Sue

Lol J&B, RPC and M. Unfortunately I will probably worsen the situation because as I never recognise anybody I have probably already blanked her in the street. I used to just smile at everybody just in case, but I got more glares than smiles back :(

Quoted? Didn't they have a menu or price list you could have consulted before you ordered it?

Crap idea. Why should a company pay for the laziness of individuals? By all means let the company know so they can take appropriate action, but don't blame them. They've paid someone to do a job who hasn't done it.

nxjen Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I'm wondering how accurate that figure of ?13.81 > is. There must be a lot of scope for errors in > record keeping. I had exactly the same experience. I gave enormous amounts of stuff to the larger hospice shop, all of which I was assured would be Gift Aided, and the letter I got also gave a ridiculously small amount. I don't think it's errors in record keeping. I don't think a lot of donated items are put into the Gift Aid scheme, even when the donors have handed over their card to staff. I have seen items of mine for sale with no indication that Gift Aid was involved. To be fair, I understand that the shop is short of volunteers.

For some reason, whenever anybody disagrees, for perfectly valid reasons which they give, with something DF has posted he takes it as a personal slight rather than a disagreement with his views. If everybody did that, even more people would be leaving the forum in droves ...... Actually there's a logical error in that last sentence, isn't there, but you know what I mean .....

Jules-and-Boo Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Tolerance to noise plummets when I am busy / > concentrating or tired. > > Well done Sue - stood your ground AND met a new > friend :-) > > Some people would have just thrown the brick. To balance that, a week or so back a similar thing happened, but in this case the person in the car was switching from station to station every thirty seconds or so and I could hear the noise from the other end of my house. Funnily enough the car was parked over the road in about the same place as today (different car though). I was really wound up and I went down and had a rant (no bricks thrown though). The woman was speechless, but she did turn it off. Unfortunately when I got back upstairs I looked out of the window to see if she was still in her car, and saw her going into a house opposite. :( or :)) depending on how you look at it. I never recognise people, so that is potentially extremely embarrassing :)) Guess I won't be getting a Christmas card :))

Robert Poste's Child Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I'm sitting on my hands, Sue. :)) :)) :))

Why do people sit in their bloody cars/vans for what seems like hours with their bloody radios blaring out full blast, and why is it always within earshot of the room I work in? I'm at the point of going downstairs with a brick. A very very large brick. ETA: Every cloud. I went down (without a brick) and it turned out to be someone in the same road I've never met even though he's lived here nearly as long as I have :) And he was very apologetic, so all good :)

JohnL Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Are some of us employed by the Kremlin to sew > discord in the UK starting in the EDF. Ah! An opportunity to nitpick spelling :))

I rest my case.

Lynne Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I used to recommend the musical instruments > section to music students as it's a remarkable > collection. Now I have to warn them that the > chances of hearing the instruments in the > electronic display are low They were perfectly audible last time I was there.

Hmmm, yes. First post. ETA: Joined the forum today. Under this name, anyway .....

busybody Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Previous threads have shown the willingness of > forum-dwellers to bicker with each other. So you've started another one so they can do the same again??

Robert Poste's Child Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Woman on first date gets stuck in window > retrieving her own poo. > > http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4855582/Ti > nder-date-gets-stuck-trying-retrieve-excrement.htm > l What made me laugh was that they went on to have a second date :)) ETA: It must have really broken the ice :)) (as well as the window .....)

fishbiscuits Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > In fact, why bother going there without kids? > Who's really interested in glass cabinets of > flea-bitten taxidermy and old musical instruments? Well, I am actually. Have been there quite often without kids :))

dbboy Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Is Hetty an artist, more like minging abstract > images, you decide?? > http://www.hettydouglas.com/good-luck#7 > Dear God, they are truly terrible. Not exactly Jean-Michel Basquiat, is she?

Crikey, what pub is that?!?!?!

FFS. If children aren't taken to museums, galleries etc from an early age, how do you think those places will carry on when the children grow up? Or if they are taken, but find them totally boring because there is nothing for them to do? My grandchildren love the Horniman. If you want to go somewhere where no kids are allowed, maybe go somewhere else? Or if you don't like the behaviour you see, take it up with the parents? I have intervened in a screaming match between two kids in the cafe where the younger one was in danger of being pushed out of his high chair and the adult/s with them were nowhere to be seen. If you do nothing (eg report the butterfly grabbing to staff) how do you think the behaviour of some parents will change?

Robert Poste's Child Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > You don't have to tip if it's the proprietor who > does your hair. > > The best advice I've had on tipping generally is > to tip if you plan to go back. Yes it is the proprietor but on the other hand he charges the same as the others. Yes I do go back because he is brilliant. On the other hand although the prices are reasonable for the area, it's a lot to pay when you are on a pension. Also on the other hand, he cuts my fringe free between my main cuts. I have tried to pay in the past, but he wouldn't let me. I stopped tipping when the prices went up a year or so back but now I feel I'm being mean, though he knows I'm not rolling in money (can probably tell by my threadbare clothes, anyway :)) )

:)) :)) :))

That's the sort of stuff I find in the lining of my coat, not in my purse :))

KidKruger Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I usually chuck a ?5er and have done for eternity, > but given how cool they make my hair look they > thoroughly deserve it. And I think the hair > washery staff get a cut anyways. A FIVER ??????? Crikey.

Except that it is only a few of the messages which go into spam. Most of them are delivered as normal.

Every time I get my hair cut I get all embarrassed because I'm never sure whether to tip or not. And when I do, I get all embarrassed about actually giving the tip, unless I can leave it at the desk. And then I get embarrassed because I'm not sure whether I should also be tipping the person who washed my hair (where different). I did ask my hairdresser about it once, and then we both got all embarrassed. Just wondering what everybody else does. I stopped doing it, but now I'm embarrassed about that :))

Loz Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Works with sloes, though Sue. He suggested it for damsons as well :(