Things that annoy me that should annoy me

[Phoenix]

3 hours ago, Mucker1884 said:

Annoying thing No 1:
Having need for this, whilst away on holiday back in June:

Having to dismantle the door handle just to get in the bloody thing to lift the bonnet catch... battery had died whilst switched off and locked!  Literally nothing would work.

 

Annoying thing No 2:
Having the same thing happen 3 weeks later at home, and calling out the AA man.

 

Annoying thing No 3:
Having a car full of gadgets, but a battery not up to the job of supplying enough oomph to get said gadgets to work.  No keyless entry on 3 of the 4 doors.  No auto engine stop/start.  Constant warnings about low battery etc!

 

Annoying thing No 4:
Ford having the car for a day, only to say there is nothing wrong with the battery.  ?

 

Annoying thing No 5:
Waiting 4.5 weeks to drop your car back in, as the last diagnosis was inconclusive, so they needed to re-book it back in "for a few days", for further and more thorough investigation, and 4.5 weeks was the next available slot for a 3 day courtesy car.

Turn up this morning... no record of requiring a courtesy car, and seemingly none available!  ?

40mins and one kick-off later, a courtesy car miraculously becomes available!

 

Annoying thing No 6:
Courtesy car not been valeted inside or out... and its duckin' red! ?

 

So much material here.

1.Had a 'low tyre pressure' warning come on whilst driving over the most remote part of Exmoor. On reaching destination, when I turned the igniton on again, there was a different warning for the same thing, which made me wonder if it was now critical. Not a suitable garage in sight so stumbled back to Barnstaple and bought an inflator at Halfords. Good old SatNav.

2. Badly gouged the wing and door (very long story) in January. Decided to have it repaired on the insurance, having got it through 'GOCOMPARE' I was confident I could reclaim the excess. NB the car is still totally driveable, thank God.

2a. Got a call from the repairers late March to collect the car. Postponed a brief planned holiday to accommodate only to be told the part required had not yet arrived, so not collected.

2b. Insurance renewal in April. Quote was exactly double last years premium, and because I'd made a claim, my 22 years of accumulated No claims was reduced to 7. Two problems.

2b i)Despite my belief i'd taken NC protection, apparently I hadn't.

2b ii) Even though it says 22 years, 9 is the actual maximum you can have, and it's reduced by 2 for a claim.

Having ascertained that the original insurance company is liable to pay, I found a better quote, but did it through 'GOCOMPARE' to ensure continuity for my NC recovery.

3. Got a call from the repairers late May to say they'd got the part and would collect the car, which they did with an enormous low loader, and I was supplied with a courtesy car by a different company in a different town (having again delayed a short holiday).

4. A couple of days later we set off down the M5, and as I pulled in at a service station I got a call from the repairers to say that now they'd seen the car it required another new part and that they'd return my car until it arrives. Life is too short to describe the hoops jumped through to co-ordinate return of vehicle and return of courtesy car, whilst on holiday.

5. We are now in August. My car is on a PCP agreement, which should expire late September. The second part has not yet arrived. If I return/exchange the car they will knock off a chunk for repairing it themselves, this on top of the extra I had to pay for insurance having made a claim, not fulfilled as of this date.

6. Hyundai finance help line is not fit for purpose. It's like talking to a gravestone.

 

[Phoenix]

On 28/07/2022 at 08:57, FindernRam said:

From my increasingly frequent use of the NHS I can state that diversity is not an issue.

The post advertised cost is just the tip of the iceberg here. By time you add up all the other costs, office ,desk, computer etc ,you will almost treble that cost. Then there will be a secretary and her costs. Probably also an assistant Director or two. Then the liaison team to link all the NHS Trusts and their teams.

Bureaucracy is a malignant cancer spreading its tentacles ever wider! 

For diversity and inclusivity, visit Leicester Royal Infirmary.

I read an article many years ago in the Daily Telegraph, where the reporter obviously decided to go on a mission to find the Head Honcho for his local Hospital trust. He went through layers and layers of management until he reached the very pinacle, 11 layers.

He was told that was after they'd already reduced it by 3 layers.

Just think how many nurses you could employ if they did a cull.

[Mostyn6]

5 hours ago, Mucker1884 said:

Annoying thing No 1:
Having need for this, whilst away on holiday back in June:

Having to dismantle the door handle just to get in the bloody thing to lift the bonnet catch... battery had died whilst switched off and locked!  Literally nothing would work.

 

Annoying thing No 2:
Having the same thing happen 3 weeks later at home, and calling out the AA man.

 

Annoying thing No 3:
Having a car full of gadgets, but a battery not up to the job of supplying enough oomph to get said gadgets to work.  No keyless entry on 3 of the 4 doors.  No auto engine stop/start.  Constant warnings about low battery etc!

 

Annoying thing No 4:
Ford having the car for a day, only to say there is nothing wrong with the battery.  ?

 

Annoying thing No 5:
Waiting 4.5 weeks to drop your car back in, as the last diagnosis was inconclusive, so they needed to re-book it back in "for a few days", for further and more thorough investigation, and 4.5 weeks was the next available slot for a 3 day courtesy car.

Turn up this morning... no record of requiring a courtesy car, and seemingly none available!  ?

40mins and one kick-off later, a courtesy car miraculously becomes available!

 

Annoying thing No 6:
Courtesy car not been valeted inside or out... and its duckin' red! ?

 

Was there not a slidy key inside the fob? Have you ever noticed a little buttony-release thing on the fob near the keyring hole that isnt the lock/unlock button?

[PistoldPete]

14 minutes ago, Mostyn6 said:

Was there not a slidy key inside the fob? Have you ever noticed a little buttony-release thing on the fob near the keyring hole that isnt the lock/unlock button?

I was just going to suggest this. I had to Google it as it wasn’t obvious but managed to work it out when this happened to me. Not that it helped as still had to call the Aa.

[Mostyn6]

2 minutes ago, PistoldPete said:

I was just going to suggest this. I had to Google it as it wasn’t obvious but managed to work it out when this happened to me. Not that it helped as still had to call the Aa.

yeah, but if he only had to open the bonnet catch, the key should unlock the driver's door or even the central locking system.

[Ram-Alf]

19 minutes ago, Mostyn6 said:

Was there not a slidy key inside the fob? Have you ever noticed a little buttony-release thing on the fob near the keyring hole that isnt the lock/unlock button?

Complete random here, I have a 9 year V/Corsa it does me proud, Had it 6 years, Only found out a few months back that If I hold the unlock door button down it will open the front windows from a distance, Utterly useless for me...but was so pleased I wet myself ?

[Phoenix]

8 minutes ago, Unlucky Alf said:

Complete random here, I have a 9 year V/Corsa it does me proud, Had it 6 years, Only found out a few months back that If I hold the unlock door button down it will open the front windows from a distance, Utterly useless for me...but was so pleased I wet myself ?

Cue for 2000 nutters all holding the unlock button down on random cars to see if it works.

[Phoenix]

On 24/05/2022 at 11:56, Coconut's Beard said:

Thanks for filling us in on the trials and tribulations of having a fetish for doing up buttons.

I didn't know such a kink even existed, just be glad you don't get turned on by zips because that would be fraught with danger.

You should read the Inspector Morse novels. His erotic thoughts are triggered by the word 'unbuttoning'.

[Wolfie]

27 minutes ago, Unlucky Alf said:

Complete random here, I have a 9 year V/Corsa it does me proud, Had it 6 years, Only found out a few months back that If I hold the unlock door button down it will open the front windows from a distance, Utterly useless for me...but was so pleased I wet myself ?

Handy on a hot day to open the windows before you need to get in.

On a related note, I used to have a BMW 3 series and for the 3 years I owned it, it always annoyed me that the wing mirrors didn't fold in - and wasn't possible to do it manually.

I then replaced it with an X1 and when I complained one day that this one didn't do it either, my then 6 year old daughter showed me that if you hold down the lock button on the remote, it folds the mirrors in. Apparently my 3 series would have done the same.

[Phoenix]

On 18/07/2022 at 21:36, Anon said:

We are honestly pathetic when it comes to the weather. We must be the nation with the most narrow temperature tolerance. The country routinely breaks down the moment it drops below freezing, now we can't handle 2 days of hot weather without having to be reminded by the government to drink water.

One January some years ago, my cousin who lives in Ashbourne, was taking his daughter to Manchester aiport for a flight to Canada. It was snowing and by the time he got to Manchester there was about 2-3 inches lying. This, naturally, caused flights to be cancelled for the unforseeable future.

My cousin, fearful that the people who were to meet her in Canada would have a wasted long journey, and not being able to contact them, phoned the airport in Canada (don't know which one) to warn them. Don't ask.

"Gee, you're planes are grounded!? How much snow have you got!?".

"About 2 - 3 inches"

Peals of laughter on the other end of the phone.

[Phoenix]

On 27/07/2022 at 14:35, FindernRam said:

BBC overstaffing.

Using an outside reporter to introduce a report by someone else. Andy Swiss travels the world but only talks for about 20 seconds at a time. What's wrong with the army of commentators also out there? Same with news reports.

At the Lioness game there were at least 9 women involved not including the commentators, all of them quite screechy. Pre-match, half time pundits and post match waffle. Muted them till match started.

This really grinds my gears. One of my constant moans is the number of weather presenters. Admittedly, some of the ladies are quite tasty, some less so. It's the sheer number.

I came across this article a while ago, and admittedly it's 8 years old, but has anything changed? Do we need so many? Answers on a postage stamp to the BBC.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2699451/Why-does-BBC-waste-money-weather-forecasters-One-forecast-week-dozen-different-faces-country.html

[Gaspode]

3 hours ago, Phoenix said:

For diversity and inclusivity, visit Leicester Royal Infirmary.

I read an article many years ago in the Daily Telegraph, where the reporter obviously decided to go on a mission to find the Head Honcho for his local Hospital trust. He went through layers and layers of management until he reached the very pinacle, 11 layers.

He was told that was after they'd already reduced it by 3 layers.

Just think how many nurses you could employ if they did a cull.

I think it was one of the Troubleshooter prgrammes that Sir John Harvey-Jones did for the Beeb where he was asked to go into a large organisation that was inefficient (may have ben a police force) - I remember him stating then that no matter how big it was, if your company/organisation more than 6 layers from the lowest paid member of staff to the CEO, you were doing it wrong....not at all surprised that there are so many levels in the NHS....

[jono]

1 hour ago, Mostyn6 said:

Was there not a slidy key inside the fob? Have you ever noticed a little buttony-release thing on the fob near the keyring hole that isnt the lock/unlock button?

Top marks for precise empirical terminology. ??
 

“buttony-release thing” .. class, pure class

[Gaspode]

34 minutes ago, Phoenix said:

One January some years ago, my cousin who lives in Ashbourne, was taking his daughter to Manchester aiport for a flight to Canada. It was snowing and by the time he got to Manchester there was about 2-3 inches lying. This, naturally, caused flights to be cancelled for the unforseeable future.

My cousin, fearful that the people who were to meet her in Canada would have a wasted long journey, and not being able to contact them, phoned the airport in Canada (don't know which one) to warn them. Don't ask.

"Gee, you're planes are grounded!? How much snow have you got!?".

"About 2 - 3 inches"

Peals of laughter on the other end of the phone.

When folk get upset about the country grinding to a halt for snow, you have to ask yourself (as a tax payer) if you'd really be happy to pay the many, many tens of millions for extra snowploughs and prep that we'd need to keep the country running, in the full knowledge that they'd all be sitting about deteriorating for 360 days every year? Countries that cope better than us with wintery weather tend to do so because they expect more show and ice so are willing to pay....

[jono]

49 minutes ago, Wolfie said:

Handy on a hot day to open the windows before you need to get in.

On a related note, I used to have a BMW 3 series and for the 3 years I owned it, it always annoyed me that the wing mirrors didn't fold in - and wasn't possible to do it manually.

I then replaced it with an X1 and when I complained one day that this one didn't do it either, my then 6 year old daughter showed me that if you hold down the lock button on the remote, it folds the mirrors in. Apparently my 3 series would have done the same.

I had an Alfa 164 years ago. Bought it well used. The heated rear window never worked but the concept of paying a fortune to get it fixed meant I put up with it. Until one day at the dealers I was picking it up after a service. There was this old mechanic, sitting outside fag hanging out of mouth, on a break and I said “is it a common thing with these ? . He opened the boot, took the battery cover off, fished around in the bottom of the well and came out with a relay. Which he then plugged in where it should have been. “Loads of em mate, take the cover off and it knocks the relay out of its socket” Eureka …. But you just know it would have been £295 plus vat via normal channels. 

[Mostyn6]

46 minutes ago, jono said:

Top marks for precise empirical terminology. ??
 

“buttony-release thing” .. class, pure class

until someone gives me a better name, that is instantly understood, it stands! ☺️

[Phoenix]

54 minutes ago, Gaspode said:

When folk get upset about the country grinding to a halt for snow, you have to ask yourself (as a tax payer) if you'd really be happy to pay the many, many tens of millions for extra snowploughs and prep that we'd need to keep the country running, in the full knowledge that they'd all be sitting about deteriorating for 360 days every year? Countries that cope better than us with wintery weather tend to do so because they expect more show and ice so are willing to pay....

True. I grew up in Buxton (my wife will tell you I never grew up, but never mind), and the weather's nototious. A couple of times a year there's a heavy puther which disrupts routes in and out, even cuts the town off. But you can be sure that within 2 -3 days, traffic's flowing again, so I take your point.

[Ram-Alf]

1 hour ago, jono said:

I had an Alfa 164 years ago. Bought it well used. 

I bet it was well used, You must be amazed at the cost of fuel today compared to then ?  

[jono]

15 minutes ago, Unlucky Alf said:

I bet it was well used, You must be amazed at the cost of fuel today compared to then ?  

You are Mr Jenkins my English teacher. I claim my £ 5.00 

( you must be ancient by now, I bet you live off yoghurt and pulses ?) 

[Ram-Alf]

26 minutes ago, jono said:

You are Mr Jenkins my English teacher. I claim my £ 5.00 

( you must be ancient by now, I bet you live off yoghurt and pulses ?) 

We had a Mrs Jenkins, R E Teacher, We were asked to make a stable with Mary and Joseph and a baby, The following week we all brought in our task...only the thick lad(not me)bought some babybel cheese...she screamed "what on earth is this".

Miss he said...it's Baby Cheeses

 

  

Edited August 3, 2022 by Unlucky Alf