WAMT....what annoyed me today!

[Box Brownie]

On a side note about customer service.

Some many years ago, I had an issue with the local newsagent who for some reason kept ignoring my request to instruct the delivery person to stop pushing another addresses papers in my door.

I was not the customer and they got the road wrong, though the house number was correct. The reason I asked the manager to act was that I had kept taking the papers back to the shop......talking to one or more of the staff but to no effect!!!! The staff were all a miserable bunch.

When I met the manager i realised why the staff were miserable......he employed folk like himself :banghead:

 

[Bobsyeruncle]

I couldn't have done that even if I had my phone on me

But you would likely have said that your phone doesn't do scanning.
If I didn't have my phone, I'd have said I don't have my phone with me, rather than just saying no....for me I find it a lot easier and quicker to scan the code than write down my details....

 

[Bobsyeruncle]

Exactly. It shouldn't be a requirement to carry a cellphone and understand QR code tech to buy a cup of coffee. The person trying to belittle customers is in the wrong job.

It isn't a requirement at all.
I doubt they were trying to belittle anyone, and likely were trying to be helpful..
I don't see any real reason for anyone to be grossly offended by it and get so upset or angry.....life's too short.

 

[Cobra]

But you would likely have said that your phone doesn't do scanning.

Either that or something else just for the hell of it

It isn't a requirement at all.

No but like a lot of things its all heading that way

 

[Gremlin]

I said 'No, but I'll give you a contact number'. That would have been fine, but she just had to ask me if I find the technology 'confusing?' I

I had similar in a shop the other day, queueing to pay and an assistant pointed out the the self scan check outs were
empty, I declined, the item was only £2 and I wanted to pay cash, in that shop self scan are all card.
She condescendingly said I'll help you !
So I followed her, she carefully explained how to scan and other bits, then said "you scan your card here"
My reply was "where do I put the cash"
I had lost my place in the ever growing queue so I just walked out and left her to sort it out

 

[Bobsyeruncle]

I had similar in a shop the other day, queueing to pay and an assistant pointed out the the self scan check outs were
empty, I declined, the item was only £2 and I wanted to pay cash, in that shop self scan are all card.
She condescendingly said I'll help you !
So I followed her, she carefully explained how to scan and other bits, then said "you scan your card here"
My reply was "where do I put the cash"
I had lost my place in the ever growing queue so I just walked out and left her to sort it out

Or you could just have said you were paying cash....

 

[Gremlin]

Or you could just have said you were paying cash....

I could but where is the fun in that

 

[sphexx]

I couldn't have done that even if I had my phone on me.

Just stare at the QR code and tell her you have a bionic eye .

 

[Cobra]

I wanted to pay cash, in that shop self scan are all card.

My local Tesco express has recently swapped to card only on the self scans too.
And yet there is still a lot of items behind the counter fags booze batteries lottery razor blades and a lot more.

 

[Cobra]

I could but where is the fun in that

Exactly

 

[AndrewFlannigan]

I couldn't have done that even if I had my phone on me.

You and me both. I've never got my head around QR codes, nor have I ever persuaded any smartphone to scan one successfully. I think the flying spaghetti monster has cursed me or something...

 

[Krisstiffer]

I could but where is the fun in that

Many years ago I tried to pay for some shopping at the local Co-Op with Northern Ireland £10 notes. The assistant told me they couldn’t accept “foreign money” - I explained it was legal tender and to get the manager. The manager said it was their “policy” not to accept Irish notes - even NI ones.
I told them it was my policy not to buy from establishments that refused to accept legal tender and walked out leaving all the shopping on their counter for them to put back on the shelves. They also had to void the lottery ticket that I was also trying to buy.
They then had to deal with the nice long queue of unhappy shoppers that had grown by that time.
Sometimes petty revenge is fun !!

 

[Bobsyeruncle]

Many years ago I tried to pay for some shopping at the local Co-Op with Northern Ireland £10 notes. The assistant told me they couldn’t accept “foreign money” - I explained it was legal tender and to get the manager. The manager said it was their “policy” not to accept Irish notes - even NI ones.
I told them it was my policy not to buy from establishments that refused to accept legal tender and walked out leaving all the shopping on their counter for them to put back on the shelves. They also had to void the lottery ticket that I was also trying to buy.
They then had to deal with the nice long queue of unhappy shoppers that had grown by that time.
Sometimes petty revenge is fun !!

We used to get that all the time in England trying to use Scottish Bank notes....

 

[Deleted member 26215]

Many years ago I tried to pay for some shopping at the local Co-Op with Northern Ireland £10 notes. The assistant told me they couldn’t accept “foreign money” - I explained it was legal tender and to get the manager. The manager said it was their “policy” not to accept Irish notes - even NI ones.
I told them it was my policy not to buy from establishments that refused to accept legal tender and walked out leaving all the shopping on their counter for them to put back on the shelves. They also had to void the lottery ticket that I was also trying to buy.
They then had to deal with the nice long queue of unhappy shoppers that had grown by that time.
Sometimes petty revenge is fun !!

We used to get that all the time in England trying to use Scottish Bank notes....

Are you sure about it being legal tender.

What is legal tender?

Many people are confused about this – it is more about settling debts than how you pay for things in shops

www.bankofengland.co.uk

 

[Tringa]

We used to get that all the time in England trying to use Scottish Bank notes....

Reminds me of a sandwich bar in central London I used when I was at work. I paid for a sandwich with a Scottish note. The young lady looked at it carefully and was obviously a bit puzzled so held it up in the air and shouted, "Ramone, is this alright?" to which Ramone answered something like, "Si, es bueno."

I was a bit amused to think a Spanish worker in England was better versed in acceptable currency than, at that time, quite a few of the indigenous population.

Dave

 

[Bobsyeruncle]

Are you sure about it being legal tender

Having worked for a bank for many years I'm fully aware of the legal tender argument...

 

[stryvya]

Reminds me of a sandwich bar in central London I used when I was at work. I paid for a sandwich with a Scottish note. The young lady looked at it carefully and was obviously a bit puzzled so held it up in the air and shouted, "Ramone, is this alright?" to which Ramone answered something like, "Si, es bueno."

I was a bit amused to think a Spanish worker in England was better versed in acceptable currency than, at that time, quite a few of the indigenous population.

Dave

And yet on the Continent no one has queried high value notes.

 

[Gremlin]

Kids are back at school and we have a heatwave !!!
I was planning a trip to Whipsnade this week as I don't have to book, but the heat will make the animals
sleepy and inactive, Oh well it's only been a year since I last went up, another year won't matter,

 

[AndrewFlannigan]

Just a general dislike: people who appropriate the roads for events.

This Tour of Britain cycle race that's blocking up the roads in South and Mid Devon today is going to cause problems for a lot of people. It wouldn't be so bad if the organisers had to pay compensation to everyone inconvenienced by the event but that's not going to happen.

...and cyclists wonder why drivers are "ambivalent" towards them...

 

[Cobra]

I was planning a trip to Whipsnade this week as I don't have to book, but the heat will make the animals
sleepy and inactive,

Unfortunately, every time I've been there recently there have been plenty of "no shows" what ever the weather.
Some of the paddocks were very overgrown, Lynx, wolverines, the usual ones.
The dinosaurs like it though, they always show and are not now hibernating until the end of October

 

[Cobra]

Just a general dislike: people who appropriate the roads for events.

There are plenty of moans here about that, there is a "road race" planned shortly.
The usual, roads being closed, mini diversions etc.
And yet the "red ways" run parallel to most roads and are for the use of people runners cyclists walker etc.

 

[stryvya]

Just a general dislike: people who appropriate the roads for events.

This Tour of Britain cycle race that's blocking up the roads in South and Mid Devon today is going to cause problems for a lot of people. It wouldn't be so bad if the organisers had to pay compensation to everyone inconvenienced by the event but that's not going to happen.

...and cyclists wonder why drivers are "ambivalent" towards them...

And apparently as they passed through our Town, Camborne, ITV4 showed Adverts, ffs!

 

[Gremlin]

Unfortunately, every time I've been there recently there have been plenty of "no shows" what ever the weather.
Some of the paddocks were very overgrown, Lynx, wolverines, the usual ones.

That's normal, but in the heat the ones that do show just lie down and sleep.
Then I have to run the gauntlet of the M1/M25 traffic jams in the heat.
I'll give a miss for another couple of weeks

 

[Cobra]

but in the heat the ones that do show just lie down and sleep.

I was just giving you a heads up that a lot of paddocks are ( or at least were very recently) very much overgrown.
Sleeping or not, they can hide very easily.

 

[Krisstiffer]

There are plenty of moans here about that, there is a "road race" planned shortly.
The usual, roads being closed, mini diversions etc.
And yet the "red ways" run parallel to most roads and are for the use of people runners cyclists walker etc.

The Tour De Yorkshire goes (went) past my house. The road is closed for a couple of hours once a year - and there’s plenty of notice so you can plan around it.
Many years ago I lived in Manchester about a 10 minute walk from the Old Trafford football ground. Every single home match was far more disruptive to “normal life” than any of the cycle races so not sure it’s that much of big imposition.

 

[Cobra]

Every single home match was far more disruptive to “normal life” than any of the cycle races so not sure it’s that much of big imposition.

That would really annoy me too, but the point being there are suitable alternatives and possibly safer too.

But I'm not sure that Man U have alternative & suitable alternative places.

 

[AndrewFlannigan]

The Tour De Yorkshire goes (went) past my house. The road is closed for a couple of hours once a year - and there’s plenty of notice so you can plan around it.

Different people, different circumstances, different places. The level of disruption will always vary, as will the perception of it.

 

[Gremlin]

I was just giving you a heads up that a lot of paddocks are ( or at least were very recently) very much overgrown.
Sleeping or not, they can hide very easily.

In other words " Don't come up here"

 

[sphexx]

The Tour De Yorkshire goes (went) past my house. The road is closed for a couple of hours once a year - and there’s plenty of notice so you can plan around it.
Many years ago I lived in Manchester about a 10 minute walk from the Old Trafford football ground. Every single home match was far more disruptive to “normal life” than any of the cycle races so not sure it’s that much of big imposition.

It goes (went) past mine too. It wasn’t so bad. Years ago (30+) before they changed the routes, all the Great Yorkshire Show traffic from the A1 went past here and my parents were “trapped” in the house for a week or so. To be fair, I think they treated as a sort of “event” in itself, planning supplies etc

 

[broc]

Carefully negotiating the speed bumps (at 20MPH) outside a school in a 20MPH restricted area, to be overtaken at speed by some idiot in a Range Rover who obviously thinks the speed limits don't apply to him. It looks like he was ignoring the 30MPH limit a bit later too.

 

[LCPete]

Carefully negotiating the speed bumps (at 20MPH) outside a school in a 20MPH restricted area, to be overtaken at speed by some idiot in a Range Rover who obviously thinks the speed limits don't apply to him. It looks like he was ignoring the 30MPH limit a bit later too.

Yes annoying people like that , I’ve had similar with a guy in a bmw four wheel drive

 

[Box Brownie]

Carefully negotiating the speed bumps (at 20MPH) outside a school in a 20MPH restricted area, to be overtaken at speed by some idiot in a Range Rover who obviously thinks the speed limits don't apply to him. It looks like he was ignoring the 30MPH limit a bit later too.

Yes annoying people like that , I’ve had similar with a guy in a bmw four wheel drive

It has struck me in the past that I would like a matrix sign in my rear window..........for the case above "filming" being displayed!

There are some real wazzocks(other impolite words as required ) on the roads :banghead:

 

[Tori_T]

Car matrix signs are available, but there seems to be some question over their legality for civilian use.

 

[Cockney]

It goes (went) past mine too. It wasn’t so bad. Years ago (30+) before they changed the routes, all the Great Yorkshire Show traffic from the A1 went past here and my parents were “trapped” in the house for a week or so. To be fair, I think they treated as a sort of “event” in itself, planning supplies etc

They may be fine in the Alps and have their "king of the hills" but seeing them trying to get up "jaw bone hill" in oughtibridge is a sight to behold.

 

[woof woof]

We had the first big spider of this years spider season at home last night. Urgh. I hate them. I know they have a place in this world but I just wish they'd stick to the hedgerows and forests and not come visiting me.

 

[sphexx]

We had the first big spider of this years spider season at home last night. Urgh. I hate them. I know they have a place in this world but I just wish they'd stick to the hedgerows and forests and not come visiting me.

They are called House Spiders so maybe the problem is you should go back to being a Caveman and let them have their natural home to themselves .

 

[woof woof]

They are called House Spiders so maybe the problem is you should go back to being a Caveman and let them have their natural home to themselves .

Just so I understand. The spiders built their own houses before people came along? I think they should just spider up and evolve to withstand winters outside. What are they? Whimps?

All this makes me think about geckos. Mrs WW had never seen spiders like UK ones in Thailand and horrifyingly told everyone how big, scary and fast spiders are in the UK. I think there must be big spiders out in the Thai countryside somewhere but given that Mrs WW is a country girl it's odd that the UK ones seem so big to her, which made me think maybe the geckos eat them? I googled Geckos and the net tells me they're veracious eaters of spiders. Personally I'd swap house spiders for Geckos any day.

 

[Krisstiffer]

I’ve had a big house spider living in the downstairs bathroom for a while now - I’ve even named him “Peter” as in “Peter Parker”.
I know he must be male as he’s sat there in the corner doing nothing for the last 3 months......

 

[Krisstiffer]

WAMT - inflation through reduction. Doing the weekly shop and picked up a couple of packs of my favourite cereal bars. They’ve been the same price for a while but the pack size was 8 bars about a year ago, then went down to 6 - and now they’ve reduced to 5 in a pack.......

 

[woof woof]

I’ve had a big house spider living in the downstairs bathroom for a while now - I’ve even named him “Peter” as in “Peter Parker”.
I know he must be male as he’s sat there in the corner doing nothing for the last 3 months......

That's a nice name for a spider.

I have no issue with spiders in acceptable places although I do humanely relocate wing mirror spiers whenever I can.