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  • ZTD
    ZTD Posts: 24,327 Forumite
    Karmacat wrote: »
    So npower are trying hard for the Worst Customer Service Award, hey?

    Don't be silly - this is npower, they can get the Worst Customer Service award standing on their head, both hands behind their back and asleep.

    Certainly don't talk to my parents about them - I'm of the understanding vampires love garlic pizza in comparison to what my parents think of npower... :eek:

    It's just more that they ask for 10 days notice, then can't cope with 10 days notice. Which does then prompt the question: Why ask for 10 days notice?

    But, any road up, I'm away from them now. :T

    Just all of the financial institutions to visit to confirm I've changed address, where they've all closed their local (to me) office. A distinctly un-fun job for the new year...
    "Follow the money!" - Deepthroat (AKA William Mark Felt Sr - Associate Director of the FBI)
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  • ZTD
    ZTD Posts: 24,327 Forumite
    So then...
    • Snow? :D
    • Snow Tyres? :D
    • Joy? :(

    I ended up with a puncture, so I'm running around on 3 snow tyres and a space saver... :mad:

    I need a new tyre alas (which won't be cheap) and I think I'll also investigate a proper "snow" spare (which ironically I was thinking of a couple of weeks ago)

    Fortunately, most people are being sensible in the snow. Some are a little too cautious, but I find that better than the alternative. Normally I end up with a whole bunch of people who think that if they can't read the part number on my back windscreen then they are waaay too far away from me. So far today, only one - a white van man.

    Who also tried to overtake me because he obviously thought I was going too slow. On a narrow road. Up over a blind crest. With someone coming the other way. Only to find the reason I was going slow was because the person in front of me was going slow.

    He dropped back at that point, with sudden braking and then uncontrolled weaving. :rotfl:

    Brains like that are usually only found in fairground beefburgers these days...
    "Follow the money!" - Deepthroat (AKA William Mark Felt Sr - Associate Director of the FBI)
    "We were born and raised in a summer haze." Adele 'Someone like you.'
    "Blowing your mind, 'cause you know what you'll find, when you're looking for things in the sky."     OMD 'Julia's Song'
  • beanielou
    beanielou Posts: 96,008 Ambassador
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    Hope your mum continues to be on the mend.
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  • ZTD
    ZTD Posts: 24,327 Forumite
    beanielou wrote: »
    Hope your mum continues to be on the mend.

    Unfortunately, pacemaker in January...
    "Follow the money!" - Deepthroat (AKA William Mark Felt Sr - Associate Director of the FBI)
    "We were born and raised in a summer haze." Adele 'Someone like you.'
    "Blowing your mind, 'cause you know what you'll find, when you're looking for things in the sky."     OMD 'Julia's Song'
  • beanielou
    beanielou Posts: 96,008 Ambassador
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    ZTD wrote: »
    Unfortunately, pacemaker in January...

    Well, hopefully that will help.
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    Lou~ Debt free Wanabe No 55 DF 03/14.**Credit card debt free 30/06/10~** MFW. Finally mortgage free O2/ 2021****
    "A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of" Jane Austen in Mansfield Park.
    ***Fall down seven times,stand up eight*** ~~Japanese proverb.     ***Keep plodding*** Out of debt, out of danger. ***Be the difference.***
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  • Karmacat
    Karmacat Posts: 39,460 Forumite
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    ZTD wrote: »
    ... He dropped back at that point, with sudden braking and then uncontrolled weaving. :rotfl:

    Brains like that are usually only found in fairground beefburgers these days...
    :rotfl: I love it!

    Sorry your mum's having to have a pacemaker fitted - I don't know anything about them as such, but my elderly auntie oop north has had one for about ten years now, and aside from regular checkups, it's been a real boon to her.

    Here's to good tyres and no more punctures :)
    2023: the year I get to buy a car
  • ZTD
    ZTD Posts: 24,327 Forumite
    beanielou wrote: »
    Well, hopefully that will help.

    Well it will once she's fully bionic.

    I am expecting the sound effects as well you know... ;)
    "Follow the money!" - Deepthroat (AKA William Mark Felt Sr - Associate Director of the FBI)
    "We were born and raised in a summer haze." Adele 'Someone like you.'
    "Blowing your mind, 'cause you know what you'll find, when you're looking for things in the sky."     OMD 'Julia's Song'
  • ZTD
    ZTD Posts: 24,327 Forumite
    Well here's a happy new year to everybody, in case I don't make it.

    Hope thinks go well for you in 2018, and may your New Year Resolution be: "No more lurking..." :p
    "Follow the money!" - Deepthroat (AKA William Mark Felt Sr - Associate Director of the FBI)
    "We were born and raised in a summer haze." Adele 'Someone like you.'
    "Blowing your mind, 'cause you know what you'll find, when you're looking for things in the sky."     OMD 'Julia's Song'
  • beanielou
    beanielou Posts: 96,008 Ambassador
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    A happy new year to you Z & all your readers & lurkers (:p)
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    Lou~ Debt free Wanabe No 55 DF 03/14.**Credit card debt free 30/06/10~** MFW. Finally mortgage free O2/ 2021****
    "A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of" Jane Austen in Mansfield Park.
    ***Fall down seven times,stand up eight*** ~~Japanese proverb.     ***Keep plodding*** Out of debt, out of danger. ***Be the difference.***
    One debt remaining. Home improvement loan.
  • Ellidee
    Ellidee Posts: 6,216 Forumite
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    :beer: :j :T :beer: :j :T :rotfl::A
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