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To think this is really inconvenient ?

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darkcloudlooming · 04/12/2017 17:24

So national grid are replacing the gas pipes on my street and in my home.. ( why don't people just stick to the saying if it's not broken don't fix it!) so today is 'my appointment' for them to come and disconnect my gas to do this. So I had to allow them in at 8am this morning ( I told them to come back at 9 as I said I had breakfast and kids to get off at school) so they came and disconnected it and now I have to wait all evening between 4pm-8pm for them to restore my gas supply. So they could come at any point whilst I'm cooking and I will have to cook tea ( gas cupboard is in my kitchen next to my cooker in a cupboard!)
So now my kids will have to eat their tea whilst having strangers come in and out of the house. It's annoyed me! And we have had no hot water all day!
Am I being unreasonable to think this is inconvenient and unacceptable ?

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darkcloudlooming · 05/12/2017 19:47

@ProseccoMamam and karma usually comes back to the people who mock people who are already struggling and are low. You say it makes you happy for an already low person suffering from depression to have their life disturbed for yet another day.. it isn't karma at all.. it's just the work they need to do. Your pathetic if you get kicks out of people who are already down..

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Justmuddlingalong · 05/12/2017 19:54

Drip, drip, drip.

bigralbohning2 · 05/12/2017 20:01

Nahh, really an excuse!

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darkcloudlooming · 05/12/2017 20:33

@ProseccoMamam no it isn't work they left for another day.. it's the Work they have to do. They have to disconnect the gas twice but I just didn't expect it to be 12 hours after each other what's all.

And yes I do have depression. Had it since I was a teen. Got a problem with that ?

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darkcloudlooming · 05/12/2017 20:34

@Justmuddlingalong what's the point in writing drip drip drip.. just makes you sound pathetic.. if you have no advice or nothing to suggest why comment at all?

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Muchtoomuchtodo · 05/12/2017 20:38

Sounds like you live in my street - big town in South Wales?

Yes, it's inconvenient but better than your house being blown up.

YABU. Get over it!

iMogster · 05/12/2017 20:39

The worst part of any job like this is dealing with the public.

Last year everyone on my road had one days notice from the council that our road was being resurfaced. (supposed to be at least 2 weeks notice).We couldn't drive on our road between 7am and 6pm for 3 days and when the top surface was off, it would have been madness to drive on it anyway as likely to damage tyres. It was very inconvenient as I am at the end of the cul de sac and have 2 young children. I also had to reschedule a couple of deliveries as they couldn't get to me.
But, I have a lovely smooth new road and I'm happy about that!

phdangst · 05/12/2017 20:42

This exact thing has been happening in my street. I feel lucky that I had to work so couldn’t stay in to freeze all day whilst my gas was turned off. I gave a key to a neighbour and she passed this to the workmen and they got on with it. I’m lucky she was happy to pass the key over and I’m lucky the workmen agreed to do it with nobody home as the card they left said someone over 18 had to be present. Unfortunately nobody could be home so this was this only solution.
It is annoying OP but it’s one of those things that can’t be helped I guess. If I had been home I probably would have tried to work around it, plug in heater, microwave for food etc.

PuppyMonkey · 05/12/2017 20:50

Prosecco, the irony of you saying treat people with respect and then calling OP a cunt. Confused

mumof3boys33 · 05/12/2017 20:52

It’s not the end of the world is it. It’s not long. We have our electric turned off once a year for maintenance. It goes off at 8am till 4-5pm. So no heating, lighting etc no water as we have a pump (farm with own water supply) no internet. The only phone is in the office as the others use electric. We don’t have a mobile signal either so no other way to use internet. Obviously we don’t need to be home so we tend to go out. But when my children were babies it was really annoying. But not much I could do. Just put up with it. It’s better than a fault with your gas pipes.

myrtleWilson · 05/12/2017 20:54

OP - upthread I said I thought you were unreasonable - I still think you were. But I don't think this thread is helping you at all now - for your own reasons you've found it really difficult to cope with this disruption - you could ask for constructive advice on how to cope - I'm sure others would be very happy to help. You yourself acknowledged that you probably over reacted but now you seem to be entrenching yourself in a battle with no winners. If I were you, I'd step away from the thread and perhaps think about if you wanted to start a more generic one. But if they are back tomorrow - have a think about what your usual Wednesday would look like and what you may need to do differently.

That said, I'm still intrigued by the non answers as to why DH couldn't step up but I'll defer my nosiness! Wink

Tokillamockingalan · 05/12/2017 21:01

Arrgghhh. And THEN the depression-bomb gets dropped, as if that suddenly changes eeeverything. As someone who has been battling PND for quite some time, please, give over. Using mental illness to try and make other people feel bad about something they said that you didn’t like is not only a shitty thing to do, it belittles those fighting that battle with everything they’ve got. So yes, YABBeyondU.

MumsTheWordYouKnow · 05/12/2017 21:10

Lol really?? They wouldn’t spend money on new pipes if not needed. Be grateful they are actually replacing them. I’m sure you’re children will find it quite exciting. Let them have a TV dinner. Hardly the worst thing.

Batsh1tcrazy · 05/12/2017 21:43

Mines is due soon. I cook with gas. Dint understand why they cant do it in summer but suppose they have loads of houses to go round so its just my luck it winter lol. The perfect excuse for a takeaway? Blanket n a movie x

FeelingAggrieved · 05/12/2017 21:45

YABU. It's annoying yes, but a one off.

HaudYerWheeshtBawbag · 05/12/2017 21:50

OP I think you need to walk away from this thread,your getting nothing from it, I think 100% of the posters have said YABU, and tbh the more you post, the more people are going to comment in a negative way, as you only answer questions that you think will get a negative response from, and also ignore those trying to help

Walk away, if you say your frame of mind is what you've posted here, then this isn't going to hep your mental health issues

HaudYerWheeshtBawbag · 05/12/2017 21:53

Also OP the house I posted about, was because of a Gas Explosion... the house is GONE!!!! its now just land, even after posting that, your commenting on pointless issues.

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darkcloudlooming · 05/12/2017 22:03

@Tokillamockingalan excuse me? Using mental health? I have depression, anxiety and OCD. I've battled OCD since the age of 8! So don't tell me i don't have any idea what it's like. I also had PND with my second child that was never diagnosed because I was too ashamed to tell anyone. I couldn't bond with my baby.. she's 10 now and I've always struggled. How dare you!

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HaudYerWheeshtBawbag · 05/12/2017 22:09

OP may people at the beginning/middle/end of this thread asked if there was mental health issues and you ignored them 14 pages later you now advised there is MH issues.

WALK AWAY FROM THIS THREAD YOUR DOING YOURSELF NO FAVOURS!!!

InspMorse · 05/12/2017 22:10

For future reference OP, if you had said:
'I am suffering with depression, I find it hard to change my routine because of my anxiety, this, this & this has happened, I'm not coping' You would have got a different response.
You have drip fed which is v. annoying.

Tokillamockingalan · 05/12/2017 22:11
Justmuddlingalong · 05/12/2017 22:13

I think some posters, including me, are questioning why in took you until there were over 300 posts before there was any mention of your depression. It's a massive drip feed. Hence my earlier comment.

BoomBoomsCousin · 05/12/2017 22:20

YANB at all U. That all sounds incredibly unprofessional of them unless it is emergency work. If this is a routine replacement, they need to be making appointments with you. Many people will be working most weekdays and couldn't just take a day off at a week's notice (let alone a weekend's) to let workmen in. What is happening to all the houses in your street that don't have a parent at home to let them in during regular working hours?

They also need to assign enough engineers and have enough back up in case of sickness etc., to complete the work they undertake for the day. There are, of course, exceptions when something goes wrong - gas is too dangerous to be cavalier about. But generally speaking, that should be managed by them having enough staff, not by them casually leaving people without heating overnight in December.

Thedriftofstars · 05/12/2017 22:29

Don't walk away OP, I've just read this thread start to finish and really want to know about why your DH mysteriously couldn't help!

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