which I have gained the nickname [slappy] McRae from colleagues

 

My Mum signs off all her texts Love Mum even if it's just an acknowledgment, which is strange because in general conversations she's not like that at all really. But she did point out that if something bad were to happen to either of us, she didn't want me to think she didn't love me!

 

Scared me shitless last night though when she rang well past her bedtime just to tell me that a flashback episode of Antiques Roadshow had some long dead cousin standing in the background! Mothers, eh? Love and cherish them as much as possible!

[Pillock]

 

 

And now I have googled it and you can just cut the normal one down with a pair of scissors.

 

FFS.

There's three sizes. You can cut Standard down to Micro, but Nano is smaller again and they'll need to send you one.

[myglaren]

My landline phone has been unplugged for the last 3 years because of this and it'll never be plugged back in, its a fucking joke.

Same here

[dave21478]

There's three sizes. You can cut Standard down to Micro, but Nano is smaller again and they'll need to send you one.

Yeah, I will just wait for the proper one. I downloaded a template to cut to but my printer is an arse about printing stuff properly 1:1 so I will just leave it for now to avoid the inevitable balls-up.

[eddyramrod]

A few weeks ago I posted about kerbing the Tacuma and damaging the tyre in question so hard that it had to be replaced.  Want to guess what I did today in the MR2?  And it had to be one of the nearly-new pair on the back, didn't it? 

 

You really really want to have to buy a new low-profile sportscar tyre in the week before you go away on a big holiday, don't you?  Fuxtix.

[Station]

If you're a member of any general Facebook groups interested in classics, try it there with a decent description. Car & Classic (as stated) is also a good place to start. I've sold stuff on East Coast Retros more than once, although experiences with Facebook groups vary massively. There are several I'm never, ever returning to because life is just too short.

 

Retro Rides is great for selling - unfortunately it comes with umpteen neck beard keyboard warriors with something they need to say. Never update the threads with anything, keep it to pms.

[michael1703]

"Hand Spasms"

 

The left side of my left hand keeps going apeshit, my little finger starts wiggling my hand contorts like there's a caterpillar crawling under my skin and it feels bloody horrible

[AlabamaShrimp]

I've been getting a few of them in my right hand. Probably happened because I play too many video games

[twosmoke300]

Hnnnng ! Must . Resist . Masturbation . Joke !

[bub2006]

My left eye has a bad twitch on occasion. Can be a rate bastard when driving. Or walking past a school

[myglaren]

My neighbour. 

 

Have spoken to him a few times (I live in one of those places where everyone is transitory) and he seems oddly fearful. Stange really, I'm about the farthest thing you can get from a tattooed bechained hulk with a Staffie. Anyway, what I'm saying is he's a bit timid but doesn't seem like a bad sort. 

 

Unfortunately, he drives a succession of Audis and I had this misfortune to be stuck in front of his latest one this morning while he tailgated me all the way to where I needed to go. 

 

What is WITH these cars?! 

 

Yesterday I waited behind a stationary bus to allow an Audi to pass - Audi had right of way.  I could have nipped past but it seemed rude.

The girl driving smiled and gave a cheery wave of thanks - I was staggered.

Perhaps as Audi/BMW drivers have such a bad reputation everyone treats them all the same - like shit.

[myglaren]

Happened to glance in my rear view mirror just before impact - from the looks of it she was playing with the radio. Bumper has been pushed in slightly and paint is scuffed but nothing seems to be broken. Probably not worth going through insurance but the fact she didn't care in the slightest she'd hit me is tempting me to put a claim in

 

My daughter reversed into a neighbour's BMW and left a mark similar to that.

£760 to fix (at the BMW dealer) as the actual steel bumper behind and it's attendant hydraulic rams had to be replaced.

[Tetleysmooth]

Mrs Tet was approaching a mini roundabout in Romford a couple of nights ago on her way home from work.

A young girl driver on the left, who should have given way, pulled straight across the front of my missus, forcing her to stop.

That was bad enough, but as the girl drew level with Mrs Tet, she shouted 'Fuck you'.

My missus was so surprised she just shouted back 'Fuck you too'.

 

What IS wrong with people nowdays?

[chaseracer]

^ Romford, you say...?