Insignificant/ Significant things that BYP or just wind you up a little

[Count Steer]

I've broken my only pair of reading glasses, ordered two more but they don't get here for 5 to 7 days.
I'm slowly getting used to this glasses malarkey.

Did you go straight from not needing/having reading specs to needing prescription ones? Unusual. (Happily I can use +2 'ready readers' and was OK with +1s for a while. The upside is that as the need for stronger reading glasses progressed I stopped needing distance/driving prescription specs ).

I have never needed glasses until a few months ago when I noticed close work getting difficult, the optometrist confirmed I just needed +1 for reading.
There's nowhere round here to buy them on a Sunday and I like varifocals which I can't get locally, thankfully they stay in place with one arm so I'm not desperate.

Ah. Varifocals wouldn't be the sort of thing you'd find in the usual places. I'm thinking of trying something like this https://www.amazon.co.uk/Reading-Glasse ... 441de&th=1as I frequently find myself wandering around the house wearing my reading specs.

I had some varifocals made (at ££) and wore them for driving and hiking/map reading but disliked them - a lot. Should probably ask them to put +2s in the rather swish frames.

I did have some prescription specs for using computer screens (the distance is a tad more than for book reading) they also called them 'crafting' glasses but I was stingy with the lens material and frame costs and found them too heavy/prone to slide down my schnozzle.

Mustn't grumble though, the missus needs +7 in one eye the other isn't too bad - makes contact lenses a bit of a challenge and requires high RI (expensive) lens material for specs otherwise specs look a bit, erm, asymmetrical! She manages to get varifocals made though.

[DefTrap]

Sat waiting near the airport last night for my missus's delayed flight. It's cold and I need to hang around for 10 minutes or so, so I leave the blowers on (yes, I know).
The fecker has drained its battery in 10 minutes and won't start, dead as a dodo. I wander round the really deserted service station looking for someone willing who might have some jump leads (mine are in the other car - why do I keep them in the more reliable car?) - nobody is about, anybody about was likely to have been scared off by the amount of swearing I'm doing. I think the sentiment of C*mS*ckingF*ckP*g translates into most languages. Folornly back to the car to consider calling Le AA in my Franglais. The annoying fecker starts straight up.

[Greenman]

SCS Again.

Meant to be fitting carpets today but have had another message on phone saying they can't make it.

This is the third time they have cancelled now, near on 3 weeks without carpets and i have also moved all my coach tables etc into my dining room so don't even have a table or a seat to sit on.

VERY VERY ANGRY an am now going to get on the case of a refund and compensation.

They say they are now 100% going to turn up friday and have given me £100 compensation and will give me another £200 if they do not turn up friday.

Shocked tbh the manager was quite helpful and offered the compensation quite easily.

[katana]

I spent over an hour in a cold carpark trying to get the car as clean as possible for picking up guests. Experiance has taught me to find the closest car wash to the airport and do it there, as anymore than a fem KM's drive will almost definitely result in a comment of "The car needs a clean".

I get to the airport, spend another 20 minutes going over things, making it as mint as possible.

The plane was delayed (I thought having a private jet prevented such things??). Therefore by the time the guests came outside, it was dark

^^^^^ Which would be closely followed by me chucking them a wet cloth and sponge and saying 'Fill yer boots mate, I'll go and get a coffee'.

Private jet people need to get in to clean cars/vans/people carriers.

[Sadlonelygit]

Traffic lights that KNOW you've been waiting in gear and just slipped into neutral, and then change!

[Jody]

I spent over an hour in a cold carpark trying to get the car as clean as possible for picking up guests. Experiance has taught me to find the closest car wash to the airport and do it there, as anymore than a fem KM's drive will almost definitely result in a comment of "The car needs a clean".

I get to the airport, spend another 20 minutes going over things, making it as mint as possible.

The plane was delayed (I thought having a private jet prevented such things??). Therefore by the time the guests came outside, it was dark

^^^^^ Which would be closely followed by me chucking them a wet cloth and sponge and saying 'Fill yer boots mate, I'll go and get a coffee'.

Private jet people need to get in to clean cars/vans/people carriers.

^^^^^^

He gets it !

[Count Steer]

^^^^^ Which would be closely followed by me chucking them a wet cloth and sponge and saying 'Fill yer boots mate, I'll go and get a coffee'.

Private jet people need to get in to clean cars/vans/people carriers.

^^^^^^

He gets it !

They probably need people to wipe their bums too, but I'm not volunteering for that either.

[Jody]

Private jet people need to get in to clean cars/vans/people carriers.

^^^^^^

He gets it !

They probably need people to wipe their bums too, but I'm not volunteering for that either.

Ahh I see the issue here. You think I'm a volunteer. I'm not, I get paid and a free apartment too.

Curious to hear that you think anyone that doesn't wash their own car, won't wipe their own arse either!

[gremlin]

I think any public hire vehicle should be reasonably clean. If I were to get in and find it a bit of a state I'd make a mental note not to use them again. Same with the exterior: if I'm done up smart I don't want to get dirty strides from the crudy sill getting in and out.

Just a professional courtesy, innit? Fair play to Jody for making the effort.

[Rockburner]

Traffic lights that KNOW you've been waiting in gear and just slipped into neutral, and then change!

That's how I get them to change.

[gremlin]

My sister in law once informed me that at temporary traffic lights, if you flashed them with your high beam every couple of seconds at night, they would change.

I pointed out that maybe they were going to change anyway, notwithstanding the flashing of headlights. She wouldn't have it.

[DefTrap]

I think any public hire vehicle should be reasonably clean. If I were to get in and find it a bit of a state I'd make a mental note not to use them again. Same with the exterior: if I'm done up smart I don't want to get dirty strides from the crudy sill getting in and out.

Just a professional courtesy, innit? Fair play to Jody for making the effort.

Yeah I'm always quite surprised how well turned out all the hire cars I use (different operators, different sites) are on pickup, given the state of UK roads and how absolutely filthy vehicles get quite quickly in Winter driving.

That said, newish cars that have been maintained well are a doddle to spiff up quite quickly - it' a no-brainer.

[David]

My sister in law once informed me that at temporary traffic lights, if you flashed them with your high beam every couple of seconds at night, they would change.

I pointed out that maybe they were going to change anyway, notwithstanding the flashing of headlights. She wouldn't have it.

If you look at a set of temporary lights, they have a sensor on top. They should, but often aren't turned to sensor controlled at end of play.

[Count Steer]

^^^^^^

He gets it !

They probably need people to wipe their bums too, but I'm not volunteering for that either.

Ahh I see the issue here. You think I'm a volunteer. I'm not, I get paid and a free apartment too.

Curious to hear that you think anyone that doesn't wash their own car, won't wipe their own arse either!

Oh I know you get paid etc but I did say I wouldn't volunteer...ie my services*.

I pay someone to clean our cars and someone to work in the garden too, I don't want either of those as a job either.

* Particularly to anyone who thinks you can drive from a ski resort to an airport and magically arrive in a clean car...it makes as much sense as complaining that the car's dirty when you get back to the resort.

[Horse]

I spent over an hour in a cold carpark trying to get the car as clean as possible for picking up guests. Experiance has taught me to find the closest car wash to the airport and do it there, as anymore than a fem KM's drive will almost definitely result in a comment of "The car needs a clean".

I get to the airport, spend another 20 minutes going over things, making it as mint as possible.

Get one of these, fill with soapy water, rinse the car off to help clear the clag you've collected on the way?

https://www.screwfix.com/p/white-black- ... lsrc=aw.ds

[katana]

^^^^^ Which would be closely followed by me chucking them a wet cloth and sponge and saying 'Fill yer boots mate, I'll go and get a coffee'.

Private jet people need to get in to clean cars/vans/people carriers.

^^^^^^

He gets it !

I understand why some people think that clean outside some how means claen inside. Look at second hand car sales, it is easier to sell a car with nice shiny clean car.

Would it be worthwhile to look on a detailing forum about some sort of ceramic coating that helps stop the road silt sticking and maybe a waterless system to clean the car at the airport nearby, Maybe a change of clothes/ dirty clothes so you don't end up looking sweaty.

Stay safe and hope you arre having fun.

[Saga Lout]

Curious to hear that you think anyone that doesn't wash their own car, won't wipe their own arse either!

I wonder, does King Charles have a Groom of the Stool?

[Noggin]

NS&I security!! I mean, yes, good security is excellent. However, I was able to phone up and answer some security questions and then allowed to change my password (couldn't remember it Computer had it saved but wouldn't show me )

But then, two different security questions thqt I apparently answered worngly (not convinced I was wrong, but hey ho) and I couldn't update my phone number.

Apparently they send each call to a different person so no one person deals with your whole call for security. But it meant that I had access to change my password, no access to change my phone number and so - still no access to my account


Got to wait 2-3 weeks now for the letter that will have my temporary password in it (the last letter took three weeks to get here) so that I can then go on and change (hopefully) my telephone number and my security questions


I know, the muppetry is mine due to cancelling my uk phone before sorting this out, but seriously

[Sadlonelygit]

Provincial French supermarkets.
Why must you have zero order to your aisle plans. Pretty sure there's a science to getting people to buy stuff, rather than let them wander around like zombies losing the will to purchase.

[Pirahna]

Wifey repeatedly volunteering me to do things. This time she brought home a light that someone want's put up, she's now on her way back to the woman to explain why I won't do it. It's far from the first time she's done it and every time she ends up having to find an excuse why I won't do it.