Nice People Thread Number 11 - A Treasury of Nice People

PasturesNew

neverdespairgirl wrote: »

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.

I think I saw a report in the last 6 months that said women now outnumber blokes in every age group.

neverdespairgirl wrote: »

But we are a country with more immigrants than emigrants, and immigrants are more male than female, on the whole.

Yes, but it's best to stick with "your own sort" otherwise you end up with that tricky problem in the future of each wanting to live in their own country, close to their own family .... so best to avoid that in the first instance by only dating local people whose families live locally

neverdespairgirl wrote: »

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.

Well, I doubt M's going to be going as far as China/India (I know I'm not and I doubt Nikk's is either) ... for a date.

All my comments were about this country, not worldwide.

PasturesNew

lostinrates wrote: »

Curtains still make a difference. I find that in my DG bit.

I've only ever once had patio doors in a house - here... and it's been OK. But then it's not actually been cold the last couple of winters.

lostinrates

PasturesNew wrote: »

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....

I am getting a free courtesy car. Its likely to be a lwd defender with broken springs for seats that drives at 40 mph max. Even supposing I don't expire driving the bus they give me and still need to walk the car park at the hospital I am going to has weeny spaces, Weeny, weeny ones.

I'll then be back sometime the next day


I go to the exact opposite of a main dealer type garage! I think they once gave me a stretch defender, It was like driving a minibus but without the comfort.

lostinrates

Jeez, driving jalopy is sounding better and better.


I'd finding this oddly stressful, none of the pages want to load on macputer.

I have decided I want a little car, ( not fussed about car type at all, i'd drive anything tbh) with sat nav,( because it will make me relax) that they drop off and pick up. ( because I am going to have enough to do to get out of the house on Friday morning and keeping things low stress is meant to be my new mantra)

Edit: looks like I cannot have delivery and collection. I cannot work out which ones have sat nav. Tired now, giving up for a while. Likely hood of driving jalopy by default increasing.

silvercar

lostinrates wrote: »

Jeez, driving jalopy is sounding better and better.


I'd finding this oddly stressful, none of the pages want to load on macputer.

I have decided I want a little car, ( not fussed about car type at all, i'd drive anything tbh) with sat nav,( because it will make me relax) that they drop off and pick up. ( because I am going to have enough to do to get out of the house on Friday morning and keeping things low stress is meant to be my new mantra)

This is where facebook would help. Join a few local groups, add a comment "looking to hire a car for 1 day, possibly 2, needs to be cheap, small; personal recommendations only" and within an hour you will have 50 comments. Of which 10 will be useful.

Then you put on your personal page, "anyone have a satnav I can borrow for a day" and within a hour you will have 3 -4 people offering you.

lostinrates

silvercar wrote: »

This is where facebook would help. Join a few local groups, add a comment "looking to hire a car for 1 day, possibly 2, needs to be cheap, small; personal recommendations only" and within an hour you will have 50 comments. Of which 10 will be useful.

Then you put on your personal page, "anyone have a satnav I can borrow for a day" and within a hour you will have 3 -4 people offering you.

I don't think I know that many people local enough form whom I'd want responsibility of their sat nav or who'd be able to lend it to me at such notice tbh.


I should know the way without sat nav, its not somewhere I consider out of my territory, but I found last time while I got there perfectly because I was tired and frazzled and a bit stressed I came back feeling unsure. ( forgetful ness is one of my symptoms, and il get self doubt about things I feel sure sometimes of in case I have forgotten them...but if I know something I know it.) that's why I'd rather have sat nav.

PasturesNew

lostinrates wrote: »

Edit: looks like I cannot have delivery and collection. I cannot work out which ones have sat nav. Tired now, giving up for a while. Likely hood of driving jalopy by default increasing.

I suspect any drop off/pick up would be in big cities/local, or pricey .... as for sat nav, never seen it, never used it, never had it - and it certainly didn't exist when I was renting out vehicles

I never did drop offs/pickups as it was just me running the whole show. I did everything..... parking them, unparking, booking, selling, advertising, accounts, taking credit cards/cash/cheques, ensuring they kept legal (booking in for MoTs, ensuring they were insured), greeting hirers, checking licenses, producing invoices for company accounts, doing all the paperwork and management accounts - all without an accountancy program, it was all by hand back then - I didn't even have a PC! The lot. Mercedes dealer.

lostinrates

PasturesNew wrote: »

I suspect any drop off/pick up would be in big cities/local, or pricey .... as for sat nav, never seen it, never used it, never had it - and it certainly didn't exist when I was renting out vehicles

I thought might be possible as we are near a few hire centres.

Oh well, I'm going to try and let head clear a bit. .


I have people coming to look at that leak on the yard tomorrow, and its soaking. Hope it dries up so they can more easily distinguish rain from water.

PasturesNew

lostinrates wrote: »

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Long shot, probably too short notice for now but worth a try - what about your local community/volunteer service, for taking people to/from hospital appointments?

Volunteer drivers pick you up, take you to hospital, then usually sit and wait (often they'll have a flask of tea and a book with them) .... then they bring you home and you pay 40p for each mile from their house to yours to the hospital back to yours back to their house.

I just googled it and there's the woman's name to contact, email and phone number.

lostinrates

PasturesNew wrote: »

Long shot, probably too short notice for now but worth a try - what about your local community/volunteer service, for taking people to/from hospital appointments?

Volunteer drivers pick you up, take you to hospital, then usually sit and wait (often they'll have a flask of tea and a book with them) .... then they bring you home and you pay 40p for each mile from their house to yours to the hospital back to yours back to their house.

Its not my local hospital. Not the next closest. Nor the next closest, ( which might be yours) or even the next closest!

I also would just feel a lot better under my own steam tbh..I'll probably want to have a think after wards in the car and either wail along to the radio or....wail . All best done without a driver.