The grumpy thread

[Christine]

Inlaws are in their 90's .. Grandad   has dementia  ,  and had his licence removed . He potters around his large immaculate garden but can't cope with it all on his own , and can't take the bags of garden waste to the tip ..They get a "gardener" a morning a week .who's crap but they like him as he pops in for tea as he's "in the area " . Then he suggests he helps grandad  by giving him a lift with his sack of rubbish to the tip ,as he's on his way there anyway... Thrice a week now !  ... and each time , Grandad told me , they have to get some petrol on the way as he's empty . I know damn well Grandads saying " Let me get that " (as he's like that ), and buying him a tankful twice a week . On top of the gardening bill that is ..

[Bobthebeard]

Inlaws are in their 90's .. Grandad has dementure , and had his licence removed . He potters around his large immaculate garden but can't cope with it all on his own , and can't take the bags of garden waste to the tip ..They get a "gardener" a morning a week .who's crap but they like him as he pops in for tea as he's "in the area " . Then he suggests he helps grandad by giving him a lift with his sack of rubbish to the tip ,as he's on his way there anyway... Thrice a week now ! ... and each time , Grandad told me , they have to get some petrol on the way as he's empty . I know damn well Grandads saying " Let me get that " (as he's like that ), and buying him a tankful twice a week . On top of the gardening bill that is ..

My father in law did similar. He had dementia but still lived at home until he was diagnosed. His 'gardener' used to charge him ever increasing amounts for work he didn't do. Only after FIL's death did we find out that the 'gardener' had taken him for over £3000 in six months. No gardening was done.

[meshking]

NPOWER - Shower of absolute SHITS. 2 years I've been fighting these cunts to resolve my heavy billing problem. I live a 1 bedroom flat, not a 3 bedroomed house yet I'm being billed like one.

 

They've basically shoved me from pillar to post and non of thier "agencies" seem willing to help. They've tried twice now to change my meter. The first time they couldn't as they needed a level 3 engineer or summat. Yesterday a "level 3" engineer was supposed to arrive but it turned out to be the same guy as the first time. FFS!

Have you contacted ofgen? Npower cocked up my final account when I left Swansea. Ofgen sent them a letter and within three weeks Npower had paid me more in compensation than they tried to get out of me.

 

But - I totally agree, they are a shower of shits.

 

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[Tamworthbay]

My father in law did similar. He had dementia but still lived at home until he was diagnosed. His 'gardener' used to charge him ever increasing amounts for work he didn't do. Only after FIL's death did we find out that the 'gardener' had taken him for over £3000 in six months. No gardening was done.

My Nan was fleeced when she had dementia as well. I really don’t know how these people sleep at night. Scum doesn’t come close to describing them.

[Bobthebeard]

My Nan was fleeced when she had dementia as well. I really don’t know how these people sleep at night. Scum doesn’t come close to describing them.

Quite so. But they continue to do this.

The police are powerless to help as people like your nan and my FIL agree to pay whatever.

Horrible but true. Just another market for the unscrupulous.

[Tadhg Tiogar]

 

My Nan was fleeced when she had dementia as well. I really don’t know how these people sleep at night. Scum doesn’t come close to describing them.

  Quite so. But they continue to do this.

The police are powerless to help as people like your nan and my FIL agree to pay whatever.

Horrible but true. Just another market for the unscrupulous.

Some of the scum turn out to be their own relatives. Or carers*. Or both.

 

Money does funny things to people.

[Tamworthbay]

Quite so. But they continue to do this.

The police are powerless to help as people like your nan and my FIL agree to pay whatever.

Horrible but true. Just another market for the unscrupulous.

Yup, that was exactly how it was with my Nan. She was not with it enough to give the Police anything solid even if it had come to that. The Police were very understanding, but as seems to have happened with your FiL as well, as there was no proof anything had been stolen or fraudulently (within the letter of the law) they couldn’t help. It still annoys be twenty years on as that was money her and my Grandfather worked hard to save and she could have had a more comfortable last few years with it. My Nan was stung for about £20k over three years. I just hope Karma catches up with them when they are old.

[nacho man]

Because the fat controller was messing about with this drill

 

 

I didn’t get chance to see I had been outbid in this old girl.

 

 

I don’t need another car obvs. But still wanted it for some reason.

 

 

 

 

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[cobblers]

This keeps happening and it's more confusing than annoying. I'll go to sleep in bed with the mrs as usual, but then I'll wake up about 4am on the sofa in the attic with the lights on and no memory of how I got up there. This has happened about 8 times now. There's two doors and a flight of creaky stairs to get past, and two dogs that jump about like idiots when I open the bedroom door.

 

Last night I'd even managed to pull all the stinky blankets off the dogs beds over me because I must have been cold, and both dogs were on the sofa with me.

 

I don't really mind much, but it's only a two seater sofa so I always wake up with my back in knots.

 

 

Also the water pump that was supposed to arrive yesterday still hasn't arrived so I can't go away in the Talbot tomorrow night.

[AMC Rebel]

I know it's a bit late - but I remembered my late uncle's elegant solution to the "have I taken my pills today" issue - he was a cardboard engineer (really) amongst other things -

 

[Saabnut]

This keeps happening and it's more confusing than annoying. I'll go to sleep in bed with the mrs as usual, but then I'll wake up about 4am on the sofa in the attic with the lights on and no memory of how I got up there. This has happened about 8 times now. There's two doors and a flight of creaky stairs to get past, and two dogs that jump about like idiots when I open the bedroom door.

 

Last night I'd even managed to pull all the stinky blankets off the dogs beds over me because I must have been cold, and both dogs were on the sofa with me.

 

I don't really mind much, but it's only a two seater sofa so I always wake up with my back in knots.

 

 

Also the water pump that was supposed to arrive yesterday still hasn't arrived so I can't go away in the Talbot tomorrow night.

 

Please get the sleep walking looked into. A friend of mines son used to sleepwalk. One night he fell down the stairs whilst sleep walking and broke his neck and died.

[cobblers]

Shitting Nora, I hadn't thought of that. 

 

I did it again last night too apparently. No memory of it, but the mrs said I woke her up getting back in bed at 4am, she asked where I'd been and I mumbled grumpily at her. 

I refused to believe her til I found the stinky dogs blankets back on the sofa in the attic

[SiC]

Maybe put a PIR alarm/door bell outside your room? So if you do go for a walk your other half will be awoken and stop you.

[Kiltox]

One of those shed door alarms on the bedroom door would be a good idea unless your sleepwalking self is clever enough to turn it off

[fordperv]

I get the sleep activities too, things I do include, taking the curtains down, removing light shades and bulbs in the bedroom, searching for things that aren't actually there, I've removed a radiator off its mounts in the past, i chase something around the floor laughing (The mrs thinks im chasing my old rabbit that I loved to bits) sorting the washing out and many more

[DodgeRover]

Shitting Nora, I hadn't thought of that.

 

I did it again last night too apparently. No memory of it, but the mrs said I woke her up getting back in bed at 4am, she asked where I'd been and I mumbled grumpily at her.

I refused to believe her til I found the stinky dogs blankets back on the sofa in the attic

Handcuff yourself to the bed? Sleepwalkers still have some awareness of their surroundings, just don't have skateboards left on the stairs.

My kids have sleep walked, son has nightmares where the real world mixes with whatever he's dreaming about, we heard a scream one night and went running into the hall at the bottom of the stairs, son came running down the stairs saw me and leapt into my arms from halfway up the stairs

[purplebargeken]

Thank fuck I just dream about zombies, cars and other crap. No nocturnal walking around for me.

[bolognasal spray]

A few years ago when daughter #1 was - what? - 6 / 7 years old, she came into our bedroom at about midnight. Light was still on in our room. I fully appreciate this will look stupid and whacky but she looked like an old woman. Her skin was yellow, and her face looked totally different, etc. She was perfectly fine before she went to bed, and just as healthy the next morning. But when she came into our room I was totally freaked out because her appearance was so drastically different. She didn't wake up, just climbed into our bed (wife was abroad) and went to sleep. Quite disturbing and out of character, it was.

[Guest Hooli]

Inlaws are in their 90's .. Grandad   has dementure ,  and had his licence removed . He potters around his large immaculate garden but can't cope with it all on his own , and can't take the bags of garden waste to the tip ..They get a "gardener" a morning a week .who's crap but they like him as he pops in for tea as he's "in the area " . Then he suggests he helps grandad  by giving him a lift with his sack of rubbish to the tip ,as he's on his way there anyway... Thrice a week now !  ... and each time , Grandad told me , they have to get some petrol on the way as he's empty . I know damn well Grandads saying " Let me get that " (as he's like that ), and buying him a tankful twice a week . On top of the gardening bill that is ..

 

Utter arseholes!

 

On another note, time to sort a power of attorney before it's too late?

[Des]

This keeps happening and it's more confusing than annoying. I'll go to sleep in bed with the mrs as usual, but then I'll wake up about 4am on the sofa in the attic with the lights on and no memory of how I got up there

 

Alien abduction, try writing I love probing / big green cock or something across your backside, they'll likely think they're rumbled and move onto someone else.

 

I'm fucked off thanks to this shitting bit of laughing at me Y tho?

 

 

That 'smile' is a rust hole in the pipe from the compressor to condenser on a caravan fridge that's only 2 to 3 years old which cost about 4 times the price of a domestic one, cheap shit made of steel rather than copper and lacking in decent corrosion protection, I was up for getting all sales of goods not fit for purpose innit but can't find the receipt or even remember where I bought the rubbish. Luckily I managed to slobber up the hole without a terrible amount of surrounding melting and charring and had enough odd dregs of R134 to get the bastard working. For now.

 

 

Seems a success, but I'd best remove the fridge regularly for a de-rust of the condenser, it's tempting to follow a coat of Vactan with a zinc coating and that nice thick black Lidl paint but I fear it would impair the cooling. Anyone considering a fridge by Waco, apparently a well regarded brand, need to think again as they're now of a piss poor quality, mine didn't last a tenth as long as the one it replaced, it looks a mess from its short time in a shitty damp camper, I'd like to see how they fare in boats doing salt water and galvanic action noble metal party, probably outlived by the first pint of milk to go in.

[davehedgehog31]

Bank account got bumped, someone spent £170 in Aldi. Bank very helpful, cancelled the card and gave me a refund.

 

Somewhere there's some arsehole up to his knees in Aldi Belgium lager.

[myglaren]

I know it's a bit late - but I remembered my late uncle's elegant solution to the "have I taken my pills today" issue - he was a cardboard engineer (really) amongst other things -

 

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My mother used to have one of these.

http://www.pivotell.co.uk/

 

Was excellent.  Someone - usually my brother - would fill it up for her.

[LightBulbFun]

This keeps happening and it's more confusing than annoying. I'll go to sleep in bed with the mrs as usual, but then I'll wake up about 4am on the sofa in the attic with the lights on and no memory of how I got up there. This has happened about 8 times now. There's two doors and a flight of creaky stairs to get past, and two dogs that jump about like idiots when I open the bedroom door.

 

Last night I'd even managed to pull all the stinky blankets off the dogs beds over me because I must have been cold, and both dogs were on the sofa with me.

 

I don't really mind much, but it's only a two seater sofa so I always wake up with my back in knots.

 

 

Also the water pump that was supposed to arrive yesterday still hasn't arrived so I can't go away in the Talbot tomorrow night.

 

 

if its any condolance

 

I recently had a couple dreams about saving/finding an invacar....

 

thats totally normal right? everyone has those right guys? *nervous laughter*

[AMC Rebel]

AMC is buggered again.  I think it's the electric fuel pump.  I have raided an SU one of the Chevy but not had time to rig it up yet as the battery is also flat.

[davidfowler2000]

It's a long standing gripe between myself and other reasonably intelligent fellow Scottish bus nutters when you see really shit pictures with or without spectacularly unintelligible captions of buses or trains on various Facebook groups. But this one REALLY takes the fucking biscuit...

[Guest Hooli]

Can't have been a neoplan, I never knew one that didn't mark it's spot.

[cobblers]

if its any condolance

 

I recently had a couple dreams about saving/finding an invacar....

 

thats totally normal right? everyone has those right guys? *nervous laughter*

 

I have dreams about welding sills on my Talbot. They are dreams not nightmares, because the van is on a ramp in a garage rather than over at my mums on her 1:6 driveway.

[cort16]

One of friends used to quite often get up in the morning and find all yesterdays clothes neatly folded up in the Fridge with no recollection of how they got there.

[M'coli]

For two nights after reading about the sad passing of Dave21478, every dream I had featured an Autoshiter I rarely interacted with beyond enjoying his posts, never met, and now sadly never will. It fair shat me up so it did.

[Alfamale]

A couple of times when I’ve had a skinful the wife says I have got up in the night and done something daft, like talking to the wardrobe of just stood with one arm behind the curtain. I have no recollection whatsoever in th morning. It’s only a recent thing though.