The grumpy thread

[FakeConcern]

Is it me? 

 

Crossing the road on the zebra at Tesco earlier, a chippy little fucker in a baseball cap deliberately blows through in his Disco 4 and nearly takes my face off.  Shaken by this, I imply by manual suggestion that he worships at the temple of Onan.  

 

CLT waits for me, trying to act the big man in front of two small boys, and we have a short discussion around rights of way.  I am politeness itself, he is quite unpleasantly threatening - apparently, it "would be different if the boys weren't here".  Of course it would, mate - I'm quite a bit bigger than you, as you have just rather childishly noted.

 

Are we supposed to just roll over and take this kind of shit?  Usually I wouldn't react like I did, but after the events of the past few weeks my ability to shrug these things off is somewhat impaired.

 

Anyway, Domestic Management says it's my fault and is giving me the silent treatment.  If the AS hive-mind agrees with her, I will take it like a man, but...

 

AAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRGGGGGGHHHHHHH!!!!!!

 

Thank you for listening, friends.

It's not you.

[Sloth in a bowl]

Is it me? 

 

Crossing the road on the zebra at Tesco earlier, a chippy little fucker in a baseball cap deliberately blows through in his Disco 4 and nearly takes my face off.  Shaken by this, I imply by manual suggestion that he worships at the temple of Onan.  

 

CLT waits for me, trying to act the big man in front of two small boys, and we have a short discussion around rights of way.  I am politeness itself, he is quite unpleasantly threatening - apparently, it "would be different if the boys weren't here".  Of course it would, mate - I'm quite a bit bigger than you, as you have just rather childishly noted.

 

Are we supposed to just roll over and take this kind of shit?  Usually I wouldn't react like I did, but after the events of the past few weeks my ability to shrug these things off is somewhat impaired.

 

Anyway, Domestic Management says it's my fault and is giving me the silent treatment.  If the AS hive-mind agrees with her, I will take it like a man, but...

 

AAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRGGGGGGHHHHHHH!!!!!!

 

Thank you for listening, friends.

 

 

Dave

 

If something has wound you up to the point of being sweary at a stranger, then it is not your fault, you aren't an openly swear at strangers type of guy; snide remark about them, maybe.

 

Too many CLTs think that life owes them all and the possibility of accepting that they may have made a mistake in a stupid moment is impossible.

[Pillock]

I've had that twice. Once, at a supermarket, someone just went straight over the crossing because - as we all know, when you've got some Value oven chips in the boot defrosting, laws of the road don't count. I suggested the driver "get to fuck" and used my fingers to signal they they'd missed me by two inches. Car stops, couple get out, "what did you fucking say, twat" and swaggering across the road. Made a point of checking out the car reg, walked across the carpark knowing there's very little they could do now they're blocking the road. A selection of four letter words were thrown at me.

 

And then at Santa Pod, whole crowd of people walking in down the road vs a car going the other way - coming out of the pits, but not a racer so probably just driving back from the toilet block like a lazy twat. Road is full of people and he's pretty much just forcing his Focus through, rev rev rev moan moan moan. He hits me on the elbow with his mirror that then folds in (no damage). I didn't aim for it but neither did I move. Car stops, he jumps out, "who the fuck was that, tosser, I'll fucking kill you, who did that to my car waaaaaaaaaaaah". For some reason I stick my hand up and go "it was me that you drove into but I'll let it slip this time". Starts pushing towards me and then half a dozen massive lads step in front of him and rip him a new one, apparently fifty yards further down the road he'd barged a girl with a pushchair out the way.

 

Cars do terrible things to people. Round here it's usually as simple as it makes you think you have more driveway space than you have, but some people it gives the power of invincibility and adds 50 Rage for 10 Minutes.

[fairkens]

As you seem to work in the 'industry', I bow to your superior knowledge. The apparent anomaly above needs explaining, though.

Which anomaly? Happy to explain as best I can

[gordonbennet]

What is going on with people, round here they fuck about on the open road driving like Miss Daisy then when they get into a housing estate or in the supermarket car park its like their arse is alight, young women some of the worse especially if they've got kids in the car, WTF?

 

There really are some utter cunts about nowadays, and i agree its getting worse.

 

Come retirement i can see us selling up and fucking off to the middle of nowhere, we're almost recluses already and neither of us can take much more of the neanderthal knuckle dragging cunts.

[EssDeeWon]

Chaseracer you are well in the right here.

 

There is a Zebra crossing I use each morning and evening going to work, sometimes a decent driver will spot me and stop, other times 2 or 3 hurry through leaving me standing there, I guess this shaves 5 seconds off their commute. Only the other day some twat in a new disco saw me, looked at me, but still belted though nearly taking my nose off, the best bit was he was approaching a junction so had to stop anyway, stupid twat.

 

Anyway Chaseracer just give her in doors this then give her the silent treatment, and enjoy it while it lasts:-

 

Rule 195

Zebra crossings. As you approach a zebra crossing

• look out for pedestrians waiting to cross and be ready to slow down or stop to let them cross
• you MUST give way when a pedestrian has moved onto a crossing

[fordperv]

Chaseracer it's definitely not your fault these clt's do push buttons, in my opinion they deserve a pasting to drop them a peg or 2, i am usually a mild mannered person who will do anything for anyone to help them out. but I have a bit of a short fuse that personally I don't like and I don't like people seeing, but these type of people bring it out in me.

[DVee8]

Despite the winds last night, it seems only one house lost any tiles in the wind. And no it wasn't mine!

 

However it was my neighbours (rented) house that suffered. The tiles dislodged and I heard the thunk-thunk-thunk CRASH!!! As they bounced down the roof and impacted with something solid before smashing into a zillion bits. I wonder what they hit?

 

MY FUCKING CAR!!! Here we go with insurance company bollocks. Texted the house owner this morning and look forward to a wall of silence so that looks like a replacement wing, indicator light and respray not to mention time in the body shop. I was going to put it on Autotrader today as well. Fucksticks.....

Parky this turned up on my Facebook.Now i don't know were you are,or were they are. But you never know.

 

2nd pic down.

 

https://www.facebook.com/Bell-Automotive-1502344493402412/?fref=photo

[Parky]

Cheers DV8, much appreciated. Bexhill is a little way from me but I might send them the pics and ask what they reckon.

 

Might be tricky as the paint is fucked into a cocked hat and the dent is right on a swage line but nothing ventured, nothing gained. Might mail them tomorrow and report back. In the meantime plan A is to locate a silver wing. A trawl through the Bay has turned up red, black, and white but apart from a silver one for the wrong side, or a silver one from the latest model no joy so far.

 

If I can't find one I might get a white one and have it repainted. At least buying an actual Seat part might fit better than a pattern part which will need respraying anyway.

 

My neighbour got back to me after I told him about the car. He said "yeah cheers, have got roofer coming tomorrow" Not a word about the motor, shame I was kind of hoping he might feel bad for the shoddy maintenance on his place and chip in. Needless to say I don't think I will be doing him any more favours

[xtriple]

Chaseracer it's definitely not your fault these clt's do push buttons, in my opinion they deserve a pasting to drop them a peg or 2, i am usually a mild mannered person who will do anything for anyone to help them out. but I have a bit of a short fuse that personally I don't like and I don't like people seeing, but these type of people bring it out in me.

Me too.

 

When I was healthier I would front up to any bastard that did that sort of thing. I hate rude, belligerent arseholes, They don't know I can't fight but I sure can do mean and fucking moody! We all need to take a collective stand against all these fuckers and teach the bastards some manners.

[jakebullet]

Domestic disharmony to the max

 

Took Ma for a super exciting* day out on a bus trip to Brid. Came back and idiot sister insisted she picks us up from bus station. She has her big stupid dog in her shitbox picanto, so I say why did you bring the stupid dog?

MY CAR MY RULES.

Fine, but there's no room for the humans with your rules.

YOU'RE NOT TALKING TO ME LIKE THAT.

Fine. Fuck off then, and I got out the car, as it's a massive 5 minute walk anyway. She then attempts to intimidate me by revving her mighty 1 litre engine. I've walked halfway home before she even gets out the car park. Pulls in front of me, and AM I GETTING IN THE CAR OR WHAT? No. Sod off and I give her shitbox a friendly kick to reinforce my feelings. She then tries to run me over, before fucking off.

 

For some reason Ma is now only doing the shouting thing. Never mind. Told her idiot sister can get to fuck until she modifies her attitude. It's quite liberating to pretend she no longer exists.

[RayMK]

Last night getting stripped for bed a lump of brown stuff dropped out of my clothes.  Shit, I thought.  Old age really is creeping up on me.  Then I remembered pigging out on a dark chocolate Easter egg earlier on.  Without risking a taste, I gave myself the benefit of the doubt.

[sporty-shite]

Snapped suspension bolts. Again. 

[sporty-shite]

Also, talking of unnecessarily angry wankers, Mrs S came home from a night out with the girls on Saturday and said they'd had "an event". 

 

Basically, they'd phoned a taxi to pick them up from the pizza shop (classy, I know). When the taxi arrived (a VW Sharan), the drivers got out to tip the back seats forward so they could all get in. At this point, Mrs S's happily drunk, 5'1", 7 stone mate sat in the drivers seat. No bad intent. Didn't touch anything. 

 

So what does Taxi Boy do? Does he:

 

A) Say something along the lines of "come on, love, out you get so I can get you all home", before stepping back and giving her room to exit the car.

 

OR

 

B ) Drag her out of the car, throwing her across the pavement, whilst yelling "get the fuck out of my car", before yelling the same to another of the girls who was now sitting in the back, waiting to go home. 

 

The taxi firm say he "acted to prevent an accident" and that he "she must have fallen".

 

She was scared to report it to the police, as she thinks she'll be in the shit for sitting in the drivers seat. So, at the moment, that's one taxi firm boycotted. 

[Tickman]

The taxi firm say he "acted to prevent an accident" and that he "she must have fallen".

I assume he left it running which as a professional driver he would know it not allowed as he is not in control of the vehicle, just another idiot working in the service sector!

[plasticvandan]

I had an altercation recently.just filled up my c90 on way home from work.a I was slapping my £3.20 down on the counter I notice a middle age scruffy fuck in a 106 pull up along side my bike (small 4 pump station) as I walk out he's already got the flap open as I'm putting my gloves on.I mutter something about jumping in my grave if I was any slower as I start it and snick it into first. Get the usual "say something m8" shit,as clearly his £8 of diesel was a life or death situation,and knowing I was already in gear told him he was the most impatient prick I had ever met,and smartly pulled away knowing he couldn't respond

[sporty-shite]

I assume he left it running which as a professional driver he would know it not allowed as he is not in control of the vehicle, just another idiot working in the service sector!

Yep. Full on prick, by the sounds of it.

[Timewaster]

Taxi driver caught out by drunk person late on a Saturday night.

 

I bet he wasn't expecting that. What a thing to happen.

[Pillock]

If he's scared and confused by a drunk woman catching a cab on a Saturday night, perhaps he should look into a job as a postman or something.

[LC Torana]

I drove my p6 to work a few months ago and although it never actually overheated it did blow out all it's coolant on the m8 for a laugh.

The stat look like it had suffered some kind of hernia so I bought a new stat with a little bleed back valve, which is supposed to help it self regulate.  I change it a couple of weeks back now and it's doing this weird thing where the temp goes up to nearly 100 degrees then starts gurgling and spitting water out the overflow before return to normal (if not slightly below) running temperature. It never actually over heats but but doesn't exactly inspire confidence to drive it anywhere. 

 

My P6B did EXACTLY this for a long time.  Ignition timing was the problem.

 

Get out your timing light and get ready to turn the distributor body.  And then check the dwell after you've done that.  (All those explosions need to be timed to produce motive power rather than waste heat.)

[dollywobbler]

I would absolutely flip my lid if a drunk person jumped behind the wheel of my car, I must admit.

[Craig the Princess]

I would absolutely flip my lid if a drunk person jumped behind the wheel of my car, I must admit.

Yeah, but I'm guessing you wouldn't assault a woman because of it. He sounds like a nutter who I writing want my wife/child being driven solo by.

 

I'd report to the police and demand an assurance from the taxi firm his criminal record background checks and insurances are valid.

[Craig the Princess]

True, can't say I fancy the job of taxi driver either.

[Tickman]

Why when getting online quotes do you have to fill in all the boxes only for a million people to then phone you back and ask all the same questions of which they already have the answer!

[Tamworthbay]

Why when getting online quotes do you have to fill in all the boxes only for a million people to then phone you back and ask all the same questions of which they already have the answer!

and get the f'ing ambulance chasers phoning for months after because an old dear bumped your car in the supermarket at about 2 mph three years ago.

[plasticvandan]

thats why i never use my real name,a real email,or a real phone number on online forms mr dickbag vonnutsack at [email protected] must be getting a lot of phone calls by now!

[DVee8]

Yep^^ MrDDuck and [email protected] get a few from me aswell.

[Tamworthbay]

Sadly that doesn't work on the insurance ones if you actually want to take out the policies.

[sporty-shite]

I think it's difficult to say without actually being there, but I'm not really sure how a taxi driver is expected to know the intentions of somebody who gets behind the wheel of their livelihood or whether they are/aren't drunk enough to pull on the handbrake as a joke. I think there'll be more to the story for them to react like that. Nobody was really that hurt by the sounds of it, probably some lessons learned all round.

By dragging her out of the car and throwing her across the pavemet? FFS, she couldn't even reach the pedals with the seat set for him. She really is that small. He could have easily sorted it.

 

Also, if he's so concerned about his "livelihood" why did he leave the door wide open, and the engine running?

 

Finally, injuries were sustained, but don't worry, she's just a drunk woman.

 

I would absolutely flip my lid if a drunk person jumped behind the wheel of my car, I must admit.

 

As said, doubt you go throwing folk around.

That's if we're believing that she was thrown to the ground by some kind of muscle man taxi driver, rather than that somebody who was so drunk they climbed into the drivers seat of a taxi fell as a result of being pissed up. We don't really know here and I suspect if there was anything to call the police over, somebody would have done it at the time.

He put hands on her. Before speaking. That's out of order.

 

True, can't say I fancy the job of taxi driver either.

Neither do I. That's why I'm not a taxi driver. He knew what he'd be doing on a Saturday night, unfortunately, he doesn't have the skills to deal with it.

 

Anyway, that's the end of it. I'm not going to get into some sort of troll baiting, keyboard war. The girl in question will deal with it as she sees fit. 

[cobblers]

Hopefully she'll see fit to not jump in the drivers seat of other peoples running cars when she's pissed. It's a lesson most of us have enough sense not to learn the hard way.