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

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Lady Kelly said:
I mean that's shocking. Not sure how Royal Mail can compete anymore, I mean their service is getting worse than evri on a lot of occasions but they charge a lot more
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Apart from my new Evri driver who doesn't ring on the doorbell or knock the door and just leaves parcels in my porch, I've found Evri to be OK. My old Evri driver (when it was My Hermes) was very lovely and even liked to have a chat.
 
See I'm lucky @Betsy @Lady Kelly I've had a couple of hiccups with Royal Mail but they mostly involved vans breaking down or half the local posties being off sick. Both of my usual posties will even wait after they knock because they know it'll take me a minute to get down the stairs. I did have a good laugh at one of them the other day when he was trying to input my name onto the scanner before taking the photo and apologised it was taking so long, because he should know by now how to spell my name 😂 Only had one Evri delivery here, that went fine, had DX twice - once in March, apparently, and then one the other day because he got lost so he rang me for directions. DHL have been great.

Happy Hay are moving to DPD only and said they hoped I'd rethink not buying from them again. Like guys this is not a "I don't like DPD" situation, this is a "DPD will deliberately hold onto my parcels for an extra couple of days because they felt like it and I'm not sure why I should just accept that" situation. Pity, too, it's the only hay the goblins actually want.
 
DPD used to be really good here, the best of the bunch. Recently they have started splitting my deliveries so instead of the 3 hay boxes arriving at the time given they arrive separately which means I end up waiting in all day. I had a notification on Monday that my Happy Hay order would arrive on Thursday so arranged this week around that, today I got a notification that my delivery was held up somewhere in transit and wouldn't be arriving after all.
I'm a first time Happy Hay customer and was really impressed with how quickly they sent the order out, it's a shame DPD are such a let down.
 
I've cancelled the subscription but I'm probably going to restart it despite everything in my head saying not to. They love it, they get excited for it, and DPD's issues aren't their fault.
 
I've just sold an item on ebay. It was on a bid and went up to £19.01. Immediately it was won by the highest bidder I got a message saying that she meant to bid £15 but in the panic of the last seconds of the auction she pressed the wrong number. Yeah right! How can you bid £19.01 by mistake. I replied that I didn't know how to cancel the sale to which she replied would I be willing to accept £15 plus postage. Er.... No! I had a bid of £18.01 before her final bid of £19.01 and I told her this. She has now replied that she will make full payment ASAP. So what was all the stress about? Honestly some people!
 
Well done sticking to that Betsy ! My friend sold a bundle of childrens clothes on Facebook market place for £10 - all good quality hardly worn - when the woman came round she said ‘sorry I’ve only got £2.50’ ! She didn’t get the clothes …..😬
 
Roselina said:
Well done sticking to that Betsy ! My friend sold a bundle of childrens clothes on Facebook market place for £10 - all good quality hardly worn - when the woman came round she said ‘sorry I’ve only got £2.50’ ! She didn’t get the clothes …..😬
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Some people like to try it on and it really annoys me when they do!
 
I was meant to catch up with a friend at the beginning of the week. She forgot and now I'm sad because she hasn't even remembered she forgot. Am I not even worth enough to other people that they remember our plans?!
 
I hate selling now. I do some good bits of clothing on vinted but even that's getting worse. My favourites are:
1. Selling a laser printer on eBay as collection only (just wanted it gone) someone won it for £1 then asked me how much postage was.
2. Selling a slow cooker for £5 on Facebook marketplace (again wanted it gone). Guy collects it in person and takes it away. A few days later he brings it back with cracks all in the pot telling me he wants his £5 back. Hubby asked why he took it if he wasn't happy with the condition of it, he just kept shouting and then dumped it on our doorstep and left.
 
Sar said:
I was meant to catch up with a friend at the beginning of the week. She forgot and now I'm sad because she hasn't even remembered she forgot. Am I not even worth enough to other people that they remember our plans?!
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I'm so sorry that you are feeling so forgotten and unimportant. As someone who has a terrible memory and has almost missed plans due to not putting them in my calendar, please do reach out to your friend and just ask outright "we were going to meet up earlier this week, did you forget?". My most recent one was that I was meant to take my bestie for dinner as her birthday present and luckily she messaged me two days before to see where we were going. I feel absolutely dreadful that she even had to do that and can't believe we managed to make plans and I didn't write it down. I suppose what I'm trying to get at is that it's not always intentional
 
I have to be reminded of everything, multiple times - hell sometimes even morning of because my brain doesn't sort diary-stuff out, it just deletes it half the time. It's embarrassing, I can remember the name of a teacher from a school I left 24 years ago that never even taught me but I forgot I had an appointment at 10.30am last Monday.

I get asked almost like an aside thing because I think they avoid wanting me to panic over it. "So hey we meeting at X or Y place?" "Hey which train/bus/tram/coach are you on?" That kind of thing. It works. I still feel like an idiot, but it works.
 
Bad phone connections. Not sure if I just agreed to pay $8 or $800 if my insurance doesn't cover a test.... I had to hang up on the poor man 4 times till we got a barely functioning phone call. I told him he really needs to get a new headset.
 
Keep with me on this one, because I'm not looking for compliments over the sewing or anything, this is just an...observation, but I know not all my centre points are meeting in my square blocks. I know why it is, too, it's because of the way I've been folding the seams. The central seams are straight vertical and horizontal, but each of the mini blocks of triangles is made of 3 seams that are getting folded over in an anti-clockwise direction, because that's what I've been doing since I started. If I'd sewn one of the triangles a different way at first I could've changed it, but I did the first triangles this way, so I'm doing them all this way.

That said my fabric edges are spot on, or as close as, when they're together. It's just the triangle based ones that aren't.

"Pin thru your seams and check them both sides before sewing. Having said that, some of mine still don't work once I've sewn it up"
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There was a time when my reaction to that would've been why do I even bother? Why make the assumption I'm not doing it in the first place? She'll insist that's not what she meant and maybe it's not but it's very clear it's what she said. Jokes on her, though. I'm halfway through the fourth square, still doing it the same way. 🤷‍♂️
 
Sar said:
I'm a celebrity. I understand why people are voting for Matt to do the trials but as a viewer I am bored of it. He doesn't even flinch, so where's the fun...?
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I'm the same with you. I know plenty of people are voting him to do the trials because they don't like him, but come on! He isn't the only contestant there. I bet he would be the first one to be voted out too, so all those trials he did are for nothing.
 
I’ve come out with my parents. Driving along my dad thought the car felt funny and was pouring out smoke. He suddenly realised that he’s put petrol in his diesel car 😞 Thankfully we’re at Boundary Mill so we’re sat in the cafe waiting for the people to come to drain the tank. My dads worried he’s knackered the engine but the RAC bloke said they see this all the time and all should be ok. I hope so as they just don’t have the money for a new engine 😞
 
Claire W said:
I’ve come out with my parents. Driving along my dad thought the car felt funny and was pouring out smoke. He suddenly realised that he’s put petrol in his diesel car 😞 Thankfully we’re at Boundary Mill so we’re sat in the cafe waiting for the people to come to drain the tank. My dads worried he’s knackered the engine but the RAC bloke said they see this all the time and all should be ok. I hope so as they just don’t have the money for a new engine 😞
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Home now. Thankfully no damage to the engine. Parents just had to pay for tank to be drained and car to be filled with fresh fuel
 
Claire W said:
I’ve come out with my parents. Driving along my dad thought the car felt funny and was pouring out smoke. He suddenly realised that he’s put petrol in his diesel car 😞 Thankfully we’re at Boundary Mill so we’re sat in the cafe waiting for the people to come to drain the tank. My dads worried he’s knackered the engine but the RAC bloke said they see this all the time and all should be ok. I hope so as they just don’t have the money for a new engine 😞
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Oops! I hope the RAC come and sort you out soon.
I did that once with my husband's car, realised it the moment I put the nozzle back in the holster. It's easy to do, but I still felt such a twit!

Edited to say, just seen you had updated. Glad everything is OK 👍
 
Qualcast&Flymo said:
Oops! I hope the RAC come and sort you out soon.
I did that once with my husband's car, realised it the moment I put the nozzle back in the holster. It's easy to do, but I still felt such a twit!

Edited to say, just seen you had updated. Glad everything is OK 👍
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Sorry you’ve made the same mistake and I hope all was ok. The guy said they see it very often and that it’s easily done but my dad feels every so silly too and his pride has taken a battering
 
When I moved in, my toilet was a two button flush - the larger and easier to access button was the small/half flush, and the smaller button wasthe full flush. Seems a little backwards but hey, right? Then I had to have the entire contents of the cistern replaced. The large button is now the full flush. The small button only flushes for as long as you're pressing + holding it.

My brain doesn't like this change. My brain refuses to remember this change. I keep hitting the wrong button.
 
After all the bad news I've had this year, a recent bout of COVID as well, I'm feeling completely burnt out so booked the week off work (I work weds-fri) as it's my birthday and I needed some me time so desperately.
Nothing much planned. Sewing, shopping, cinema on my own followed by lunch. Just generally whatever I want.
Only now the toddler has what is likely a chest infection (apparently it's doing the rounds at nursery) so she's going to be home tomorrow and could be for the rest of the week. It's not her fault at all, it's no one's fault but I honestly could just sit here and cry because yet again my annual leave is taken up for others and not myself
 
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