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Post by kate on Nov 4, 2024 19:42:15 GMT
Pleasant shopping today. Not so busy and the check out was very pleasant. Nice fellow who paced the throughput to my timing. He didn't just bung them down the slope either as one or two females do. After I'd paid, I thanked him for his thoughtfulness and he smiled and said I've been on that side of the counter too. He did seem really chuffed though.
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Post by zou on Nov 4, 2024 19:46:04 GMT
One hopes not. I know someone who used to drive for them so will enquire what likely action would be. What happened? Copied from the WGMG thread about 10 days ago: Just had to complain to the local bus company about one of their drivers, experienced on my cycle commute home. Dangerous close pass on the inside (within 50cm) when the road filtered from 2 to 1 lane - he undertook and pushed across. Maybe he didn't see you, you think? Hard to imagine how he couldn't have (2 rear lights, one steady, one pulsing; very bright flashing front light with side visibility; fully reflective jacket, hi-vis yellow helmet etc.) - and seems he really did because he stuck his arm out the window to give me the finger. Classy. |
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Post by kate on Nov 4, 2024 19:59:24 GMT
Copied from the WGMG thread about 10 days ago: Just had to complain to the local bus company about one of their drivers, experienced on my cycle commute home. Dangerous close pass on the inside (within 50cm) when the road filtered from 2 to 1 lane - he undertook and pushed across. Maybe he didn't see you, you think? Hard to imagine how he couldn't have (2 rear lights, one steady, one pulsing; very bright flashing front light with side visibility; fully reflective jacket, hi-vis yellow helmet etc.) - and seems he really did because he stuck his arm out the window to give me the finger. Classy. I had missed that one. I'm glad you reported him. Shame there weren't any police around, Glad you survived it. |
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Post by willien on Nov 4, 2024 20:22:58 GMT
I have just been granted Universal Credit - according to a piece of reported and blocked spam at any rate.
However, given spammers appear to have got my tablet's phone number I might as well use it whenever I am obliged to provide a mobile number but do not want to.
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Post by gray1720 on Nov 4, 2024 20:32:31 GMT
SHifting shite on ebay. Two items sold today, two will sell. Plenty more where they came from, mind...
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Post by lesleysm2 on Nov 5, 2024 2:45:54 GMT
I've considered curved monitors - they have some plus points, but I do a fair amount of vector-art work with lots of lines and angles which would confuse my pea-brain on a curved monitor when zoomed in. Back when I was doing CAD it would have made my brain cell fall out of my ear  I don't do that sort of work much so it suits me. I thought a curved monitor was a bit of a con until I got mine as I mostly use it to watch DVD's etc I like it, the curve makes it almost feel like a cinema screen |
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Post by andytake2 on Nov 5, 2024 8:23:46 GMT
Pleasant shopping today. Not so busy and the check out was very pleasant. Nice fellow who paced the throughput to my timing. He didn't just bung them down the slope either as one or two females do. After I'd paid, I thanked him for his thoughtfulness and he smiled and said I've been on that side of the counter too. He did seem really chuffed though. It does make shopping a whole different experience doesn't it? We encounter the 'chuck it down as fast as possible' in Lidl sometimes, though the more experienced staff are good enough to wait - we still put everything in the trolley and then pack at the appropriate place, but it's nice to not have stuff thrown at us! Waitrose is a different kettle of fish. The staff are always patient and will help people carry their stuff to the car if necessary.
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Post by spinno on Nov 5, 2024 8:52:48 GMT
Pleasant shopping today. Not so busy and the check out was very pleasant. Nice fellow who paced the throughput to my timing. He didn't just bung them down the slope either as one or two females do. After I'd paid, I thanked him for his thoughtfulness and he smiled and said I've been on that side of the counter too. He did seem really chuffed though. It does make shopping a whole different experience doesn't it? We encounter the 'chuck it down as fast as possible' in Lidl sometimes, though the more experienced staff are good enough to wait - we still put everything in the trolley and then pack at the appropriate place, but it's nice to not have stuff thrown at us! Waitrose is a different kettle of fish. The staff are always patient and will help people carry their stuff to the car if necessary.
It's nice they help you carry it but it would be better if they paid for it... |
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Post by daves on Nov 5, 2024 9:11:02 GMT
A RTBC from yesterday. I rang the surgery in the morning about a dodgy left thumb and got an appointment for that afternoon with the physio in Dorchester. She knew what questions to ask and rapidly inentified the problem and made some suggestions for alleviating it.
It has put my schedule out a bit as I had been going to get a loaf baked which I will do today, it can be proving while I go into Bridport for a thumb splint. And maybe make an appointment for ear piercing 🤷♀️
Oh, and she liked my nail varnish, very Goth she said 😂
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Post by Kath on Nov 5, 2024 9:24:45 GMT
I don't live in America.
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Post by dreampolice on Nov 5, 2024 9:34:26 GMT
What about your husband? is he glad not to be there too? (I have got it right I hope, that he is American) |
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Post by Kath on Nov 5, 2024 14:11:40 GMT
What about your husband? is he glad not to be there too? (I have got it right I hope, that he is American) You have it right and he's equally glad that he doesn't live there any more. He's been living here in Scotland with Indefinite Leave To Remain since 1992 and frequently says he'd never go back. It is largely to do with gun violence but also the very limited and closed view of the world that so many of his compatriots seem proud to sport. In fact he even went so far as to say that if he went back for a holiday there are certain states he'd avoid like the plague, or would work to avoid having to go through to get elsewhere. It seems my dream of a cross-country road trip in a Winnebago is just going to be a dream because driving from one side to the other while avoiding the middle would take forever! |
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Post by gray1720 on Nov 5, 2024 14:39:17 GMT
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Post by willien on Nov 5, 2024 15:22:55 GMT
What about your husband? is he glad not to be there too? (I have got it right I hope, that he is American) You have it right and he's equally glad that he doesn't live there any more. He's been living here in Scotland with Indefinite Leave To Remain since 1992 and frequently says he'd never go back. It is largely to do with gun violence but also the very limited and closed view of the world that so many of his compatriots seem proud to sport. In fact he even went so far as to say that if he went back for a holiday there are certain states he'd avoid like the plague, or would work to avoid having to go through to get elsewhere. It seems my dream of a cross-country road trip in a Winnebago is just going to be a dream because driving from one side to the other while avoiding the middle would take forever! Kath, he might want to check what indefinite right to remain actually means. Some who had it were prevented from re-entering when they visited "the old country". Of course they were black (think Windrush) but even so... |
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Post by kate on Nov 5, 2024 17:11:41 GMT
RTBC
Helped someone up some concrete steps today on the way back from an abortive trip to the butcher. I'm cheerful because I was fitter than her and able to haul her up the steps. She was grateful and I was pleased not be the one being helped.
WGMG
Wanted a pork fillet and they only had frozen ones in their ridiculous glass cabinets. Get real, butchers!
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