The grumpy thread

[Rover414]

What bellends, of course because your car is older than 3 or 5 years it is "UNSAFE AND UNFIT FOR THE ROAD" or whatever bollocks Police, Camera, Action, Roadwars, Streetwars, Carwars, Target-Motorist-Instead-Of-Real-Crime-Wars type TV programmes trot out everytime they're on.

[Mr_Bo11ox]

Scary, that sounds like a result to me, they threw everything they had at you and you brushed em off every time. Wankers.

[cobblers]

Had to sort a pond liner out today ASAP cos mine had a hole bust in it when we had that cold spell. I repaired it with an repair kit off ebay which had been leaking a bit for a while. I decided to have another crack at it and ended up tearing a strip out of the bloody liner peeling the patch off.

 

There are only half a dozen mongrel goldfish in the bugger, but they didn't look all that happy slopping about in a couple of inches of murky water in the old washing up bowl, so I begrudgingly had to go out on a bank holiday monday and compete with mongs in shops to pay well over the odds for something.

 

After hedging my bets, I but the bullet and went to B&Q (They are shit, but they are the most likely to stock one)

 

 

You could see a clear division between people like myself who had come out to buy something, and dopey fat women who dragged their husbands out for a wander around because they had the day off and like looking at garden furniture or whatever else B&Q sells at around double the price of everywhere else. Anyway, after fighting my way round the shop and finding a liner, I'm stood waiting to pay for my £30 sheet of glorified bin liners and a woman with a trolley of pot plants and compost steams along pushing one of those trolleys with the "PULL DONT PUSH" stickers all over it, gets some kind of lift off oversteer on the bastard and manages to ram the thing over my foot and into my leg, before coming to an abrupt stop trapping my shin against the tills. A few of the plants drop off the trolley dump their guts all over the floor pretty much in the middle of the thoroughfare.

 

Fair enough, accidents happen, Not everybody can be an ace at pushing trolleys that are designed to be pulled. But she didn't even acknowledge me or any of the mess she caused - Just grabbed the trolley, dragged it over the piles of top soil and broken plant pot she'd just caused and fucked off across the shop, while shouting the usual general abuse at the podgy children she was with.

 

My toe is now fucked. I broke it a few years ago when pushing my old mini out of the way at some traffic lights and driving the back wheel over my foot, and it never healed right. Occasionally I'll get a bit of grief from it for a couple of days if I knock it, but now it's fupping caning when I walk and its all swelled up (which is a new one)

 

 

 

Christ, thats a lot of text. TL;DR: Woman ran over my toe with a trolley, now my toe hurts. Not really all that interesting.

[scaryoldcortina]

Scary, that sounds like a result to me, they threw everything they had at you and you brushed em off every time. Wankers.

 

Actually, yes, I'm pretty pleased at escaping scot free, but I'm annoyed that they assumed from the age of the car and our choice of clothes that we were pikeys/dolescum/bagheads etc. It was like they were determined to nick me for something!

 

Advice from me for anyone else in the same situation - admit nothing, stay polite, don't swear at them (I think all coppers must be methodists), and insist that you are completely legal and acting within the law. It forces them to check to try and prove you wrong.

[Mr_Bo11ox]

Theyre probably dreaming of joining the TSG right now and twatting some women who are protesting about something.

[scaryoldcortina]

lol, I'm cheering up now. It's a shame they didn't have a camera crew actually..

 

"Tonight on Roid Wars, Wazza and Gazza stop two dodgy looking types in an old Sierra and get PWND...."

[autofive]

bank holiday drinking & cross border boyracer squad

 

one of the reasons i try to avoid teesside roads during the day is the hassle from politzi.

[scaryoldcortina]

I think I would too if my car looked like yours does

[Louise2cv]

Traffic cops tend to be NOBS. fact.

[Lankytim]

I think lots of people get themselves busted by the rozzers by admitting they have done something wrong. "sorry, I didn't know my tyre was bald", "Oops, no idea I was going over the speed limit, officer" . Admitting you have done something wrong means the police don't actually have to prove it, as they have an admission of guilt.

[Guest Leonard Hatred]

Traffic cops tend to be NOBS. fact.

 

Not just traffic cops.

[Timewaster]

I think lots of people get themselves busted by the rozzers by admitting they have done something wrong. "sorry, I didn't know my tyre was bald", "Oops, no idea I was going over the speed limit, officer" . Admitting you have done something wrong means the police don't actually have to prove it, as they have an admission of guilt.

 

Ha, I two guys I know, back when they were 18 and stupid, both had Chevette hatchbacks and were bazzing round the town as stupid 18 year olds in shovitts would on a saturday afternoon.

Copper pulls them both over, asks the first one whats going on and he just about manages to blag his way out of it (or thought he had).

Copper then approaches his mate in the other car - asks whats going on and he replies "I was racing him!" and points to his mate.

 

6 month ban each Twat!

[CreepingJesus]

Advice from me for anyone else in the same situation - admit nothing, stay polite, don't swear at them (I think all coppers must be methodists), and insist that you are completely legal and acting within the law. It forces them to check to try and prove you wrong.

 

+1. I stopped one traff, years ago, who'd pulled me in the same place 3 times in 2 weeks, by conspicuously taking his number, and asking for contact details for his boss. Never saw him again.

Got pulled off the A80 at Auchenkilns a few years ago, by a bike traff, into an organised checkpoint. He insisted I'd no insurance, and proceeded to give the old Passat a good looking at. Didn't seem pleased that I couldn't prove I'd paid the AA for a new policy only the day before. Didn't seem pleased that the hairy lout with the shit car was untouchable as a nuns knickers.

When I politely asked him if he was going to be much longer, as my dad was terminally ill and visiting time was about now, he really started getting all arsey. Reminded me to stay in the car, when I jumped out for a smoke, but looked just a little sheepish, when I asked him why he hadn't pulled the North Lanarkshire Council Tranny, which had been shedding its' load while speeding. He knew exactly what I meant, he'd been behind the Tranny when he pulled me.

Wish now, I'd complained; but I wasn't in the frame of mind for that palaver at all.

[Louise2cv]

TBH I reckon I'd make a cracking Traffic Cop. I have a spiteful streak.

[autofive]

TBH I reckon I'd make a cracking Traffic Cop. I have a spiteful streak.

 

all those fatalities - its bound to make you a bit grumpy - i have empathy for traffic cops, but not love.

 

i always act a bit thick with traffic cops, they like to pigeon hole people, and soon form an opinion that im harmless but dozy, and im let off with warning to slow down

[Cavcraft]

That fantasist Mikey character and the absolute shit he comes out with.

[M'coli]

Seems my relationship is already in the "it's complicated" stage. Sigh.

Don't worry about it - keep looking, have fun and relax.

[Negative Creep]

Seems my relationship is already in the "it's complicated" stage. Sigh.

Don't worry about it - keep looking, have fun and relax.

 

 

Seems to have become more straightforward since I posted that. In a good way.

[Pete-M]

WOMEN! FFS.

 

That will be all.

[Station]

That boiled my piss reading that SOC. Did he call you 'mate' at all, they tend to do that as it makes them sound friendly, yet 'streetwise'.

But they're complete novices. And also bellends. The couple of times I've been pulled by regular police in a normal police car, they've not been as idiotic or retarded as traffic police.

[Angrydicky]

WOMEN! FFS.

 

That will be all.

 

AYE.

[boobydoo]

Just had a customer who purchased a used A Class over the weekend phone up to complain.

 

It seems we have charged £500 plus VAT to fit front and rear park sensors, yet on our website it says it should be £497 plus VAT. He claims we have overcharged him.

 

I know!Lets play scramble the letters to make a well-known saying...

 

LIFE A GET.

[Luxobarges_Are_Us]

In that case I think I'd give him a fiver as I'd be grateful for being kept employed by people who are:

 

i) vain enough to buy an A-class in the first place

 

ii) clueless enough to require parking sensors- worse still, in a small car

 

iii) daft enough to pay 600 quid for said sensors!

 

It is quite alarming that these people are allowed to vote, let alone breed!

[Station]

Why do garages close at 12pm/1pm on a Saturday, and not open on a Sunday (coinciding with motor factors and most scrapyards)? Grr.

[autofive]

Why do garages close at 12pm/1pm on a Saturday, and not open on a Sunday (coinciding with motor factors and most scrapyards)? Grr.

 

because working 5 and a half days a week is enough?

[trigger]

Further to my message about my Bora the other day, I had the guys wife ring me this morning, it was him who was killed.

 

The police contacted her with my details as she didn't have them, i felt so sorry for her, she was just about to tell her 3 kids that their dad was dead and she was close to tears as she was telling me, i didn't know what to say.

 

That's why i don't like motorbikes.

[Station]

The missus went to get some petrol before going to Uni, and the battery deaded itself on starting to drive from the pump. She phoned the AA for help. They turned up, and after the bloke looked it over, he claimed the alternator was dead. I'm certain it isn't - the last one was two years old (I replaced it when she bought the car), and it seized up (they do this) The last garage replaced the alternator with a new one (so it's had three alternators so far). She could've drove the car the 1/2 a mile home after it was charged up.

She has cover so the car can be repaired at cost to the AA up to 500 quid and the AA bloke talked her into getting it booked into a garage - his mate's garage. To change over a working alternator. On a fucking bank holiday weekend. The car might be back on Tuesday.

 

Phoned the garage this morning, seems they're waiting on the AA to authorise the 'repair' through their warranty. I'm going to be lucky to see that car this week.

It takes 1/2 an hour tops to replace the (working) alternator with a scrapyard £20 job, on top of the £25 my missus will have to pay as part of the warranty agreement, so we're without car and we're paying more than it would take to do it on the driveway. I last dealt with a garage in 2004, I remembered why I do all the car jobs myself.

[Mr H Sceptre]

Further to my message about my Bora the other day, I had the guys wife ring me this morning, it was him who was killed.

 

The police contacted her with my details as she didn't have them, i felt so sorry for her, she was just about to tell her 3 kids that their dad was dead and she was close to tears as she was telling me, i didn't know what to say.

 

That's why i don't like motorbikes.

 

 

Horrible business. How on earth do you tell your kids that their Dad isn't coming back. Wouldn't wish it on my worst enemy.

 

I'm glad that you managed to sort returning his deposit, one less thing for his wife to worry about.

 

I can imagine this whole thing has shaken you up quite a bit Trig.

[trigger]

It has Nick, it been all that's running though my head the last few days, things like was he on his bike to collect the remaining money for the car stuff like that.

 

He seemed such a nice guy as well, his wife said that he was saying the same thing about me after they left, she said the oldest who was 6 had been asking why dad wasn't hone from work yet and that she didn't know what to say.

 

It's just horrid to think that less then 24 hours later he'd be dead.

[face]

Jeez, that's bloody awful

 

You hear about bloody accidents so often that it's all too easy to forget how devastating they are.

The thought of that poor lady having to tell her young children about what has happened to their dad - I can't even begin to imagine how difficult that must be