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GRUMPY 'OLD' PEOPLE

by Quatermass 3 months ago
Last updated about 1 month ago.

Victor

I have suddenly realised how grumpy I appear to have become. My last posting brought it home to me. Mind you, there’s plenty to be grumpy about.

I invite you other grumpies to join me in a damn good moan about anything you feel warrants it.

Here goes: LOUSY STOCK CONTROL – I hate it when you go for a replacement bulb or some such item only to be told "we don’t have one in stock but we can get you one for a week next Thursday". It’s their job to ensure that they have enough in stock to meet customer demand. Grrr.

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  1. AR-TONY Submitted 3 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

    Ah! You will forgiven for thinking that stocks should be well maintained, but the truth is, "The Man" would rather have his cash sloshing around in our dubious Banks than lying as a reasonable quantity of "Bulbs 230-240V 5Amp" for the use of. So we end up with everything, even Aeroplanes, awaiting parts while thousands of vans n wagons ply our roads day n night with "Just In Time Ordering” burning up fuel n tarmac Grrrr.

  2. Quatermass Submitted 3 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

    TOTAL INDIFFERENCE – Shop assistants who, when asked about a product reply, "don’t know" and leave it at that without making the effort to find out. Grrr.

  3. ChiefDragon Submitted 3 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

    Ringing an 0845 number that’s charging 10p per minute and after 5 minutes you still haven’t spoken to a human being!

  4. Quatermass Submitted 2 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

    INDICATING – There is an ever increasing number of drivers who do not indicate their intention to turn left. On arriving at a busy road you wait for a gap in the traffic with the intention of turning right; poised to make a dash for it. On seeing a car approaching from your right you wait for it to pass but it reaches you and turns left without indicating. Having waited those vital seconds for it to safely pass you are left stranded as the gap in the traffic on the busy road has now gone. This really infuriates me. Grrr.

  5. ChiefDragon Submitted 2 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

    How right you are Q! And drivers who pull out from the side of the road into traffic without indication are another pet hate of mine.

  6. Quatermass Submitted 2 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

    FACE TO FACE – ‘Complicated’ problems need to be sorted out by two people face to face. You can glean a lot by looking at body language. I find having to deal with people via an electronic connection really quite irritating. Don’t get me wrong, I’m more than capable of using a telephone and email but there are just some things that need that personal touch. Trying to find someone to call round and explain things or have things explained to them by me is nigh impossible. Grrr.

  7. alanmackinnon Submitted 2 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

    I really detest call centres which are becoming more prevalent nowadays, but the worst ones are those that are manned by people on the Indian sub-continent who have great difficulty speaking English well enough to be understood. And, before I get shouted down, this is not a racist stance, it is common sense, especially when the phone call is costing us money or we are trying to solve a technical problem regarding some piece of technology such as a pc or phone.

  8. medsec Submitted 2 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

    Yes I agree with that one. They are relentlessly cheerful but don’t really understand the problem you need them to deal with.

    Another pet hate of mine is the way more and more car drivers sit in queues of traffic with their foot hard down on the brake pedal, which in these days of high brake lights and extra bright lights, means you get dazzled. Don’t these numpties realise every vehicle comes equipped with a hand brake?

  9. ChiefDragon Submitted 2 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

    Oops! Sorry Medsec from this numpty, I think I may be guilty of that now and again :-)

  10. ChiefDragon Submitted 2 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

    Salesmen who knock at your door just when you have sat at the table for tea and proudly proclaim " I’M NOT SELLING ANYTHING" to which I reply ‘Then why are you disturbing my tea?’

  11. AR-TONY Submitted 2 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

    Having to remember many passwords and pin numbers is very exercising. We all probably have at least a dozen to recall for phones, internet sites, e mails, banks, cards, and whatnot. Grrr

  12. medsec Submitted 2 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

    Lol, CD – just don’t do it again! Please, for the sake of my eyes!

    ART – oh how I agree with that one. I find I forget them more and more these days.

  13. stevefoster Submitted 2 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

    My kids used to call me victor meldrew,and also alf garnet,they seemed to think i was a little outspoken,especialy when trying to explain that there is no need to have lights on during the day,the telephone actualy costs money to use,and i was being especialy picky when mentioning the state of their bedrooms,the mess left in the bathroom,the way in which when making a drink,would just get out clean glasses and cups,and leave the ones they used where they had left them,usualy under their beds!and then the shock of my youngest daughter on a sunday telling us to take it easy, she will do the dishes (pure disbelief)then when i walked back in to see how she was getting on,to be told sorry dad "i dont do pans" grrrr!!! but then again i love them all to pieces.

  14. AR-TONY Submitted 2 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

    The ever puzzling thinking of our Councillors.

    Brown Bin… Scrapings from table n kitchen and mixed with all sorts of garden waste… collected when stinking, once every two weeks?

    Blue bin… Full of all manner of rubbish… collected once every two weeks.

    Black Bin… virtually empty and?... Collected once every week… Grr!

  15. barrow Submitted 2 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

    Rang East Yorkshire Council the other day.Got the usual press one,two or three.A voice said,"an agent will be with you shortly" AGENT! What was wrong with a "member of staff" And yes,I also have a book on passwords. Went to buy a fridge the other day.Saw one we liked but were told new stock was coming in a week.I said can reserve one,only to be told no.Come in when they arrive.Why? Went to another place and bought one

  16. foxbat Submitted 2 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

    Quote ART Brown Bin… Scrapings from table n kitchen and mixed with all sorts of garden waste… collected when stinking, once every two weeks?

    Blue bin… Full of all manner of rubbish… collected once every two weeks.

    Black Bin… virtually empty and?... Collected once every week… Grr! unquote…

    Not where I live…chuck it all in one bag, take it down to the bin at the end of the street… The bin gets emptied every night except Saturday…

    Large cardboard boxes? Leave them beside the Paper & Cardboard bin at the top of the village; don’t collapse them or put them in the bin because the villagers complain about not being able to retrieve and re-use them…

    Got something big or electrical to dispose of..? Leave it beside the bin…the villagers can and will recycle anything and it will mysteriously disappear within an hour.

    Needless to say our village is not in England!

    We do however have our own version of 0845 numbers, but the chances are it will be answered promptly from within the country with no commercials…

    You even get used to the car’s steering wheel being on the wrong side eventually and if you don’t like the way the locals drive, drive like they do!

    Very little or no CCTV; Council tax 120 Euros a year; road tax 70 euros a year; sound good? It is!

    But do me a favour; if you are coming over here don’t be another Brit whinger…we have far too many already.

  17. stevefoster Submitted 2 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

    "I DONT BELIEVE IT"!!!!!!

  18. foxbat Submitted 2 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

    It’s true honest!...we also have trains and buses that run on time…Our High Speed trains routinely run at 320kph…and if they are more than 5 minutes late every passenger gets a full refund…

    Not perpetual sunshine but not far short…even 3000’ up the side of a mountain today has been 70F good enough for sunbathing..!

  19. medsec Submitted 2 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

    So why are you so interested in this forum, which obviously can hold little relevance for you?

  20. foxbat Submitted 2 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

    Because I was born and bred in Hull; lived there for the first twenty years of my life, frequently make visits to family members who still live in the area,and also went to Riley…need I say more?

  21. stevefoster Submitted 2 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

    Im sorry, but i think most will get what i meant,it was a poor impression of victor meldrews famous tv saying when he moans out aloud,(pic at top of page)lol

    ("I dont believe it")

  22. foxbat Submitted 2 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

    I certainly got it! Victor is one of my all time heroes…

  23. alanmackinnon Submitted 2 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

    Foxbat, I notice that you haven’t told us exactly where this utopia is and I cannot blame you for that. If I were lucky enough, when I was a young man, to live in such a well-run village I, too, would tend to keep it a secret in case loads of other Brits came in and tried to spoil it all by their usual habit of trying to change everything to their way. But it really does prove that it is possible to do the job right. In this country, if you tried to dispose of your rubbish and unwanted bits and bobs the way you do there, you would have "Elf and Sadie" all over your neck and probably get issued with asbos or fined £80.00 on the spot for looking at a council official the wrong way.

  24. stevefoster Submitted 2 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

    Ahhh foxcat,he may be one of your heros but would he fit in to this paradise you live in,or would he get ("evicotored")hee hee.but on the other hand my wife and myself seek acommadation and your village sounds perfect,so do you think i could come live there, say on a months free trial on or around 02-12-2010,i promise not to be a whinger,and not to tell anybody else where it is,by the way where is it ???

  25. Quatermass Submitted 2 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

    FAILURE TO TURN UP – A builder and an electrician I arranged to meet me at my house on Saturday to discuss some jobs that needed doing failed to turn up. If they couldn’t make it for one reason or another fair enough; out of courtesy let me know. I tried ‘phoning them but their mobiles were turned off. Grr.

  26. Quatermass Submitted 2 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

    MOBILES AND ACCOUNTABILITY – Following on from my previous post. The addresses of the builder and electrician mentioned above are known to me. Not everyone I consider doing business with makes their whereabouts known and this makes me very cautious. You often see adverts for various services with only a mobile number on; no address and no traceable landline number. Most irritating and frustrating. Grr.

  27. BobM Submitted 2 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

    People like foxbat who give you the hump spouting on about how "green" it is on his side of the fence. Rather contradictory though that Meldrew is a hero of his,the finest British whinger of all time.

  28. Top-Dog Submitted 2 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

    Quartermass I am grumpy too great post ALF.

  29. Chromosome23 Submitted 2 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

    Why do people (al people, not just spotty youths, insist on standing at the front of the bus, just next to the luggage shelf. You quite often get four of five of them standing there, even when there are plenty of available seats. It can make it really difficult to get past them to get off when it gets to your stop.

    And again with the buses…it used to be that boarding passengers would let disembarking passengers get off first. Not now. As soon as the doors open, they swarm on, probably trying to get a prime standing spot next to the luggage rack.

  30. stevefoster Submitted 2 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

    And on the same subject,whatever happened to manners,seems everone just rushes on board and leaves the poor lady and pram to struggle (including most drivers)i once saw a lady with a pram and a tot trying to get off, and stood up and helped her off no sooner had she said thanks when the bus took off,and yes i did say to the driver im only helping her with the pram,so hang on.

  31. stevefoster Submitted 2 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

    Grrrrr.another moan occured to me,hull city councils fob you off number for every department 300300,if all else fails to get rid of you,they ask for your number and tell you someone will be in touch,and a friday being the worst day as you wait till monday,ring 300300 and have to go through the whole thing again.

  32. stevefoster Submitted 2 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

    My aunt florrie used to walk into our house,and begin her grumpy campaign after sitting down,first she would tell us all how lazy her poor liitle skinny husband was,and she had a way with making one eye go realy big,and the other eye scowl,and turn on us two lads tell my mother what she saw us up to the day before,and then growl at my mother,"you do know these boys will end up at the end of a hangmans rope dont you dear"myself being the smallest always looked deep into her eye to await a glimmer of laughter,but she was just too mean,so quickly looked away.

  33. AR-TONY Submitted 2 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

    As I get further into old age I find myself looking more and more to the past than the future. I think I will invite Mrs ART to administer a slap.

  34. stevefoster Submitted 2 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

    Is there just the two of you at home now art?i find my mrs notices my grumpiness,and i notice hers,but we dont seem to notice ourselves.

  35. Top-Dog Submitted 2 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

    Shopping with our Lass people with trolly’s doodling along thinking they are the only ones shopping they really annoy me. Also people who just leave their shopping trolly’s in the car park next to cars just because they cannot be bothered to take them back. Please put a Public Health Warning on these People or better still send them to Devils Island? (Sounds Good)Alf.

  36. Quatermass Submitted 2 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

    ZOMBIES – These are usually encountered on busy pavements or, worse still, in supermarkets. They wander, apparently mindlessly, all over the place with little or no regard for others. Supermarket aisles are their natural habitat. Things become much worse when they are armed with a trolley. Ankles, knees and toes are fair game as are children and senior citizens. These zombies follow the dictats of their shopping lists and flit from display to display with absolutely no regard for the likes of us who make an effort to avoid maiming someone. I’m normally quite a patient individual but find my patience sorely tested by these brain dead morons. Grrr.

  37. Top-Dog Submitted 2 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

    Fantastic even though I am Grumpy Grrr and have had a moan someone else feels the same with regards to Zombie shoppers and Trolley aisle rage Grrr.

  38. stevefoster Submitted 2 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

    What i cant stand is the people that stand in groups in the aisles, chatting about anything from weather to holidays totaly oblivious to anyone trying to get passed them,and have you ever got what looks like a decent empty trolly? and as it fills you turn right to go left and vice versa,then just as you start to think you are getting the hang of it, the trolly decides its got a mind of its own and comes to life,and you no longer have any control whatsoever over it and if the worse comes to the worse it will come to a complete stop and no longer budge,and the staff just smile as they see you struggling past.grrrrr.

  39. ChiefDragon Submitted 2 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

    We call them F.I.T’s Quatermass.

  40. tigerlilly Submitted 2 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

    Do you shop at Morrisons too steve foster? lol

  41. stevefoster Submitted 2 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

    I realy cant choose which is the worst,as they all have their own level of unhelpfulness.

  42. kath Submitted 2 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

    Alanmackinnon I agree about call centres my nine year old daughter was bought a mobile for her bithday she gave me the phone because this man kept ringing her it turned out to be Nat West bank asking for some customer and we told him we had never heard of him and that the phone belonged to my daughter, the same man rang nine times in three days. I rang the call centre and had to threaten them with the police before they stopped ringing my daughters phone

  43. Quatermass Submitted 2 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

    YOU POOR THING – I like to watch the BBC’s breakfast programme and catch up with world events. During the programme they cut to the Blue Peter garden a number of times where a presenter gives the weather forecast. Usually it is Carol Kirkwood and a good job she does too. However, what gets my goat is when Carol is giving us the weather details and it’s raining or snowing and those in the studio express concern for her having to endure extreme hardship. I would more than happily stand in heavy rain presenting the weather under an umbrella and be paid what she is being paid. Grrr.

  44. stevefoster Submitted 2 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

    Oh my god do you realise we are all victor meldrews,what a thought,we could start a club.

  45. stevefoster Submitted 2 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

    Once a week every week in winter my wife makes a pan of stew and dumplings,and i make a great big pan of Bolognese sauce,(and very good too)the next day i turn the Bolognese sauce into an indian curry,but after ordering a delivery,can you believe a store the size of asda brought me batter mix,instead of dumpling mix,and no curry powder,eggs,or carrots,so i paid £8 ew to tesco in withernsea,and they had no dumpling mix or curry powder,and neither did ALDI,but when the little shop on this site opened at 4pm and i went for an evening mail,guess what was staring at me from the shelf,yes dumpling mix,and not far from it was madras curry powder,grrr im more angry with myself,because i hardly use the little shop,because they hardly sell anything i want,and they are expensive,but i took every curry powder he had on the shelf and dump mix,what a price to pay for three meals.

  46. alanmackinnon Submitted 2 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

    Serves you right, Steve. Maybe that’ll larn ya to support the little businessman. Anither case where big is not best, eh, mate?

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    Adolf Submitted 2 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

    People who get to the top of escalators and then just stand still, prams used as battering-rams in crowds, children in pubs, women in checkout queues who don’t get their money out until all of their goods are packed….

  48. stevefoster Submitted 2 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

    Yes guilty as charged,and from now on will always check the little place out,learned a valuble lesson.(and expensive lol)

  49. alanmackinnon Submitted 2 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

    Well, Steve, they do say that if you learn from a negative experience it makes you richer (I don’t think they meant cashwise) so maybe they are right.

  50. Quatermass Submitted 2 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

    ZOMBIES 2 – Compliments of the season to all trolley pushing zombies. The run up to christmas provides these horrendous creatures with ‘rich pickings’ as they make their unpredictable way along supermarket aisles. I was left reeling as I made my way out of Sainsbury’s the other day having gone from being calm on entry to utterly furious as I negotiated the checkout. Christmas time is truly the highlight of the zombie year.

  51. mysti Submitted 2 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

    I used to take my Grandmother out around Hull in her wheelchair (she used a wheelchair as she couldn’t walk far) The number of people who used to direct their questions at me rather than her i.e. does she want sugar in that?’ She was unable to walk not stoopid. That and the ignorant bugga’s who used to let a shop door go when I was following them through with the wheelchair Aaarrgggh! (revenge was always sweet though – I’d get near to them on a kerb so that when they stepped off they’d scrape their ankles on the kick plates)ha ha ha.

  52. Quatermass Submitted 2 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

    You’re right, Mysti. Not only is it extremely rude but very demeaning.

  53. stevefoster Submitted 2 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

    there is one thing i cannot grump about,and that is east riding council,they are polite,helpful,every department has a number to ring,hull city council could learn a lot from them,as that 300300 num in hull gives me a headache,they are the frontline fobber offers,they will promise you anything to just get rid,my god when i think that there are frail oaps out there that need assistance,and are told to give there number and they will get a ringback,which at the very least could be two days,and at the longest never,i rang 300300 a few days ago i was on the phone for two hours trying to get through to social services,they told me they think ive already covered all my bases and dont realy need them,and would not put me through,in the afternoon i was toying with the yellow pages online,and all the hull numbers for social services came up,but on my disabled card it says ring 300300,there was no need to keep the number from me as they are in the book.

  54. AR-TONY Submitted about 1 month ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

    Life is worth the living… I don’t want to see the end… live… live without care… like a fish in the water… like a bird in the air… John Denver. I drew a portrait of him, all chubby, long haired, big spectacles n as casually clothed as ever. Next time I see him, on telly, the fellows cut his hair, lost four stone, is wearing contacts n a whistle n flute, says he wants to be a spaceman, Well I ask ya? Folks ask me now, "Who’s that then?" Grrr.

  55. Quatermass Submitted about 1 month ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

    MOBILE PHONES – I wholeheartedly agree that you should not use a mobile phone whilst driving. I also believe that you should not use a mobile phone whilst riding a bike. The times I have been cut-up by cyclists on mobiles as they weave about the road like farts in a trance. Grrr.

  56. AR-TONY Submitted about 1 month ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

    G… Hang on a mo, cannot think of ought t’ moan about! Really annoying that. Grrr!

  57. alsilver Submitted about 1 month ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

    Waiting for God tends to make people grumpy.

  58. stevefoster Submitted about 1 month ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

    My hat blowing off in the wind,and having to chase it with onlookers laughing grrrr

  59. Top-Dog Submitted about 1 month ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

    Drivers hesitating at roundabouts or junctions arghhh really makes me grumpy Grrrr. Braveheart.

  60. stevefoster Submitted about 1 month ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

    Little kids throwing stones at traffic,esp busses,imagine the outcome of a bus crashing into the side of your house,or pub.it dosent bare thinking about,grrr. clip!! clip!!! slap!!!the tykes!!

  61. Quatermass Submitted about 1 month ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

    TIPPING – I do not consider myself, by any means, to be a skintflint. I am totally against tipping for tippings sake. If someone has gone above and beyond the call of duty in doing you a service then a tip may be justified. Taxi drivers and the like, we are led to believe, think it is their God given right to be given a tip. Why? People who wait at table think similarly. They take their jobs knowing what the pay is. If you’re unhappy with your level of pay then take it up with your employer.

    The looks I get from some people for not tipping are meant to instill in me a sense of guilt. It doesn’t work! Grrr.

  62. stevefoster Submitted about 1 month ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

    @Quatermass,im in total agreement,have you ever noticed a taxi driver,taking his time to find 50p change in the hope you will say "keep it" ha! no way! and you may think this mean and grumpy,but ive always had all gates and doors locked up before the tribes of haloweeners come knocking,and shortly we will be getting one line of "away in a manger" and they take yer cash run off giggleing,to mug next door,and tell all the others who gives the most cash,and its never me!!

  63. BobM Submitted about 1 month ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

    Full marks to the last three posters for really living up to the thread title. It’s people like you that make Yorkshire such a swell place to be. Me, I’m a humbersider. :-)

  64. stevefoster Submitted about 1 month ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

    Then your an outsider,go and live grimsby,and ill bet your a taxi driver lol

  65. AR-TONY Submitted about 1 month ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

    I enjoy showing my pleasure and gratitude, but then I live in a city that is full of good hearted folk, who I enjoy sharing my days with. So if I can spare a some small amount of cash, to give a tip, I give. I find that those who receive are often pleasantly surprised. Most folk work damned hard for very little. The same good type are just as pleased with a word of gratitude and a warm smile. Grrr, I am in the wrong thread again. Where’s the door? Are thank you, be well!

  66. Adolf Submitted about 1 month ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

    "Grumpy Old People" ? What about the multitudes of scowling Yoofs that infest the streets, their faces grimly set and disparaging all around them?

    Anyway…..4×4 drivers who drive at 15mph in very, very light snow….

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    BobM Submitted about 1 month ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

    Grimsby? GRIMSBY!!!,life is far better in a caravan:-)

  68. stevefoster Submitted about 1 month ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

    That caravan is not double glazed.

  69. Top-Dog Submitted about 1 month ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

    Can Stand Bullies???? GRRRRrrrrr. Alf-G

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