The grumpy thread

[Matty]

23 minutes ago, GrumpiusMaximus said:

Had this happen to me a few years ago.  It's worth contesting, you have clear evidence of payment.

I'll have a do. Had the presence of mind to take photos straight off. Not hopeful mind, and at the end of the day I have broke the rules. Not displaying a ticket.

[RoverFolkUs]

29 minutes ago, GrumpiusMaximus said:

Had this happen to me a few years ago.  It's worth contesting, you have clear evidence of payment.

 

5 minutes ago, Matty said:

I'll have a do. Had the presence of mind to take photos straight off. Not hopeful mind, and at the end of the day I have broke the rules. Not displaying a ticket.

Sadly the criteria is usually for failure to correctly display a ticket as you say, rather than failing to pay for the fecking thing

Which proves they are fishing for revenue, because a ticket with your reg on and time of purchase/expiry would prove you paid the appropriate fee and it was still valid at time of "penalty" 

[richardmorris]

3 minutes ago, Matty said:

I'll have a do. Had the presence of mind to take photos straight off. Not hopeful mind, and at the end of the day I have broke the rules. Not displaying a ticket.

Good luck, as the old VED contravention went though, the failure is not displaying, rather than not paying like you say.

as an aside my c5 and family xantia had a nice clip on the a panel to slip a parking ticket behind. Very useful really.

 

[Matty]

3 minutes ago, richardmorris said:

Good luck, as the old VED contravention went though, the failure is not displaying, rather than not paying like you say.

as an aside my c5 and family xantia had a nice clip on the a panel to slip a parking ticket behind. Very useful really.

 

You're right. Briefly had a c3 with the same thing. Sight more useful than a cup holder 😄

[GrumpiusMaximus]

12 minutes ago, Matty said:

You're right. Briefly had a c3 with the same thing. Sight more useful than a cup holder 😄

When I contested the charge a few years ago, they sent me a stick-on windscreen pocket for parking tickets.  This was a local council though, so not a complete shower of privately-owned bastards.

[Matty]

Tbh I'm waiting for the punchline. Whilst jumping from one foot to the other using language that'd make a sailor blush, I screwed up the yellow sticky sleeve they put on your screen and threw it on the ground. Even id laugh if I get a fine for littering 🤣

[sheffcortinacentre]

Like I keep saying short of cash the cashcow motorist is your friend!

[AnnoyingPentium]

1 hour ago, Matty said:

You're right. Briefly had a c3 with the same thing. Sight more useful than a cup holder 😄

Less use now to you, but for the future... you get wee sticky-back ticket holders for about £1.20 a pop on eBay. I bought a handful of them and we've all got one in our cars now.

Really useful as the bits where I park are mostly ticket based etc.

[High Jetter]

2 hours ago, Matty said:

I'll have a do. Had the presence of mind to take photos straight off. Not hopeful mind, and at the end of the day I have broke the rules. Not displaying a ticket.

It's worth a try, as you'd paid to park.

[Metal Guru]

6 hours ago, High Jetter said:

It's worth a try, as you'd paid to park.

Relying on goodwill from a parking enforcement company. Good luck with that!

[chaseracer]

Glass half-full, eh?  If you don't have a go, you'll never know...

GLWTA, @Matty

[Matty]

1 hour ago, chaseracer said:

Glass half-full, eh?  If you don't have a go, you'll never know...

GLWTA, @Matty

Just put appeal in now. I wouldn't mind but when I have to go in the truck instead of the car it has a 14ft bed on it. So I park across 2 spaces and buy 2 fucking tickets! 

[horriblemercedes]

On 2/25/2023 at 8:56 AM, artdjones said:

The Irish might have something to say about that.

Would the Irish say it's just like British tea?

[artdjones]

11 minutes ago, horriblemercedes said:

Would the Irish say it's just like British tea?

They'd say it's far better.

[horriblemercedes]

On 2/25/2023 at 8:40 AM, Remspoor said:

Well sort of true. Yes tea plants are not grown in the UK and they are not just grown in India. However, tea has been processed, made into drinkable tea, for a long, long time in the country. Look at the history of Twinings for instance.

There is nothing like British tea, IMHO.

On 2/25/2023 at 8:56 AM, artdjones said:

The Irish might have something to say about that.

 

 

[Rust Collector]

For fuck sake, this is like the 4th car I’ve got stuck on the front lawn this year

One of these days I’ll learn my bloody lesson.

[louiepj]

As I sat in the other half's Renault Grand Scenic to move it earlier it went donk/boing from the rear.
Guess I'm replacing a rear spring tomorrow .

[MikeR]

just went away for a boys weekend at the static , my son packed all the vids he wanted to watch , laptop and his external dvd drive .....

all went well untill he used the dvd drive , which despite being bought a year back has seen very little use , well it worked for half an episode of South Park and went tits up !!...

he was gutted , so tried the drive on my old Linux lappy and still the same tits up mode , even with other DVDs ..

same DVDs worked in the laptop drive ...

so he pinched my laptop to watch South Park !!

[wuvvum]

4 hours ago, louiepj said:

As I sat in the other half's Renault Grand Scenic to move it earlier it went donk/boing from the rear.
Guess I'm replacing a rear spring tomorrow .

Piece of piss on those though to be fair.  Unlike, say, the front spring on a Rover 75.

[MikeR]

Can't help some people ?, request on FB for some hard to get  roof tiles , I have a pile of them identifying as a bug house in my garden ..so I posted back a picture , but as they are not a certain brand ... It went quiet ! , I can wait another 20 years for them to shift .

Old tiles match in as well and don't stick out like a sore thumb .

[Zelandeth]

Chronic fatigue can get in the sea.  

Laundry list of things I'd wanted to get done over the weekend.  Body and brain had other ideas, ended up spending a significant portion of it sitting like a vegetable staring into the middle distance.

Did manage to get some stuff done at least, but I'm seriously hacked off by the amount of time that was wasted.  

Of course I have to contend with the cheerful thought each time I have a flare up that this is something which is only going to get progressively worse as I get older.

[Rust Collector]

21 hours ago, Rust Collector said:

For fuck sake, this is like the 4th car I’ve got stuck on the front lawn this year

One of these days I’ll learn my bloody lesson.

Problem resolved. I waited until all the neighbours closed their curtains and then dragged it out with a tow rope and my 4x4 😅

[Low Horatio gearbox]

Its definitly Monday.

(TL/DR: its Monday automated phone and foreign  call centres are shit)

The oldest is Ill and at home  so I need to cancel an appt at the bank. I mean I could drag him with me or t leave him behind but I try and be a half decent parent most of the time.  So I will phone them.... no branch no just a generic 0333 number .  I  call  and it's an automated service so after 5 minutes I get nowhere.. great.

Take 2 and i use my patented mash the keypad which usually results in getting a human. Which I do..  and get an human! Alas he need sacct  Nos,  sort codes detail and such OFC they are a non UK call centre so after the 3rd attempt   of  phonetically  giving  out the branch name (its wels sho let's add another layer if complexity) ... I give up.

 Sorry not sorry if the branch had a humber I could have done this in 2 minutes not 20 - and actually succeeded. Instead I just gave up and became the cunt  customer who didnt arrive or call to say sorry. I tried... really..

 

11 hours ago, Zelandeth said:

Chronic fatigue can get in the sea.  

Laundry list of things I'd wanted to get done over the weekend.  Body and brain had other ideas, ended up spending a significant portion of it sitting like a vegetable staring into the middle distance.

Did manage to get some stuff done at least, but I'm seriously hacked off by the amount of time that was wasted.  

Of course I have to contend with the cheerful thought each time I have a flare up that this is something which is only going to get progressively worse as I get older.

I hear you, it can get in the sea. I did a small crazy golf thing last Friday with the family and Sat and Sunday were write offs for me for doing pretty much anything.   CFS and chronic pain can do one, raises metaphorically dosette box to you.

[Zelandeth]

56 minutes ago, Low Horatio gearbox said:

Its definitly Monday.

(TL/DR: its Monday automated phone and foreign  call centres are shit)

The oldest is Ill and at home  so I need to cancel an appt at the bank. I mean I could drag him with it leave him behind but I try and be a half decent parent most of the time.  So I will phone them.... no branch no just a generic 0333 number .  I  call  and it's an automated service so after 5 minutes I get nowhere.. great.

Take 2 and infuse my patented mash the keypad which usually results in gettig a human. Which I do..  and get an human! Alas he ned scout  NOS sort codes detail and such OFC they are n a non UK call centre so after the 3rd attempt   of  phonetically  giving  out the branch name...... I give up.

 Sorry not sorry if the branch had a humber I could have done this I  2 minutes not 20 - and actually jot succeeded. Instead I just gave up and became the county  customer who didnt arrive or call to say sorry. I tried... really..

 

I hear you, it can get in the sea. I did a small crazy golf thing last Friday with the family and Sat and Sunday were write offs for me for doing pretty much anything.   CFS and chronic pain can do one, raises metaphorically dosette box to you.

It's the fact that it's so bloody erratic that grinds my gears the most.  I know that if I over push myself I'll pay for it afterwards, that to some extent I can just live with as you can to some extent at least plan for it.

It's the times when your body just decides for no particular reason to wake up feeling like you'd just sat down from running the London Marathon three times over for apparently no good reason that are really annoying.  Sometimes it will clear up after a few hours, other times it's days.  There's no rhyme nor reason to it.

Coupled with chronic sleep problems it's a fun combo.

It wasn't something I suffered really too much from until last May when I caught COVID, ever since then it's ramped up by several orders of magnitude though.  Likewise the migraines I used to get once every three or four months have now increased to every week or two.

Why it really irks me when I hear people shrugging off COVID as nothing more than a bad cold.  Yeah, great for you if that was your experience.  However plenty of the rest of us weren't so lucky, how about you have a care for us...

[Matty]

On 2/26/2023 at 11:12 AM, Matty said:

Just put appeal in now. I wouldn't mind but when I have to go in the truck instead of the car it has a 14ft bed on it. So I park across 2 spaces and buy 2 fucking tickets! 

Appeal upheld so no fine. Grand bunch of lads Bury Council and NSL parking. Won't hear a word said against them 😆

[Low Horatio gearbox]

@Zelandeth

Roll up roll up... will you wake up feeling like shit.. that "I feel like I drove a am  old truck with no PS and power brakes all day yesterday tired" or maybe not  maybe who knows.   Yay.   (Lol we  know it's going to be knackered way more the not)  Or the waking up feeling, well "normal"- those are bonus days  and you know you'll pay for it tommorrow or the day after. 

[Ghosty]

Admiral web chat, want to know where my settlement offer is, been waiting almost 4 weeks.

Web chat guy : can't help you with that, transferring you. 

Second web chat guy: we aim to settle all claims within 21 days. 

Me: it's been 26 and I need the car gone. When are you offering?

Second: sorry to hear that, I'll speed that up for you.

 

Schedules a fucking callback. 

 

Useless. 

[Ghosty]

Admiral called back, confirmed the car is a Cat B and told me the independent assessor hasn't responded to them yet. 

I know they either lost or didn't receive some of the photos I sent to Admiral so something is amiss. 

[andyberg]

Well back from holiday last Friday, popped into my son's garage to collect the MG. Boss said he hasn't had a chance to look at it yet! Only had it a week! Asked my son last night if it's been looked at yet, he said no. Today still no news. I will go into the garage tomorrow myself to see what is occurring. I get the feeling though that because I am the apprentice's dad the boss thinks I won't kick up a fuss?

[gm]

“this service has been delayed by the train crew being delayed by disruption”  

thankyou for your helpful help  

i have two connections to make today, this one is already 20 mins late - i guess i’m buggered