The grumpy thread

[Floatylight]

After had a number of grumbles with my regular garage over the past year I've just had to have the RAC out to any and various warning lights on my C4 Picasso, fault was found to be low brake fluid (reservoir empty) car has been in recently and had work done on brakes, bleed nipple or rear caliper found to be loose and brake fluid pissed all over the inside of the wheel.. This is on top of them having lifted it on a 4 post lift wrong and put 4 crease marks on the sills, having squeaky brakes they can't fix, a clonks on the front suspension which they say can only be the shock absorber, then they strip down the front end to change a top mount for the MOT reassemble without changing or giving me option to change the shocks, charge me 2 hours labour then say it will be 4 hours labour to change shocks! On top of this paid them to check wife's car over before a road trip, 3 days before she left a wheel bearing went, then they said brakes really low, needs discs & pads (a week before it didn't) then one of the discs they fitted was warped and she had to drive over 1k miles with a new warped disc... Time to find a new garage (after they've paid for a body shop to fixe the sills)

Rant over!

 

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[Inspector Morose]

It seems that I’m soon to be unemployed.

 

Great, unemployed and unemployable. A winning combination for ones own sanity let alone wealth.

[Saabnut]

It seems that I’m soon to be unemployed.

 

Great, unemployed and unemployable. A winning combination for ones own sanity let alone wealth.

 

That was a bit sudden, no?

 

Holidays up north to visit mouldering cars are always on offer should you so wish!

[chaseracer]

It seems that I’m soon to be unemployed.

 

Was that the response to your perfectly reasonable texts?

 

FACOM.  You deserve better.

[Bren]

Yoof my thoughts are with you.

[Bren]

Car boot sales.

My other half filled the car with bzby stuff. People offering £3 for a pram that is up for £5. Its a pram for fucks sake, not a ten year old focus.

 

Politicians who say our economy is booming have obviously never been to a car boot sale.

[mrbenn]

It seems that I’m soon to be unemployed.

 

Great, unemployed and unemployable. A winning combination for ones own sanity let alone wealth.

 

Join the club.

 

Actually, don't. It's shit.

[Zelandeth]

Fscking weather.

 

I got as far as going outside, opening garage door, opening van, laying out the extension cable, removing one hose clip and pulling the associated hose off.

 

I had to bail at that point as I was seriously feeling like I was about to pass out from the heat. Some medication I'm on increases not so much the temperature I can handle, but how quickly it affects me...so when it's 29C out there, I'm pretty much screwed as soon as I walk through the door.

 

Suspect I'm just going to say screw it and buy a bloody cooling vest tonight. Have been going to for years, and it won't inevitably arrive till this warm spell is over, but at least I'll be prepared for the next one.

 

Now going to go and hide and hope my head stops pounding soon.

[Slartibartfast]

It seems that I’m soon to be unemployed.

 

Great, unemployed and unemployable. A winning combination for ones own sanity let alone wealth.

I'm sorry mate What happened?

[New POD]

It seems that I’m soon to be unemployed.

 

Great, unemployed and unemployable. A winning combination for ones own sanity let alone wealth.

what is it that you do?

[Inspector Morose]

what is it that you do?

It was a pretty unique job involving exhibitions and buses in equal measure. Over the past year, I've seen various attempts at reducing costs at my expense, cheaper hotels. Now the latest effort is expecting me to get to Aberdeen in a double deck bus within legal hours.

"****** says you can do it within hours"

"I just did the very same journey in a car yesterday and I can assure you that you can't"

"***** says you can"

 

etc etc etc. It's the drip drip drip of stupidity that makes the job just not worth it. 

I'm not about to tell them to shove it their arses as the Rover is there until I can get it north but, basically, I've had enough of them.

[myglaren]

Bloody...sodding...bastard...ants!

 

Little bastards making it nigh on impossible to get anything done that involves being on or near the ground.

 

Milton Keynes seems to be synonymous with "giant anthill" as they seem to be everywhere around here.

Borax and sugar solution.

[GrumpiusMaximus]

Laying paving slabs for our new shed.

 

Fuck me.  Back-breaking work in massive heat.  Started at about 10AM, finished at 7PM.  Got to 11.45AM and had to take an hour off because I felt so ill.  Managed to take it easy enough over the day to get it done but I feel absolutely crap now.

 

I'm not made for manual labour.

[yellowperil]

Thought I'd have a good day today as weekend was great and I've been transferred over to bin deliveries and bulky household waste as a permanent thing, which means no more chasing after a stinky lorry.

 

5 jobs, one of which is transfer 30 1100 litre bins from site a to site b as they're 'loaners' for events etc. Site a has lost 8 of them.

 

We do exactly the same job, except i may do other tasks on Mondays and you have more hills to deal with.

 

How does someone lose eight 1100s?

 

Today's grump is flies, there are currently about ten in my house absolutely driving me mad.

[Simonsays]

In an effort to make those of you who are currently going through shit times smile a little.....

 

Yesterday I managed to stick my thumb and forefinger together with superglue.

[Tamworthbay]

In an effort to make those of you who are currently going through shit times smile a little.....

Yesterday I managed to stick my thumb and forefinger together with superglue.

If I am honest I do this each and every time I use poundshop superglue, it’s much more runny than the normal stuff. It’s not unusual for me to finish the job with the whole tube stuck between my finger and thumb.

[GrumpiusMaximus]

In an effort to make those of you who are currently going through shit times smile a little.....

 

Yesterday I managed to stick my thumb and forefinger together with superglue.

 

 

Look, I know we all want to appear continental, dare I say Italian sometimes but that is going far too far.

[myglaren]

Most of my work is gluing the component parts of PVC door panels together.

Consequently I'm generally up to the ears in bloody polyurethane glue.

 

Today's grump is flies, there are currently about ten in my house absolutely driving me mad.

 

May work, may not.

[Christine]

If I am honest I do this each and every time I use poundshop superglue, it’s much more runny than the normal stuff. It’s not unusual for me to finish the job with the whole tube stuck between my finger and thumb.

As does Donald Trump...

[DodgeRover]

Yesterday I managed to stick my thumb and forefinger together with superglue.

Whilst holding the corner trim onto a fascia a managed to glue my fingers to the fascia...working on my own on the scaffold, getting them off hurt a lot and left my fingerprints behind.

[Simonsays]

Whilst holding the corner trim onto a fascia a managed to glue my fingers to the fascia...working on my own on the scaffold, getting them off hurt a lot and left my fingerprints behind.

This was pretty much my experience too. I ended up using a teaspoon to force my fingers apart then a sharp knife to remove a layer of skin to get the remains off.

 

Not my finest hour but still, it amused my boy no end.

[anonymous user]

To, possibly, mis-quote William Morris: Have nothing in your house that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful - on that basis I shouldn't be in here myself; however I have just had an epiphany, actually it was tripping over in the cellar while trying to find a set of Allen keys that I thought were down there, but weren't (they were in the wrong sideboard, where I'd already looked)

 

I'm surrounded by stuff, just too much stuff, I can't find anything when I need it, especially tools, so end up buying even more. I even have other people's stuff (it's too good to throw away so I end up looking after it while trying to sell it). I know I can't change overnight but I feel I need a giant closing down sale (or a skip) before I turn into one of those people who has barely enough room to sit on a kitchen chair and ends up crushed by a pile of random junk in their sleep.

 

TL:DR Feeling pissed off with myself because I am disorganised and messy

[RayMK]

To, possibly, mis-quote William Morris: Have nothing in your house that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful - on that basis I shouldn't be in here myself; however I have just had an epiphany, actually it was tripping over in the cellar while trying to find a set of Allen keys that I thought were down there, but weren't (they were in the wrong sideboard, where I'd already looked)

 

I'm surrounded by stuff, just too much stuff, I can't find anything when I need it, especially tools, so end up buying even more. I even have other people's stuff (it's too good to throw away so I end up looking after it while trying to sell it). I know I can't change overnight but I feel I need a giant closing down sale (or a skip) before I turn into one of those people who has barely enough room to sit on a kitchen chair and ends up crushed by a pile of random junk in their sleep.

 

TL:DR Feeling pissed off with myself because I am disorganised and messy

 

If you find the answer, let me know.

[beko1987]

Same here! I want to sell lots of vacuum cleaners, but don't... I really need to though...

[Cavcraft]

Same here! I want to sell lots of vacuum cleaners, but don't... I really need to though...

 

Know the feeling, chief. If procrastination was an Olympic sport, I'd compete in it later.

[cobblers]

Fuck, check out my shed: 

 

 

I can't bear to see work scrap them. £100+ a piece to buy new, perfectly good batteries. So I keep taking them home and spending money on ways to make use of them.

 

I've got a solar powered security light that will continue working for three months after the sun stops.

[Zelandeth]

Dude... that's a lot of batteries!

 

Reminded me I really need to get a new one for the little UPS...

[SiC]

Fuck, check out my shed:

 

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I can't bear to see work scrap them. £100+ a piece to buy new, perfectly good batteries. So I keep taking them home and spending money on ways to make use of them.

 

I've got a solar powered security light that will continue working for three months after the sun does.

Electric car conversion?

[RayMK]

I'm disappointed.  Not like me at all.  Your clutter is tidy (cobblers).

[cobblers]

Electric car?

I had a saved search for G Wizz'ezz on ebay for a while hoping one would come up with bad batteries. Some did, but they were all in london so I gave up.