Todays - What grinds my gears *ARCHIVE*

[P.]

[P.]

[ThunderGuts]

Generally speaking, animals only attack humans out of self defence where they feel threatened. It probably doesn't take much to alarm a small animal like a spider . . . but it takes significant resolve to not react to one! I personally don't mind spiders (although I don't tend to handle them directly), my issue is with wasps - they seem to have a deeply entrenched hatred of me. Fortunately hornets seem to be calmer given one somehow managed to fly under the chinbar of my helmet last year and ended up behind my visor and sat on my cheek, refusing to leave even when I flipped the visor open!
____________________
TG.

[Freddyfruitba...]

Fucking White Van Man.

Today I came across a long stretch of traffic-controlled roadworks, so took the opportunity to overtake the stationary queue and pootle up to the front. I was sitting there waiting alongside the lead car, which needed my right foot - though not the bike - to be over the central white line. Something I wouldn't have done unthinkingly, but it was a big A-road with plenty of room - two oncoming cars could easily have driven through side by side if they'd wanted.

But FWVM, heading towards me through the roadworks, was obviously one of those who takes exception to bikers who don't sit in traffic queues like they should. He drove the bloody thing straight at me at high speed, only swerving off his line, and away from me, at the last second. Point duly made, twat.
____________________
KC100->CB100N->CB250RS--------->DL650AL2->R1200RS->R1250RS

[A100man]

[bhinso]

I got that phone call about my internet going to be cut off "press 1 to resolve...."

Gratitude to the forum in that I was already prepared for this.

[Skudd]

My new heavy duty yard brush has just snapped, only had it 3 days.
____________________
Famous last words of Humpty Dumpty. " Stop pushing me "
Petty Anarchists look at "1984".............. The Visionary looks at "Animal Farm".

[hellkat]

I've been winding myself up about my scar itching for a couple of weeks now.
My 3 month follow-up appointment was lost in the system because COVID.
I bitched a little on the phone about the narrow margins and the possibility of a CT scan.
I have an appointment with the dermatologist next week.
Face to face, doh.
____________________
Not nearly as interesting in real life.

[Skudd]

[Riejufixing]

[stinkwheel]

Automatic checkouts AGAIN. The things hate me and they still haven't fitted a mute button because I hate being told what to do by a machine. They don't just tell you, they then pester.

It took three members of staff to un-fuck this one and ring through a root vegetable bake. Almost lost the will to live.

I was trying to be considerate and reduce staff exposure to me for COVID reasons. That didn't work. Previous time it couldn't cope with how I was packing the bag (rearranging stuff so it all fit) and kept doing alarms until the point I threw it all back in the basket and went to the manned checkout instead.

100% manned checkout from now on.
____________________
“Rule one: Always stick around for one more drink. That's when things happen. That's when you find out everything you want to know.”
I did the 2010 Round Britain Rally on my 350 Bullet. 89 landmarks, 3 months, 9,500 miles.

[Hong Kong Phooey]

[hellkat]

[hellkat]

[hellkat]

My gears today are ground as a result of the flooring at my back door step being rotten : the result of years of incoming rain, and which I almost just put my foot through.

____________________
Not nearly as interesting in real life.

[Hong Kong Phooey]

[hellkat]

Yuk indeed.
Nasty bastards.
____________________
Not nearly as interesting in real life.

[kramdra]

[Fisty]

[Nobby the Bastard]

Apparently the self checkout isn't for prostrate examinations.


'Unexpected bagging in the item area'....
____________________
trevor saxe-coburg-gotha:"Remember this simple rule - scooters are for men who like to feel the breeze on their huge, flapping cunt lips."
Sprint ST 1050

[chickenstrip]

[Nobby the Bastard]

[Hong Kong Phooey]

[hellkat]

Oo!

*wibble*
____________________
Not nearly as interesting in real life.

[hellkat]

I am v.annoyed indeed at my boss being an occasionally cantankerous old git.

I cannot put the patient's name and date of birth if you do not tell me who it is! I cannot even hazard a guess at his hospital number, let alone his NHS number.

I may be reasonably psychic after years of working for doctors and scientists of repute (! professors !) ... but this does not mean that I will immediately know who "William" actually is without reference to anything but his length of time having been coming to visit the hospital.

I think it's because he came to me last week asking me to find out a patient with a single peculiar symptom, and that I knew immediately not only that there was such a patient but also that it was a boy. I was a little more vague on whereabouts in the country he came from, but it took me less than five minutes to have found him and returned his details to the boss. So now he expects constant miracles, because he freely admits to having "the memory of a tea bag".

But that doesn't mean I am always that clever.
Or awake


____________________
Not nearly as interesting in real life.