The grumpy thread

[Jerzy Woking]

Received an email at 12.00 to inform me FedEx had delivered a parcel and obtained a signature for it at 11.56 I opened the email at 12.05

Delivery address on email was correct but no one had rang my doorbell. Says it was signed for by A. Ndy, but no card left for me to say where parcel is. Went to neighbours either side of me-neither were in.

Rang FedEx-very helpful, said they would check on my delivery and ring me back. 2 minutes later I get a call to say the driver will return in 5 minutes with my parcel. 5 minutes later, doorbell rings, open the door and handed package by FedEx jacketed person.

Missed a phone call 2 minutes later

They left a voicemail to say the driver had left my parcel with a neighbour. Complete bollocks

My grump is that the item was a side stand for my motorbike which needs 25mm cut out and to be rewelded. My mate chucked in his welding job on Friday to go back to glazing. How thoughtless of him!

[Cavcraft]

1 hour ago, New POD said:

Which one?

There's only one, the other is Tywyn isn't it?  Which is also a million times nicer.

[Cord Fourteener]

39 minutes ago, Cavcraft said:

There's only one, the other is Tywyn isn't it?  Which is also a million times nicer.

I think there is even another, but I think it is also Tywyn, Towyn is the English way of spelling Tywyn.

There are other places called Towyn - then something like beach or something. Welsh place names are not imaginative, they are just either geographical features or saints and bibley stuff so lots of place names are repeated over and over.

[Jamie]

6 hours ago, mrbenn said:

 

And where is the most miserable place in the UK, out of interest?

Birmingham - without any shadow of a doubt. 

[Tamworthbay]

35 minutes ago, jamiechod said:

Birmingham - without any shadow of a doubt. 

Not even close, Coventry? Leeds? Got to be top two..... but Guildford is up there, as is Staines and London is a shit hole of epic proportions 

[Jamie]

9 minutes ago, Tamworthbay said:

Not even close, Coventry? Leeds? Got to be top two..... but Guildford is up there, as is Staines and London is a shit hole of epic proportions 

I'd say cov and Leeds were cultural highlights compared to anywhere in brum.

[Tamworthbay]

Just now, jamiechod said:

I'd say cov and Leeds were cultural highlights compared to anywhere in brum.

Shit no, Brum has improved massively in recent years. Cov was fucked by the Luftwaffe and again by the planners, and when they bombed Leeds they caused millions of pounds worth of improvements.

[Cavcraft]

Central London is fantastic, some other bits are really nice too.

 

'I'll come on Wednesday to buy it'

 

Ok, message me Tuesday night and we'll fix something up.

 

'Can't come Weds me lift let me down, is Saturday ok?'

 

Yes, but I'll need a deposit first.

 

'No problem, how much?'

 

Tenner ok?

 

'That's fine'

 

Ok, how do you want to do it, Paypal or bank transfer (he's probably 150 miles away)

 

'I only deal in cash'

 

So how are you going to pay a deposit first?

 

'I definitely want it mate'

[wuvvum]

I was in Gillingham yesterday.  The one in Kent.  That wasn't exactly an uplifting experience.

[Tamworthbay]

How did I forget Kettering and Corby? The twin towns of desolation and misery......... (Cov and Leeds are still worse though)

[Cavcraft]

There's a new book in the making here: 'Shit towns in shit cars'.

[wuvvum]

Chapter 1:  Billy Cavcraft visits Towyn in an Iveco Daily.

[Jamie]

11 minutes ago, Tamworthbay said:

Shit no, Brum has improved massively in recent years. Cov was fucked by the Luftwaffe and again by the planners, and when they bombed Leeds they caused millions of pounds worth of improvements.

I  think it was wednesbury i got the mondeo from on saturday, it favoured sarajevo but slightly worse.

 

However, im certainly not being snobby - i live in bolton FFS

[Jerzy Woking]

I love Sarajevo. Dont think it deserves being compared to anywhere in the Midlands. Unless one of those towns hosted the Winter Olympics.

[New POD]

1 hour ago, jamiechod said:

Birmingham - without any shadow of a doubt. 

I'll be retiring to Birmingham. My favourite city. 

[Jamie]

1 minute ago, New POD said:

I'll be retiring to Birmingham. My favourite city. 

my condolences 

[New POD]

44 minutes ago, Tamworthbay said:

Coventry? 

Having being to Polytechnic there, I have to say that I loved the post modern concrete.

Someone told me they knocked down the 19 storey hall of residence that was priory hall g block. Shame.

[New POD]

3 minutes ago, jamiechod said:

my condolences 

Unfortunately motorcity is going to fuck itself by closing the A38 to private cars. 

[Crackers]

8 hours ago, mrbenn said:

...where is the most miserable place in the UK, out of interest?

Look, I've got evidence! 

https://www.getsurrey.co.uk/news/surrey-news/surrey-borough-most-miserable-place-17162230.amp

[stonedagain]

The village I live in, they're knocking the houses down to build slums! 

[Cord Fourteener]

23 minutes ago, Crackers said:

Look, I've got evidence! 

https://www.getsurrey.co.uk/news/surrey-news/surrey-borough-most-miserable-place-17162230.amp

Now we all know. Let's all get Iveco Dailys and go for a picnic in the town centre ?

[Justin Case]

On the happiness score Wolverhampton scores 7.4,Dudley,Sandwell and Walsall 7.5, Birmingham 7.7 but Cannock Chase 7.8. Having a transport cafe and a shite car auction in the district are thus proved to be good for your wellbeing ☺

[High Jetter]

2 minutes ago, Justin Case said:

Wolverhampton scores 

Not something you hear every day!

[chaseracer]

4 minutes ago, Justin Case said:

...Cannock Chase 7.8. Having a transport cafe and a shite car auction in the district are thus proved to be good for your wellbeing ☺

I'm happy enough living there!

[fairkens]

I know most people only pass through but it has to be Dover

[reb]

Indicated 35mph along a dead straight 30mph road with clear visibility and no other traffic. Spot bright lights joining the road way way behind me. Lights are gaining on me as I'm signalling to turn onto a 20mph road. Lights are right up my arse now, still don't know if it was high beams or just the high angle provided by a modern faux by four combined with being about a foot off my bumper. Going along at probably 25 because speed bumps and I want to be nice to my new shocks. Lights start rubberbanding back and forth behind me and swerving as if to check if it's clear to overtake, which is odd given their bonnet was almost at the level of my roof so you'd think they could see anyway?

Road changes to NSL, so I gently accelerate giving them plenty of space to past before the first corner. Nope. Still on my bumper. No chance of them passing now until the next village so I boot it so I can stay out of their way as far as I can, still mostly legal speeds though. Soon I'm making good progress away from them, I think I made it to the next village as they were somewhere just over halfway along the two or three miles. Back to 20 limit and down to 25 again, trundling up the hill trying to remember whether it's the first or second left I need. I glance up and the same lights are gaining on me again! By the time I start turning they're right up my arse again, even as I turn they're hassling to pass even though they could just drive around me.

Do these people just drive around with adaptive cruise set at 40 with the closest following distance and point the car where they're going? It's the only logical explanation.

 

See also: people trundling out onto roundabouts without at 15mph when they very much don't have right of way.

I never thought I'd have to explain to a grown man that signalling left meant I was taking the next exit and that as I started signalling after the exit he was emerging from it was probably going to involve going past him so it'd be really handy if he didn't drive in front of me. "But your indicator was on!!" As if I'm suddenly going to do a J turn to turn off at an exit I was already past.

 

I try to do my best to live and let live, but when someone nearly causes an accident and then blames me I can't help but say something. At the end of the day I drive for a living, priority number one is keeping myself and my license safe. But somehow because I'm in a uniform I'm automatically at fault even when other parties are blatantly ignoring traffic laws and common sense. Winds me right up.

[Datsuncog]

3 hours ago, Cavcraft said:

There's a new book in the making here: 'Shit towns in shit cars'.

Funnily enough, Craig from Retro Cars mag had a crack at something like that in their most recent issue - touring the top ten 'ugly towns' in a slightly down-at-heel Fiat Multipla... all the way from Cumbernauld to Camberley. I believe Birmingham got a look-in... as did Bracknell, Slough, Hemel Hempstead, Hatfield, Luton, Coventry and Gateshead.

But yes, ugly from an architectural point of view, rather than miserable - but I'm sure there's a correlation somewhere...

[Roobarb]

Another vote for Corby. Sorry. 

I can remember as a kid, that they thought the new Disneyland might be built there where the ‘works used to be. Everyone got excited at the thought of the jobs it might bring... That’s about my only positive memory of the place. 

[MondeoBlues]

Macclesfield. And Wednesbury isn't Birmingham, despite what the IKEA tells you.

[Jamie]

2 hours ago, MondeoBlues said:

Macclesfield. And Wednesbury isn't Birmingham, despite what the IKEA tells you.

 

 

Also see Wednesbury... Lol

 https://www.ilivehere.co.uk/wednesbury.html