The grumpy thread

[reb]

Fucksticks.

I've parked in this car park without a problem before, there must be a threshold for how long you can be there before it issues a charge.

[High Jetter]

I do hope you were there for a 'legitimate' reason!

[juular]

25 minutes ago, reb said:

Fucksticks.

I've parked in this car park without a problem before, there must be a threshold for how long you can be there before it issues a charge.

Scotland? Ignore it.

They'd have to take you to court to enforce it, and they'd have to prove you were the one driving the car.

From those photos that's going to be difficult.

[reb]

11 minutes ago, High Jetter said:

I do hope you were there for a 'legitimate' reason!

Was picking mum up from the airport, where the hotel is located, didn't even leave the car!

9 minutes ago, juular said:

Scotland? Ignore it.

They'd have to take you to court to enforce it, and they'd have to prove you were the one driving the car.

From those photos that's going to be difficult.

I've heard lots of conflicting information about whether you can safely ignore them or not. Mum has said she'll pay it because she's the one that said to wait in that car park, I think if I was to suggest not paying it she'd disagree.

[jamescarruthers]

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4 hours ago, reb said:

Was picking mum up from the airport, where the hotel is located, didn't even leave the car!

I've heard lots of conflicting information about whether you can safely ignore them or not. Mum has said she'll pay it because she's the one that said to wait in that car park, I think if I was to suggest not paying it she'd disagree.

I met @richykitchy from here once to swap some parts in a service station and we both got a Parking Eye ticket. He paid like a good boy, I ignored them. 
 

Parking Eye too me to court, I lost. The judge was very sympathetic but ultimately it stuck on my credit record for 6 years. 
 

I wish Parking Eye would just fuck off and die but ultimately the law is on their side, sadly. 
 

We both turned up in BXs… He owns an SM now, I don’t. Any more proof required of how my life declined since I ignored Parking Eye?

[Jazoli]

You can't ignore PE tickets anymore, we use them at work as we have selfish twats dumping their cars in the carpark all day, it's not as if we don't have enough signs either.

[omegod]

Some may recall me regaling about my wife having an odd cardiac issue a few months ago when her heart rate went bonkers high and mucho chest pains resulting in blue light to A&E, she's had unstable angina attacks daily since,had a battery of test's but no diagnosis as yet. She had another very dodgy episode of severe chest pain yesterday and her resting pulse was 207 bpm so again was blue lighted in for them to do some scary sounding shit with drugs to sort out her dodgy rhythms whilst hooked up to a defib just in case it went wrong, she's a lot more settled but has been kept in for the weekend at least and will hopefully get a diagnosis and some treatment to get her back to a normal lifestyle as she's been pretty much housebound for months  

I'm very bored, restless and very worried but she's in the best hands, I work in the NHS but never cease to be amazed at how fucking wonderful it is and how lucky we are to have it 

[Saabnut]

Like for the NHS! Good luck to Mrs God and hope they get to the cause soon.

[High Jetter]

Another vote for a safe resolution. Feel free to vent here

[omegod]

2 hours ago, Saabnut said:

Like for the NHS! Good luck to Mrs God and hope they get to the cause soon.

Cheers bud

[somewhatfoolish]

On 10/7/2021 at 11:11 PM, eddyramrod said:

See, that's what bothers me.  I have always been risk-averse.  I won't do stuff I can't justify to myself somehow, especially if a different path is already laid down in black and white in paperwork that lives in the car.  Also, my "luck" being what it is, you can bet money that at some point in such a trip, I would indeed have an accident.  Regardless of degree or fault, it would be seen as my fault because I simply shouldn't have been there.  Not alone anyway.

The other day I had a Writers' meeting, in the middle of town as usual.  I parked as close as I could, which was still several streets away, and walked the rest with my tripod.  I had taken the Suzuki because the chances of finding a Huggy-sized space are supermodel-thin.  MrsR derived no benefit from that excursion; she wasn't with me and wouldn't have wanted to be.  I suppose one could argue that she gained a couple of hours of peace away from me... but if someone had popped out of a side road and taken the front off the Suzuki, where would I stand?  The scenario isn't as unlikely as it may sound, it's what killed my lovely Scarlet Skateboard MR2 a few years ago (an incident about which I am still burning with rage).

All the above is why I've tried so hard all this time to keep a cheap daily for my own use.

  You're your wife's carer, practically everything you do is for her benefit, even leisure trips are arguably for her benefit as they are beneficial for your mental health; it's pretty hard to be a carer if you're catatonic with stress. If it's affecting you this badly consider returning the Motability mobile and spending the allowance on a shitter instead, no stress and you can drive yourself to John O'Groats if you want.

On 10/15/2021 at 6:53 PM, anonymous user said:

Welcome to my world, I try to remember things by writing them down, but then lose the bit of paper. Occasionally I find bits of paper with things written on, but the few random words, or phone number with no name make no sense to me.

Whiteboard in your kitchen/home office. I have one at work, it's surprisingly helpful and can't get left in a boiler suit and washed by mistake(I've done that and lost a year's useful scribblings in a notebook).

 

[New POD]

12 hours ago, omegod said:

Some may recall me regaling about my wife having an odd cardiac issue a few months ago when her heart rate went bonkers high and mucho chest pains resulting in blue light to A&E, she's had unstable angina attacks daily since,had a battery of test's but no diagnosis as yet. She had another very dodgy episode of severe chest pain yesterday and her resting pulse was 207 bpm so again was blue lighted in for them to do some scary sounding shit with drugs to sort out her dodgy rhythms whilst hooked up to a defib just in case it went wrong, she's a lot more settled but has been kept in for the weekend at least and will hopefully get a diagnosis and some treatment to get her back to a normal lifestyle as she's been pretty much housebound for months  

I'm very bored, restless and very worried but she's in the best hands, I work in the NHS but never cease to be amazed at how fucking wonderful it is and how lucky we are to have it 

Sounds like they should be transferring her to LHC at Broad green then? 

[junkyarddog]

20 hours ago, reb said:

Fucksticks.

I've parked in this car park without a problem before, there must be a threshold for how long you can be there before it issues a charge.

The UK is becoming more Orwellian by the day.

Easy money for somebody.

Hateful. 

[eddyramrod]

@omegod Best of luck to Mrs God!  And to you, I know how stressful it all is.

1 hour ago, somewhatfoolish said:

 consider returning the Motability mobile and spending the allowance on a shitter instead, no stress and you can drive yourself to John O'Groats if you want.

Don't imagine I didn't think of this!  However: after the infamous Huggy episode before I was ill, she isn't going to trust an old car over that kind of distance any longer, and it won't matter how many miles I've already done in it.  Before we went with Motability we had the delightful Chevy Tacuma, which we had owned for over five years and had been a splendid little car, perfectly adequate for Inverness or Portsmouth to see whichever pair of grandkids was involved.  But, when I sold it on here to @Bobthebeard it was 11 years old and even I was beginning to wonder what would break.  Could I afford to buy something similar to what that was when I bought it?  Nearly six years old, automatic, capable of carrying the wheelchair, compact enough for Mrs to drive, presentable, comfortable, reliable enough for thousand-mile weekends.  Even scouring the Shite For Sale and Ebay threads, I doubt it.  So to me, Motability is justified because it puts us in a new car that should be capable and reliable for the big jobs, and will simply do what it has to do day-to-day.  Especially: without me having to break out my many spanners!

I do take your point about preserving my sanity though.  That is the reasoning I use in general, but I'm still struggling to convince myself that it could apply to a random daytrip.  Maybe I just worry too much, but at the moment I'm back where I was a decade ago, the only advantage being that we're in the UK rather than Cyprus.

[Zelandeth]

Leisure battery in the van appeared to be dead.  Figured before binning it I should at least check the electrolyte level.  Should be easy enough...

Yeah...remove the label...

Bloody nonsense having a completely welded shut battery on something that by its very nature is likely to spend long periods on trickle charge. 

It's utterly fooked anyway, but not being able to get into it non destructively to actually check hacked me right off.

[cobblers]

that'll be fine with a topup 😂

[Zelandeth]

1 minute ago, cobblers said:

that'll be fine with a topup 😂

The one end being bulged put about 1/4" and the electrolyte in all but one cell looking like strong black coffee suggests otherwise!

[richardmorris]

21 minutes ago, Zelandeth said:

The one end being bulged put about 1/4" and the electrolyte in all but one cell looking like strong black coffee suggests otherwise!

In case you haven’t got one already, I’d recommend tayna.co.uk for batteries. Lots of choice. 

[eddyramrod]

MrsR is home!

[High Jetter]

Good news, am pleased for you both.

[cort1977]

On 10/23/2021 at 1:21 PM, reb said:

Fucksticks.

 

I've parked in this car park without a problem before, there must be a threshold for how long you can be there before it issues a charge.

I have had the exact same thing when i parked at that hotel for an hour a couple of years ago.  I emailed the hotel and said i was a guest and they had issued a penalty by mistake.  Luckily for me they didn't check i actually had been a guest, they replied apologising and said they would cancel it with parking eye.  I sent parking eye a polite letter enclosing that reply and they cancelled the whole thing. 

Bit of a ball ache but worth a try.  It clearly happened so much they didn't actually check if you had stayed there.

[Zelandeth]

People of Milton Keynes, please look the basic concept of how a queue works.  It's not complicated.

Regards,

An increasingly exasperated resident of the area.

[Tadhg Tiogar]

17 minutes ago, Zelandeth said:

... basic concept of how a queue works.  It's not complicated....

It is if you're from Milton Keynes. 

[vulgalour]

Sub optimal.  I've got repair panels to sort it, but I'm at the mercy of the British weather which is currently trying to make sure the car is under water.

[meggersdog]

On 10/13/2021 at 8:13 PM, meggersdog said:

Yesterday an old lady turns up for her car MoT " I'm a little early " she says ' erm your appointment is 4pm it is 12.30 now'  "I'll wait in the car, I'm not going all the way home"  we are about 3 miles from her house. Carrying on with the MoT we are already in the middle of I see her go back into the office then back to her car. When we'd finished the customer in the waiting area informs us the lady has gone home.

She turns up again at just after 2pm , still way too early "I've got my book, I'll sit in the car and read that"  ' yeah, don't leave it there infront of nextdoors entrance'  "well where can I park ?"  hmm maybe infront of my office where it says  mot parking only. Finish the 2 O'clock MoT and the 3 O'clock turns up "ooh do you want to do that retest first " he asks. Nope that's the 4 O'clock .. oh, bit early.

So when I get around to doing this ladys car MoT it fails. One headlight bulb not working so obviously headlamp aim not checked. If a car fails on bulbs and we have them we will fit them but if it also fails on something else we don't. Both outer cv boots were loose (metal bands had broken) and there was grease on the hubs and discs. Not the end of the world , advised on rear tyres being cracked and worn on the edges rear indicators discoloured and one exhaust bracket had corroded off. " My car has never failed an MoT . Are you going to fix it ? " Told her we only do MoTs not repairs. She booked it in with the garage nextdoor and left.

She turned up today and a member of staff spoke to her. I was polishing some headlights as there wasn't much of  a beam pattern. The nasty old bat pointed at me in the workshop " I want to see him" my staff explained that I was in the middle of an MoT "he's avoiding me " she hissed. I was summoned to the office  "you are really underhand, you've ripped me off " excuse me , holding the failure sheet she says "you've charged me for something you haven't done. I want my money back" tried to explained that I charged her for an MoT inspection and you have to pay whether it passes or fails. She was having none of it. "I'm going elsewhere and I'm not paying for another MoT "  Told her she can go where ever she wants even the ministry if she likes but unless it's fixed it will fail. Again the I'm not paying came back. Told her if she gets the failure items fixed within ten working days it is a free retest here. "I'll be back on Sunday"  I'm getting fed up with the old bat now so replied " bring some sandwiches with your book then as we won't be here until Monday, cheerio"

The MoT ran out in January and the tax ran out end of June so if she turns up again tomorrow and the work isn't done I'll dob her in to the law.Nasty old bat. 

The saga continues.

Came into work on the Saturday and the woman is sat in her car. Told me she was here for the repairs "thought you were booked in for Friday " says I. She got angry and threatened to slap me. Told her the garage owner would be there at 9 am and walked off. He had booked her in for the Friday and offered to take her home .As he is there alone on Saturdays he wouldn't have offered a lift. Rebooked for Thursday .

On the Wednesday she phoned me to tell me she wasn't coming and had changed her mind and won't be having the work done.She then phoned the garage three times to say the same thing. As I was locking up she phoned me again to say the same thing. Heard nothing more until today.

Today she turned up demanding her MoT certificate. Have you had the work done then ? "didn't need any" came the reply. What about the headlight not working. "well the police inspector said it was disconnected and doesn't know why you failed it doesn't need any tyres" But I hadn't failed your tyres I failed the driveshaft cvs did you get them fixed. "doesn't need fixing there is nothing wrong" and "I want my MoT"  I was still doing the paperwork on an MoT so told her I need to inspect the car first and would be another ten minutes. " haven't got time, I need to be in Stamford. Just give me my MoT" oh dear,that's not how it works I need to look at the repairs.Off she went almost driving into a passing car. Police duly informed and they will be sending someone out to her for a welfare check. Don't know how to tell her that the ten days retest is up and would need another complete test.

 

[richardmorris]

5 minutes ago, meggersdog said:

The saga continues.

Came into work on the Saturday and the woman is sat in her car. Told me she was here for the repairs "thought you were booked in for Friday " says I. She got angry and threatened to slap me. Told her the garage owner would be there at 9 am and walked off. He had booked her in for the Friday and offered to take her home .As he is there alone on Saturdays he wouldn't have offered a lift. Rebooked for Thursday .

On the Wednesday she phoned me to tell me she wasn't coming and had changed her mind and won't be having the work done.She then phoned the garage three times to say the same thing. As I was locking up she phoned me again to say the same thing. Heard nothing more until today.

Today she turned up demanding her MoT certificate. Have you had the work done then ? "didn't need any" came the reply. What about the headlight not working. "well the police inspector said it was disconnected and doesn't know why you failed it doesn't need any tyres" But I hadn't failed your tyres I failed the driveshaft cvs did you get them fixed. "doesn't need fixing there is nothing wrong" and "I want my MoT"  I was still doing the paperwork on an MoT so told her I need to inspect the car first and would be another ten minutes. " haven't got time, I need to be in Stamford. Just give me my MoT" oh dear, off she went almost driving into a passing car. Police duly informed and they will be sending someone out to her for a welfare check. Don't know how to tell her that the ten days retest is up and would need another complete test.

 

I don’t envy your customer facing job. She sounds like she needs help, and not just with an mot.

[meggersdog]

that's why I informed the police to get her a welfare check. She shouldn't be out on her own.

[Wack]

The dog has eaten something that's given her the squits , she's not a barker , just stands at the back door and scratches but that's not a lot of use at 3am 

Got up at 6 to a brown pool of liquid squirted about a foot , luckily laminate floor not carpet but fuck me did it stink , cleaned it up 

About 9am I thought I can still smell it,  or can I , it's psychological once it's up your nose 

No , I'm sure I can smell it then I saw it 

Turns out a king Charles spaniel's arsehole is exactly the same height as the top of a boot , a big squirt right in it 

 

[Fumbler]

The gritter has just gone past. Perhaps the gritter hasn't gone past as there's no salt on the road. Crisis averted.

[sheffcortinacentre]

Was one driving round my estate last week ( not actually gritting) god knows what that's about????