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Curmudgeon' s Corner. I blame it on the heat. (2)

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  • FairygirlFairygirl Posts: 55,117
    Hostafan1 said:
    IMHO the most inconsiderate drivers are those dropping off/ collecting kids from primary schools. They assume everyone else around them is doing the same and can just abandon their cars wherever they like without any consideration for other drivers who actually need to pass by.
    Oh yes - absolutely. They're the worst offenders of speeding around schools as well.
    Used to drive me nuts. Why can't they just get up earlier? 
    It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....



    I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
  • AnniDAnniD Posts: 12,585
    I think I'm right in saying you're a shopping delivery driver for one of the supermarkets Hostafan ? I bet you have some tales to tell about drivers and curmudgeonly customers! 
  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,889
    AnniD said:
    I think I'm right in saying you're a shopping delivery driver for one of the supermarkets Hostafan ? I bet you have some tales to tell about drivers and curmudgeonly customers! 
    Waitrose doesn't have curmudgeonly customers. ;)
    Devon.
  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    I can see your nose growing from here Hosta!
    Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
    "The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
    Plato
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    I am a curmudgeon and I have shopped in Waitrose from time to time.
    Admittedly, the experiences rarely triggered curmudgeonly behaviour. 
    Sainsbury's has started the Christmas music torture. What makes them think it will become to buy? I want out as soon as possible and usually without half of what I came for😩🙉🙉🙉
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,889
    I've refused to wear the christmas apron.
    Devon.
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    edited December 2018
    YOU WON'T BELIEVE IT ........... BUT IT'S TRUE!!!  :s:s:s

    The Smart Meter Saga continues .............. having been told by NPower the other week that the reason I've had two 'appointment failures' to fit smart meters (and  two consequent compensation payments) is because 'the meters don't work in your area' I have just received another letter from 'Access Install'  telling me that they'll be fitting meters in my area next week so they've made an appointment to fit smart meters here next Wednesday morning.

     As you can imagine this resulted in an immediate 'angry phone call' to Npower when I asked 'Charlotte' in Customer Service to find someone to put AccessInstall  up against a wall and throw darts at them ... she said that she is even more angry with them than I am and she'll happily throw darts at them ................ that's the sort of Customer Service I approve of!   She has promised that I will not hear from them again re smart meters unless and until they become mandatory.   Watch this space ...


    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • AnniDAnniD Posts: 12,585
    edited December 2018
    I don't shop in Waitrose very often, but on holiday one year we paid one a visit. The woman next to me suddenly yelled "Tristan, will you put that effing phone away and  bloody help me !" I felt mildly hysterical,  but maybe that's not classed as being curmudgeonly, but only mildly annoyed in Waitrose circles?
  • BenCottoBenCotto Posts: 4,718
    I was doing the Harry Potter studio tour and a young lad was anxious to move to the next exhibit in the hall. “Henry,” said his mother exasperatedly, “live in the moment.”
    Rutland, England
  • Sorry to be a traitor to the cause of avoiding Christmas till the last minute but we have just got back from a Danube river cruise including the Christmas markets at Budapest & in Vienna.  The short break was lovely (though ridiculously pricey for such a short break).
    My curmudgenonly moan is the that  the idiots who are mucking us about with Brexit  have caused the £ to crash against the Euro so much that it's virtually 1 for 1 now so everything was  ridiculously expensive, we hardly bought a thing. To cap it off I have come home with a stinker of a cold - bloody Air travel gets me every time  :s
    AB Still learning

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