Nice People Thread Number 11 - A Treasury of Nice People

CKhalvashi

silvercar wrote: »

DS2 was meant to be on a plane to an African country to do some work experience. Got denied boarding at the airport. Some mix up about whether the correct visa should have been obtained in advance or could it have been bought at the arrival airport. According to everyone apart from the airline, a letter of invitation to work should have been enough, airline (which was an airline of a different country because they saved money by booking an indirect flight) wouldn't accept it and sent them away. He said they treated them like kids and weren't interested.

Of course Friday afternoon and the embassies all closed. Looks like they will have to apply for an emergency visa on Monday and fly later in the week.

It's not too different when flying with Pegasus to Tbilisi with intention to work, as PC is a Turkish airline.

I know several British nationals that arrive in Georgia in January, work for the year, return home mid-December and arrive after Orthodox Christmas in January to repeat.

In most countries it is responsibility of the airline to return a pax denied entry (even though it's virtually impossible for EU-national to be rejected in Georgia), so it could be a case that the airline doesn't wish to take the risk.

Generali

neverdespairgirl wrote: »

I've never had a car which had air-con, and don't mind at all. I find climate control in general rather unpleasant, gives me a dry throat.

You need it over here. A car with the windows shut, parked on a sun-baked car park can reach 20C above the outside temperature. On a 40C day you can burn yourself on the seatbelt!

You can live without it if you have to but it's not recommended.

It's one of the things I dislike about Sydney living: you are always in aircon. If you go further north, you don't get the same temperature variations so you can simply acclimatise.

PasturesNew

Nikkster wrote: »

Actually - that sounds like it just needs regassing. Rather than that there is a leak in the system. I'm no mechanic but I'd guess it would work if you got it regassed.

Oh really?

silvercar wrote: »

You are meant to use it at least once a month to keep it in tip top condition, otherwise the gas (insert science word here leaks/ evaporates/ settles/ disappears).

Ah, I had no idea about that ..... I pressed the button and when it didn't work I just assumed it was broken .... and as I didn't need it I never asked/pursued it with the garage.

michaels wrote: »

I think the gas also lubricates and if you don't use it the seals are not lubricated and get brittle and fail.

So mine might be broken.....

CKhalvashi

Nikkster wrote: »

More reasons to be cheerful to be single

Really annoys me when I get the car back after it's been in the garage and they've reset the clock (family tradition dictates that it's set 3 mins fast) and moved the drivers seat (always backwards, never forwards ) and mirrors.

I'm sure they listen to my CDs though (they're never at the track they were left at).

My drivers seat won't go back unless the door is shut, which is always nice after the fleet manager (1ft3 smaller than me) or OH (1ft smaller) have been driving it.

OH's Yeti is much better, as everything adjusts as soon as the ignition is on

NDG, I couldn't live without air conditioning. In the last week especially it's been absolutely lovely, as I've been spending a 6+ hours a day outside.

GDB2222

CKhalvashi wrote: »

My drivers seat won't go back unless the door is shut, which is always nice after the fleet manager (1ft3 smaller than me) or OH (1ft smaller) have been driving it.

OH's Yeti is much better, as everything adjusts as soon as the ignition is on
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Our Volvo has a nice touch. It adjusts the driver's seat and mirrors automatically, depending on which key has been used to open it. So, it remembers DW's settings, which are very different from mine. I never thought that I would sing the praises of an electrically operated driver's seat, but it really is rather helpful if there is more than one driver.

AC, I can't remember the last time we used it.

LydiaJ

Catching up 3 at a time.

PasturesNew wrote: »

We breeze through life until an event - an event where one person passes .... and after that it seems it's everywhere we turn. Everywhere.... a sudden over-alertness to passings. Before this we were immortal and everything would go on as it always had done. It's a tough adjustment to make that you can't plan for....

Maybe nothing's ever the same after this point in life, at whatever age that comes.... but I suspect people "of our age" as a group are most likely to get to this point around about this age.

If we get to this point at about our age, we've not done too badly. DD got to it at age 6. She told me the other day she wants to spend time with me now while she still can in case I die soon.

tomterm8 wrote: »

I hate it. ( Cinnamon)

And hate turemeric (sp? On phone)

But I don't mind nutmeg...

Think it comes from growing up in an unspiced family where I didn't have a curry until I was 14...

My family was also pretty much unspiced growing up, but we did have cinnamon. My dad used to do cinnamon on hot buttered toast sometimes, and we all liked that.

silvercar wrote: »

I hate curry but love cinnamon.

That's pretty much how I feel. I happily go out for curry with friends, but always eat korma, which is OK for me.

lostinrates

Fir and I drive with seat in same position usually. Bonus of not marrying someone way taller. .

Love air con because I find temperature regulation so hard. Was my request when we bought this car, sadly its defunct. . Also. One of our car windows has started to slide down by itself. Very annoying, especially on long runs, draughts trigger my TGN. ( I have to have vents in cars facing just the right directions too, to be comfortable )

GDB2222

PN there is a rather posh restaurant/pub in N Norfolk called the Gunton Arms. Set in its own deer park. That sort of posh! I noticed that their snack menu has chips for £2.50, or with curry sauce for an extra 50p.

PasturesNew

GDB2222 wrote: »

PN there is a rather posh restaurant/pub in N Norfolk called the Gunton Arms. Set in its own deer park. That sort of posh! I noticed that their snack menu does chips for £2.50, or with curry sauce for an extra 50p.

That's not too shabby! A regular bag of chips in a chippy's £1.50 ... and they mostly charge a rip off £1 for curry sauce! What I do (except I'm out of it right now) is buy Asda's instant curry sauce, which is granules for about 78p. One pot of those, couple of heaped teaspoons/portion, lasts months and tastes the same as the standard chip-shop style curry sauce.
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lostinrates

Generali wrote: »

You need it over here. A car with the windows shut, parked on a sun-baked car park can reach 20C above the outside temperature. On a 40C day you can burn yourself on the seatbelt!

You can live without it if you have to but it's not recommended.

It's one of the things I dislike about Sydney living: you are always in aircon. If you go further north, you don't get the same temperature variations so you can simply acclimatise.

Its certainly helpful in those temps. I know my father struggled in the heat of places we lived ( usually with out air con) and I remember the burn of leather car seats of hot cars on the back of thighs as a little girl in the hot, hot climate. Otoh, my mother hates air con, used to the climate without air con from childhood.