The grumpy thread

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Hermes.

 

Two different reasons for non-delivery of parcel that totally contradict each other.

 

Seems I'm far from being alone in having problems.

FedEx.

 

Three days in a row the tracking has said 'we tried to deliver and you weren't in' - I was. Looks like my sister isn't getting a birthday present then.

[beko1987]

You could always stick to the limits

I'm usually very careful with that after getting 2 nips for 33 in a 30 a few years ago... Might drive with the sat nav on to double check the speedo. However I have now decided to do 25mph down there now, which will be interesting as most people thing it's NSL rather than 30.

 

Ive been a good little drone and filled the form out, the fine can go on the credit card and I'll worry about affording the insurance increase next year. Eva goes in to have a grommit in one ear tomorrow and she's on the sofa now scared and crying. Amy shouted as usual, but I won't go into that as I've kept quiet on that side of things after trying to get it off my chest a few years ago and just feeling a bit ridiculed, that can stay bottled up for now

[Bren]

Sat in hospital now awaiting scans and tests

My best wishes.

[barefoot]

Whats the best way to take it?

Snort it, never shoot it up.

[somewhatfoolish]

I used to find the price varied with how long it took to remove the part....

After a few unpleasant encounters of the inflationary kind I always ask for a price before grovelling in mud and sump oil for hours cutting my hands to shreds on crispy bodywork.

[danthecapriman]

Christmas isn’t far away now...

 

And you know that because all the FUCKING SHIT perfume adverts are constantly on the TV!

[richardmorris]

I'm usually very careful with that after getting 2 nips for 33 in a 30 a few years ago... Might drive with the sat nav on to double check the speedo. However I have now decided to do 25mph down there now, which will be interesting as most people thing it's NSL rather than 30.

Ive been a good little drone and filled the form out, the fine can go on the credit card and I'll worry about affording the insurance increase next year. Eva goes in to have a grommit in one ear tomorrow and she's on the sofa now scared and crying. Amy shouted as usual, but I won't go into that as I've kept quiet on that side of things after trying to get it off my chest a few years ago and just feeling a bit ridiculed, that can stay bottled up for now

 

Are you offered a course?

[DodgeRover]

Christmas isn’t far away now...

 

And you know that because all the FUCKING SHIT perfume adverts are constantly on the TV!

Not a problem if you waste your time on the net rather than watching telly.

[Parky]

Just remembered I forgot to pay the bloody Dart Charge when I went to the South East gathering the weekend before last. That’ll be a demand letter any day now.

 

Arse...

[beko1987]

Are you offered a course?

No I had that not quite 3 years ago, had the xantia at the time... May dig the letter out but it won't be 3 years ago.

 

Meh, one of those things

[LightBulbFun]

minor grump in the scheme of things and its very much a case of Situation normal all fucked up for me but still grumps me.

 

been trying to push my sleep cycle back into something resembling normal

 

and im currently at the stage where my body is like "WAKING UP AT 11:30PM-12AM NO MATTER WHAT" today I passed out at 6:30PM and woke up at 11:30PM...

[loserone]

I just woke up thinking it must be half six

 

With a nose bleed. I never get nose bleeds.

[Crispian_J_Hotson]

Digestives in the tin with ginger nuts.... Now that does piss me off!

[Crispian_J_Hotson]

I just woke up thinking it must be half six

 

With a nose bleed. I never get nose bleeds.

 

 

I think nose bleeds just happen now and then when you get older. I never had them but every other month now, I'll get one. Like falling asleep and waking up a half hour later thinking that it's tomorrow... Common old age shite.

[alcyonecorporation]

Borrowed a PS4 with Detroit: Become Human on it.

 

It's a sort of interactive film with a proper 3D engine and there are hundreds of different endings based on the choices you make.

 

I won't spoil it for anyone who has it, but suffice to say I'm fucking terrible at it and the protagonists keep dying. I'm not even doing it on purpose like a lot of YouTubers do. It's really quite engrossing and a rather emotional; one of the dead ends (intentional pun) has already had me in tears.

[bub2006]

Thank you folks for allowing me to vent here. I only know some of you personally but it feels like home here and it helps me through dark and rough times. House move stress,car failure stress,little shite teenager stress and wife being really ill all culminating to a head. She had a CT scan yesterday after being sat waiting for 6 hours in waiting room ( gotta love a medical emergency) CT scan came back ok for a bleed but did show some dark patches. They believe it's a really severe migraine. Derby city hospital were on black alert which meant no free beds yesterday. They wanted to admit her and carry out a lumbar puncture but obviously they couldn't. They have said to monitor over weekend and return on Monday if situation doesn't get better. I'm just hoping I don't have a bad day anytime soon else we are all fucked here. I'm struggling enough as it is but I try to keep going.

[brandersnatch]

Good thoughts heading your way Bub. Hope it all sorts itself out.

 

 

One’s too many, ten’s not enough!

[yellowperil]

Liked just to show empathy.

 

All the best to your Wife.

[GrumpiusMaximus]

Just remembered I forgot to pay the bloody Dart Charge when I went to the South East gathering the weekend before last. That’ll be a demand letter any day now.

 

Arse...

 

 

First time that happened to me they sent me a 'warning' letter and waived it.

 

Second time, not so much...

[Datsuncog]

I wouldn’t waste my time raising the very valid points you mention with them. For some reason scrapyards will cut their nose off to spite their face with things sometimes.

Years and years back, I was down at Bobby Shaw's yard in Bangor getting replacement driver's door glass for my Mk2 Fiesta, after some scrote had fired a ball-bearing through it with a catapult (which was an unfortunately common occurrence at the time).

 

Fella in front of me in the yard 'office' (Portakabin) was engaged in a bit of argy-bargy over a Capri rear side window he'd just removed, with what I can only assume was the yard's Customer Relations Manager, along the following lines...

 

"Look, when I rang I was told it'd be a tenner, and when I spoke to your colleague in here earlier he told me it'd be a tenner for the glass too."

 

"Twenty on that, though."

 

"But I was told twice it'd be a tenner."

 

"Well you were told wrong then, weren'tcha? Glass like that is twenty."

 

"I've only a tenner on me, cos that's what I was told it'd cost."

 

"Autobank over at Bloomfields, y'know."

 

"I'm not paying twenty pounds when I was told it'd be ten quid. That's not on."

 

"Alright then, don't."

 

And, at that, blokey behind the counter picked up the Capri glass and frisbee'd it over our heads, out through the open Portakabin door. All three of us watched it smash into several thousand pieces onto the oilstained hardcore, and while the Capri guy stood open-mouthed, the counter guy turned to me with a big shit-eating grin.

 

"Yes mate? Door glass for a Fiesta? Tenner'll do you."

 

 

I've no idea what had been said before I'd wandered in, but it seemed to me a rum old way to run a business.

 

 

 

EDIT: I've just remembered that back in 2002, when the above incident occurred, scrap prices were so much on their arse that I seriously doubt the yard had paid anything at all for that Capri, or any of their other breakers - and quite possibly the luckless former owner even had to pay the yard to take it in.

 

Around that time, another friend had to stump up £110 to get a recycling yard to take in her MOT failure Nova (rampant boot floor corrosion) - and that was with us delivering it over to them too. Weird.

 

EDIT EDIT: best thoughts to Bub and his good lady wife, too - here's hoping it all settles very soon with no further complications.

[fairkens]

Thought i'd treat the mondeo to some new boots for winter. Ordered online through the garages own web page earlier this week.

 

On arrival they have no record of the order and don't have the right size in stock.

 

Eta they were michelin cross climate + less than £60 each - barg

[M'coli]

Fingers crossed for you and yours here too, Bub.

[Cavcraft]

Going to need a couple of tyres for the ML soon. Local part worn place quoting £40-£45 each, cheapest new about £80 a throw

[captain_70s]

I've no idea what had been said before I'd wandered in, but it seemed to me a rum old way to run a business.

Every breaker yard I've been to has been the same. You turn up, they eye you up and figure out how much they can charge you and if you don't fancy it you can fuck off.

 

Bonus points to the chap who offered me £60 for the Civic, provided I delivered it... Sold it on eBay for £400.

[Pillock]

Going to need a couple of tyres for the ML soon. Local part worn place quoting £40-£45 each, cheapest new about £80 a throw

#thuglife

[dozeydustman]

Digestives in the tin with ginger nuts.... Now that does piss me off!

 

 

Nothing wrong with ginger-infused digestives

[AMC Rebel]

Sorry to hear your news Bub.

 

My Ma was in Derby City recently but thank fully is now home and getting better, so that's one bed no longer blocked. 

[oldcars]

Only time over the next few weekends to do a bit outside. Its just started pissing down again. Stuff you weather, i'm cleaning the car anyway in a bit and sorting the garden out.

[SiC]

My welding cart is doing a Nissan Nivara

(Just without the rust)

[Crispian_J_Hotson]

I actually want it to rain today. Ive been searching for the last 2 leaks into the 635. I found the third last week, the boot seal and today I've found the others. But it's stopped raining. Need it to rain again so that I can check that my fixes have er... Fixed them!