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Nice People Thread Number 11 - A Treasury of Nice People
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I am trying to get my head round car hire. Why is this so hard?0
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neverdespairgirl wrote: »They wouldn't keep either heat in or light out, though (curtains, not buckets or ovens).
Heat should be OK as the patio doors are double glazed.
Light should be OK as there'll be venetians on the windows themselves too.
And, if I did need to keep heat in during winter then I'd have a bit more time to search out cheap long winter curtains.0 -
lostinrates wrote: »I am trying to get my head round car hire. Why is this so hard?
Car hire: You phone them up, book one, turn up, drive it, take it back, return home.
What're you struggling with?
I used to be a hire manager when I suddenly found myself without a job 30 years ago....0 -
PasturesNew wrote: »Car hire: You phone them up, book one, turn up, drive it, take it back, return home.
What're you struggling with?
I used to be a hire manager when I suddenly found myself without a job 30 years ago....
Which company though? And what car? Four hours plus driving.....smallest/cheapest should be fine.
How much time to allow....should be one day but last time ran late so.....that doubles cost.......0 -
No there's not. There are more women than men ..... don't mention gays as nobody's got the stats for thatCKhalvashi wrote: »
There's someone for everyone Masomnia, But if we assume there are as many that swing one way as the other, we're left back at there being more women than men. Therefore, there are some women "left over".
So, really, Masomnia's not got an excuse I guess.... but that doesn't mean that they all match up.0 -
PasturesNew wrote: »Heat should be OK as the patio doors are double glazed.
Light should be OK as there'll be venetians on the windows themselves too.
And, if I did need to keep heat in during winter then I'd have a bit more time to search out cheap long winter curtains.
Curtains still make a difference. I find that in my DG bit.0 -
You sound as though you are suggesting they should do this together. Is that what you intended?
Not at all! I had entirely separate curling up in nice clean sheets in mind.I know you've got very high ceilings, but are you really saying you want to end up with 8 high and 2 wide? How will you get the upper one up there? Won't it be wobbly? How will you reach the top shelves?
That's what OH wanted, and I can happily live with it. It might be a tad tricky to arrange in the first place, but the units screw to each other and to the wall, so they're pretty solid. OH has 4 x 2 and 2 x 2 in his study with the latter on top of the former, and there's lots of room higher up, still. I think you'd shove things you didn't need very often at the top (-:...much enquiry having been made concerning a gentleman, who had quitted a company where Johnson was, and no information being obtained; at last Johnson observed, that 'he did not care to speak ill of any man behind his back, but he believed the gentleman was an attorney'.0 -
PasturesNew wrote: »No there's not. There are more women than men ..... don't mention gays as nobody's got the stats for that But if we assume there are as many that swing one way as the other, we're left back at there being more women than men. Therefore, there are some women "left over".
Depends on the age, I think. There are more boys conceived than girls, but more boys and miscarried, die as infants and children and youths, all the way up. So at some point (not sure when, in people's 40s?) the women take over the majority.
But we are a country with more immigrants than emigrants, and immigrants are more male than female, on the whole.
Then you get places such as China and parts of India, where wholesale neglect, abortion and even murder mean a real shortage of girls in younger age groups....much enquiry having been made concerning a gentleman, who had quitted a company where Johnson was, and no information being obtained; at last Johnson observed, that 'he did not care to speak ill of any man behind his back, but he believed the gentleman was an attorney'.0 -
lostinrates wrote: »Which company though? And what car? Four hours plus driving.....smallest/cheapest should be fine.
How much time to allow....should be one day but last time ran late so.....that doubles cost.......
Car hire tends to be "by the day", so if you pick it up when they open (probably 8am) then when you get back they'll be closed and you'll have instructions of where to leave it/what to do with the key. Typically you're not charged another day if the car's there in the morning when they turn up for work.
Issues are: whether the tank's full and needs to be returned full - or do they send it out "as it comes" and you take it back with "whatever's in the tank". Then there's the inspection - if they claim there's a scratch/dent in it and you weren't there for the inspection.... rarely happens, of course, but "what if".
In all honesty though - I'd hire a car from the garage that's doing your car service... easiest all round. Ask if they've a courtesy car (usually free and you just pay for fuel). Even my car garages often give away free courtesy cars....0 -
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