Going to the bank nice and early to do a transfer and avoiding the lunch que, realising half hour later that you forgot to take any cash out whilst there and having to que at a busy cash point for ten minutes!
tourists that ask you for directions then argue with you over where it is, working in the vacinity of south kensington museums get this nigh on everyday either buy a map or listen you wankers.
People who walk down the row of toilet cubicles and push every door even though they are clearly all locked.
Why? I won't come shuffling out with my pants round my ankles saying "please, after you!"
Fcks sake
Maybe they are hoping one is only partially locked and they can satisfy their sexual oddity of wanting to see people on the bog?
Yeah, but nothing worse than standing outside a cubicle for ages and then realising the lock is turned to engaged but it's actually open.
I go with a discreet finger press on the door so the incumbent doesn't notice and I don't end up in the above situation. The best of both worlds... or living an anxiety-driven socially awkward half-life - depending on how you look at it.
Whatever you order comes in office hours, when surprisingly like most people I'm in an office (ok - fine, but are they not sick of delivering to empty houses?). If you're lucky and who you're buying from use DPD or someone similar to deliver - you can order it to a local newsagents to collect.
If you're unlucky, they take it to the local post-office depot (Blackheath in my case) where the guy seems to literally disappear into Narnia for 10 mins to find it, before returning to ask you "what date was it delivered?" and heading back off to see Aslan for a chat. Needless to say it's physically impossible to park anywhere near the post office depot - perfect location for it.
In my 'lucky' scenario though... I go to the newsagents (which I'd ordered the package to on that day, i.e. far from being a random person turning up and saying 'you got any parcels I can have, mate?') and show him the text message from the delivery company, he goes online and scans the QR code, then verifies my passport against my face and the name on the package... and then he asks me to verify my address on the package.
Look, I know I'm a dick and I could have just said my address in 5 seconds - but what does that security layer add?! It made getting through American customs in 2002 look like childs play!
I wished I’d kept the exact chronology of this, but sadly I didn’t.
Anyway some 6-7 weeks ago a car crashed into this pillar box which at the time also had the postman’s utility box attached. The utility box and the car were quite badly damaged and someone helpfully later arrived on site and encased the box and the car in sticky tape, warning the public that there had been an accident. Really?
A few days later the car was removed and the remnants of the sticky tape wound around the pillar box.
A week or so later another team arrived to remove the utility box from the pillar box and I’m guessing that the sticky tape had to be rearranged again.
A few days ago (many weeks after the original accident) the piece de resistance. Another team has arrived and erected the barrier guards around the pillar box. This is a blessed relief to all concerned. It is very confusing for pedestrians to approach a pillar box that is at 45 degrees. Now at least we know that no man must walk through, enter or straddle this box.
FFS I can see no damage to the box. Two men and one shovel could get it reinstated in about five minutes flat.
Hysterical parents who think that only they fully understand the dangers if the world, wrap their kids in cotton wool and then lecture you to suggest you are putting your kids in mortal danger... I'm fact, anyone who doesn't properly understand risk.
Example... I left my kids in their car seats and went to get a parking ticket. Not sure how it came into the conversation but someone I barely know had a right go, saying I'd neglected the kids leaving them in the car... she took her kids with her at all time so she could see them and what if a car crashed into my parked car etc.... call me Mr irresponsible but surely the kids are in far more danger in a carpark? And surely the home is the most dangerous place at all. What annoyed me more was the nerve of the woman
Hysterical parents who think that only they fully understand the dangers if the world, wrap their kids in cotton wool and then lecture you to suggest you are putting your kids in mortal danger... I'm fact, anyone who doesn't properly understand risk.
Example... I left my kids in their car seats and went to get a parking ticket. Not sure how it came into the conversation but someone I barely know had a right go, saying I'd neglected the kids leaving them in the car... she took her kids with her at all time so she could see them and what if a car crashed into my parked car etc.... call me Mr irresponsible but surely the kids are in far more danger in a carpark? And surely the home is the most dangerous place at all. What annoyed me more was the nerve of the woman
What would have happened had a car come round the corner with the driver paying no attention... Wiping out the kids in the middle of the road, yes the mother would have been keeping an eye on them but there would be nothing she could do to stop them being hit.
Yes she could say that you neglected your kids by leaving them in the car and yes a car could have hit your car but all they'd have felt was a jolt resulting in a bit of potential whiplash... Also being locked in the car meant that no one could snatch them!!
Dont really think your Mr Irresponsible in the slightest... You probably took the safest route!!
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People who don't full screen PowerPoints.
Why? I won't come shuffling out with my pants round my ankles saying "please, after you!"
Fcks sake
I go with a discreet finger press on the door so the incumbent doesn't notice and I don't end up in the above situation. The best of both worlds... or living an anxiety-driven socially awkward half-life - depending on how you look at it.
Whatever you order comes in office hours, when surprisingly like most people I'm in an office (ok - fine, but are they not sick of delivering to empty houses?). If you're lucky and who you're buying from use DPD or someone similar to deliver - you can order it to a local newsagents to collect.
If you're unlucky, they take it to the local post-office depot (Blackheath in my case) where the guy seems to literally disappear into Narnia for 10 mins to find it, before returning to ask you "what date was it delivered?" and heading back off to see Aslan for a chat. Needless to say it's physically impossible to park anywhere near the post office depot - perfect location for it.
In my 'lucky' scenario though... I go to the newsagents (which I'd ordered the package to on that day, i.e. far from being a random person turning up and saying 'you got any parcels I can have, mate?') and show him the text message from the delivery company, he goes online and scans the QR code, then verifies my passport against my face and the name on the package... and then he asks me to verify my address on the package.
Look, I know I'm a dick and I could have just said my address in 5 seconds - but what does that security layer add?! It made getting through American customs in 2002 look like childs play!
Anyway some 6-7 weeks ago a car crashed into this pillar box which at the time also had the postman’s utility box attached. The utility box and the car were quite badly damaged and someone helpfully later arrived on site and encased the box and the car in sticky tape, warning the public that there had been an accident. Really?
A few days later the car was removed and the remnants of the sticky tape wound around the pillar box.
A week or so later another team arrived to remove the utility box from the pillar box and I’m guessing that the sticky tape had to be rearranged again.
A few days ago (many weeks after the original accident) the piece de resistance. Another team has arrived and erected the barrier guards around the pillar box. This is a blessed relief to all concerned. It is very confusing for pedestrians to approach a pillar box that is at 45 degrees. Now at least we know that no man must walk through, enter or straddle this box.
FFS I can see no damage to the box. Two men and one shovel could get it reinstated in about five minutes flat.
Example... I left my kids in their car seats and went to get a parking ticket. Not sure how it came into the conversation but someone I barely know had a right go, saying I'd neglected the kids leaving them in the car... she took her kids with her at all time so she could see them and what if a car crashed into my parked car etc.... call me Mr irresponsible but surely the kids are in far more danger in a carpark? And surely the home is the most dangerous place at all. What annoyed me more was the nerve of the woman
Yes she could say that you neglected your kids by leaving them in the car and yes a car could have hit your car but all they'd have felt was a jolt resulting in a bit of potential whiplash... Also being locked in the car meant that no one could snatch them!!
Dont really think your Mr Irresponsible in the slightest... You probably took the safest route!!