Mrcento said:

lowered-punto said:

Easy solution rat poison or coolant

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If i see you post anything like that again, you'll be banned :lol:

*I know you were joking, but i'm not

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I'm not sure you can ban him with his level of access :lol: Plus he's the only one at the moment who knows how to fix this place when it breaks so I'd rather you didn't.

However I'd also rather there is no talk of (or actual) animal cruelty either even to cats that crap on my driveway :roll:

Have a new grump from me. I thought I was getting my boiler serviced today under a new service plan that I've taken out but it turns out it was only the inspection. Christ knows when the sodding thing is actually going to be serviced :roll: :roll: :roll: I'm now trying to decide if I continue working from home for the rest of the afternoon or make the effort to go in to the office

Finally got round to putting the panda in for an m.o.t mechanically no problems emissions it flew through. The sills are completely rotten even worse than I thought so probably needs New sills on both sides and some welding in the wheel arches. This may well be the end of the panda as I don't really have any where to park it up and work on it. Might strip it out and scrap the the shell not sure.

Poor Panda

My grump was yesterday but I'll have a wee whinge today anyway :lol:

Trains, and more specifically cheap skate train operators like Virgin who only provide 15 mins of Wifi before trying to charge you. And then there's the smell of people on trains. Some of them are disgusting and that's before they fart Bleurgh! Plus the last time I was on a train I picked up a bug that resulted in my first time off work sick since I broke my foot in 2012 and me almost completely losing my voice. It had better not happen again

Picture the scene..

Went down to my lockup in the village this morning to find the council have replaced the door, but not gave me a new key. So I phoned the council number and explained the situation.
Gets a phone call back from someone saying they have been round with new keys, checked them in the garage door and posted them through the door. I then makes a comment about being glad it's sorted so I can get the trailer out. Long silence. Errr there was no trailer in there when I checked the key in the door, was the reply.

What do you mean?? There was a trailer, tyres slings and various shite in there!!!

Well, like I said, it was erm, err empty.

So where's my trailer??

Is it definatly your lockup we are talking about?!?

YES!

OH, I will erm, go and check to see what's happened.

Phones back, is this the address on your paperwork for the lockup? It seems you were in the wrong lockup, why were you in that lockup?

Cos that's the keys I was given when I signed the tenancy agreement.

Oh.... erm, right I will go and make a few calls to the contractor who fitted the doors to see if they know what's happened.

Gets another call back... Mr Taylor we have located your trailer, it was taken to inverurie and was left in our yard as we thought that lockup had been vacated, everything is usually scrapped when we empty them.


Soo..... tomorrow I'm going to the council office to get a hold of the person in the most expensive suit I can find and strangle them.... they emptied all my stuff, never notified me, carried more bottles of gas than I would be imagine is allowed, in a trailer that never had the right number plate, for me to have to go and collect it, then try and blame me!

Holy mother of god that's a colossal cock up hope your going to get compensated for this

Will wait and see their attitude before I start pushing too hard, if they are full of apologies then I will just request that they leave me in that lockup and give me the tenancy for next door, but if they get arsed, I will be going through them like a dose of the shits... making sure the driver on the day had a towing license, insurance to tow, number plate, tacho, Adr license if it turns out the amount of gas bottles was over a limit...

And that's before I get as far as possible theft of equipment and goods.

Hahahahah sounds like a plan

Well that went down like a damp squib....
Yes Mr Taylor, no problem Mr Taylor, very sorry Mr Taylor

No arguments at all.... fck sake! Got everything back barring a couple pallets which I wasn't overly fussed about. All my lifting slings have been out in the elements, and are soaking wet. My newish low level jack was left on top as well so it's now rusty, but again, only cosmetic. Nothing that can't be fixed.

I'm into my same lockup and they are changing the paperwork to suit what I want, and also requested that I get the one next door too.

:lol: :lol: :lol:

How very dare the council sort things out so efficiently for you. Honestly, what is the calibre of the people they are employing nowadays...

Sort things out???!!! It was them that caused the issue in the first place!!

But yeah, happy with the resolution, barring the inconvenience in the first place.

Glad it's sorted now lol

it's Friday afternoon and the time is dragging. There's still so much left to do and all I want is to go home!

Sigh....

So on Sunday I was driving along had gone a whole half mile when suddenly the engine starts sounding very rough at the same time from the dash board I hear a beep beep beep and a message appears. Motor control system failure. I think to myself this is not good and probably going to be expensive. I drive slowly home and start to look for a fault since the car sounds and feels like it's only on 3 cylinders I start there. Long story short the coil on cylinder 2 has died. Ordered a new coil this morning from my friendly motor factors and should arrive tommorw. The big question is since all the coils are the same age what's the bet the other 3 go shortly.

Since when did putting feet on seats become so widespread? Twice in the past hour I've asked people to stop doing it and one of them was older than me. This is one of the many reasons I hate public transport!

The older person protested the most btw. The young girl just smiled sheepishly and removed her feet from the seat

Haha only you would make a fuss about it on public transport

Public transport would be great if there were no other people on it and they got rid of the lingering smell of vomit and pish from the bus seats

It was the train but yes I agree, public transport would be a lot better if there was no-one else on it. On the way down I had the table all to myself and could spread out to work - bliss.

Just to cement how grumpy I am :lol: work does an annual transport survey part of which is meant to encourage us to use our cars less. There's one question every year which asks what they could do to encourage us to car share more and every year my answer is nothing as I can't stand other people in the morning :twist:

Oh ffs, someone please explain to my why I thought it sensible to put a dentist appointment in my holidays. Time off work is about the only perk of getting your mouth prodded and poked. This had better not hurt

Knowing you as I do, it would all depend on what or whom is doing the poking and prodding....