Fairygirl/daughter, walk in to the bank and then take all your clothes off, refuse to put them back until they sort your case. Of course men in white coats may arrive but you can handle that with your wand. A chap in Durham deposited a tractor load of smelly manure in the bank doorway, it got him noticed.
Why don't people come when they say they will?????
Somebody on freecycle wanted "any plants, trees, etc to fill a large empty garden"
I've had a load of pots with things that I don't want in so told him what was there, we arranged today for collection, after 11 am.
We took about 20 pots round the front, parked the car along the road & put up our "If no reply please try the garden" (with appropriate arrow) sign & carried on trellising. We kept an eye on the front & took the phone outside, he has phone & e-mail details.
Don't think he's likely to come now; I'll e-mail him. I'll be "nice with a touch of sarcasm"!!
He asked for things, if somebody else has provided then fair enough, but just tell me!!
We offered a bed once & a roll of carpet, neither turned up. One didn't reply to "do you still want it?" e-mails & the other said she'd had to go to hospital urgently & would let us know when she wanted the carpet. After a month & no responses to my e-mails someone else had it.
On the other hand we were pleasantly surprised to receive a lovely thank-you card from a young lady who'se car we filled up with removal boxes. Another young lady who is renovating a walled garden had about a dozen plants from me, collected them on her way to a youth club where she teaches cookery. Later in the evening we found a little cheesecake on the front step!
Gosh, Jeannie, you sound a really generous person.
I hate it when delivery men say they'll come in the morning so you wait in, then they come in the afternoon, when you've gone out. I always wonder what people who go out to work do? I'm retired now.
Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
Jeannie, most of the people around me on our small estate work so I take things in for them, the result is many bottles at Christmas and usually very good malt. Are you sure what you found on your step was cheese cake, the huge sea gulls around here leave piles that look like cheese cake usually on my car.
And people who don't thank you when you stand aside for them in doorways. I do this regularly for youngsters and also men. Now, I do realise that womens' lib has affected people's ideas about standing aside for women, but bargeing through? I was in WH Smith in Chipping Camden last week, while I am ranting, and I asked a rather grand man whether he was queing for the checkout, since he was lingering rather a long way from the woman ahead of him in the queue.
'That's why I'm standing here,' he replied with sarcasm.
'Just leaving a discreet distance between you and the persaon in front?' I enquired, trying to be pleasant.
Being somewhat deaf, I did not hear the whole of his reply, but I can tell you that it was not pleasant.
'Pompous git!' I held myself back from saying. I said it to his retreating back instead.
Fairygirl/daughter, you take your hat off in the shower???? you will catch your death of cold girl, although saying that I sometimes lift my Kilt so the knees get a bath.
G/G, I have this nasty habit bred into me from childhood of holding doors open for ladies (so called), on occasion I get a thank you, usually it is a hard stare but a few times it has been "I can hold my own doors open you so and so", I smile and say nothing. Once as I got a mouthful I quietly replied "thank you Madam" "I am not a Madam I am a Mz" was the reply I could not stop myself "and does that Mz include fit, she stormed off and the door guard was laughing his cap off, well done he said. I have a pork casserole in the oven with Cider and Apples having peeled a dozen of those little onions, even dropped in boiling water for a minute they take some peeling, I deserve a sit down with a cuppa. Lunch at one Yorkies as well.
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Verd-I'm at the stage where I want to walk in their offices and stick my wand where the sun don't shine...
Sideways......
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Go Fairygirl, go, you give to them!
Fairygirl/daughter, walk in to the bank and then take all your clothes off, refuse to put them back until they sort your case.
Of course men in white coats may arrive but you can handle that with your wand.
A chap in Durham deposited a tractor load of smelly manure in the bank doorway, it got him noticed.
Frank.
Why don't people come when they say they will?????
Somebody on freecycle wanted "any plants, trees, etc to fill a large empty garden"
I've had a load of pots with things that I don't want in so told him what was there, we arranged today for collection, after 11 am.
We took about 20 pots round the front, parked the car along the road & put up our "If no reply please try the garden" (with appropriate arrow) sign & carried on trellising. We kept an eye on the front & took the phone outside, he has phone & e-mail details.
Don't think he's likely to come now; I'll e-mail him. I'll be "nice with a touch of sarcasm"!!
He asked for things, if somebody else has provided then fair enough, but just tell me!!
We offered a bed once & a roll of carpet, neither turned up. One didn't reply to "do you still want it?" e-mails & the other said she'd had to go to hospital urgently & would let us know when she wanted the carpet. After a month & no responses to my e-mails someone else had it.
On the other hand we were pleasantly surprised to receive a lovely thank-you card from a young lady who'se car we filled up with removal boxes. Another young lady who is renovating a walled garden had about a dozen plants from me, collected them on her way to a youth club where she teaches cookery. Later in the evening we found a little cheesecake on the front step!
Gosh, Jeannie, you sound a really generous person.
I hate it when delivery men say they'll come in the morning so you wait in, then they come in the afternoon, when you've gone out. I always wonder what people who go out to work do? I'm retired now.
Jeannie, most of the people around me on our small estate work so I take things in for them, the result is many bottles at Christmas and usually very good malt.
Are you sure what you found on your step was cheese cake, the huge sea gulls around here leave piles that look like cheese cake usually on my car.
Frank
Jeasnnie-you need MMP's shouty hat to wear with your ranty pants- I love that!
Frank/Dad- stripping off? Way too cold fro that-I've only just started taking off my hat when I have a shower...
And since I'm here and it happened umpteen times when I was out yesterday...people who don't thank you when you let them out in traffic...
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
And people who don't thank you when you stand aside for them in doorways. I do this regularly for youngsters and also men. Now, I do realise that womens' lib has affected people's ideas about standing aside for women, but bargeing through? I was in WH Smith in Chipping Camden last week, while I am ranting, and I asked a rather grand man whether he was queing for the checkout, since he was lingering rather a long way from the woman ahead of him in the queue.
'That's why I'm standing here,' he replied with sarcasm.
'Just leaving a discreet distance between you and the persaon in front?' I enquired, trying to be pleasant.
Being somewhat deaf, I did not hear the whole of his reply, but I can tell you that it was not pleasant.
'Pompous git!' I held myself back from saying. I said it to his retreating back instead.
I hope he reads this!
Fairygirl/daughter, you take your hat off in the shower???? you will catch your death of cold girl, although saying that I sometimes lift my Kilt so the knees get a bath.
G/G, I have this nasty habit bred into me from childhood of holding doors open for ladies (so called), on occasion I get a thank you, usually it is a hard stare but a few times it has been "I can hold my own doors open you so and so", I smile and say nothing. Once as I got a mouthful I quietly replied "thank you Madam" "I am not a Madam I am a Mz" was the reply I could not stop myself "and does that Mz include fit, she stormed off and the door guard was laughing his cap off, well done he said.
I have a pork casserole in the oven with Cider and Apples having peeled a dozen of those little onions, even dropped in boiling water for a minute they take some peeling, I deserve a sit down with a cuppa. Lunch at one Yorkies as well.
Frank.
Frank/Dad-I only took the hat off-still wearing the kilt and duffle coat
You have several cuppas...Yorkies you say....
I wholeheartedly agree about holding doors open..I hold them for anyone regardless of age and gender and it's infuriating when they don't thank you.
And don't get me started on the b****y dungaree wearing Feminists.......
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...