One single thing that makes you think "knob" Vol 2

[AlexRS2782]

Guy in his mid 30's, but dressed like a student fashion victim that had just rolled out of bed at uni, who walked into the post office earlier this afternoon, proceeded to walk past a queue of people and ask the man behind the counter to serve him even though I was already being served at the counter at the time, and the other 6 people in the queue were waiting patiently

Man behind the counter told him there was a queue and he'd have to wait - badly dressed person in 30's claimed he hadn't seen the queue and couldn't he just get served first as he was in a hurry & only wanted to post a small packet

As the guy behind the counter wasn't getting very far, I decided to tell badly dressed man to fk off to the back of the queue & wait patiently like everyone else was At this point he begrudgingly slunk off to the back of the queue, while the lady in her 80's who was next to be served gave him a jab with her umbrella as he walked past her

[TheLordJohn]

AlexRS2782 said:

Gave him a jab with her umbrella as he walked past her

Haha love that bit.

[carreauchompeur]

...On the flipside I had to run for a bus recently and just caught it at the stop. Hopped on, thankful for my catching it but genuinely hadn't seen the two ladies waiting at the stop.

Tosspot bus driver pointed out the "queue" of 2 which I clearly could never have seen, then I was allowed to get back on the bus like a naughty schoolboy... Meh.

I'd be tempted to suggest hipster muppet just hadn't seen the queue, but when you mention the "couldn't you just..." bit, I think you're quite right to assume tosser!

[GokTweed]

Blown2CV said:

GokTweed said:

Yes, very fashionable bunch.

no they're all very old doddery blokes in cardigans and rubber shoes...

No not even close, that's Rover/Peugeot you're thinking of.

[iva cosworth]

The Spruce goose said:

Overtaking a slow tractor, pulled out taking it steady, then Realise car coming round bend other way

That's unforgivable........YOU wait till the road is clear with no bends ahead.

[anonymous-user]

iva cosworth said:

That's unforgivable........YOU wait till the road is clear with no bends ahead.

Not sure if you are joking, as I have noticed some of your posts, you can be a cock. Here is where I began overtake. ( so you can make a more educated comment)




just after here 52.832056, -1.899029 heading south, with about 450 meters to 'bend'.

more than enough, but then i presume YOU only overtake on motorways.

[DervVW]

LotusOmega375D said:

Lady in red S reg Fiesta following us in fine weather yesterday: every time she indicated her windscreen wipers came on. Wouldn't that be a teeny weeny bit annoying?

One of her brake lights was bust too.

Used to driving something Korean?

[Blown2CV]

GokTweed said:

Blown2CV said:

GokTweed said:

Yes, very fashionable bunch.

no they're all very old doddery blokes in cardigans and rubber shoes...

No not even close, that's Rover/Peugeot you're thinking of.

i've spent a lot of time in those dealerships... as you decided to highlight, I own a Jaguar. As much as Jag wants to have younger, richer and more Arab customer base, the fact remains that their bedrock loyal customer foundation is old men. I feel they don't have much in the model lineup for them now, but they'll be dead soon anyway. Still, it's where they are.

[scarble]

The Spruce goose said:

Not sure if you are joking, as I have noticed some of your posts, you can be a cock. Here is where I began overtake. ( so you can make a more educated comment)
just after here 52.832056, -1.899029 heading south, with about 450 meters to 'bend'.
more than enough, but then i presume YOU only overtake on motorways.

I've made far closer passes and got the angry lights from the driver coming the other way and the one I passed, yet neither of them had to change their speed.

DervVW said:

Used to driving something Korean?

I keep trying to turn my wipers off and switching them to mental-speed since switching from Ford to Renault.

[Pulliptears]

LotusOmega375D said:

Lady in red S reg Fiesta following us in fine weather yesterday: every time she indicated her windscreen wipers came on. Wouldn't that be a teeny weeny bit annoying?

One of her brake lights was bust too.

As an aside, when I'd passed my test my dear old Dad bought me a bright yellow metro. It was a shed, but I was quite fond of it. As time wore on it developed this weird electrical quirk whereby indicating left would cause all the lights to go off. The remedy for this was to indicate right. Needless to say it was scrapped not long after

[GokTweed]

Blown2CV said:

GokTweed said:

Blown2CV said:

GokTweed said:

Yes, very fashionable bunch.

no they're all very old doddery blokes in cardigans and rubber shoes...

No not even close, that's Rover/Peugeot you're thinking of.

i've spent a lot of time in those dealerships... as you decided to highlight, I own a Jaguar. As much as Jag wants to have younger, richer and more Arab customer base, the fact remains that their bedrock loyal customer foundation is old men. I feel they don't have much in the model lineup for them now, but they'll be dead soon anyway. Still, it's where they are.

My local dealer was filled with more middle aged blokes than older when they released the new F-type. As you said there aren't many models for the older gent now so its no surprise that Jag's customer base has got younger. They might have been there once but they aren't anymore.

[scarble]

Pulliptears said:

As an aside, when I'd passed my test my dear old Dad bought me a bright yellow metro. It was a shed, but I was quite fond of it. As time wore on it developed this weird electrical quirk whereby indicating left would cause all the lights to go off. The remedy for this was to indicate right. Needless to say it was scrapped not long after

Erm.. sounds like a simple short to ground on the left indicator.

GokTweed said:

My local dealer was filled with more middle aged blokes than older when they released the new F-type.

They were just looking.

[Blown2CV]

GokTweed said:

Blown2CV said:

GokTweed said:

Blown2CV said:

GokTweed said:

Yes, very fashionable bunch.

no they're all very old doddery blokes in cardigans and rubber shoes...

No not even close, that's Rover/Peugeot you're thinking of.

i've spent a lot of time in those dealerships... as you decided to highlight, I own a Jaguar. As much as Jag wants to have younger, richer and more Arab customer base, the fact remains that their bedrock loyal customer foundation is old men. I feel they don't have much in the model lineup for them now, but they'll be dead soon anyway. Still, it's where they are.

My local dealer was filled with more middle aged blokes than older when they released the new F-type.

it's partly aspirational for Jag. They invited a load of younger people to the F-Type launch - i know, i was one of them, but i said no. It's a weird idea anyway, who's building prestige runabouts for oldies now? They won't want the technical tour de force of the S-class, 7-series or even the XJ. There's nothing soft and wallowy, and to an oldie it probably looks like a vulgar spaceship. All the manufacturers seem to want to focus on the young and nouveau riche rather than the growing ageing population with the product of their generous pension schemes.

[yellowjack]

carreauchompeur said:

...On the flipside I had to run for a bus recently and just caught it at the stop. Hopped on, thankful for my catching it but genuinely hadn't seen the two ladies waiting at the stop.

Tosspot bus driver pointed out the "queue" of 2 which I clearly could never have seen, then I was allowed to get back on the bus like a naughty schoolboy... Meh.

I'd be tempted to suggest hipster muppet just hadn't seen the queue, but when you mention the "couldn't you just..." bit, I think you're quite right to assume tosser!

How pointless of the bus driver to do that. OK, slightly rude, but you didn't deliberately jump the queue. The simple logic of the situation is that, presuming there were sufficient spare seats on the bus for three new passengers, the time taken to load them is going to be the same regardless of the order in which they were loaded. Furthermore, the time taken pointing out your error, getting you to the back of the 'queue', etc, will have taken more time than taking your fare whilst politely pointing out your error. I'm sure a simple "sorry ladies" while your ticket was printed would have been enough? Bus driver, in this case, makes me "think knob"!

Customer at Lidl recently made me think 'knob'. Queuing at the till, he'd got his full weekly shop on the conveyor, and started asking about my shopping. This amounted to ONE SINGLE ITEM!!! Now I'd only gone in for this item, a digital measuring calliper, and was stood behind this old fogey with my one item and the note in my hand to pay for it. If the situation were reversed, I would have invited him to jump ahead without a thought. Did he? Did he fk! What made it worse, to me, was the fact that he'd already acknowledged that he knew I wasn't about to produce a wife and two trolleys of shopping and push ahead of him... ...I'm well aware I've no RIGHT to expect it, but courtesy is severely lacking these days, and despite them going on about "the youth of today" it seems to me that the elderly are some of the most routinely rude people around.

There was one a while back who deliberately bagged the table I was headed for in a Cafe, while his companion joined the end of a (large) queue. He took offence when I sat down opposite him anyway, with my tray of hot food, and amid his mutterings as he fecked orf were an "I fought in the war". Leave it, said my wife, who was already 50% embarrassed by my actions, and 50% releived to have the table. I couldn't. "Which one?" I asked. "Which what?" came the response. "Which war?" No answer. It certainly wasn't the big one that ended in 1945, as there was no way he was old enough. Walter Mitty shuffled away looking sheepish, while I resisted the temptation to tell him I've fought in two bloody hot wars (and caught the tail end of a long cold one).

[Raddors]

At the self-service scan thing at my local supermarket, get to the front of the queue, keeping an eye on the 4 machines ready for the next available one. (Bear in mind half a dozen people also queuing up behind me.)

Guy walks straight past the queue and stands right next to me, I look over and he asks "Which machine are you queuing up for mate?"

To which I respond "The next one, as is everyone behind me."

We've all got places to be fella, its not a fking petrol station.

Conversely, people that hang at the entrance to petrol station forecourts causing a massive single-file queue behind. COMMIT TO A PUMP, LIVE WITH YOUR DECISION.

[Pulliptears]

scarble said:

Erm.. sounds like a simple short to ground on the left indicator.

Yes, more than likely, but by this point the steering rack was on its way, it was rusting and I was starting it with an old 50p piece after the key broke in the ignition so it was all stripped back. Repairing it was a pointless exercise which would have cost more than the value of the car.

Edited by Pulliptears on Friday 24th May 13:38

[carreauchompeur]

Currently on eBay at £299

[firemunki]

I would humbly like to add..... me.
Spent far too long troubleshooting some software for a client and just could not get it to send me a test email. After far too long I notice that I would have got the email if I'd managed to put the correct email address in. That has been best part of 2 days work.

[rasg]

Going by the original thread title my suggestion that almost all women paying at supermarket checkouts are knobs doesn’t sit right and I haven’t come up with a word for the female equivalent of knob either that won't be rejected by the PH server software.

Supermarket queue. Three women in front of you. First woman being served. Big basket of stuff and somebody from Tesco is packing for her. (She has bugger all to do apart from watch). Checkout person scans all the items. Turns to the woman being served and tells her the amount to pay.

It is only then that the female knob starts rooting through her handbag to decide how that payment should take place! She's had five minutes to open her purse/handbag, get some cash out or grab a debit/credit card. She now spends the best part of two or three minutes to pay. Don't start me on those that end up counting out 20 quid in change including copper while the queue gets longer and longer... The next two women in queue? Rinse and repeat...

My rant over for the week. Or year.

[iva cosworth]

What is it with Black RRS drivers ?

SAw 2 today both trying to barge their way into their correct lane from the wrong one.

One had an arguement with a cabbie over it.