The grumpy thread

[meggersdog]

Work was a little slow today so lunch-time I went out to do the banking.Came back about an hour later and there's a moist dog turd right outside the office door.As it's the second time in a month I've encountered such an obstacle right outside my door I was a little miffed.

We are on a small industrial estate on the edge of a village and behind the units there seems to be a permissory footpath in the field.This seems solely used by dog walkers.There is a space between the nextdoor workshop and next to him where sometimes dog walkers appear.I asked nextdoor whether they'd seen anything and they asked if I'd upset anyone lately.

I'm an MOT tester, what do you think ? was my reply.

[doobietoo]

Waited in for insurance hire car this morning. Didn't show up at 0900 as arranged.

 

Rang them and they said they'd cocked up the booking and they'd upgrade me and have it here for 1130

 

1200 and this appears outside:

 

 

I was hoping for a Hyundai or a Dacia or something. Anyway. I found my dark glasses and took it out for a quick spin. I know that if I can't say something nice about it I shouldn't say anything at all, so I will leave you with this: the horn is loud, and the cupholders are nice.

 

Fuck me..... that's the upgrade..... do they make an Audi A0 then.... I don't really keep up with moderns...

[tooSavvy]

Aldi 'A'ss'0'le, then?

 

TS

[anonymous user]

Audi's model range has always upset my OCD in that the sizes do not correspond to the paper sizes.

 

My minor grump is when did it get so difficult to insure cars? When I first insured a car a long, long time ago it was easy, I went down to the local Co Op insurance agent's house and he wrote me a cover note and away I went. I stayed with him for years even after moving away from home as I could just phone him tell him what heap I had bought and he'd always come up with a figure of what I owed them, or what they owed me for the change.After he retired I then went with Frizzell, who became LV. Stayed with them for over 20 years, again they used to be good; however, they wouldn't cover the Land Rover for anything other than third party only, so I left them for someone who would cover it fully comp. (Still had fun and games with getting proof of no claims, and that I existed at all, as I was in the middle of moving addresses). I've always had a couple of policies on the go with them as I usually have more than one car and had a couple on Classic policies with other people.

 

I then sold the Alto; previously you could suspend the cover until you bought something else, now you have to cancel, no problem I thought. I bought the Smart this week and put it on cover with them. Today I have an email asking me to provide proof of no claims. I responded with an email attaching their cancellation notice for the Alto and all the details we had discussed on the phone, I sent this to the email address they requested and it bounced back. I then rang the number on their email, started explaining it all, to be told I need to speak to the validadtion team, who have gone for the day. I asked for a valid email address and was initially told the one that bounced, when I pointed this out was given another that appears to have worked. I'm lazy I don't usually bother to shop around, if this is what it's like I won't bother again.

[gordonbennet]

^^^  now if only these companies could find the same level of competence they apply to actually taking and banking your money, wouldn't life be good.

 

funnily enough LV hold the record for being the only company that did it all the other way round, they proved totally unable to take my money hence they don't have my business.

[panhard65]

The insurance was up on the rolls and autonet sent me the renewal, just over £110. If I wanted to make changes I had to call their 7p per min phone line. So I went on compare the meerkat entered all the changes and got a quote for £85. It wouldn't let me take the policy out on line I had to call their freephone number. In the end they knocked another fiver off. If they hadn't of tried to rip me off with their premium rate phone line I would of paid the original quote.

[chaseracer]

Must remember to tell Peter James I've flogged the Merc...

 

 

EDIT: DONE

[wuvvum]

Other slight grump is that drive other cars on new policy needs other car to be insured.

Isn't that normally the case?

[The Moog]

Isn't that normally the case?

Not for me previously. I checked with insurance companies as well. Unless specifically stated it didn't need to be.

[dave21478]

-jump through all the online hoops to gocompare the meerkats and get a quote of £140

-insurer website wont work for shit. call them up instead,

-repeat all the same shit again.

-quote is now £190

-but online it was only blah blah blah.....

-"thats just the way it is sometimes."

-forget it.

 

 

I swear to Christ, man..........

[Craig the Princess]

Another car insurance grump, looked up online last week, down to £170, had to wait to today (payday). Online quote still £170, go to pay now it is £389! FFFingS

[strangeangel]

Audi A1 at a guess

 

Yep, that's it. I didn't know what it was either. It is easily the most irritating car I have ever driven.

[jakebullet]

I've been on a day* trip today. To fucking Blackpool. With bonus ankle biter.

Unbelievably shit from start to finish.

 

Coach is supposed to leave at 11:30. Bastard doesn't turn up till 12, and then they're dicking around waiting for cunts who've had the sense not to turn up.

 

Mega fuckton of motorway madness, and they drop us in the arse end of nowhere at 3pm. Be back here for 4:45. Great, so enough time for some shit chips and half hour walk around then.

 

Goes thru lights, and takes till 9pm to get back. Ankle biter drinks 6 cans of coke in the first half hour, and then is oddly* hyper and annoys me the rest of the time. Mother thinks it's adorable, and as she's a hard lesbian I don't fancy my chances in fighting her after twatting child.

 

Add in Friday night should be hide the sausage night with my kinky girl and it's my best day ever.

[M'coli]

I've been on Monday-Friday nightshift since April, which would suit me this coming Saturday 8th as I hope to go to a recruitment event in Birmingham, except the fannies in staff resourcing have stuck me on Tuesday-Saturday dayshift.  Cunts.

[sporty-shite]

I've been on a day* trip today. To fucking Blackpool. With bonus ankle biter.

Unbelievably shit from start to finish.

 

Coach is supposed to leave at 11:30. Bastard doesn't turn up till 12, and then they're dicking around waiting for cunts who've had the sense not to turn up.

 

Mega fuckton of motorway madness, and they drop us in the arse end of nowhere at 3pm. Be back here for 4:45. Great, so enough time for some shit chips and half hour walk around then.

 

Goes thru lights, and takes till 9pm to get back. Ankle biter drinks 6 cans of coke in the first half hour, and then is oddly* hyper and annoys me the rest of the time. Mother thinks it's adorable, and as she's a hard lesbian I don't fancy my chances in fighting her after twatting child.

 

Add in Friday night should be hide the sausage night with my kinky girl and it's my best day ever.

How the fuck did you get roped into that? Be like the Grange Hill gang.

"Just say no."

[Noel Tidybeard]

I got slapped earlier this week for 64 minutes on a £1/hr parking space, Northwest Pkg - Carlisle.

 

The guy was just putting his camera back in his pocket as we flounced round the corner.

 

Why do I bitch? Nah, fair cop....

 

However, as he was obviously 'lying in wait' at 59mins, what if I had fired up/reversed over his foot would he slap me for 'being on the carpark and not exited by 61.75 minutes'??

 

TS

didnt the law change recently giving a 15 min leeway

[dugong]

It's a ten minute leeway, so you can still appeal it.

 

The BPA having their arses handed to them in court for fudging timestamps on photos brought the new ruling in; in their haste to extract the maximum amount of urine it still doesn't mean they won't try it on.

[scaryoldcortina]

Staying in a fancy hotel, en suite, free bar, complimentary everything. Going to a wedding tomorrow, more free food and drink and another night in luxury.

 

 

 

Hay wayt? Whi sow grumpee? No mobile signal and the wi-fi is weapons grade shite. It's taken 3 hours to load this page.

 

 

OK, that was 3 hours in the bar drinking free ale then I had a bath...

 

 

 

FFS it's pissed off again.

 

 

Oh wait it's back *clicks post in a hurry*

[RobT]

Must remember to tell Peter James I've flogged the Merc...

Hold off from doing that if you're gonna buy something else. Normally it costs me anything from 40 to 80 quid to add a car to my PJ classic policy, but it only cost me £20 to insure the Daimler recently. Reason being they saw it as a swap, as I was removing the now JohnK R8 from the policy at the same time. I noticed from the new cover note the Volvo 440 I also sold to John is still on there, so next purchase will be a swap too thus saving me a few ££!

[Eddie Honda]

Go to work at 8.30am, come back 10.30pm-ish to find the back wall hedge missing.

 

I rent a semi-detached bungalow. The rear wall between the properties is 5ft or so. There was a hedge growing the other side of the wall adding an extra couple of feet to the height. Having not bothered my arse cutting it this year (or last), about 3 weeks ago, I bite the bullet and buy a hedge trimmer, about 2 days before the other side gets cut...a good bit lower, but still there. The part spilling over onto my side is left untouched leaving me thinking I better get started.

 

Now I know it's not my hedge and I'm half-glad to see the back of it, but some c**t responsible for next door could of at least told me what they were planning on doing and then I could of saved buying a f**king trimmer / wasting my time using it / dealing with the cuttings and instead invested the monies wisely* (and the time) into one of my motahs.

 

So now I have an only used once hedge trimmer and I hope tae fook whoever the new neighbours are easy on the eye as I will now be able to observe all their movements over the top of the just-not-high-enough wall. Equally, I hope any prospective tenants enjoy the view of my handsome* coupon and all the quality used vehicles in my back yard.

[EssDeeWon]

Another car insurance grump, looked up online last week, down to £170, had to wait to today (payday). Online quote still £170, go to pay now it is £389! FFFingS

 

That is madness, but I have also experienced the same thing before.

 

I have insurance renewal *fun and games coming up soon.

 

Infact, my current insurer is due to be sending me a completely hyped up & made up number within the next week or two. Let the process begin...

 

[Craig the Princess]

I think you are right on the roulette wheel. Apparently while MoneySupermarket hold you quote for 30 days Esure only hold it to midnght that night. Quite how I am 134% more of a risk now that I was two weeks ago (for cover starting on the same day) I will never know.

 

Insure2drive were the best when I re-did it, onlt an extra £12 over a couple of weeks ago. Should have just put it on the credit card rather than actually paying something off in full. Bastards.

[Richard]

I've read that the comparison sites are programmed to give ever increasing quotes. I imagine the logic is that other sites must have been dearer if you come back, so they can afford to hike the price a bit.

[cms206]

I ran three quotes on Money Supermarket, Meerkats and insurers websites for the Pride and ended up with quotes from Tesco Bank alone of between 470 quid and £2.5k. Took the reference number of the lowest quote, rang them and the guy on the phone said that the webquotes were based on all Tesco's insurers responding quickly enough, and not all of them are on each comparison site.

 

As usual mine was cheapest through Money Supermarket, Meerkats always is about 3 times dearer for the same cover.

[Coprolalia]

Incidentally, confused.com is owned by the Admiral group so will always give you better offers from their insurers and expensive ones from others.

 

After being fucked about by Admiral, Elephant and Diamond (all Admiral group) I would categorically never use them again.

[fairkens]

Incidentally, confused.com is owned by the Admiral group so will always give you better offers from their insurers and expensive ones from others.

 

After being fucked about by Admiral, Elephant and Diamond (all Admiral group) I would categorically never use them again.

Doesn't work like that, admiral take a percentage either way so have no interest. Better to take a risk free 'broking' cut than pick up the policy and carry the claim risk. That's why they run the site, more profitable than underwriting

[Coprolalia]

Interesting, didn't know that.

Consider me told.

[Cavcraft]

Someone told me if you go on insurance comparison quote websites at 3.00am on a Monday (other random times apply) the quotes are a bit cheaper as they don't expect any traffic or competition.

That could be absolute bollocks, so if you get on the Special brew and hit 'go' don't blame me if you wake up to an £1,100 bill for 3 months theft only on your Allegro.

[Pillock]

I always use the comparison sites, work out which is cheaper, and then ring them direct.

Some used to twig that my details had been dumped from the comparison site and offer me the same price immediately, others used to offer to start a new quote but at least you know they are in the right ballpark before spending 20 minutes on the phone.

The only downside* is you don't end up with cuddly meerkats or talking robots.

Oh, and now I get a steady stream of emails through the year.... "Your Peugeot 307 is due for renewal, your Focus is due for renewal, your Seat Leon is due for renewal, your Golf is due blah blah blah blah" because nobody ever sells a car, it seems. 

[The Moog]

At fourth time of trying looks like I have found a Roofer. Top bloke who turned up this morning because it was raining on Thursday.

 

Should be great news except he now finds out that all the ridge tiles are loose. Also because of the steepness of the roof it needs scaffolding. £1400 bill I wasn't expecting.. Fucksocks.

 

When you look at them they are hanging off. He thinks they haven't been touched since house was built and slowly slipped down.