taxi4ballet Posted October 12, 2012 Author Share Posted October 12, 2012 Flat tyres (on a day when you really NEED the car) AArrrrggghhhh The moronic car manufacturers who insist on fitting your car with locking wheel nuts (Lets face it - who's going to want to pinch the wheel off a Nissan Almera anyway) 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jan McNulty Posted October 12, 2012 Share Posted October 12, 2012 These days you don't even get a spare. When I changed last year, mine came with that foam stuff. When I queried this, the salesman asked me how often I changed a tyre. A neighbour did one for me once but when I went to the garage to see if the puncture was repairable, they said the nuts couldn't be tightened tight enough by hand and re-did them for me. Take care Taxi Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alison Posted October 12, 2012 Share Posted October 12, 2012 You need run-flat tyres, then. I know Michelin do them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jan McNulty Posted October 12, 2012 Share Posted October 12, 2012 When I bought my first car (from the same garage as my latest as it happens) the salesman told me just to ring whichever motoring organisation I belonged to. I would offer that advice to anyone! An ex-colleague had a tyre blow out on the Thelwall viaduct once. Being scared of heights did not help. He limped on as far as he could and then tried to change the tyre. He said the scariest thing was feeling the viaduct sway...... Now that would be a serious oh heck moment for me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fiz Posted October 12, 2012 Share Posted October 12, 2012 That sounds terrifying, Jan! I do not like heights either. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sim Posted October 13, 2012 Share Posted October 13, 2012 Cyclists The House of the Rising Sun People who walk down the street texting and just assume that everyone else will walk around them Ditto people wearing music headphones who cross the street without looking or hearing....we drivers are supposed to see them, react and avoid hitting them when they don't even bother to look before crossing Litterbugs 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gillm Posted October 13, 2012 Share Posted October 13, 2012 Oooh what a great thread...where to start!! Drivers who keep their fog lights on when it isn't foggy.....do they never wonder what that little light on the dashboard means???? Those who stand on the left on the Tube escalators. They should be barred from the network. People on the train who think it is OK to use a mobile in a quiet carriage if they are "talking quietly". What part of "No Mobile Phones" do they not understand... Parents letting their children run riot in public places and expecting us to be amused at the little darlings' antics....that's if they go as far as to notice of course. Those who assume that "Please" and "Thank You" belong to a bygone era. I am officially old and cranky..... 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
taxi4ballet Posted October 13, 2012 Author Share Posted October 13, 2012 When I bought my first car (from the same garage as my latest as it happens) the salesman told me just to ring whichever motoring organisation I belonged to. I would offer that advice to anyone! Good idea - if it happens when you're out and about, but this was outside the front door and we don't have home-start cover! Hubby cancelled it since we have a mechanic neighbour, but he was out... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jan McNulty Posted October 14, 2012 Share Posted October 14, 2012 Actually the one time a neighbour changed my tyre it was outside our house! But I was a bit worried when the garage I went to (which the neighbour did advise me to) was able to tighten the nuts so much more. I had visions of me driving down the M62 and noticing one of my wheels passing me (one wheel on my wagon.......)! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
taxi4ballet Posted October 14, 2012 Author Share Posted October 14, 2012 The word 'Respect', particularly when teamed with 'Rights'. Those who somehow think that people have to 'earn their respect' before treating them with anything remotely resembling politeness and good manners. Whatever happened to good old-fashioned courtesy and consideration for others? 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MAB Posted October 15, 2012 Share Posted October 15, 2012 The word 'Respect', particularly when teamed with 'Rights'. I think for many people the word respect is now tied up with the word 'intimidation', or at least it is in my corner of south London. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alison Posted October 15, 2012 Share Posted October 15, 2012 People who walk down the street texting and just assume that everyone else will walk around them Ditto people wearing music headphones who cross the street without looking or hearing....we drivers are supposed to see them, react and avoid hitting them when they don't even bother to look before crossing Or for that matter are on the phone. The accident involving the woman who effectively walked under a bendybus because she was on the phone, I think it was, was not far from my old office. The poor driver ... Those who stand on the left on the Tube escalators. People on the train who think it is OK to use a mobile in a quiet carriage if they are "talking quietly". What part of "No Mobile Phones" do they not understand... Those who assume that "Please" and "Thank You" belong to a bygone era. All of those. I notice that Chiltern Trains actually includes talking, full stop, in things thou shalt not do in a Quiet Carriage. Unfortunately, they also tend to run 3-coach trains to and from Birmingham, and these get highly crowded, and it's really pretty impossible to expect everyone who's had to cram into the QC just to get on to be quiet I think for many people the word respect is now tied up with the word 'intimidation', or at least it is in my corner of south London. Unsurprisingly, mine too. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
porthesia Posted October 21, 2012 Share Posted October 21, 2012 Cinemas! Normally very load and very cold. Thursday night still cold but the sound was at the level I would like it to be every time I visit .... except for this particular perfomance I would have appreciated just a tad louder. Led Zeppelin do sound better with the volume up just a bit 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
taxi4ballet Posted October 21, 2012 Author Share Posted October 21, 2012 Local councils who put up helpful signs telling you that a certain road will be closed on a certain day between certain times. You remember this and take extra time to do a long detour, only to find that the road wan't closed at all. Then... they close the road the following week without warning, and you are running late and have to do the detour all over again Cyclists who get in everyone's way by riding around in a big bunch on Sunday mornings (especially the ones clad in yellow jerseys, pretending to be in the Tour-de France. Who are they kidding?) 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AnneMarriott Posted October 22, 2012 Share Posted October 22, 2012 Agreed about misleading local council signs - and this also applies to national highway maintenance, too. Hairdressers: too many sub-categories to list but sometimes culminating in the client slinking out, having cravenly left an unjustified tip, praying for rain so she can hide the unflattering result of her visit under an umbrella. Doctors - or more specifically their appointment systems 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anna C Posted October 22, 2012 Share Posted October 22, 2012 "Friends" who regularly cancel dinner dates (made months before because of shifts) because they have had a better offer. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fiz Posted October 22, 2012 Share Posted October 22, 2012 That is just plain bad manners x 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anna C Posted October 22, 2012 Share Posted October 22, 2012 It is. 5 days before the dinner party - and I've bought the meat - to be told by facebook message. This is the third time and I'm really cross now! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fiz Posted October 22, 2012 Share Posted October 22, 2012 Do not ask them again! Better yet, we'll come instead 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sheila Beelam Posted October 25, 2012 Share Posted October 25, 2012 I'm on my way Spanner Avocado Paying £150 for flea spot on treatment for 3 months for 3 cats & 3 dogs...18 TINY pipettes of liquid - wish I'd invented those! Daily Mail Keith Lemon Greying ballet tights Intolerance of others Tax PPI claim phone calls 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hfbrew Posted October 26, 2012 Share Posted October 26, 2012 People who brightly say ""oh like Billy Elliott then?" when you mention a dancing son! 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AnneMarriott Posted October 26, 2012 Share Posted October 26, 2012 I'm on my way Spanner Avocado Paying £150 for flea spot on treatment for 3 months for 3 cats & 3 dogs...18 TINY pipettes of liquid - wish I'd invented those! Daily Mail Keith Lemon Greying ballet tights Intolerance of others Tax PPI claim phone calls Re flea treatment for cats and dogs - go online and save a fortune! 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
swanprincess Posted October 29, 2012 Share Posted October 29, 2012 Going on holiday for a week with no WiFi, and therefore no Ballet.co!! Eeeek- drove me crazy not being able to post or read the forums!! 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
taxi4ballet Posted October 29, 2012 Author Share Posted October 29, 2012 Custard powder (when butter-fingered husband drops the container and covers everything in the kitchen... have you ever tried to wipe that stuff up? Yellow streaks everywhere!) Cold draughts Blunt scissors 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AnneMarriott Posted October 30, 2012 Share Posted October 30, 2012 I'm going to add two additional sources of irritation at supermarket shopping, both of which seem recent innovations: taking up position in the checkout queue while various family members scuttle about doing the actual shopping and slamming a divider down on the checkout conveyor belt and unloading the trolley without letting the person in front finish unloading, being careful not to leave enough space or checking if it's OK. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bangorballetboy Posted October 30, 2012 Share Posted October 30, 2012 I'm going to add two additional sources of irritation at supermarket shopping, both of which seem recent innovations: taking up position in the checkout queue while various family members scuttle about doing the actual shopping and slamming a divider down on the checkout conveyor belt and unloading the trolley without letting the person in front finish unloading, being careful not to leave enough space or checking if it's OK. We had a great one in Lidl a couple of weeks ago where the checkout assistant wouldn't push the dividers down the channel so about 80% of the conveyor belt was empty! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ann Williams Posted October 30, 2012 Share Posted October 30, 2012 Another supermarket grouch: Finding a promisingly short checkout queue, only for the checkout person to bellow at you that the checkout is now closed, when a simple and clear 'checkout closed' sign on the conveyor belt would have saved him/her the trouble and you the irritation. I guess the supermarkets have to cut corners somehow... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
taxi4ballet Posted November 7, 2012 Author Share Posted November 7, 2012 Nadine Dorries - good riddance! 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alison Posted November 15, 2012 Share Posted November 15, 2012 This one's still rankling quite a few days on: bus drivers who allow you to get on, then wait until you've found a seat and got yourself and your shopping nicely settled before calling you back because somehow they didn't actually register that they'd seen the bus pass you held in front of their nose when you first got on - particularly when they'd originally nodded to indicate that they *had* seen it 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fiz Posted November 16, 2012 Share Posted November 16, 2012 I do not like bus drivers or bin men! They seem to deliberately select the most cheerless specimens of humanity to those jobs Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
taxi4ballet Posted November 16, 2012 Author Share Posted November 16, 2012 I dunno- I thought they were all car park attendants and doctors' receptionists! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jan McNulty Posted November 16, 2012 Share Posted November 16, 2012 Don't start me on doctors' receptionists! Although some of them, in fairness, are very good. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
taxi4ballet Posted November 16, 2012 Author Share Posted November 16, 2012 Our local newspaper the Biggleswade Chronicle. When we are in the middle of one of the biggest stories to hit the district in decades - Madame Dorries and her Australian adventure - which has attracted national tv and newspaper coverage, the lead story on the front page today is: 'Supermarket fails in bid to extend hours' There's a short article about her failure to attend the Remembrance Day service on page three, but other than that - nothing. A remarkable feat of fence-sitting restraint by our local journalists! 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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