The grumpy thread

[GrumpiusMaximus]

Colleague at work had an accident on the way in the other day.  Called me, really upset and angry so I could pass the message on to our boss.

 

She'd pulled in behind a stationary bus because she couldn't see around it.  Somebody else had just gone but she wasn't going to risk it on a restricted road narrow road because she couldn't see past.  Some troglodyte in a Luton van hit her up the backside and gave her an attitude when they got out, berating her for stopping, etc.  Was reluctant to give details, etc. but eventually did.

 

I was helping her look into claiming and ran the registration through the MOT database, etc. and he'd given her false details.  No record of anything with that registration or variations thereof.  Searched for the name on Google, nothing.  Tried calling his mobile, dead line.  So we contacted the Police, who weren't terribly interested and the bus company to try and pull the CCTV off.

 

In the end, the damage wasn't as bad as she suspected it might be - just a bumper and an arch liner grinding on the rear wheel - but I just can't believe a World where somebody goes into the back of someone because they're not looking (I suspect on his phone), mouths off and then gives false details.  Grade 1 arsehole.

[Exiled_Tat_Gatherer]

Can't like that /\ - but just spat coffee all over the iPad with the dead hedgehog grump...........

 

Today's - remote is fubar'd for the access door to the lockup. Can't move in, so old lockup can't be emptied. SD1 is outside (behind a fence though, luckily) and of course, can't be moved in. Told the owner, checked it wasn't batteries etc.... no luck.

Owner leaves a message at fuck off o'clock - who answers in the middle of a Kylie, Patsy and Bananarama group seeing to in your dreams? - saying the Rover needs moving. It's not blocking anything or one but fukknugget is wanting it in the garage I can't get to!

I've just left a text explaining I'll remove the auto door and get it moved in the next week if I haven't a working remote by Monday morning. He'll get the invoice as soon as I'm done. See if that gets him off his lazy landlord dodgy classic car dealing arse...... you sir, are a twat........

[Guest Hooli]

Are you looking for another job?

 

Don’t put up with that shit for too long if you have other options. Leaving my last job was the best move I’ve ever made.

 

 

Find a new job asap. Do not be like bub. I belted the shop manager when he was being cocky and trying to override the yard staff in a builders merchants. He had no rule over us yet tried to tell us how to work even though it wasn't his place. His shop was in disarray but rather kick a fuss with us. Came outside to our hut,said get some work done stop being lazy. I told him I was on my dinner break. He took my cob out my hand and threw it on floor so I decked him. May as well have been hung for a sheep as for a lamb thought I.

 

 

 

I had a cunt of a boss like that once.  I left then about a week later, somebody else walked out after telling him what she thought of him in no uncertain terms.  Ended up costing the company a lot of money having to employ freelancers to cover us both.  He's since been promoted (because corruption) but it would have hit his KPIs hard for a least a month.  Which is satisfying to think about.

 

Don't be like me.  Find something else.  I nearly lost my flat but found another job just in time...

 

 

Cheers all. I'm currently looking & have been for over year, not got past the interview stage yet.

 

However with things as great as they are with my new lass I'm trying to work out a plan that ends with me living on a Scottish isle, maybe as a slum landlord...

 

Oh & Bub, the other annoying cunt here has had a 17" monitor thrown at his head previously, maybe I didn't get fired as it missed?

[bub2006]

He should not have took food off me. Anything else is fair game but throwing my sausage and cheese cob on floor is a certain way to get a smack in mouth.

[The Reverend Bluejeans]

THIS FUCKING WEATHER.

[fordperv]

He should not have took food off me. Anything else is fair game but throwing my sausage and cheese cob on floor is a certain way to get a smack in mouth.

So this is where the term "got a cob on" comes from

[beko1987]

Remind me never to accidentally knock your sausage bap out your hand!

[GrumpiusMaximus]

Remind me never to accidentally knock your sausage!

 

Fixed!  You're welcome.

[bub2006]

Remind me never to accidentally knock your sausage bap out your hand!

Accidental is fine,he snatched it!

[Wack]

When on a roundabout, do not suddenly stop in the middle of the roundabout to let some random car out and expect me not to blast my horn and overtake you because I nearly smashed into the back of you

Courtesy leads to confusion and crashes

 

I don't let anyone out anymore unless I'm stationary and they arrive at a junction before I move , I don't even alter my speed or lane on a motorway anymore , they either accelerate and get in front , slow and go behind or hit me

 

I've lost count of the many utter fuckwits I've encountered where you try and let them in and they start braking so you brake because now you're not sure they're not just going to run into you if you pass them

[Guest Hooli]

Which reminds of all the fucknuggets who slow so much passing a junction you've no idea if they are letting you out or not...

[Wack]

Why does nobody leave feedback on eBay any more?

Sold a load of stuff recently, if anything I undersold it. Some folk got some nice items very cheap, beautifully packaged, emails sent to confirm dispatch with pics of their post office receipts to confirm the items were in the system, etc. I really made an effort.

Feedback? Thirty items sold, two feedbacks received. One said "cheers" and the other said "received". That was it!

Next thing sold gets put in a plastic bag with a vague address scribbled on it and sent second class

When it arrives broken you'll definitely get feedback

[dozeydustman]

Some complete and utter spermburper in a G-reg Merc of some description (complete with naff 1990's body kit & with no backbox on or a very bad blow) has for the last half an hour been hooning it up and down the road I live in, has hit 2 parked cars and is J-turning and donutting.

 

I live on a busy road in a large village with a very busy railway station. This could not end well.

 

I've heard sirens as well so wonder if the scuffers are on their way round.

 

Joyriders, or just complete twats?

[GrumpiusMaximus]

Some complete and utter spermburper in a G-reg Merc of some description (complete with naff 1990's body kit & with no backbox on or a very bad blow) has for the last half an hour been hooning it up and down the road I live in, has hit 2 parked cars and is J-turning and donutting.

 

I live on a busy road in a large village with a very busy railway station. This could not end well.

 

I've heard sirens as well so wonder if the scuffers are on their way round.

 

Joyriders, or just complete twats?

 

Complete twats either way.

[Wack]

Probably stolen if they're driving it like twats

[Tamworthbay]

When did a roundabout become a great place to stop and let your mate out? Not the road leading up to the roundabout, but by the side of the road part way round. How everyone coming across missed her I will never know. Seen it all now.

[davehedgehog31]

When did a roundabout become a great place to stop and let your mate out? Not the road leading up to the roundabout, but by the side of the road part way round. How everyone coming across missed her I will never know. Seen it all now.

Can mind driving along in Malta and the van a few cars in front stopped on the middle of a roundabout, flipped the side up and started selling his wares. The road was covered in people and we'd just to sit there until he had finished trading and drove off again.

[madrat]

Some complete and utter spermburper in a G-reg Merc of some description (complete with naff 1990's body kit & with no backbox on or a very bad blow) has for the last half an hour been hooning it up and down the road I live in, has hit 2 parked cars and is J-turning and donutting.

 

I live on a busy road in a large village with a very busy railway station. This could not end well.

 

I've heard sirens as well so wonder if the scuffers are on their way round.

 

Joyriders, or just complete twats?

Couple of half bricks lobed at it as they pass.

[cobblers]

Trust me you don't want a NT property. Was it in Clumber?

Nah, hardwick

[sierraman]

Useless fucking DVLA. Phone line is open until 7pm, very obviously given its a Friday they've sacked work off early and have a recorded message by some moron saying they are busy, then cuts you off. No wait or queue or anything.

[MarvinsMom]

My mate is organising a wretched stag do in Prague.

 

He made me aware of an activity in which you are allowed to vandalise a piece of old chod witth various implements.

 

 

Look at the sad little chod in the background watching their pal die slowly, knowing the same fate will shortly befall them.

 

anyone wanna do this to a mini?

 

oh please! please do! you would be saving me a job......

 

been and picked up newly mot'd black shitbox.

 

pay the bill (£476.80, more on that later) get the key, and it won't start. 

 

nothing, no clicking, idnition lights on but now't else.

 

FAN-FUCKING-TASTIC.

 

at this point i give kerry the key and go back to the Rover. cos if i don't, there will be something heavy like a brick going through the fuckin' windscreen.

 

somehow kerry gets it going, and guess what? the indicators still work as and when they feel like it. the brakes are still woefully, heiniously, lethally shit. so much so i almost, like with millimeters to spare avoided running up the back of that black shitheal when kerry was turning, as, that right the indicators do and do not (mostly it seems do not) work.

 

so, now in an epically shit mood it has been dumped into the lockup and the orange mini turned out in to the rain. at least until i can get the fuckin' thing sold. i have thought about going to the himly hall show wioth it, but i don't trust it to get to the end of the friggin' road, never mind get from malton to dudley. no chance. at all.

 

i certainly am not going to lond in it!

 

what have we learned? that you should never ever meet your heros. 

 

the mini's from the olden days when i was but a nipper were all 80's or 90's cars. and are far superior, in every way to the 1974 turd which has been emptying my bank account.

 

and that bill? well i dunno what actually i have paid for. it reads-

 

"Carry out MOT, 

check for fault on brakes, remove all drums and set up shoes,

fit new n/s/f hub bearing & new back plate (cust supplied),

fit new clutch slave cylinder (cust supplied) + bleed system,

fit n/s mirror (cust supplied),

replace flasher unit. (£306.00)

 

parts - 

wheel bearing £46.35

flasher unit £4

brake cleaner £2 and clutch fluid £1.50

 

so, i'm feeling very agrieved, i feel i've been done up like a proper kipper, i hate the car and i still think its not really road worthy inspite of its MOT.

 

the only good thing about today was going for the tax. the post office scanned the V5, (which the PO have to send back to the DVLC) and the tax came up as £0.00. 

 

thank fuck for that......

[Kiltox]

Useless fucking DVLA. Phone line is open until 7pm, very obviously given its a Friday they've sacked work off early and have a recorded message by some moron saying they are busy, then cuts you off. No wait or queue or anything.

HMRC do that too

[mercrocker]

Put 'em all down the coal mines.......oh, we don't have any now.

[dozeydustman]

Useless fucking DVLA. Phone line is open until 7pm, very obviously given its a Friday they've sacked work off early and have a recorded message by some moron saying they are busy, then cuts you off. No wait or queue or anything.

Yep i can agree with that. Last year I had my HGV license revoked for 6 months as I had vertigo caused by an ear infection. The revoke ended in January. Send all the medical forms, D2 application and all the other info they wanted at the end of January.

 

Still waiting. No-one there can tell me what is actually going on with my license

[Cavcraft]

Don't know what you're moaning about, I've been diagnosed as having a rare condition that makes me think I'm an airport building.

 

I hope it's not terminal.

[Inspector Morose]

Yeah, I had to go to the docs today. It was odd, one day I felt I was a wigwam and another I felt like a teepee.

 

He said I was too tents.

[MarvinsMom]

i went to the doctors the other day.

 

i said

 

"doctor, it hurts when i do this....."

 

he said

 

"then, don't do that!"

 

..... i'm here all week.

[Des]

 

 

nothing, no clicking, idnition lights on but now't else.

 

 

 

Dodgy solenoid earth.

[Mally]

anyone wanna do this to a mini?

 

oh please! please do! you would be saving me a job......

 

been and picked up newly mot'd black shitbox.

 

pay the bill (£476.80, more on that later) get the key, and it won't start. 

 

nothing, no clicking, idnition lights on but now't else.

 

FAN-FUCKING-TASTIC.

 

at this point i give kerry the key and go back to the Rover. cos if i don't, there will be something heavy like a brick going through the fuckin' windscreen.

 

somehow kerry gets it going, and guess what? the indicators still work as and when they feel like it. the brakes are still woefully, heiniously, lethally shit. so much so i almost, like with millimeters to spare avoided running up the back of that black shitheal when kerry was turning, as, that right the indicators do and do not (mostly it seems do not) work.

 

so, now in an epically shit mood it has been dumped into the lockup and the orange mini turned out in to the rain. at least until i can get the fuckin' thing sold. i have thought about going to the himly hall show wioth it, but i don't trust it to get to the end of the friggin' road, never mind get from malton to dudley. no chance. at all.

 

i certainly am not going to lond in it!

 

what have we learned? that you should never ever meet your heros. 

 

the mini's from the olden days when i was but a nipper were all 80's or 90's cars. and are far superior, in every way to the 1974 turd which has been emptying my bank account.

 

and that bill? well i dunno what actually i have paid for. it reads-

 

"Carry out MOT, 

check for fault on brakes, remove all drums and set up shoes,

fit new n/s/f hub bearing & new back plate (cust supplied),

fit new clutch slave cylinder (cust supplied) + bleed system,

fit n/s mirror (cust supplied),

replace flasher unit. (£306.00)

 

parts - 

wheel bearing £46.35

flasher unit £4

brake cleaner £2 and clutch fluid £1.50

 

so, i'm feeling very agrieved, i feel i've been done up like a proper kipper, i hate the car and i still think its not really road worthy inspite of its MOT.

 

the only good thing about today was going for the tax. the post office scanned the V5, (which the PO have to send back to the DVLC) and the tax came up as £0.00. 

 

thank fuck for that......

 

The bill including an MOT is not too bad at garage rates, just over half a days work which sounds about right for what they have done.

Mini brakes were never that good, if it passed the test maybe you are expecting too much of them?

Have a rest and try it again next week.

If you still hate it there are many people looking for an old Mini with long Mot.

It would fit my garden nicely, but possibly not my wallet.

[madrat]

Is its drum brakes? they were chronic and needed written notice to stop, never understood how they could be so bad compared to a Fiat 500/126