Whose responsibility?

photome

jackieblack wrote: »

:T More and more, lately, I'm fnding myself agreeing with Bob The Saver
(Should I be concerned? )

Me too, the only thing wrong with the post is that all those posters who post about being ripped off etc wont read it!!

the next time someone posts a rip off thread or whose fault is it, this thread should be the stock response

zagfles

Bob_the_Saver wrote: »

I book flights, and apart from the Volcano Ash (not their fault) and the odd delay, I go and I arrive in one piece without real problems, once in a while a bag goes walkabout but as 95% of the time I'm cabin baggage only it's VERY VERY rare.
Maybe the seat-back 'entertainment' doesn't work what the heck I have my tablet with MY choice of films. Maybe the Halal chicken wasn't - what the heck It hasn't poisoned me yet.

What if they put a child near you, that usually has you whinging and ranting

If I see a cockroach in a $5 room I find another and race them, (roaches not rooms).

I once partially trapped one under a glass, its head sticking out, went to look for a bigger glass/bowl one but got distracted, and forgot about it. Next morning it's head was gone :eek: probably eaten by another cockroach. Lifted the glass and it started scrurrying away, it was still alive with no head :eek: Orrible things.

Bob_the_Saver

zagfles wrote: »

I once partially trapped one under a glass, its head sticking out, went to look for a bigger glass/bowl one but got distracted, and forgot about it. Next morning it's head was gone :eek: probably eaten by another cockroach. Lifted the glass and it started scrurrying away, it was still alive with no head :eek: Orrible things.

They always make a nice crunch when you step on them heavily but it does have to be heavily to kill them, but agreed they don't make ideal pets, a bit like children.

Gloomendoom

zagfles wrote: »

I once partially trapped one under a glass, its head sticking out, went to look for a bigger glass/bowl one but got distracted, and forgot about it. Next morning it's head was gone :eek: probably eaten by another cockroach. Lifted the glass and it started scrurrying away, it was still alive with no head :eek: Orrible things.

Are you sure it wasn't a tortoise?

zagfles

Gloomendoom wrote: »

Are you sure it wasn't a tortoise?

Fastest tortoise in the world if it was!! Even without a head it was quite nippy!

Bob_the_Saver

zagfles wrote: »

Fastest tortoise in the world if it was!! Even without a head it was quite nippy!

The last one I found wasn't that fast but it was huge.

http://rateeveryanimal.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/cockroach-costume.jpg

pompeyrich

Bob_the_Saver wrote: »

In Europe I usually book hotels in advance because it's a lot cheaper. I've almost never had a real problem. The only serious complaint I had was a long time ago.

Why do I do all this, because it's MY responsibility, If I F**k up it's MY fault - I don't try to blame someone else, shout rip-off or sue them.

If people want everything to be just like home why the h*ll do they bother to go away.

Maybe I'm just lucky but as I'm outside the UK for more months of the year than 99.9% of the 'rip-off complainants' on this forum (and I have been for years) I must be bl**dy lucky.

A great post indeed, however a reflection of society in many ways, in "my day" you tripped over a loose paving stone, the first thing you did was look around, hoping no one had seen you. now it's lawyers4U and a big claim for pain and mental anguish. Some idiot crashed into the back of your car, you were sore for a week or two, a couple of hot baths and some aspirin and life went on, these days it's like winning the lottery, get the Florida brochures out!

I would also say that it seems you are a seasoned traveller, so the odd "hiccup" maybe more bearable to you, it may even enhance the trip. If however it is the long anticipated, highlight of the year, family holiday, probably at inflated prices due to the need to go in school holidays, then that "hiccup" turns into a major disappointment.

Bob_the_Saver

pompeyrich wrote: »

A great post indeed, however a reflection of society in many ways, in "my day" you tripped over a loose paving stone, the first thing you did was look around, hoping no one had seen you. now it's lawyers4U and a big claim for pain and mental anguish. Some idiot crashed into the back of your car, you were sore for a week or two, a couple of hot baths and some aspirin and life went on, these days it's like winning the lottery, get the Florida brochures out!

I would also say that it seems you are a seasoned traveller, so the odd "hiccup" maybe more bearable to you, it may even enhance the trip. If however it is the long anticipated, highlight of the year, family holiday, probably at inflated prices due to the need to go in school holidays, then that "hiccup" turns into a major disappointment.

Agreed to a degree but when you read many of the hiccups that people complain about or want compensation for it's just pathetic. So very often as well these hiccups are of their own making, didn't read the booking details, can't spell their own name, didn't print their boarding card despite many reminders, didn't bother with insurance, booked with firms a quick Google would have you running a mile from, put wads of cash in hold baggage, arrived late at airport, etc etc etc.
Remember the one about the whole family having to stay indoors for several days after granny was bumped on the head by a wardrobe door, I can't remember the exact details but something like that - pathetic. Obviously there are true horror stories that are not their fault (holidays on Cruise liners seem a popular in this respect) but when you go through many stories in detail they are so often not what they seem, how often do we see the OP changing their story when holes start to appear.

Gloomendoom

I got bad food poisoning in Portugal (not my fault, obviously) and the whole family went out enjoying themselves and left me with my ärse on the toilet and my head in the sink. Added to that, I had the humiliation of having to listen to the little girls staying in the next door villa imitating my retching and pooping noises.

I reckon I still might have grounds for a claim.

Bob_the_Saver

Gloomendoom wrote: »

I got bad food poisoning in Portugal (not my fault, obviously) and the whole family went out enjoying themselves and left me with my ärse on the toilet and my head in the sink. Added to that, I had the humiliation of having to listen to the little girls staying in the next door villa imitating my retching and pooping noises.

I reckon I still might have grounds for a claim.

Against the little girls for physiological damage or the family for desertion?