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Hannah_xx said:
Had a terribly embarrassing and frustrating experience today at a cafe.
I had to fast last night to have blood tests done today. But I got distracted in this morning meaning I didn’t get my blood test done until about 1pm (apparently that was too long to fast and may hinder my results but I told them to just do it anyway, as I often don’t eat for that long anyway.
Also I’ve had ear problems for 2 weeks, on and off blocked ear. But for the past 2 days my right ear has been completely blocked causing hearing problems as I feel like I’m under water. It’s an awful feeling!
Anyway! After that I went straight to a cafe for coffee and lunch as I was understandably hungry! Lovely quirky waitress sat me down, I ordered a vegan schnitzel burger. My coffee came out and was lovely, Then my burger.. I immediately noticed cheese on it.. The menu doesn’t mention vegan cheese. I looked closely and could tell it was dairy cheese, I broke a corner off and could definitely tell it was dairy but the few of it. I got up and told the lady at the counter. She insisted it will be vegan cheese, but I was adamant that it wasn’t. She poked her head around the the kitchen to find out that it was in fact dairy. And told me to bring the burger up and they’ll change it. The other quirky older waitress followed me and said she was really sorry, not good enough and to sit down and she’ll get it sorted for me. 5 mins later, ‘new’ burger gets put back in-front of me.
Hmm. I lift up the bun.. the cheese IS STILL DAIRY! It’s the same bloody meal! It even had the corner of the cheese missing that I tore off! I went back up and said ‘it’s still dairy cheese’ but coffee lady insisted it wasn’t! No, no it’s not it’s vegan cheese she kept saying! I went back and even put a tiny teeny bit in my mouth to see. 100% dairy! I haven’t eaten cheese for about 10 years! I think I know what I’m talking about!
Grabbed my bag stormed up to counter and politely asked for my money back as it’s dairy. She asked the kitchen again. They showed me a pack of bio vegan cheese that they had used. NOPE. That’s not what’s on my burger. I showed the nicer quirky waitress the cheese on my burger. She could see it was dairy too. By this point I was shaking, my blood sugar was low from the fasting and now my adrenaline was up from causing a fuss. Which bought on me to get terribly stressed, I started crying a little.. ugh!
To make it worse,with my ears being blocked up it was making me much more stressed as I just can’t hear myself talking properly. I can’t tell if I’m talking too loud or too quiet. So I felt self conscious and silly. I apologised that I couldn’t hear them and that I wasn’t feeling myself. The quirky lady then said she could feel my upset energy and starting giving me a shoulder rub! LOL! And she was bitching about the chef, that he was an A-hole etc!What was going on!
Turns out the other waitress who bought my second burger back out had accidentally bought my first one back thinking it was my new one.. but they were still making my new one!
I said I just wanted to leave as I was too stressed. They insisted I got my new one as a takeaway and a free coffee.
Finally left.. got in the car. Looked at the burger which now had vegan cheese but I Gluten free bun which would likely not be vegan as they all have egg in. Had totally lost my appetite anyway.. so I just threw it all away.
By this time my head was pounding and I just wanted to go home.

I work in hospitality, I know how hard it is, at the moment especially. But mistakes like this can kill people. If I had a dairy allergy!
I was incredibly nice to the waitresses, I was just very uncomfortable and distressed due to not being able to hear and feeling shaky etc. I’m not one to cause a fuss usually. Mistakes happen. But the chefs were totally awful in how they felt with things.
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I'm also a fellow vegan. Sorry this happened to you. I live in constant fear of this happening in new places where I dont know the menu.

I think this has only happened to me once and I was so ill. Complained to the "executive chef" and he just cracked a joke at me and explained how I couldnt have possibly got a non vegan meal. It's fine, my money now goes elsewhere and I'm yet to find someone that has had a postive experience with them. Shame as the bar there was cracking.

My partner has a speech impediment so ppl dont bother listening to them properly and they regularly get non-vegan meals.
 
I would dearly love to (metaphorically) strangle the person who invented tissue paper.

Also, this is kind of hilarious, but there's been some very interesting moments with my neighbours recently.

Neighbour P and their partner are constantly arguing. Loudly. Again. And they'll go from screaming at each other one minute to sharing a smoke and a beer the next. They were screaming at each other when my keyworkers turned up yesterday and I finished my cigarette early to let them in because it was getting loud. "That's normal, honestly." "Yeah, it sounded verbal but like it might es..." and as that's said something gets thrown and breaks and doors slam and they're both still screaming at each other. "How do you put up with that?" "Headphones. It's always headphones."
(they're terrible for each other but not actually violent with each other. It's...it defies explanation. They don't have the common sense to break up and stay broken up.)

Well, previous to this, it turns out that on Wednesday night there was like...8 police officers in our building? I don't know, I had earbuds in and heard nothing. Two or three squad cars plus a van. Well neighbour P's partner thought they were here for him and was trying to find someone's flat to hide in. For once it wasn't him they were looking for, it was the other guy that lives on our landing. Who I've never met and didn't even know existed.

Neighbour V has the green bear. Well, I said she could, not that she gave me many options lol. But she did ask, she didn't just walk off with him. In return she gave me one of those sewing starter kits she apparently got for Christmas? I have no idea. But the stuff is usable and eh, why not? I didn't need more sewing stuff, but I didn't need A2 sized tracing paper either. Need is irrelevant.

To top the whole thing off there's scaffolding gone up because the roof needs repairing again (like it did when I got flooded out a couple years back) but the scaffolding goes up right outside the one damn window I have no blind or curtain for because the curtain rail broke. Months ago. And the (:rant:) putting up the scaffolding decided to wolf whistle at me through the window. He's damned lucky my windows don't open wide enough for me to climb through because I'm pretty sure I'd be legally covered for shoving his obnoxious harassing backside off the scaffolding.

I'm going to miss a few things when I leave. My housing association's general disregard for repairs, that won't be one of them.
 
That my mother seems to think what I spend my money on and what pets we own is still her business. The kids told her about the 2nd rabbit today and she went off on a rant about “you’ve got one, what are you getting another one for!” Her FaceTime rant over the first one was bad enough to upset the kids so I quickly fired off “It’s my money from MY paycheck and it’s my home. Where is any of this your business to throw an opinion at a decision that’s already made? Did I ask you for your input beforehand? No because it’s MY choice.”
 
Pawz said:
That my mother seems to think what I spend my money on and what pets we own is still her business. The kids told her about the 2nd rabbit today and she went off on a rant about “you’ve got one, what are you getting another one for!” Her FaceTime rant over the first one was bad enough to upset the kids so I quickly fired off “It’s my money from MY paycheck and it’s my home. Where is any of this your business to throw an opinion at a decision that’s already made? Did I ask you for your input beforehand? No because it’s MY choice.”
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I would just pretend you didn’t hear her and change the subject. But it’s not on that she’s upset the children 😕
 
Siikibam said:
I would just pretend you didn’t hear her and change the subject. But it’s not on that she’s upset the children 😕
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She is the kind of person where she thinks keeping a rabbit alone in a tiny wooden hutch at the bottom of a garden is adequate. She’s very oldskool when it comes to pets and does not understand the concept of house rabbits, free roaming, large safe enclosures or the need for other bunny company. She also does not understand the need to vaccinate a rabbit or spay the females.

If you think that hamsters are fine kept in groups in a 2 story classic rotastack cage…thats the age of her thinking regarding house pet husbandry. She’d be one if those “it’s only a guinea pig, why bother, just get a new one.” people if you had to take a guinea to the vets and had a sad outcome.

edit: this is the hamster cage I speak of..
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Pawz said:
That my mother seems to think what I spend my money on and what pets we own is still her business. The kids told her about the 2nd rabbit today and she went off on a rant about “you’ve got one, what are you getting another one for!” Her FaceTime rant over the first one was bad enough to upset the kids so I quickly fired off “It’s my money from MY paycheck and it’s my home. Where is any of this your business to throw an opinion at a decision that’s already made? Did I ask you for your input beforehand? No because it’s MY choice.”
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Pawz said:
She is the kind of person where she thinks keeping a rabbit alone in a tiny wooden hutch at the bottom of a garden is adequate. She’s very oldskool when it comes to pets and does not understand the concept of house rabbits, free roaming, large safe enclosures or the need for other bunny company. She also does not understand the need to vaccinate a rabbit or spay the females.

If you think that hamsters are fine kept in groups in a 2 story classic rotastack cage…thats the age of her thinking regarding house pet husbandry. She’d be one if those “it’s only a guinea pig, why bother, just get a new one.” people if you had to take a guinea to the vets and had a sad outcome.

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I really feel for you as I have a mother who is similar. She still keeps her guinea pigs in singles, in too small of a cage, unlimited pellets...etc. She definitely cares, but she's very stuck in her ways about how she cares for guinea pigs. It's obviously awkward when we talk about what I am doing with my pigs because it's so different from hers. Whenever I try to tell her something she is doing could be changed, or what she is doing is wrong, she just says that we take different approaches and she's been doing it her way for years. She has also implied before that I take my guinea pigs health issues too seriously 🙄 She likes to rant at me about things I do in my life in general too because of course she always knows better lol.
 
h.h.lovecraft said:
I really feel for you as I have a mother who is similar. She still keeps her guinea pigs in singles, in too small of a cage, unlimited pellets...etc. She definitely cares, but she's very stuck in her ways about how she cares for guinea pigs. It's obviously awkward when we talk about what I am doing with my pigs because it's so different from hers. Whenever I try to tell her something she is doing could be changed, or what she is doing is wrong, she just says that we take different approaches and she's been doing it her way for years. She has also implied before that I take my guinea pigs health issues too seriously 🙄 She likes to rant at me about things I do in my life in general too because of course she always knows better lol.
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Are you sure we are not sisters? 😂😂
 
Betsy said:
I have a rant! People that put stuff on Gumtree and aren't in when you arrange to collect. I'd agreed to pick up some stuff this morning at a certain time. Went over there (20 -30 minutes) only to find that the person wasn't in. I rang the doorbell twice. Nobody answered. I knocked the door twice, nobody answered. I gave up and came home. Then when I messaged the person they said that they were in all the time and they didn't hear me knocking or the doorbell! They said that the item I had about an hour's round trip for was sitting waiting for me to collect. Er if they want me to have it they can either deliver it (which they did suggest but because I'm not local they don't want to do) or have it hanging around for a bit longer as I'm NOT going all the way over there again!
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I love gumtree. Sorry you didn’t get your item. But I hate it when people don’t turn up. RUDE
 
Lorcan said:
Also, this is kind of hilarious, but there's been some very interesting moments with my neighbours recently.

Neighbour P and their partner are constantly arguing. Loudly. Again. And they'll go from screaming at each other one minute to sharing a smoke and a beer the next. They were screaming at each other when my keyworkers turned up yesterday and I finished my cigarette early to let them in because it was getting loud. "That's normal, honestly." "Yeah, it sounded verbal but like it might es..." and as that's said something gets thrown and breaks and doors slam and they're both still screaming at each other. "How do you put up with that?" "Headphones. It's always headphones."
(they're terrible for each other but not actually violent with each other. It's...it defies explanation. They don't have the common sense to break up and stay broken up.)
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I have a pair of neighbors just like that, one is a raging alcoholic and is constantly yelling at his much larger more robust partner. I have always said that one day the sober one will just snap under the strain of years of abuse and then we’ll have ourselves a murder inquiry. I honestly can understand how or why they are still a couple.
 
Oh I don't get these two at all. One can be a pain in the backside but they're both decent enough people. But if you weren't used to hearing them go at each other you would genuinely be wondering if you needed to call the police, they're that bad. They've broken up and got back together so often I've given up counting. Although I know one of them's looking to move out of Manchester in general, so...who knows? Earphones, seriously.
 
I either have to be dressed or in bed because of the view at this window. I'm a wee bit annoyed with the housing association right now. Just...just a wee bit.

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Lorcan said:
I either have to be dressed or in bed because of the view at this window. I'm a wee bit annoyed with the housing association right now. Just...just a wee bit.

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I would perhaps be sticking a sign in the window saying you have covid and they need to keep a 2 metre distance, then opening the window a notch and employing a fake cough... then taking it down if anyone comes to ask obviously and just saying the man's a delusional pervert. Or call his bluff and make suggestive remarks while getting a mate to take his ladder away so he's stuck on your windowsill lol see how he likes being a captive audience for inappropriate behaviour :)
 
My neighbors are odd. One side is lovely, the other..... odd.

Most time you can ignore them but then sometimes they do petty stuff deliberately to irritate you.

When I've been about to set off for my driving lesson they've backed their car RIGHT up to mine so I have to put a reverse shunt in to get out. That kind of petty stuff.

Then there's just being clearly inconsiderate.
They've had really noisey building works done and didnt bother telling us so the 1st we knew if it was being woken up before 8am on a Saturday by a pneumatic drill. But then during the week would be have loud building works at 7pm so I cant go to bed early during the week or have a lie in on the weekend.... Some of the noise is litterally right down the side of our house so it's so loud in our house. They never gave us a heads up about the noise and as it turns out the noise is outside what the council seems as generally acceptable for construction works.

Their grandchildren are a DELIGHT too (yes read that as sarcastically as possible).

Today they've replaced some concrete posts holding up their fence. To keep them straight they've tied them to the side of OUR car port.... again, its one of them where you'd ask if we minded at least. They have caused minor damage to our car port doing it. The wood is now rough and has splinters sticking out, so very minor but still damaged.

We've had slightly bigger stuff like them shouting and swearing at us once. But generally we are able to ignore them luckily.
 
ThatPurpleB said:
My neighbors are odd. One side is lovely, the other..... odd.

Most time you can ignore them but then sometimes they do petty stuff deliberately to irritate you.

When I've been about to set off for my driving lesson they've backed their car RIGHT up to mine so I have to put a reverse shunt in to get out. That kind of petty stuff.

Then there's just being clearly inconsiderate.
They've had really noisey building works done and didnt bother telling us so the 1st we knew if it was being woken up before 8am on a Saturday by a pneumatic drill. But then during the week would be have loud building works at 7pm so I cant go to bed early during the week or have a lie in on the weekend.... Some of the noise is litterally right down the side of our house so it's so loud in our house. They never gave us a heads up about the noise and as it turns out the noise is outside what the council seems as generally acceptable for construction works.

Their grandchildren are a DELIGHT too (yes read that as sarcastically as possible).

Today they've replaced some concrete posts holding up their fence. To keep them straight they've tied them to the side of OUR car port.... again, its one of them where you'd ask if we minded at least. They have caused minor damage to our car port doing it. The wood is now rough and has splinters sticking out, so very minor but still damaged.

We've had slightly bigger stuff like them shouting and swearing at us once. But generally we are able to ignore them luckily.
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We’ve just got new neighbours after the last ones moved. They were weird. But the new ones are
Lovely. Phew. 😊
 
PigglePuggle said:
I would perhaps be sticking a sign in the window saying you have covid and they need to keep a 2 metre distance, then opening the window a notch and employing a fake cough... then taking it down if anyone comes to ask obviously and just saying the man's a delusional pervert. Or call his bluff and make suggestive remarks while getting a mate to take his ladder away so he's stuck on your windowsill lol see how he likes being a captive audience for inappropriate behaviour :)
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My problem is teenagers. Back a couple years ago when we last had the scaffolding there were a couple of local kids who would kick their footballs up and then climb the scaffolding to grab it. They were bored and we had scaffolding, fair enough, but at least I had a curtain then. Someone suggested I tape paper to it but because of how it is unless I tape over the whole window, it's not going to be good enough, not with the possible viewing angles.

We're not allowed to do any sort of repairs ourselves, hell we're not even meant to change the lightbulbs. That's useful for the florescent bulbs in the bathroom and kitchen but ordinary light bulbs? Screw that. I'll replace those and take the ones in there with me when I go.

Add to that, after that muppet decided to wolfwhistle at me yesterday, when they were putting the rest of the scaffolding together, they were obviously exerting themselves. I mean metal bars aren't exactly light, it's not surprising right? But I had to listen to them because, window, and that was less "grunting and exertion" noises and more...if I didn't know better I'd have said they were filming a porn movie out there with the moaning noises. Yegads.
 
ThatPurpleB said:
My neighbors are odd. One side is lovely, the other..... odd.

Most time you can ignore them but then sometimes they do petty stuff deliberately to irritate you.

When I've been about to set off for my driving lesson they've backed their car RIGHT up to mine so I have to put a reverse shunt in to get out. That kind of petty stuff.

Then there's just being clearly inconsiderate.
They've had really noisey building works done and didnt bother telling us so the 1st we knew if it was being woken up before 8am on a Saturday by a pneumatic drill. But then during the week would be have loud building works at 7pm so I cant go to bed early during the week or have a lie in on the weekend.... Some of the noise is litterally right down the side of our house so it's so loud in our house. They never gave us a heads up about the noise and as it turns out the noise is outside what the council seems as generally acceptable for construction works.

Their grandchildren are a DELIGHT too (yes read that as sarcastically as possible).

Today they've replaced some concrete posts holding up their fence. To keep them straight they've tied them to the side of OUR car port.... again, its one of them where you'd ask if we minded at least. They have caused minor damage to our car port doing it. The wood is now rough and has splinters sticking out, so very minor but still damaged.

We've had slightly bigger stuff like them shouting and swearing at us once. But generally we are able to ignore them luckily.
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I would untie them! That’s taking the mickey!
 
Siikibam said:
I would untie them! That’s taking the mickey!
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I would have but I was rushing out the house at the time and the rope had been removed by the time I got back!

Currently I'm home alone and recovering from COVID (luckily out of isolation and no longer COVID positive but still not well) so cant be bothered with them. There's one of me and 2 of them plus their adult kids are always there and they were all out on the front near where it was tied up. In my current state didnt fancy a repeat of them all shouting and swearing at me! They're the kind that you never win an arguement with anyway because they're so rediculous.

We're the type of people who live simple, drama free lives, keep ourselves to ourselves and are no trouble to anyone. For whatever reason they've taken a disliking to us.
 
ThatPurpleB said:
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I've known people to take that as a sign of rudeness. You're not out with all the adults on the street drinking a few beers, THAT means you're not a friendly person. I mean it's stupid, yes, but people are...people.
 
Lorcan said:
I've known people to take that as a sign of rudeness. You're not out with all the adults on the street drinking a few beers, THAT means you're not a friendly person. I mean it's stupid, yes, but people are...people.
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I more meant that we're not a burden we dont ask anything of anyone, and quiet. We say hi to ppl when we walk past. Happily stand in the garden/street have a chat. Same as everyone else down here.

They're my parents age, and their kids are my age, if not older. I think that's part of why I find it so strange, why do they care about being so petty to someone half their age. My parents have had a "young couple" (my mums words) move next door and i couldnt image them acting like our neighbor. She finds it quite nice seeing them start their life together and build a home.

I know when we bought this house around thesame time next door's kids were looking for a house and they now live just round the corner. So perhaps they wanted this house but we got it instead and hence have taken a disliking to us. No idea.

It's a shame, they're into cars and both my dad and brother are mechanics and into similar cars to what they are. Maybe if it wasnt lockdown they'd have seen my dad's vintage vehicles and my brothers race cars pull up and pretended to be our friend!
 
weepweeps said:
My wine seems to evaporate very quickly 😳🍷
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PigglePuggle said:
Mine too! This Sainsbury's Rose Cava seems to evaporate very quickly, I wonder if I wrote to complain they might send me some more so I can investigate the issue more scientifically?
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And mine. The Tesco Sauvignon Blanc is evaporating far too fast. It's been a hot day here today, I wonder if that could be the problem?
 
Betsy said:
And mine. The Tesco Sauvignon Blanc is evaporating far too fast. It's been a hot day here today, I wonder if that could be the problem?
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Yeah I think that’s it. It has been quite warm here too. I thought it
might just be my wine so I tried a gin and tonic too and the same thing happened. So it’s definitely environmental.
 
Lorcan said:
My problem is teenagers. Back a couple years ago when we last had the scaffolding there were a couple of local kids who would kick their footballs up and then climb the scaffolding to grab it. They were bored and we had scaffolding, fair enough, but at least I had a curtain then. Someone suggested I tape paper to it but because of how it is unless I tape over the whole window, it's not going to be good enough, not with the possible viewing angles.

We're not allowed to do any sort of repairs ourselves, hell we're not even meant to change the lightbulbs. That's useful for the florescent bulbs in the bathroom and kitchen but ordinary light bulbs? Screw that. I'll replace those and take the ones in there with me when I go.

Add to that, after that muppet decided to wolfwhistle at me yesterday, when they were putting the rest of the scaffolding together, they were obviously exerting themselves. I mean metal bars aren't exactly light, it's not surprising right? But I had to listen to them because, window, and that was less "grunting and exertion" noises and more...if I didn't know better I'd have said they were filming a porn movie out there with the moaning noises. Yegads.
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That's so rude! People can really be horrible sometimes. Could you prop up a bit of cardboard over the window when you need privacy?
 
Today was a warm, breezy, sunny day and I had my piggies on the grass and clothes on the line when all this smoke came billowing over the fence. In a panic I scooped up all my pigs as I do not want them breathing in smoke! I decided to leave the clothes to investigate the source of the smoke. Ends up one of my neighbours has something smoking, I'm not quite sure what it was, but it wasn't their house/garage. Something small. Maybe like a pizza oven etc.

This wasn't just the smell of a bbq, no my backyard was hazy and full of white smoke blowing through as they obviously were burning leaves or something.

Once determining no one was hurt or that my neighbourhood was burning down, I was then less than impressed with my backyard then smoked out for the next hour. My city is in lockdown, my backyard is one my legal place to be outside enjoying the sun. Ruined my afternoon as I couldn't read outside in the sun with my piggies or even have my door open for fresh air :(
 
This is just a minor quibble, really. I'm all for not needing to be told exactly what to do in every step of a pattern. I mean that's cool, right? I should always know some stuff first and not just dive headlong in for the hell of it. And if the pattern doesn't tell me I need to pin certain pieces together before sewing a seam that's fine. But you can imagine I could be a tad confused when it tells me to pin two pieces together just a couple of steps later. So am I actually meant to sew that seam together or am I supposed to do some sort of seam reinforcement somewhere instead?

Meanwhile I know if I did this to someone else I'd find it hilarious, so I should definitely know better lol.
 
Stoopid epileptic brain 😡 Have had to cancel my double appt for piglets at C&R because I’ve had a seizure overnight, been waiting weeks for it :(
Thankfully just health checks really for Luigi and Cleo and we’ve rebooked for in a few weeks but it makes me feel very guilty! Damn brain! 😡 (Was having a good run there without though I suppose so I shouldn’t complain too much but still! 🙄)
 
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