Nice People Thread No. 15, a Cyber Summer

SingleSue

Delivery arrived safely and all correct. Blimey it feels so lazy doing it that way though but it did help.

Youngest loved my selections, said I should go posh more often (lots of organic stuff - on special offer but still...) but unfortunately for him, I only had the one special offer voucher to get £20 off the shop and free delivery, so next time it will be back to an Asda/Tesco delivery. Got some great bargains despite it being from a posher supermarket than my norm, quite a few things much cheaper than Morrisons due to special offers actually aligning with what I wanted/needed for once.

Pyxis

That's great, SingleSue! It just goes to show that even when a supermarket is perceived as being 'more expensive', it doesn't always follow. You just have to be a bit canny!

PasturesNew wrote: »

But I didn't want to delay "proper serious issues".... but they triaged my poor choice when they transferred me

I did use the correct words, clearly, from the start .... I didn't waffle or talk erratically. I worded precisely the situation, coherently and clearly.... and just used the proper words "in progress" .... their choice then to transfer the call.

I avoided a decision
I don't do decisions.

Talking of emergency numbers, can anyone tell me what one should do if one sees an animal become injured? Such as a large dog or a deer, something that you wouldn't be able to handle on your own? If it were obvious it were still alive, I mean.

I've often wondered. I mean, I suppose it would be inappropriate to ring 999, unless the animal were likely to be a hazard to humans on the road or something.
If it were at the side of the road and badly injured, I mean.

Doozergirl wrote: »

1) Sun cream and hats exist, even in cars.
2) It isn't usually that hot. But air con exists and works well pointed at feet and hands. You can also put windows down to feel breeze. Or, shock horror, put the roof up and be refridgerated, just like a normal car. So it has more options to feel the summer than a normal car. (is it too hot or too cold? I don't understand.)
3) You leave the windows up and it all deflects over the windows until you hit 80mph. Which no one ever drives at, obviously.
4) I don't care what anyone thinks when I'm having a ball, but (depsite still being under 40) I don't see many youngsters driving convertibles and I don't see as many people driving having as much fun as me, so I must be getting something right

I've always wondered, so forgif plis, if stupid question, what happens about car security ith a convertible? Do you always have to put the top up when you leave it unattended? and even if so, there must be something to stop people ripping through the soft-top?

PasturesNew

Pyxis wrote: »

... animal become injured? Such as a large dog or a deer, something that you wouldn't be able to handle on your own?

RSPCA.

They're a round the clock service that know what to do.

Doozergirl

Pyxis wrote: »

That's great, SingleSue! It just goes to show that even when a supermarket is perceived as being 'more expensive', it doesn't always follow. You just have to be a bit canny!






Talking of emergency numbers, can anyone tell me what one should do if one sees an animal become injured? Such as a large dog or a deer, something that you wouldn't be able to handle on your own? If it were obvious it were still alive, I mean.

I've often wondered. I mean, I suppose it would be inappropriate to ring 999, unless the animal were likely to be a hazard to humans on the road or something.
If it were at the side of the road and badly injured, I mean.







I've always wondered, so forgif plis, if stupid question, what happens about car security ith a convertible? Do you always have to put the top up when you leave it unattended? and even if so, there must be something to stop people ripping through the soft-top?

The vets are usually the most responsive in our part of the world. We have a local hedgehog hodpital too but they aren't big animals. I have never heard of the RSPCA being responsive to anything! We have a Blue Cross with a vet attached. The local facebook page that features lost and injured pets usually involves the local vet or the dog warden. Badgers are most prone round here. I hear of the occasional muntjac getting hit.

If you hit anything really big it probably ends up a police job.

You can leave the top down in the convertible. My alarm still sets. I only leave it down to pop into places or if I'm home and going out again as it doesn't take long to put the roof up anyway. I know it would be a manual operation on a classic car, but mine is a button to push down/pull up.

Mine is a hard top, but I guess there isn't anything to stop a soft top being ripped, in the same way there's nothing to stop anyone malicious keying anyone's car or slashing tyres though, other than the moral compass.

We have blue skies today!

HAMISH_MCTAVISH

Yet more miserable weather up here today.

On the topic of convertibles the last one we had was 14 years ago but you just pressed the button and it went up or down in about 10 secs. From memory you didn't even have to be stationary it would do it while moving below 20mph.

It was a soft top but never got broken into - it could be noticeably colder in winter than a 'normal' car though.

Most of the new ones seem to be folding hard tops. I suspect that's better in many ways, particularly around weathering of the soft top over time, and if we ever got another I'd probably want the hard top type.

PasturesNew

It's sunny here, but very very breezy.

SingleSue

Clear skies but with a nip in the air here and wonders of wonders, I actually got a good night sleep last night, 6 and a half hours!

Now that is a rarity.

PasturesNew

Doozergirl wrote: »

Twitter beats everything these days. If you suspect something is happening, start searching and you'll quickly find the answer.

That's location dependent. Every time something's happening here I try that and there's absolutely nothing. Big storms, nothing; floods, nothing; police/rescue helicopters, nothing.

chris_m

PasturesNew wrote: »

That's location dependent. Every time something's happening here I try that and there's absolutely nothing. Big storms, nothing; floods, nothing; police/rescue helicopters, nothing.

And everybody else is finding the same - all because none of them., or even, you post about it

Not that I "do" Twitter, Facebook, anything of that ilk.

PasturesNew

chris_m wrote: »

And everybody else is finding the same - all because none of them., or even, you post about it

Not that I "do" Twitter, Facebook, anything of that ilk.

One of the problems is that there's no hashtag for where I live. The name's a huge/capital city in another country, so anything locally would get swamped by all that city nonsense.

e.g. it's a bit like, say, if you lived in a small village called Rio and were trying to find something last month.