Nice People Thread No. 15, a Cyber Summer

GDB2222

PasturesNew wrote: »

I am a member, through my insurance. Covered for home fixes, but not home starts. £95 they wanted to just come and do a jump start.

That's a bit odd of a fine line between home fixes and home starts. Is the distinction between "battery won't work" (which is a fix) and "I left the lights on" (which is a start). I thought you're in the first category?

GDB2222

PasturesNew wrote: »

I think the distinction is between "I limped my ailing car home, with trepidation, there was a noise and a light was on, but it was driveable so I brought it home" -v- "I drove it home fine. Now I want to use it it won't start"

Isn't the latter a fix, then?

My car wouldn't start, and I called the RAC. Flat battery - which I knew - and they started it. They then went on to sell me a battery at inflated cost, which paid for their trip.

PasturesNew

Poor blighters on Escape to the Country right now (BBC1).

Trying to find a house with a budget of just £1.2million. So tough.

GDB2222

PasturesNew wrote: »

You should've phoned a company somebody told me about called etyres. I hear they do batteries.

Good advice, thanks.

Doozergirl

PasturesNew wrote: »

In other aborted plans news:

1] The library that I was expecting information from in "10 days" since 4 February has still failed to communicate/update/deliver.

2] The architecty bloke who said he'd email me a quote on Friday, else it'd be Monday, still hasn't bothered. I think even if he does now I'll find somebody else. I phoned them and was told somebody'd phone me to make an appointment. I then randomly discovered an appointment set via email, which I could've easily missed. They then sent me an email reminder the day before, with the wrong time on it, I emailed back to ask "11 or 12 as I thought it was 12" and had an apology by email to say "typo, sorry". Then he turned up late on the day, said he hadn't got a clue and would email me an estimate of his costs etc... and he hasn't.

Creative type.

Email him asking when you can expect to receive something.

Will send a small rocket up his bum if he has any ideas.

michaels

PasturesNew wrote: »

Poor blighters on Escape to the Country right now (BBC1).

Trying to find a house with a budget of just £1.2million. So tough.

Probably half the people in the town could sell their house for that....but you wouldn't get a house in the countrysde nearby for it.

vivatifosi

Re the library. Call them up and ask what is happening. Tell them you are considering writing saying they have failed in their delivery times and making a complaint. They will have to adhere to performance standards.

If you did that where I work, it would create quite a stir. But having said that, I'd hope we wouldn't leave you waiting so long to start with. It's probably just fallen through the gaps somewhere, but that doesn't make it ok.

Generali

It's boiling here today. This is ridiculous. It's going to be 39C this afternoon where I am. Thank goodness for air con and swimming pools. :P

Got the MiL coming over this evening for dinner. She really is deluding herself. She and FiL are both diabetics that ignore the disease for the most part. As a result she's getting complications and so has been told to go on a special diet.

I called her up to ask what the diet entails. 'Anything as long as it's not greasy', was the reply. Which is what we economists call rowlocks if we are on a censorious website.

I'm tempted to serve up candy floss. She's going to end up having her feet cut off either way.

Doozergirl

Sorry Gen, I did laugh. Candy floss

I have a family member doing the same.

michaels

DW misread the bedside clock and got up at 5 to 5. Then ds had a nose bleed. And I am already getting over a cold with a fever and gunky cough so have woken several times in the night already.

There, had my moan, now going to try and get an hours sleep.