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What grinds YOUR gears??

Down here lots of folk want the speed limit on the road out of the village reduced from 60 to 30, the council wont do it and the process to get it done can take years,
When you suggest to the most vocal that they should just feck the council and put up their own road signs they start going on about rules and regulations,
Its almost like there has been some national event that have turned folk into sheep.
In the old days it was common for folk to protest or completely ignore stupid little laws, rules and regulations but now a protester for what is right is demonised via the media and the sheep people are the first to say that those with minds of their own shouldnt be allowed to protest.
 
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110landycamper said:
This country has gone health & safety mad,so they'd prefer a run down shit hole then. Jeez you can't even put some flowers up,to make the place look better 🤬
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Yes, I’ve tried planting trees on verges through the council and takes about a year to organise. Our shire council prevents planting on verges due to risk of falling trees in the road, yet city council are planting them IN the road!
The procedure is- First to contact green space department, then look up the groundwork’s plan to look for buried services, then send out leaflets to propose the idea to residents, wait about 2 months for objections, another 2 months to reply to those objections in the terms of - it’s not your property so F.O.!
Then order the plants, and organise a local planting event- needing authority from local village council- needing a risk assessment and paying the public liability insurance for the day for anyone planting.
Then inform Landscape services so they don’t mow the lot flat again, which they will usually ignore and mow it anyway.
- Total PITA to do anything nice.
- but we got some done-
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I went to the ace cafe a couple of years back and parked up in the 90% empty carpark and went in for a cuppa,
Next thing a chap comes in and asks if thats my bike outside, yes i replied,
He said that i had to move it as it was not parked correctly, it was not in line with the other 2 or 3 bikes that were parked up,
Thinking he was joking i ignored him,
The next thing another member of staff comes over and says all bikes have to be parked next to each other in orderly lines facing the road,
Thats in a location that thrives on and makes its money and reputation on once being the spiritual home of a counter culture,
I drank my tea and left.
This country has changed for the worse,
 

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I would have poured my tea all over their floor, told them to get stuffed & just walked out !
Once went in a cafe been going to for years,to be told bicycles are not allowed in the garden anymore. The day was overcast was more staff than customers, I told them how ridiculous they are. They'll loose a lot of customers, plus the fact I'm a motorcyclist & will tell all my friends !
I know of another cafe that closed, within 6 months after similar stupidity.
 
Back to delivery companies :mad: Been a lot of discussion on here about them.
I've an overnight delivery outstanding. Due on the 9th. Didn't get delivered. Today (someone in all day and yes the door bell does work) no delivery. Checked DHL tracking at around 4pm - woopee - I'm the next scheduled delivery. Sat there and sat there - nothing. Checked tracking again - now says parcel at depot and the driver attempted delivery ar 12.00. That's clever - 4 hours before the automated system (which tracks deliveries) stated I was the next stop and no card put through the door. Knocked off early on Friday?
Fuming - it's a part for my restoration.
Rang DHL customer services - (there till 8pm) - automated 3 choice menu with no option to speak to a human. Multiple attempts to call incase the message kicked in if operators all busy. Fat chance - message every time. Found another number hidden somewhere else on the site - directed to the automated message again.
Not that it'll do any good I've e-mailed a formal complaint.
The delivery (which needs a signature) will probably be attempted over the weekend while I'm away and then I loose a days work on Monday waiting for it - if it comes. Will probably arrive in bits now.
 
I had the same kind of problem with lying and false tracking details etc, after lots of shennanigans with the same delivery companys customer service dept i gave up,
as the delivery contract is with the sender i could get nowhere dealing with them,
I rang the company i bought the parts from, possibly iirc lrseries and simply cancelled my order due to the unacceptable delay in the delivery i had paid for, i made it very clear that i needed the parts to do some booked in work and i got an immediate refund and bought elsewhere.
Since then i get my parts delivered to argos/sainsbury and so far all orders have arrived quickly with no losses, the chap on the counter says others are telling him the same,
It seems these days there is at least a two tier delivery system, one for private rural buyers who will get deliveries when they have enough packages to make the round viable for them to send a van out and corporate customers who get their deliveries on time and with no trouble.
Perhaps they cant get the staff to work on a pricework basis in rural areas but thats for them to sort out.
 
Hitchhiker42 said:
Back to delivery companies :mad: Been a lot of discussion on here about them.
I've an overnight delivery outstanding. Due on the 9th. Didn't get delivered. Today (someone in all day and yes the door bell does work) no delivery. Checked DHL tracking at around 4pm - woopee - I'm the next scheduled delivery. Sat there and sat there - nothing. Checked tracking again - now says parcel at depot and the driver attempted delivery ar 12.00. That's clever - 4 hours before the automated system (which tracks deliveries) stated I was the next stop and no card put through the door. Knocked off early on Friday?
Fuming - it's a part for my restoration.
Rang DHL customer services - (there till 8pm) - automated 3 choice menu with no option to speak to a human. Multiple attempts to call incase the message kicked in if operators all busy. Fat chance - message every time. Found another number hidden somewhere else on the site - directed to the automated message again.
Not that it'll do any good I've e-mailed a formal complaint.
The delivery (which needs a signature) will probably be attempted over the weekend while I'm away and then I loose a days work on Monday waiting for it - if it comes. Will probably arrive in bits now.
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Failing to deliver what was paid for. If everyone got a refund theyd go bust.
 
Rynner said:
who will get deliveries when they have enough packages to make the round viable for them to send a van out
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Yes, that. I think that's why I can wait up to three-four weeks for a Hermevri delivery.

Yes, I could collect in store, but the nearest collection point is a 74 mile round trip. Kind of defeats the purpose of buying online.

I try to only buy from sellers who use royal mail. Just bought a new gas regulator for the welder, thought long and hard as it was saying free delivery, not until you click buy that you find the carriage method. RM 48 HR. Which realistically means next Wednesday or Thursday to here.
 
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