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Getting it off my chest....

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Willow2 · 02/10/2001 20:44

Anyone want to join in on a thread just devoted to sounding off about (non parenting) things that have annoyed you? Well here goes...
I would like to say a big thank you to the absolute xxxxxx that pranged my car while it was parked outside my house sometime in the last 48 hours. The fact that you didn't feel it necessary to leave your details just adds to my love for you. You are probably one of the caring commuters who parks in my road (for free) all day before taking the train to town - glad that we can be of service. Nor should you let the
fact that your journey has turned our quiet little cul-de-sac where kids play footie in the street into the fifth lane of the M25 worry you in the least. And don't be perturbed by the fact that I, and all the other mums in the road, can now no longer park anywhere near our houses when we come home with the supermarket shopping and a car full of screaming kids. Hey, it's all just helps make our day even more fun. So thank you, nameless stranger, for completely annihilating the front of my car and losing me my no claims bonus. My week had looked really boring, now, thanks to you, there's so much to do... I have to go to the police station, get insurance quotes, fax my insurers and then wait for them to send an assessor round to view the damage. And then, if I am really lucky, I will lose the use of my car for several days. Gee things are looking up. You have really made my day.
Sorry chaps, just had to let it out.

OP posts:
jessi · 23/05/2002 16:34

Enid thats hilarious, must try it!

jessi · 23/05/2002 16:36

Enid thats hilarious, must try it!

jessi · 23/05/2002 16:48

Enid thats hilarious, must try it!

jessi · 23/05/2002 16:49

oops!

meadow · 23/05/2002 16:59

No Azzie - he says I'm like Fort Knox, hiding my financial assets!

Joe1 · 23/05/2002 17:23

Enid, I too tend to reply on occasions like that. I have often just ignored people when they have said things I dont like, doesnt always make me a popular person with friends and family. I have got better but still very forthright but able better to pick the right time.

GRMUM · 23/05/2002 18:27

I do that too Enid with aggressive /angry drivers - funnily enough I have found that they often smile back (throough gritted teeth!!!!!)

Janus · 23/05/2002 20:33

Bumped into an older lady that I vaguely know today. Asked if I had gone back to work yet (dd 22 months) to which I replied that no, I was still at home, to which she said 'ohhh, a lady of leisure, how lovely'. Bloody hell! My partner is away in Japan for a week on business, have no family within 4 hours, and all my friends are mothers, so have no-one to just give me a break for an hour so am absolutely exhausted at the moment (surprised I'm still up to be honest). Lady of leisure, my ass!

jenny2998 · 23/05/2002 22:29

Hmm, I know the feeling Janus. When my 1st ds was small people asked ALL THE TIME "So when are you going back to work?" and couldn't beleieve that I was actually CHOOSING to stay at home with him.

My big rant for the day is that the b@!*$y server is down and I can't access my email. Not such a big thing in the great scheme of things, but still....GRRRRR

jenny2998 · 23/05/2002 22:36

Oh, and Meadow...been there too, couple of weeks ago. After my card company had investigated and agreed that it was fraud I had to close my account, which in turn meant I got letters,in a very unpleasant tone, complaining that payments I'd made had been refused. And had to wait 10-14 days for a new card. All very frustrating, although to give them their due the credit-card co. were really good...

SueDonim · 23/05/2002 23:36

I booked tickets last night for all the family to see Star Wars (yawn) today. When I got to the cinema today the machines were down and I had to queue for ages instead, which really p*ed me off. I demanded my £2.50 booking fee back and much to my astonishment got £3.50 returned instead! It pays to complain.

Twink · 24/05/2002 07:46

Yes. it does Suedonim ! Following on from last week's rant about the bloke in the parent & child spaces, I saw the same guy yesterday and he'd parked miles away from them even though it was raining so maybe my note struck at his concience (sp ?)in the end !

gillymac · 24/05/2002 08:40

I only found this board yesterday and spent ages reading through all the rants - it's great. Just what I've been looking!
In reply to Elwar (Monday 20th May), the police would be interested in booking people with unseatbelted kids in their cars but, and it's a big but, I know from experience (used to be one - Policewoman that it not person with unseatbelted kids) that there are probably so few police actually working at any one time that it's pot luck whether there any available to come out and try to find the car in question. Also, it's sods law but the one free police car is probably miles away from where you need them to be.
In saying that, it's always worth phoning, if you've got the car number, as you may get a kind controlroom person who's willing to contact the car owner and reprimand them (along the, "we've had a number of complaints" line) over the phone. Whether that would work as well as a fine, I doubt, but it might make them think.
My personal rant (for what it's worth) is people who park their cars on the pavement so that you've either got to squeeze past them or if you've got a buggy risk life and limb on the road walking round them. That just makes me soooo mad! I did like the suggestion of leaving a note warning them that your buggy may "accidentally" scratch their paintwork.

Demented · 24/05/2002 08:47

Too true Gillymac, that and people who leave their wheely bins out in the middle of the pavement so you either have to move the bin or take your buggy out onto the road!

JanZ · 24/05/2002 11:34

To be fair, sometimes it is the bin men who leave the wheely bin back in the middle of the pavement. We leave ours (our own and our neighbour's) out in the morning on the edge of the pavement and when we get back in the evening, they could be anywhere. Fortunately, the pavement is extremely wide!

jenny2998 · 24/05/2002 20:36

Hmm, to slightly deviate from the theme...staff leaving those big doodah's in the middle of the aisles at the supermarket.

ScummyMummy · 24/05/2002 20:46

Yeah, that is v v v v annoying, Jenny. There's one guy who works in our local Tesco who seems to specialise in leaving doodahs right in the middle of aisles. I've never actually seen him DO anything to said doodahs- like unpack them- and have concluded that he must be employed specially to annoy people by placing them in the most inconvenient place possible. Why oh why?

cherry · 24/05/2002 20:57

I think they employ somebody especially to do that in every supermarket!

soothepoo · 24/05/2002 23:47

And why are there never any of those skinny plastic bags in the fruit and veg section?

jodee · 25/05/2002 09:16

Ahhh, supermarket doodahs - I knew there was a technical word for them! Just as annoying are those people pushing a trucklet around collecting internet orders getting in the way - more annoying for me is the fact I'm trying to push a trolley around with only 3 wheels working and a toddler fooling me into thinking he is being as good as gold then pulling tins off of the shelves as soon as my back is turned, when I should be at home with a cup of coffee and my feet up waiting for the delivery van to arrive with my groceries!

janh · 25/05/2002 11:28

supermarket doodahs - good word. (At Sains we call the big ones rollers and the little ones L-shapes - cos they are - but I like doodahs.)

I'll tell you a little secret though. I occasionally do shelf stacking as well as all my other exciting (!) little jobs and, do you know, when you are on the other side of the doodah customers are Really Annoying - they keep coming and asking for things 3 aisles away (hence doodahs left all alone) or spoiling the arrangement of the shelf you just filled so beautifully...

Zoe · 25/05/2002 15:40

People who stand STOCK STILL in the middle of the Trafford Centre and have a discussion whilst blocking the way, and then just as you manoeuvre the pram around them, decide to move again and nearly end up in the pram with your ds, and look at YOU as if YOU are the problem!!!!!!!!!

sigh

feel better now!

bundle · 25/05/2002 15:57

Zoe, are you ever tempted to try to make it through the gap they've left, just accidentally grazing their ankle bones?
(not that I'd ever do that, of course)

thumper · 25/05/2002 20:06

And the people who turn on to the tube platform right in the middle of rush hour and stop dead still just at the entrance (and not tourists, who used to get to me, especially if holding huge maps, until I grew up and remembered that I am a tourist who hasnt a clue where I am too sometimes!)

Bozza · 25/05/2002 22:28

Back to the wheelie bins - its the bin men that really get to me - due to us being at the head of the cul-de-sac they invariably leave six wheelie bins across the end of our drive - whether the car is parked on it or not. So when I come home I have to abandon DS in the car in the middle of the road and move all my neighbour's bins.

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