Things that annoy you beyond reason...? [Vol 3]
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FourRings said:
A friend of mine has recently had through their door, a laminated note from the new owners of a house three doors away, inviting the neighbours around for a cup of tea to "discuss" ideas to make their house a "nicer family house".
The laminate has on it a photo of the two kids "hoping that mummy and daddy will get planning permission for a basement".
I don't live on this street, but this annoys me.
On a similar note, my parents last week had a letter from their next door neighbours about planned building work after the summer, yet they do not mention in the letter what the planned building work is for. They have now p1ssed off my father by 1) notifying immediate neighbours only by letter and 2) not stating the purpose of the intended building works.
I agree - any basement extension annoys me. Even though there's none near me. Sometimes years of misery for neighbours, ifs just out of order.The laminate has on it a photo of the two kids "hoping that mummy and daddy will get planning permission for a basement".
I don't live on this street, but this annoys me.
On a similar note, my parents last week had a letter from their next door neighbours about planned building work after the summer, yet they do not mention in the letter what the planned building work is for. They have now p1ssed off my father by 1) notifying immediate neighbours only by letter and 2) not stating the purpose of the intended building works.
thismonkeyhere said:
Out of which £8 they have to run a taxi, pay tax (let's assume), and make a living.
Perhaps they should just turn down the small jobs?
I've had a cheeky bPerhaps they should just turn down the small jobs?
d try that on at the arrivals bit of Heathrow Airport. Didn't want to take me to one of the airport hotels because "It's not far enough mate". Luckily there was a sort of inspector bloke wandering about who had a quick word and off we went.Reporting terrible mobile broadband connectivity via the provider web site (the lovely "responsive" email-us page takes around four minutes to download because of all the JavaScript and other stuff) only to have a confirmation email arrive telling me "you can also get help on our web site". Well, not if it takes as long as your "email us" page to open, I can't.
I know their automated system doesn't do any text-parsing to figure out that the stuff I typed is moaning about connection performance, but I did have to select a category headed "performance issues" (or something like that) before I could type the text. And to cap it all, in five days I'll get an email saying "please call us to discuss this", because for some reason they won't do it by email. Then they'll say "we tried calling your mobile broadband number" even though I've told them it's only a dongle, there's no phone on it. And then they'll say "we tried your real mobile number" when I've told them it's only on at certain times of the day. So I'll end up phoning them, which is my second gripe for today:
Their contact details are on the confirmation of the contract. It clearly says "5.1p/min from a BT landline, other networks may vary". So when I called them last week to moan about it not connecting, and was on the BT landline phone for 9m22s, why did I get a bill for over a pound? 5.1p x 9.5mins should be 49p. When I complained about it, they told me if I had one of their phones it would be free - except if their mobile network is as reliable as their mobile broadband is at the moment, I probably wouldn't get a signal.
I know their automated system doesn't do any text-parsing to figure out that the stuff I typed is moaning about connection performance, but I did have to select a category headed "performance issues" (or something like that) before I could type the text. And to cap it all, in five days I'll get an email saying "please call us to discuss this", because for some reason they won't do it by email. Then they'll say "we tried calling your mobile broadband number" even though I've told them it's only a dongle, there's no phone on it. And then they'll say "we tried your real mobile number" when I've told them it's only on at certain times of the day. So I'll end up phoning them, which is my second gripe for today:
Their contact details are on the confirmation of the contract. It clearly says "5.1p/min from a BT landline, other networks may vary". So when I called them last week to moan about it not connecting, and was on the BT landline phone for 9m22s, why did I get a bill for over a pound? 5.1p x 9.5mins should be 49p. When I complained about it, they told me if I had one of their phones it would be free - except if their mobile network is as reliable as their mobile broadband is at the moment, I probably wouldn't get a signal.
You park you car in a large (reasonably) empty car park. Plenty of free, unused spaces all around you...a good 200+ spaces.
You collect your thoughts, pick up your bits (oooer), get out of the car, lock up and start walking across the empty car park.
You see somone driving in to the car park and they are heading in your direction. To keep out of their way you stop walking to let them pass....only they want to park in precisely the space you are stood in and not in ANY of the other 200+ free spaces.
You collect your thoughts, pick up your bits (oooer), get out of the car, lock up and start walking across the empty car park.
You see somone driving in to the car park and they are heading in your direction. To keep out of their way you stop walking to let them pass....only they want to park in precisely the space you are stood in and not in ANY of the other 200+ free spaces.
northwest monkey said:
thismonkeyhere said:
Out of which £8 they have to run a taxi, pay tax (let's assume), and make a living.
Perhaps they should just turn down the small jobs?
I've had a cheeky bPerhaps they should just turn down the small jobs?
d try that on at the arrivals bit of Heathrow Airport. Didn't want to take me to one of the airport hotels because "It's not far enough mate". Luckily there was a sort of inspector bloke wandering about who had a quick word and off we went.FourRings said:
On a similar note, my parents last week had a letter from their next door neighbours about planned building work after the summer, yet they do not mention in the letter what the planned building work is for. They have now "peed" off my father by 1) notifying immediate neighbours only by letter and 2) not stating the purpose of the intended building works.
Good news. According to council website, no basement is planned. They "just" want to extend the first floor (and some of the loft) backwards over the existing footprint of the ground floor. The result is that I am not so annoyed on behalf of my parents. That is all.SpeckledJim said:
northwest monkey said:
thismonkeyhere said:
Out of which £8 they have to run a taxi, pay tax (let's assume), and make a living.
Perhaps they should just turn down the small jobs?
I've had a cheeky bPerhaps they should just turn down the small jobs?
d try that on at the arrivals bit of Heathrow Airport. Didn't want to take me to one of the airport hotels because "It's not far enough mate". Luckily there was a sort of inspector bloke wandering about who had a quick word and off we went.OpulentBob said:
SpeckledJim said:
northwest monkey said:
thismonkeyhere said:
Out of which £8 they have to run a taxi, pay tax (let's assume), and make a living.
Perhaps they should just turn down the small jobs?
I've had a cheeky bPerhaps they should just turn down the small jobs?
d try that on at the arrivals bit of Heathrow Airport. Didn't want to take me to one of the airport hotels because "It's not far enough mate". Luckily there was a sort of inspector bloke wandering about who had a quick word and off we went.Or maybe Cabman was just an arse.
SpeckledJim said:
OpulentBob said:
SpeckledJim said:
northwest monkey said:
thismonkeyhere said:
Out of which £8 they have to run a taxi, pay tax (let's assume), and make a living.
Perhaps they should just turn down the small jobs?
I've had a cheeky bPerhaps they should just turn down the small jobs?
d try that on at the arrivals bit of Heathrow Airport. Didn't want to take me to one of the airport hotels because "It's not far enough mate". Luckily there was a sort of inspector bloke wandering about who had a quick word and off we went.Or maybe Cabman was just an arse.
I'm guessing the inspector bloke on the rank was to make sure the drivers don't try it on like this?
Studio117 said:
Tube tourists.
If the doors open and you impede the commuters. Expect to be shoved out the door.
Fin.
Green Park is the worst. Every time I use it, the doors open and a gaggle of vacant-minded window-lickers crowd forward to block the doors, impeding the process of making space for them to get on. Morons.If the doors open and you impede the commuters. Expect to be shoved out the door.
Fin.
Public transport. Trusted public transport to get me home from south of France, took 11 hours, should have taken 8 hours all in. Thanks a lot to the airline that is British for being so delayed I missed the train home making me not get in until 1:30am. Next time I'm driving down, always wanted to but caught plane instead.
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