Peevish rules. What gets your goat?

[Vagabond]

DD (13) was turned away from getting her ears pierced while I was with her because our ID was insufficient to prove I was her mother. I had my drivers ID, debit card and private health card. She had her student ID. They actually wanted her birth certificate or some other proof with both our names on it. Totally ruined what was supposed to be a special occasion.

Unreasonable. Peevish, stupid rules. This was not in England, but Australia (world capital of stupid rules). Nice beaches though.

I'm finding more and more that for proof of address you can't use bills printed off the internet. At the request of just about every provider I pay money to i do online accounts/billing so I don't know WTF these places expect us to do - getting my mail redirected at the post office to our new address caused me more time, effort and failed attempts than when I renewed my passport. Their checklist is medieval! I only nailed it on the 4th visit as the post office worker took pity on me and knew I'd been in so much before that!

Where a outs in oz are you. Dd,s aunt took her to her hers done in Brisbane. No issues with id and she was four.

Some years ago, I bought a money order (remember those? at the local post office, where I am well known. As it so happened, I didn't need to send the money order, so I went back to the post office and asked if I could have my money back.

The post-mistress said the easiest way would be to make out the money order to myself, and then cash it. So I borrowed her pen, filled out my name on the money order, and then asked to cash it.

She asked me for photo-id to prove I was the payee... she had just loaned me her pen to fill in my name!

LOL Come here to the US. They'll let your daughter pierce her ears without even needing you over at Claire's if want infections from the piercing gun if she brings an older friend who's "mom" or even if she just claims she's 18. It's how my friend got her second earrings in while I was with her.

My bank manager wouldn't verify I was me for my passport application. So after a long argument I ended up really upset and yelling 'oh look at me! I'm going to use this bank card to take money from (my name) because although you will let me clean out her accounts you won't agree that I'm me!!'. Not my finest moment but I had had a horrific few days after a stolen passport.

Australia has silly rules.

You know that thing we do here in the UK where we park our car but the car might not be facing the same direction that traffic on that side of the street goes? They fine you for that over there. And the fine isn't for having your car parked the wrong way, but your car being "too far from the curb" because they are that thick they don't realise there is actually a curb on the side you are parked on as well and that you are right next to it, albeit with your car facing the wrong way. When my UK friend moved there she got fined for doing it. Its ridiculous It doesn't actually matter where the front and the back of the car are.

I'm from there but live here and when I do it here, my mum sucks her teeth and I have to remind her there are no silly rules here love. Well there are but less.

Don't get me started on the misuse of health and safety. .....

And 'It's a listed building so we can't have a level access, put in a lift, treat disabled people as human...'

At a local hotel they claim they can't have level access because it is a listed building, one they shoved 20 new build rooms on to, the ground floor rooms have a patio door and the only thing stopping level access is the Juliette balcony, and they also have a fire door with level access!

My favorite ever health and safety story - sorry for the mail link

www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-508797/Panto-pirates-told-report-plastic-swords-police.html

Read the link but don't get too hot under the collar, it's a made up story, the drama group wanted more publicity - the story wnet national, much more publicity than an article in the West Briton

yy to "my gripe is using legislation as a justification to stop things the legislation in question doesn't actually prevent."

But extend that to include - "using legislation as a justification for officious bollocks that the legislation doesn't require, and inventing legislation that doesn't exist to justify twattery"

Example recently online (another forum I frequent) of a bloke who went into a large Supermarket on his motorbike to get a bottle of milk. He has one of those fancy helmets where the front flips up so you can see his face (which he did) - but checkout person sent for security who surrounded him and demanded helmet removal - security guard claimed it was "the law".

Oh and at Australia Zoo the catering staff wouldn't warm up DD's milk for me (not a totally cheeky request - we did buy a lot of food too). BUt after a lot of siging and complaining they agreed to let me have a cup of hot water, but they sent a manager over with a disclaimer form for me to sign.

Oh, and as a contractor, getting told off by the receptionist for using the visitor's loo at client company. The security pass they gave me wouldn't let me access ANY other toilets, which I'd been asking them to do something about for weeks.

Dd's dance teacher insisting in buns for dance exams EVEN though RAD accept French plaits, hair bands etc. dd's hair is not long enough for a ponytail never mind a bun. I can put it in two French plaits either side of her head. They end in a tiny bunch of curls at the bottom of her ears which I can pin up if it obscures the lines of her neck and shoulders.