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Byatt

My card was rejected one time around a Xmas period (bank being over zealous I think or it wouldn't accept my correct pin) after I filled up with petrol. They took my details and I had to sign something to say I would pay by a certain date or they would send an agency after me.

Once, I was in A$da with a trolley load of shopping, and my pin wasn't accepted :eek:, they wouldn't let me do the same as the petrol station though, so I left the full trolley in CS and walked out.

LavenderBees

On a totally different subject....has anyone ever ridden/driven a moped?

...I'm day dreaming how I could possibly retire early, OR if I didn't have my current job and company car for any other reason.

The nearest town is 7 miles away up and down hills...does a moped seem like something that could replace a car for wee shopping trips....? Could it be parked/locked safely in a car park so longer trips could be done by bus?

Am I day dreaming too much?? Obviously, the aim would be to reduce costs for travel as much as possible but still retain a little bit of independence.

LavenderBees

Byatt wrote: »

My card was rejected one time around a Xmas period (bank being over zealous I think or it wouldn't accept my correct pin) after I filled up with petrol. They took my details and I had to sign something to say I would pay by a certain date or they would send an agency after me.

Once, I was in A$da with a trolley load of shopping, and my pin wasn't accepted :eek:, they wouldn't let me do the same as the petrol station though, so I left the full trolley in CS and walked out.

I would try crying....

scaredy_cat

LavenderBees wrote: »

On a totally different subject....has anyone ever ridden/driven a moped?

...I'm day dreaming how I could possibly retire early, OR if I didn't have my current job and company car for any other reason.

The nearest town is 7 miles away up and down hills...does a moped seem like something that could replace a car for wee shopping trips....? Could it be parked/locked safely in a car park so longer trips could be done by bus?

Am I day dreaming too much?? Obviously, the aim would be to reduce costs for travel as much as possible but still retain a little bit of independence.

i used to ride a motor bike, cars are much nicer when the weather is bad but mopeds are much cheaper to run and insure. You can also get some quite big ones with good carrier storage.

Byatt

I can't cry to order, sadly, , and you get to an age where it just doesn't look cute. :eek:

I've been on a moped as a passenger, during a briefish period when we decided not to have a car...it was great fun, we even carried all our shopping home on it, some in the top box, and me clutching hold of the bags, flippin' hilarious especially when stuff fell out. :rotfl:

I can't ride a normal bike though, so wouldn't try one with an engine, or whatever they have. So not much help really.

Oh, and it was pinched from outside our house one night, I only knew it was gone when the police called and asked if we were missing a moped? Me...I don't think so...them...I suggest you look out your window, madam...

me...OMG it's gone!! :eek:

mum2one

I use to love my mopeds I had them from 16 to I was about 25, I had a car at 18, but use to use the moped for work saved car parking.

If you go for a 50cc model - go for one with bigger wheels, - not as pretty as small wheel but that was best that I had.. I had one stolen from work which got set fire to on a railway line - the rail company had the cheek to try to charge me to remove it...

I had a large box on the back, so whilst out and about could put the helmet in then swop for shoping, insurance was cheap, so economcial to run, I would have one tomorrow if I could xx

LavenderBees

Aye. I would rather have a car. Feel safer and keep the weather off, as well as being able to carry "stuff"". But a wee hairdryer on wheels looks fun at very little cost. Will have to investigate more....

There are odd buses through my village during the day ,but it would be better to get to Morpeth and get lots of buses from there.

I can picture me tootling along at 15 mph, in the sunshine, wind artistically ruffling my curls.....sound realistic??

calicocat

LavenderBees wrote: »

Aye. I would rather have a car. Feel safer and keep the weather off, as well as being able to carry "stuff"". But a wee hairdryer on wheels looks fun at very little cost. Will have to investigate more....

There are odd buses through my village during the day ,but it would be better to get to Morpeth and get lots of buses from there.

I can picture me tootling along at 15 mph, in the sunshine, wind artistically ruffling my curls.....sound realistic??

:rotfl: :rotfl:


i can't see it being much fun in the winter months though, and there wouldn't be any artistic ruffling of curles......you get helmet hair unless you pile it all on top of your head under the helmet, and even then the fringe can be a disaster......:D.

If you get one , make sure you get a side car though for day. trips out for me and my dog when i retire........OMG I have suddenly had a vision of the 'two fat ladies' and their transport:eek::eek:


well , better be off and do some work......god i hate work.

Does this happen to everyone at around my age.....where all you think about is not working and retiring ?....Is it a passing phase conected to starting the menopause malarki , or is this how i'm going to feel for the next 12 years.....or more???:(

moneyistooshorttomention

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well , better be off and do some work......god i hate work.

Does this happen to everyone at around my age.....where all you think about is not working and retiring ?....Is it a passing phase conected to starting the menopause malarki , or is this how i'm going to feel for the next 12 years.....or more???:([/QUOTE]





Don't know whether it happens to everyone...but it's very frequent. I certainly did.

Am trying to recall the exact sort of age that "Thank goodness retirement is just around the corner" thoughts were about every other thought I had. Errrm...:think:..think in my case that started about 5 years or so before I reached retirement age.

A thought that has struck me forcibly since retirement is that, as a typical Baby Boomer generation member, I had got all my plans/hopes/etc focused on "When I am retired I will do so and so etc" and it had simply literally never occurred to me that I would be anything other than an "orphan" at retirement. That automatic assumption that "People of that age group don't have parents any more".

That assumption proved to be wrong...

My mother, on the other hand, had made what I presume is a typical set of assumptions for someone in her generation, ie that unmarried daughter would stick around and be a companion figure for her and, if need be, unpaid carer for the rest of my mothers' life.

There was an almighty head-on crash between those two sets of assumptions when that emerged. I don't particularly get on with my mother and anyway soon enough worked out "Ohmygod I probably won't be able to Have A Retirement as I've planned until I'm in my 70s if I do what my mother wants...by which time I'll be an old person myself!". Also I'm not exactly over the moon to be getting together a home for myself as late in life as my 60s, but I'm not even sure I'd be able to find the energy/determination to renovate a house in my 70s.

Sorry to rain on anyone's parade...but, for those who still have parents, it is as well to be aware that they may be mentally planning your retirement for you. At least that way, you will be aware that that is possible and not go into a Headlong Car Crash when you go to get on with Having A Retirement and find that there has been this "other set of plans" for you in your parents' heads all along.

LavenderBees

mum2one wrote: »

I use to love my mopeds I had them from 16 to I was about 25, I had a car at 18, but use to use the moped for work saved car parking.

If you go for a 50cc model - go for one with bigger wheels, - not as pretty as small wheel but that was best that I had.. I had one stolen from work which got set fire to on a railway line - the rail company had the cheek to try to charge me to remove it...

I had a large box on the back, so whilst out and about could put the helmet in then swop for shoping, insurance was cheap, so economcial to run, I would have one tomorrow if I could xx

Would 50cc get up hills? Quite steep hills....? I thought I'd have to go for the highest cc to have a bit of oomph!

At least with a helmet, I'd have an excuse for my bad hair days :rotfl: