I may be curmudgeonly about the weather... we'll just have to see how it pans out. No rain in the forecast for today here for my postcode - but there are drops of the stuff outside!
Today's curmudgeon is people too idle to walk to the pay station in car parks. I've just returned from town and there was one young woman blocking the exit as I walked to pay for my ticket. She got back into her car, giving the finger to the driver of a car who dared to sound his horn at her. By the time I had paid, another car, again driven by a young woman had dumped her car so nobody could get past her either. There are places it is possible to pull in without causing an obstruction but that is clearly not close enough for these people.
Sounds like your petrol station's old fashioned @KT53. Most pumps over here have a built in card reader so no wandering back and forth twixt car and cash desk and no driving off without paying either.
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"The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
Heaven forbid they should have to walk the length of themselves @KT53. The downright laziness of people never fails to astonish me. Car parks are among the worst places to see shocking driving and the behaviour that goes with that.
My curmudge just now is - do you think there's a chance of any news going on in the world today - or yesterday [and no doubt tomorrow ] other than the jubilee bunfight? Every time I turn the news on, that's all they're talking about.
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Take a break from the news Fairygirl, it will do your blood pressure the world of good.
Mine is still fizzing after selling a super fibreglass, 3 section waterfall on Gumtree for £50. The man who bought it messed me about for about a month and then I went to Yorks and Derbys a fortnight ago. Last Mon I agreed to meet a friend of his at the services on the M74 to drop it off and get payment, he changed his mind again the next day and suggested I get a courier to collect and deliver. I asked if he was certain he wanted to risk a fibreglass waterfall with a courier and he said it would be insured so I agreed.
Well, it arrived damaged on Tues, not much and hidden from view, 4 tiny pieces of the edge and the lip of the back slightly cracked but didn't affect the working of it. On Wed he said he would repair it as it was just what he wanted but I would need to contact DPD to claim insurance money. I agreed to do this but as it was bank holiday I would arrange it after the holiday and would need the waterfall back.
Thurs morning he started sending very abusive messages, threatening court action etc, each one progressively worse. I had a very busy day and didn't have time to deal with it until late afternoon when I checked who had to repay the money, me or DPD. It was my responsibility so I credited his account straightaway and then let him know telling him to keep the waterfall. He then sent another abusive message.
I reported him to Gumtree and blocked him. I was fuming with him and had I been a man I'd have gone up to Edinburgh to sort him out. However, I kept my cool throughout and didn't put a wrong word in my replies to him but I'm still fuming today.
Sounds like your petrol station's old fashioned @KT53. Most pumps over here have a built in card reader so no wandering back and forth twixt car and cash desk and no driving off without paying either.
Not a petrol station @Obelixx it was a city centre car park.
Believe me raisingirl I was on the point of doing that several times as I have a short fuse with such people but I could see the way it was going and there was no way that I was going to put myself in the wrong.
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The downright laziness of people never fails to astonish me. Car parks are among the worst places to see shocking driving and the behaviour that goes with that.
My curmudge just now is - do you think there's a chance of any news going on in the world today - or yesterday [and no doubt tomorrow ] other than the jubilee bunfight? Every time I turn the news on, that's all they're talking about.
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Mine is still fizzing after selling a super fibreglass, 3 section waterfall on Gumtree for £50. The man who bought it messed me about for about a month and then I went to Yorks and Derbys a fortnight ago. Last Mon I agreed to meet a friend of his at the services on the M74 to drop it off and get payment, he changed his mind again the next day and suggested I get a courier to collect and deliver. I asked if he was certain he wanted to risk a fibreglass waterfall with a courier and he said it would be insured so I agreed.
Well, it arrived damaged on Tues, not much and hidden from view, 4 tiny pieces of the edge and the lip of the back slightly cracked but didn't affect the working of it. On Wed he said he would repair it as it was just what he wanted but I would need to contact DPD to claim insurance money. I agreed to do this but as it was bank holiday I would arrange it after the holiday and would need the waterfall back.
Thurs morning he started sending very abusive messages, threatening court action etc, each one progressively worse. I had a very busy day and didn't have time to deal with it until late afternoon when I checked who had to repay the money, me or DPD. It was my responsibility so I credited his account straightaway and then let him know telling him to keep the waterfall. He then sent another abusive message.
I reported him to Gumtree and blocked him. I was fuming with him and had I been a man I'd have gone up to Edinburgh to sort him out. However, I kept my cool throughout and didn't put a wrong word in my replies to him but I'm still fuming today.
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