The grumpy thread

[strangeangel]

I have just driven miles to a pre arranged appointment with a body shop guy to attend to the front bumper that got damaged before Christmas. He came out, much sucking of teeth, put dirty hand prints all over the bonnet and then declared that he 'didn't want to get involved with a Bentley 'cos he'd never worked on one before'! What a CUNT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

Well, at least he admitted he wasn't up to the job before fecking up your pride and joy. Many wouldn't have... just saying, like.

[twosmoke300]

My point exactly

[vulgalour]

I am sad that I'm taking down the decorations today, house always feels so bare afterwards.  Maybe if I put them up in October like some morons I wouldn't feel so sad about them coming down.

[richardmorris]

I only had a wooden tree up anyway. Took the cards to my parents when I went up for new year. Nothing worse than Christmas decorations hanging on into January.

[beko1987]

Ours came down on thursday... we had to move the front room around to get the tree up in the first place, and it pissed us off so down it came, front room back to normal!

[HH-R]

Now that Christmas and New Year are out of the way I assumed that life would return to normal and that people would start looking where they are going again. I am disappointed to report that around Bridgend this has not happened, my Land Rover still appears to have an invisibility cloak and I'm now wishing I had made a resolution to allow people to run into me rather than me having to constantly anticipate and avoid the next idiot.

 

I am beginning to wonder if it is me, although I can tell the difference between red and green on traffic lights and follow the lane marker arrows on roundabout approaches so I don't cut across two lanes at the last minute, I even know that you don't turn right down the wrong way on a dual-carriageway.

 

I can't wait to retire as I won't have to go on the road so often.

 

Yeah, plenty knob heads on the roads today.

 

Didn't drive at all over Xmas and new year, 11 days of absolute *bliss*.

[greengartside]

+1 - nice to see the standards of driving are still as great* as the last few years. One guy in a Citroen C4 overtook me on a roundabout this morning and then was stuck behind a van for 6 miles which was interesting to watch.

[artdjones]

Well, at least he admitted he wasn't up to the job before fecking up your pride and joy. Many wouldn't have... just saying, like.

Wonder how the painter stays in business if a bumper paint is beyond him?

Also,painters charge a fair amount of money.If they do a proper job for it noone will say anything against them and will prob.recommend them. In my experience ( working in the trade)lots of sprayers are inconsistent. The first job or two they do is great.When they think they've got you regularly the orange peel ,inclusions, and sub-surface scratching start.

[michael1703]

Wonder how the painter stays in business if a bumper paint is beyond him?

Also,painters charge a fair amount of money.If they do a proper job for it noone will say anything against them and will prob.recommend them. In my experience ( working in the trade)lots of sprayers are inconsistent. The first job or two they do is great.When they think they've got you regularly the orange peel ,inclusions, and sub-surface scratching start.

And their quote is a third of the actual price

[cobblers]

Wonder how the painter stays in business if a bumper paint is beyond him?

Also,painters charge a fair amount of money.If they do a proper job for it noone will say anything against them and will prob.recommend them. In my experience ( working in the trade)lots of sprayers are inconsistent. The first job or two they do is great.When they think they've got you regularly the orange peel ,inclusions, and sub-surface scratching start.

Absolutely 100% true. When I used to do campers with a mate of mine a few years ago it was always the same, we used 5 or 6 different painters. The first two jobs were done well and on time. The third job was done reasonably well but took 3 weeks too long. The 4th job garbage all round. Then move on to the next one....

[Tetleysmooth]

Its only some worn out brake pads man, relax

 

No, absolutely not, I'll never relax with this car.

It has a malevolent nature.

If you knew the amount of aggro the effing thing has caused lately, you would most certainly be agreeing with me instead of telling me to relax.

Still, the time must come when everything's been replaced.

[garbaldy]

/\ Go on then enlighten us.

[AlabamaShrimp]

What a fucking cunt!!

 

Went for an interview the other week and passed. It's for a job I already do now as a sort of subcontractor.

 

My boss/company owner was speaking to the guy that interviewed me and he said he'd offered me a job before telling me or waiting to see if all my references came back, they will, but I don't have it officially in writing or a start date.

 

Anyway my current boss has just rung in a sulk saying why didn't I tell him I'd been for an interview, didn't ask for more hours and then fired me saying it's a conflict of interests.

 

Why the fuck would the interviewer tell my boss he'd given me a job before me? I've got two months with no fucking job now

 

Still on the bright side I now know I start on March 4th

[Jimmycrackcorn]

Surely he can't sack you on the spot for that? What about if despite being offered the job you turned it down?. I'd be contacting the CIB in this situation.

 

On another note I finally have a bit of Mojo back but can see it pissing off before the rain stops.

[AlabamaShrimp]

It was zero hours contract so I think he can and really he can go fuck himself.

 

I was promised part time when I started and kept asking for more days (two or three a week) but that I couldn't do full time due to my wife's shifts and childcare. He either said he'd look into it or kept offering me full time, there was no hope in hell I'd get part time.

 

He really hard to get money out of too, I've not been trained properly and all his kit is out of date shit, it was embarrassing when you were with the real* people doing the job.

[dugong]

Council have rejected my parking appeal.

 

Cheers for that. Hate-hate relationship confirmed.

[beko1987]

"My car makes a knocking noise when I turn"

 

Does it make the noise left and right?

 

"Yes"

 

At any speed?

 

"yes"

 

Is it a metallic type of knocking noise?

 

"Dunno, it's a knocking noise"

 

"Where's it coming from?"

 

"The front"

 

When did it start knocking?

 

"The other day, I meant to tell you"

 

Great, so either one of the new parts has failed, or something different has happened. Orl Vauxhalls etc. That's my evening sorted then, laying in a puddle shining a torch at front suspension components... Eleventy million points for not telling me last week when I was off work too love, gr9 job

[HillmanImp]

Was wake at 5am yesterday so decided to look on my phone to see when the Jags MOT is due and it was last Saturday.

 

Arsebiscuits.

 

So it was pedal power for me into work today.

 

Came through Esholt which looked like this last week:

 

 

and it was still fucked. The water has receded excpet for a few pockets of floodwater left over but this area has not been cleaned. Everywhere else I have been that was flooded looks like new now but not here.

 

There was shit and toilet paper everywhere. Caravans were strewn across the fields at the side of the road and I got absolutely blethered in what I assume is sewage, as I decided to watch Silent Witness last night instead of fitting my new mudguards.

 

Worst thing is I have to put those clothes back on to get home.

 

Those shit covered clothes.

[myglaren]

Council have rejected my parking appeal.

 

Cheers for that. Hate-hate relationship confirmed.

Local MP?

As you have it all documented should just be a matter of passing it all over with a covering letter, if he does a surgery local to you make an appointment to see him/her in person.

[Bobthebeard]

Have misjudged the amount of logs needed for the festive season and actually ran out on Saturday. Plenty more waiting to be cut/chopped at the back of the garden, but couldn't be arsed because rain and mother Beard staying for the weekend. Called round to the local log place to buy a bag of logs (£4.50) to cover Saturday and Sunday evenings. Managed to run over a big, sharp lump of rusty steel in the wood yard. Flat tyre in less than five minutes. Tyre ruined as 10mm hole near the sidewall. Tyre only three months old! Cost £55 for a new one.

So me not being arsed to chop a few logs in the rain cost me £59.50. Hmmm. Lesson learned.

[dollywobbler]

Have misjudged the amount of logs needed for the festive season and actually ran out on Saturday. Plenty more waiting to be cut/chopped at the back of the garden, but couldn't be arsed because rain and mother Beard staying for the weekend. Called round to the local log place to buy a bag of logs (£4.50) to cover Saturday and Sunday evenings. Managed to run over a big, sharp lump of rusty steel in the wood yard. Flat tyre in less than five minutes. Tyre ruined as 10mm hole near the sidewall. Tyre only three months old! Cost £55 for a new one.

So me not being arsed to chop a few logs in the rain cost me £59.50. Hmmm. Lesson learned.

 

Oh don't get me started on logs. I've managed to judge mine correctly, but the load we got in November proved to contain some really soggy logs - 40-50%. A place locally has started doing kiln-dried ones, which I'm not entirely happy about but at least they'll be dry. Only the last lot I got (just a couple of bags) proved to be 50-60% wet, so I doubt they'd been anywhere near the sodding kiln anyway! A cold spell is on the way, so I need to source more. Bit concerned as I don't know where to get them from.

[Bobthebeard]

^^ The logs from my local Log Place (that is the name of the business) are always below 20% moisture and reliable. A rubble sack sized bag is £4.50 so not too bad really. £170 for a big trailer load. Pity about the sharp bits of steel slag on the rough track on the way in though!

[Tetleysmooth]

/\ Go on then enlighten us.

 

Nope, CBA. Caused a lot of marital disharmony though.

It now has new pads on all four corners.

[Lacquer Peel]

Oh don't get me started on logs. I've managed to judge mine correctly, but the load we got in November proved to contain some really soggy logs - 40-50%. A place locally has started doing kiln-dried ones, which I'm not entirely happy about but at least they'll be dry. Only the last lot I got (just a couple of bags) proved to be 50-60% wet, so I doubt they'd been anywhere near the sodding kiln anyway! A cold spell is on the way, so I need to source more. Bit concerned as I don't know where to get them from.

I don't know how much space you have, but logs will dry quickly if you chop them up small and dry them by the fire.

My mum bought a load of offcuts from the local sawmill for £20 recently, kiln dried as well.

 

A lot of firewood merchants are crooks, mother_Peel bought an expensive load from someone I thought I trusted and it was not ready to burn.

[dave21478]

Mazda sale is going horribly wrong. I made arrangements with a guy who was to phone this evening to confirm collection tomorrow morning. All fine and well until he phoned this evening to confirm. But he* has already been to buy it this afternoon?

 

Some dude, who I assume is one of the other people I emailed saying "if this guy desnt buy it I will contact you" appears to have turned up this afternoon and passed himself off very convincingly as the other guy, claiming his arrangements for tomorrow didnt work out so he came today instead. He has left full payment (although there is an issue with that too) and will apparently come back either tonight or tomorrow to collect.

 

All the time he was looking it over I assumed he was the other guy who should be coming tomorrow who is now mega pissed off.

Fuck knows how this guy got my address. The advert gives the rough area so the belm must have spent the day driving about the area until he found my place. Obviously he now wont answer his phone.

 

I suppose I could say "meh, I have my asking price in cash, who cares who bought it." but I feel really bad for the original buyer who is a small garage wanting it for spares for a customers vehicle. 

 

The other problem is the cash....It sold for a grand and he paid 500 in normal stuff and a 500 euro note. I didnt think it through at the time, but these are notorious for being false and literally impossible to spend. Even banks will often refuse to accept them. I took it to a shop and they reckoned it seemed ok, but obviously cant guarantee anything. They are so rare that not many people know what to look for. The internet has guides to check the printing, watermarks etc and it seems to pass those tests, but who knows....

[vulgalour]

£1.50 for a dash light bulb.  Could have been worse, Halfords wanted £2.50.

[jakebullet]

Stop with the raining. Firewood store is emptying, and I'd rather chop n fill with pallet than lug the good logs from way down the garden. Also could do with blagging more pallets but don't want soaking pallets in my disco.

[Cavcraft]

I've had to put diesel in the 306 as I was caught short and had no veg left. I feel somehow unclean.

[M'coli]

...as I decided to watch Silent Witness last night instead of fitting my new mudguards.

You did right, I tried fitting my new mudguards to the MTB last night, and I've only got the back one on and it's cabletied in places because they don't come with all the screws and all my spare stuff is up in Yorkshire. It reminded me of why the roadbike's mudguards are still on top of the Imp in the garage, two years after buying them.

[STUNO]

Mazda sale is going horribly wrong. I made arrangements with a guy who was to phone this evening to confirm collection tomorrow morning. All fine and well until he phoned this evening to confirm. But he* has already been to buy it this afternoon?

 

Some dude, who I assume is one of the other people I emailed saying "if this guy desnt buy it I will contact you" appears to have turned up this afternoon and passed himself off very convincingly as the other guy, claiming his arrangements for tomorrow didnt work out so he came today instead. He has left full payment (although there is an issue with that too) and will apparently come back either tonight or tomorrow to collect.

 

All the time he was looking it over I assumed he was the other guy who should be coming tomorrow who is now mega pissed off.

Fuck knows how this guy got my address. The advert gives the rough area so the belm must have spent the day driving about the area until he found my place. Obviously he now wont answer his phone.

 

I suppose I could say "meh, I have my asking price in cash, who cares who bought it." but I feel really bad for the original buyer who is a small garage wanting it for spares for a customers vehicle. 

 

The other problem is the cash....It sold for a grand and he paid 500 in normal stuff and a 500 euro note. I didnt think it through at the time, but these are notorious for being false and literally impossible to spend. Even banks will often refuse to accept them. I took it to a shop and they reckoned it seemed ok, but obviously cant guarantee anything. They are so rare that not many people know what to look for. The internet has guides to check the printing, watermarks etc and it seems to pass those tests, but who knows....

 

Hand the cash back, make use of the French version of "fuck off", then contact the real buyer to collect.

What's the chance he is a mate of the garage owner and has spoken to him ?