A place to rant about things that wind you up ( keep it clean lol)

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Sar said:
Three times today we have had a call on the landline supposedly from amazon prime saying they are taking £799 out of the account for the delivery. We're ex directory & are meant to have a block on the line to stop these sort of calls.
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I was at my parents earlier (I'm in their bubble) they're on the Telephone Preference List, but still keep getting these nuisance calls, BT slow Internet yesterday, then my mum had a HSBC scam message on her mobile & about an hour later the landline went... Didn't recognise the number-so answered it "ding, dicka, ding, dicka, ding, ding, ding.... & repeat...."
I was most disappointed... They hung up on me! ☎ 😂 🤣 😂

I usually whistle REALLY loud down the phone... They hang up for that too... I wonder why? :hmm:
 
GPTV said:
I was at my parents earlier (I'm in their bubble) they're on the Telephone Preference List, but still keep getting these nuisance calls, BT slow Internet yesterday, then my mum had a HSBC scam message on her mobile & about an hour later the landline went... Didn't recognise the number-so answered it "ding, dicka, ding, dicka, ding, ding, ding.... & repeat...."
I was most disappointed... They hung up on me! ☎ 😂 🤣 😂

I usually whistle REALLY loud down the phone... They hang up for that too... I wonder why? :hmm:
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I have definitely pretended to not be me before when I've got telesales calls. "Oh, Lorcán? Sorry, dunno where he's gone, might not be back for a while. You're gonna try in the morning? Sure, I'll let him know. Definitely."
 
Lorcan said:
I have definitely pretended to not be me before when I've got telesales calls. "Oh, Lorcán? Sorry, dunno where he's gone, might not be back for a while. You're gonna try in the morning? Sure, I'll let him know. Definitely."
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Actually as an afterthought, I feel I should mention this works particularly well because I'm transgender, and my voice doesn't necessarily sound masculine to them, so they automatically assume I'm not me. I do not feel bad about leading them on a wild goose chase, at all, /snigger.
 
I’m feeling very upset today as I think I’ve lost the support from Calico as my support worker didn’t turn up yesterday and my messages have gone unanswered 😞 She’s fine as I’ve checked but someone from Calico is meant to be phoning me sometime next week to explain. I wouldn’t mind but it’s been hard to go out and do stuff with lockdown and I had to cancel her a couple of times due to other commitments but we were doing stuff around the house and I really liked her 😞
 
Claire W said:
I’m feeling very upset today as I think I’ve lost the support from Calico as my support worker didn’t turn up yesterday and my messages have gone unanswered 😞 She’s fine as I’ve checked but someone from Calico is meant to be phoning me sometime next week to explain. I wouldn’t mind but it’s been hard to go out and do stuff with lockdown and I had to cancel her a couple of times due to other commitments but we were doing stuff around the house and I really liked her 😞
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I’m sorry. I hope that the support will be ongoing.
 
Claire W said:
Thank you. I think it’s ended as I wasn’t using the full 6 hours that I had been allocated but like I say, it’s been hard to go out and do stuff due to lockdown 😞
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Did you have to go out to use the hours, or was someone supposed to come to you? Try not to speculate about what is going to happen. Enjoy your weekend and then you can deal with whatever the outcome is next week.
 
Siikibam said:
Did you have to go out to use the hours, or was someone supposed to come to you? Try not to speculate about what is going to happen. Enjoy your weekend and then you can deal with whatever the outcome is next week.
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She was coming for coffee and a chat but only staying for two hours or so but she was helping me around the house too which was allowed. We were meant to be going out but it’s been hard due to lockdown as everywhere has been closed. We were due to go for a walk yesterday but like I say, she didn’t turn up. Thank you, I guess there’s nothing I can do until they phone so I’ll try and enjoy the weekend
 
My own infrequent impatience!

I took a cutting of our nearly 34 year old Christmas cactus just over a week ago. Left it a couple of days to callous over & then placed it in a bit of water to root. There's no change yet. It looks like I've randomly placed some leaves in a bit of water with a few stones & left it...
 
Claire W said:
Need you say anymore :( I hope the food isn’t damaged?
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Crystella said:
Or is anything missing?
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Thankfully all parcels were ok, nothing missing and the food is ok, it was just left behind my dustbin sat on the floor, the whole lot fell out as I picked it up. I have complained and they are refunding me. I'm more annoyed because to get to the bins you walk past the greenhouse which is set as my delivery point!
 
Spaghetti & Noodles said:
Thankfully all parcels were ok, nothing missing and the food is ok, it was just left behind my dustbin sat on the floor, the whole lot fell out as I picked it up. I have complained and they are refunding me. I'm more annoyed because to get to the bins you walk past the greenhouse which is set as my delivery point!
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I’m glad the food is ok and that nothing is missing. Also glad that you are getting a refund. Very annoying that they didn’t leave it in your greenhouse though
 
Can I go back to bed and start the day again please? or preferably go back to bed and wake up tomorrow? My washing machine is refusing to spin the piggy wash no matter how I arrange stuff in the horse wash bags (I have 2) or how many towels I put in it is still apparently an "unbalanced load". I never normally have a problem. My printer has been spewing out half printed postage labels and then I get a message telling me the printer is "offline" or "in an error state" and I have to turn everything off including the router, turn it all back on again, reconnect the printer to the router, restart the laptop and then it prints the label properly. I have to do this EVERY SINGLE TIME I have a label to print out. I think they must have had a pretty big argument not to talk to each other! Oh and I've also hit my head on various cupboard doors this morning too. What else can go wrong?
 
I had another nasty blood sugar crash this morning. I had to shovel some ice cream into my mouth rather quickly and I don't really like ice cream? But needs must. Mmm, coconut ice cream. Anyway. I then had to call the staff to beg someone to go buy me some Coke because my legs (along with the rest of my body) were trembling horribly and, y'know, two flights of stairs.

Tried giving them the money and I never knew it could be so difficult to get a £10 note out of a wallet.

On the bright side, they found somewhere selling 2ltr bottles of (Polish) Coke and got me 3 of them. Mmm.
 
My bloody brain! At least 5 seizures (prob more like 8 but can’t remember!) this week, starting to get very irritating now, especially as the second time this week I’ve had to cancel my second Covid jab! Cross eyed and wobbly on the bed so looks like the fishies will have to wait for a clean out too :roll::doh: Glad the pigs were deep cleaned yest just annoying I’m out of anything to wash the smelly stuff! 😡
Sorry for the rant, wish Daisy would hurry up signing the forms for this brain transplant! :xd:
 
alpacasqueak said:
My bloody brain! At least 5 seizures (prob more like 8 but can’t remember!) this week, starting to get very irritating now, especially as the second time this week I’ve had to cancel my second Covid jab! Cross eyed and wobbly on the bed so looks like the fishies will have to wait for a clean out too :roll::doh: Glad the pigs were deep cleaned yest just annoying I’m out of anything to wash the smelly stuff! 😡
Sorry for the rant, wish Daisy would hurry up signing the forms for this brain transplant! :xd:
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Oh no, I’m so sorry you’ve been having so many seizures 😞 I hope you feel better soon x
 
Claire W said:
Try some deep breathing exercises. That usually helps me and tell your driving instructor that you’re feeling nervous, I’m sure he’ll be able to put you at ease x
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I did mention to him yesterday about it but he didn't really have any answers. I've always hated getting things wrong, even at school I'd cover work up so teacher didn't see if I was wrong so clearly its a character flaw of mine that has followed me through life. I've had 16 lessons now, since September & having never learnt to drive before have no idea where I should. I have a feeling its not where I am though.
 
Sar said:
I did mention to him yesterday about it but he didn't really have any answers. I've always hated getting things wrong, even at school I'd cover work up so teacher didn't see if I was wrong so clearly its a character flaw of mine that has followed me through life. I've had 16 lessons now, since September & having never learnt to drive before have no idea where I should. I have a feeling its not where I am though.
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I think you should stop comparing yourself (theoretically) to others. You are where you should be. Perhaps you’re putting pressure on yourself by thinking you should be doing more by now? Take as long as you need to feel secure. 🙂
 
Sar said:
I did mention to him yesterday about it but he didn't really have any answers. I've always hated getting things wrong, even at school I'd cover work up so teacher didn't see if I was wrong so clearly its a character flaw of mine that has followed me through life. I've had 16 lessons now, since September & having never learnt to drive before have no idea where I should. I have a feeling its not where I am though.
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I agree with @Siikibam You really shouldn’t compare yourself to others. You are where you should be.

If it helps you, I had lots of lessons (too many to count) as I kept stopping my lessons for a year or so and then restart. It then took me 6 attempts to pass my test but I got there in the end. I was all for giving up but my husband, mum and dad kept encouraging me.
 
Sar said:
I did mention to him yesterday about it but he didn't really have any answers. I've always hated getting things wrong, even at school I'd cover work up so teacher didn't see if I was wrong so clearly its a character flaw of mine that has followed me through life. I've had 16 lessons now, since September & having never learnt to drive before have no idea where I should. I have a feeling its not where I am though.
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I was 18 months on L plates before I felt confident enough to pass my driving test. Don't compare yourself to others. You are doing as well as you can. Driving isn't easy and some people take to it quickly and others take to it slower. It all depends on the individual.
 
I came very close yesterday to having a massive meltdown/panic attack in the back of a taxi that didn't have to happen, and what was the breaking point? The bloody seatbelt.
Low blood sugar issues, so hands wouldn't work, so had to shove wallet in pocket to put my card in the machine, to get back into taxi, to put seatbelt on, to realise that my wallet is somehow stuck in my pocket and I can't get it out, to have the taxi driver ask me repeatedly where I'm going except I already told him this before we even got to the garage, to have the seatbelt lock in place so I can't even move.
And there's no point in taking the seatbelt out to put it back on, even though that's the only thing that fixes it, because even after you've explained a thousand times that the seatbelt had locked and you're only fixing that, they start getting really agitated in the front of the taxi and apparently that's okay for them but not your passenger that you've spent 10 minutes winding up.

Oh, and then him and another driver got angry at each other and spent a couple minutes beeping horns at each other repeatedly.

At least the psychiatry appointment went well, though it'd hardly be difficult to outdo the taxi journey.
 
Siikibam said:
I think you should stop comparing yourself (theoretically) to others. You are where you should be. Perhaps you’re putting pressure on yourself by thinking you should be doing more by now? Take as long as you need to feel secure. 🙂
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Claire W said:
I agree with @Siikibam You really shouldn’t compare yourself to others. You are where you should be.

If it helps you, I had lots of lessons (too many to count) as I kept stopping my lessons for a year or so and then restart. It then took me 6 attempts to pass my test but I got there in the end. I was all for giving up but my husband, mum and dad kept encouraging me.
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Betsy said:
I was 18 months on L plates before I felt confident enough to pass my driving test. Don't compare yourself to others. You are doing as well as you can. Driving isn't easy and some people take to it quickly and others take to it slower. It all depends on the individual.
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Thanks for your replies. I just feel like I'm going round in circles with it & not getting far. I feel like each lesson I'm forgetting the basics that I should be doing & then get frustrated with myself because I didn't switch down a gear for slowing down or go into gear two for turning into a side road, for example. Then I panic because I did something wrong & do something else wrong! My instructor told me himself that I am struggling with it & because I know I will do lots wrong I think this is why I worry so much about my lessons. I'm 30, I'm not stupid so why does my brain explode when trying to drive a manual car? I don't want to give up but I'm not enjoying my lessons at all at the minute.
 
I too had tons of lessons. We spent a good 6-9 months having relaxed sessions as I knew I would be having abdominal surgery and didn't want to book my theory until that was over so I could focus on driving without the added pain and worry. There are a couple of things to consider... 1. Would an intensive course help it gel? And 2. Do you feel you learn enough from your instructor?

I ask as I had 10 lessons with one instructor around 7 years before I learned properly. I would never have learnt with him, I just don't think his teaching style worked for me at all. I got really frustrated as he was constantly rearranging lessons and not having regular lessons didn't help! When I learnt and passed my test it was with a different instructor. She was firm but fair and really helped me. It was all the little things like she tries to make sure every student has to fill up her car during a lesson so they know how to use a petrol station
 
Lady Kelly said:
I too had tons of lessons. We spent a good 6-9 months having relaxed sessions as I knew I would be having abdominal surgery and didn't want to book my theory until that was over so I could focus on driving without the added pain and worry. There are a couple of things to consider... 1. Would an intensive course help it gel? And 2. Do you feel you learn enough from your instructor?

I ask as I had 10 lessons with one instructor around 7 years before I learned properly. I would never have learnt with him, I just don't think his teaching style worked for me at all. I got really frustrated as he was constantly rearranging lessons and not having regular lessons didn't help! When I learnt and passed my test it was with a different instructor. She was firm but fair and really helped me. It was all the little things like she tries to make sure every student has to fill up her car during a lesson so they know how to use a petrol station
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I don't drive, but my sister had just the one driving instructor and she did really well with him. A friend of ours went to the same guy after my sister got her R plates and he apparently completely destroyed any confidence she had in driving. No idea how accurate the statement actually was of course, but she ended up finding another instructor.
 
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