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PasturesNew

tomterm8 wrote: »

It makes you wonder if there is a business just taking sick people to hospital and waiting for them there.

No there's not. It's done by community and volunteer drivers.

PasturesNew

tomterm8 wrote: »

In the long term, I think cars will drive themselves. The technology is getting there finally...

On a price-equal basis I'd like that. I don't need "to drive" to feel all important. I drive to get to places. Sometimes getting to places is really boring when all you're doing is sitting in a chair, holding a wheel, for 2-3 hours at a stretch..... dull.

I'd rather curl up in the back and have a snooze.....

tomterm8

PasturesNew wrote: »

No there's not. It's done by community and volunteer drivers.

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Fair enough. Just pondering. ( To be honest the insurance and legal costs would probably sink it anyway even if there was a market. What would happen if one of your passengers got critically ill during the journey? Legal nightmare. )

One of my friends did run a similar business "under the table" taking people to airports. At least, until she had a nasty crash and lost some of her driving confidence.

zagubov

michaels wrote: »

Can't come soon enough imho - I would love to be able to hand over the motorway part of every trip to the car and do other things which must be the easiest technologically, I would happily drive the bits at each end if needed. It would also do wonders for fuel efficiency and congestion.

Takes me back to years ago where instead of driving between Glasgow to London you'd drive your car into Central Station and load it onto a special train (motorail) that ferried it down to London.

A friend of the family who worked for BR had access to cheap rail travel as a perk and used to ferry his car down to the south of France etc. using these trains. Don't know how much time or money it saved although obiously you arrived in a better state.

Wonder if anywhere still runs this service or have the cheap airlines and car hire companies taken over that niche?

lostinrates

zagubov wrote: »

Takes me back to years ago where instead of driving between Glasgow to London you'd drive your car into Central Station and load it onto a special train (motorail) that ferried it down to London.

A friend of the family who worked for BR had access to cheap rail travel as a perk and used to ferry his car down to the south of France etc. using these trains. Don't know how much time or money it saved although obiously you arrived in a better state.

Wonder if anywhere still runs this service or have the cheap airlines and car hire companies taken over that niche?

DH family used to do this Italy to France as a kid.drive it on a train. Super option. Wish it happened more.

I also loved reading pony books where the pony or show horse or favourite hunter was put on the train for a trip/competition/day's hunting in so e far flung hunt country. used to make me :rotfl:.

chewmylegoff

silvercar wrote: »

My response to that would be to ask who they thought their manager was, or did they think they were the MD?

He thought my manager was his manager. We have stupid dual reporting lines which just confuse everyone - he has a "strong" reporting line to me and a dotted reporting line to my manager. No wonder he is confused, it's all bollox.

lostinrates

Kiwi got a grown up leather collar today.

We went shopping and I saw one thati thought looked quite sweet and they had one his size so......its brown leather with brass stars on.

I realised as I put it on that the reason it looked like a 'kiwi' collar is that he still wears the value puppy collar we got him to come home in. Which is ....brown and black stars.


So that's it, his collar for life hopefully.

tomterm8

It's not so much that he didn't know who his manager was, it's that he admitted it on the managers performance review that proves he's thicker than the river ankh on a summers day.

Fire him.

GDB2222

lostinrates wrote: »

Just had a look at that.

(I've been thinking about everyone's kind and sensible advice).


I have no doubt in my mind RP would be able to do all asked on that test.

Examples I can give are....

Lydia comes from a town. When I mentioned to RP my 'friend' was visiting from that town RP asked why I has so e one coming from so far away. RP had confused that well known town, one my family have long familiarity with, for one in a different area of the country, also a well known town, and they sound similar but there was no mishearing, but rather a confusion.

This one is fresh in my mind really because I spoke about it to Lydia. But that sort of thing happens often. I think its telling to me because its a problem I have had with word confusion and language loss. I found this sort of thing very frustrating, alienating and upsetting. I know RP has trouble sleeping. No classic depression but talks of 'troubled thoughts' at night time etc. this is not new, but I think its increasingly 'all that's left' because RP refuses to get new interests or occupation and just potters like someone much much older. I think, frankly, this doesn't help the mind either, I know the more I do the better my mind is. Brains like exercise. I think it must be a terribly distressing experience. I don't think I'm helping much yet either, as I haven't found yet the best route to do so.

We all go downhill after about age 30, so a certain amount of deterioration is to be expected. I'm certainly much slower than I was 30 years ago. If your mum can easily pass the MMSE, as you say she can, maybe there is not all that much to worry about?

lostinrates

GDB2222 wrote: »

We all go downhill after about age 30, so a certain amount of deterioration is to be expected. I'm certainly much slower than I was 30 years ago. If your mum can easily pass the MMSE, as you say she can, maybe there is not all that much to worry about?

Hob left on today when I went out for the third time this week?

Taps left running? Doors unlocked and gates open risking dogs and (if one were so inclined to worry) personal security?

Horse gates have also not been secured properly(not causing any incident but potential exists) but cannot guarantee that's RP. I think it is, but cannot be sure. Obviously that's a risk of a whole different nature, a risk to other people's property, life (as with the dogs on the road) and the liability on the business would be epic.