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Post by cheerypeabrain on May 15, 2019 17:36:03 GMT
I don't drive but I can't help noticing that there seem to be a lot more aggressive drivers on the road. Not just in private cars either. We were leaving a shop car park the other day and there were a couple of cars behind us...a bin lorry driver started backing into us! We couldn't move because of the cars behind but this blooming idiot just kept coming...in the end hubby had to swerve sideways..the bin lorry driver jumped out of his cab, glared at us then stomped over to a public rubbish bin...took the bag out and chucked it in the back of his lorry...no explanation. Today we were cut up (I think that's the term) by a huge lorry hurtling along at speed...nasty man.
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Post by kerouac2 on May 15, 2019 18:14:35 GMT
I never like people blowing their horns if it is not an emergency, but I am even more irritated when cars are doing it when the problem is visible to all, for example a delivery truck unloading when there is only one lane in the street. There is no way that the truck will leave before the job is finished and yet some people will continue to honk anyway.
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Post by bixaorellana on May 15, 2019 19:12:48 GMT
Well, everyone knows if you see a car stopped in the road with the driver in front of it looking into the open hood that you should continuously honk because that will miraculously fix whatever is wrong with the engine.
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Post by Kimby on May 15, 2019 19:43:53 GMT
Today we were cut up (I think that's the term) by a huge lorry hurtling along at speed...nasty man. Do you mean “cut off”, cheery?
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Post by cheerypeabrain on May 15, 2019 20:14:54 GMT
I'm not sure Kimby...we were driving along the busy dual carriageway and this lorry was basically charging alongside forcing his way out of his (inside) lane in front of us...altho for a while I could have reached out and touched his vehicle . It's a fast road and we weren't driving slowly or anything....it was definitely an aggressive manoeuvre. The cars in our lane all had to brake.
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Post by Kimby on May 15, 2019 20:29:20 GMT
The jerk “cut you off”, for sure.
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Post by questa on May 16, 2019 0:49:58 GMT
Driving back to Adelaide from a motorsport event that we had organised, my former spouse and I were being harassed by a car full of hooligans. We were on a freeway and these apes would get in front and then slow right down but as we would try to pass they'd speed up again. We were in a powerful v8 but towing a trailer.
We managed to pass them and my skilful driver said, "I could flick this car into a fishtail (back end of car lashing side to side) and dump the lot on them." On the trailer we were towing was a fairly full port-a-loo we had hired. The mental image...priceless.
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Post by kerouac2 on May 23, 2019 16:31:13 GMT
I really dislike it when a smoker tells me something like "you shouldn't keep using the same plastic water bottle for so long -- they can cause cancer."
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Post by whatagain on May 25, 2019 22:13:51 GMT
I just cut two fingertips. Hurts. And you feel like such a fool when you can just use your I de. And the ´auriculaire ´ (earfinger ?) Anyway the trend is good. From life threatening rénal problem to dislodging of elbow and now just fingers ....
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Post by questa on May 26, 2019 0:48:02 GMT
Ow! Ow! Ow! fingertips are very sensitive and hurt a lot. I hope you heal quickly. Does "ear finger" mean what Ozzies call "Little" finger and US calls "Pinky"?
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Post by kerouac2 on May 26, 2019 4:07:44 GMT
Yes, the auriculaire is the little finger.
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Post by cheerypeabrain on May 26, 2019 7:51:48 GMT
Ouch...hope it stops hurting soon whatagain x
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Post by bixaorellana on May 26, 2019 8:05:08 GMT
Good indication that you're on the road to tip-top health, Whatagain.
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Post by lagatta on May 26, 2019 20:21:10 GMT
I think pinky is also more informal than little finger. Do Afro American healthcare professionals also call it a pinky?
The port-a-loo image is precious. A wonderful revenge fantasy, along the lines of ordering pizza at 3 a.m. chez an enemy or a load of soil dumped on his/her lawn or land. Doubt that is so easy now.
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Post by whatagain on May 28, 2019 9:22:40 GMT
Visit g a doctor again. This time a dermatologist to remove a dark dot on my skin. The kind that can evolve into a cancer zone. So I will have seen all types of docs in one year I think. Just need the gynécologue to check my prostate.
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Post by bixaorellana on May 28, 2019 15:30:56 GMT
I believe you could do that yourself with your auriculaire. Google it.
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Post by Kimby on May 28, 2019 20:11:28 GMT
Snork! 😄
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Post by cheerypeabrain on May 29, 2019 17:49:37 GMT
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Post by kerouac2 on Jun 22, 2019 10:08:53 GMT
Accepting to reply to a short survey that turns out to be a long survey.
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Post by whatagain on Jun 22, 2019 12:51:26 GMT
High. There is nothing of a short survey.
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Post by Kimby on Jun 23, 2019 18:56:23 GMT
Remote controls that tip over when you try to push the buttons while it’s sitting on the coffee table. The makers must think we all live with a remote full-time in our hand!
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Post by bixaorellana on Jun 23, 2019 20:29:56 GMT
My, how you suffer!
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Post by questa on Jun 24, 2019 3:47:01 GMT
Changing ISP at the same time as NBN techs are installing my broadband paraphernalia. No phone or Internet for 3 days. Too many cooks etc...
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Post by bixaorellana on Jun 24, 2019 5:05:35 GMT
What changed the IP?
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Post by questa on Jun 24, 2019 12:39:48 GMT
I chose to switch to iiNet from Dodo because the former were waiving all the connection fees and charging $40 per month for seniors rather than $70-90. My timing, of course, was impeccable...NOT.
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Post by whatagain on Jun 24, 2019 16:10:39 GMT
Driving 2 kms and seeing traffic blocked in the other direction knowing I have to come back that way.
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Post by rikita on Jul 4, 2019 14:38:29 GMT
the way time seems to do little jumps. like, you look at one thing on the internet, or at one book, or whatever, and then the clock just jumps two hours ahead.
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Post by questa on Jul 6, 2019 5:00:47 GMT
All my clocks do the same. It is amazing how slow they get when I am at the dentist's!
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Post by kerouac2 on Jul 31, 2019 11:21:28 GMT
I am so fed up with being asked to rate things. Every time I buy a book or even a memory card at my normal store, I receive an email the next day asking me how I like the "product" and the staff in the store, and was it clean, and did I have trouble finding anything? Etc. (They know who I am because of my membership card that gives me discounts.) Same thing taking the train now. The SNCF sends me an email with 15 minutes of arrival asking me how the trip was, were the personnel efficient, were any special needs satisfied? To take the cake, there is a question at the end asking "Do you have any words of congratulations or encouragement for the staff?" I answered the survey the first time and wrote "I will give my encouragement as soon as I receive their congratulations for being a model passenger." The hotel sends me an email immediately with a link so that I can write a review on Trip Advisor... Then I had a problem with something else the other day and called customer service. Naturally, I received an email asking me to rate the quality of the person who helped me. Grrrr! I don't reply to anything anymore.
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Post by cheerypeabrain on Jul 31, 2019 11:36:24 GMT
Me too. Sometimes I am so pleased with a product that I want to rate it highly...but the constant begging for rating products (particularly from Amazon) drives me nuts.
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