Twoddle

Clangers

After I contacted them via online chat the assistant said, "Sorry I don't know what happened", basically. She offered to rebook the pickup but I said there was no time to try a third time. I got a refund and sent my parcel through the post office instead.

DPD are just as bad. Twice they failed to come and pick up my parcel, and both times the website said they'd been and gone despite me knowing they hadn't because I was standing outside my home within the hour window they provided and I was live tracking the van location. The message on the website went from "We'll be there in 15 minutes", to "There was no parcel to collect", while I was waiting outside the door! No DPD van in sight. Twice in 2 weeks.

Jabber

Tree -> Exchange? Challenge! Stock

Shorn

Cherryade

Posit

Gnome

Can't remember the last time I saw a traffic warden doing the rounds anywhere.

Pub

Swiss

Ignoramus

What are our rights here? An item on the shelf has a price tag and next to it a discounted price if you have a club loyalty card or whatever, the expiry date for the offer is a few days in the future. Clearly you expect to be charged the discounted price because you have a loyalty card. You get to the staffed till, scan your card but the discount for the item in question has not been honoured and you've been charged full price. You tell the staff member but they go ignorant and insist the price is the full price without the discount. You go to point out the label on the shelf but they just ignore it. It was traditional to be charged the price shown on the shelf regardless and then up to the shop to correct it there and then, they don't do that now they just call you a liar. I made a complaint online and was told it was not a staff issue, staff are employed as robots nowadays and self-appointed security guards especially in the express stores. I was told next time to go detective and take photos of all the evidence so feedback can be sent to management. That's more work that what the discount is, what a joke.

I find it incredible that banks in 2024 have a hard time changing my £50 note so I can spend it in Gregg's. Lloyds on the Strand refused to change it because I didn't bank there and Nat West said they couldn't open the till to change it, they eventually did it but could only give me fivers. It never used to matter, that's what we used banks for when out shopping, now even Post Office staff look at you funny and refuse when you ask to change a £20 for the launderette.

Have the libraries updated their computers yet? Last time I went they were all still running Windows 7, some took 10 minutes to boot up and another 10 minutes to open a browser.

Lidl have a battery bin by the exit.

DPD UK Delivery Services missed my parcel collection not once but twice. First time I was given a window of 1 hour for when they would arrive at my door but I heard nothing, no bell ring, no knock, no phone call, no "sorry we missed you" note, nothing. Just an SMS text, "When our driver arrived we were advised there was nothing to collect". So I rebooked for them to come a week later on my day off work. This time I stood by the door waiting for them to arrive within the 1 hour window at my address. NOTHING, they didn't even come! and I got the same SMS text, "When our driver arrived we were advised there was nothing to collect"! Funny thing is there's no easy way to phone them on the website, no phone number in sight so I ended up paying again and sending it via the post office. I also don't see any way to get my money back from DPD. I'm starting to think the DPD driver went to the post office to collect my parcel when it was clear in all communications including when I received the 1 hour notification that they would come to my address and ring/knock/phone when they got here. Complete BS, I will not be using them again and they will get a zero out of ten.

That's a bit rich, they've been saying "Coming soon to your area", (ie. to my exact address and post code), on the website for the last couple of years. Sod 'em, I with BT full fibre now anyway.

Wish they'd ticket that bloody lorry that parks on double yelows next to the traffic lights making deliveries to the Coop with its engine running.

I don't click social media links but I did recently watch a video on Stephen Hendry's YouTube channel from inside John Parris's workshop. 8 year waiting list for a custom cue!

Notice this more now you come to mention it. People saying "thank you SO much" sounds so cringy when leaving the cashier, where a simple "thank you" would suffice.

Might I also suggest changing your default search engine to something like DuckDuckGo that doesn't track you at all. If you really want to see Google results from with DuckDuckGo you can just add !g to the beginning of the search as a one off. Firefox has settings to block social media tracking scripts, cross-site cookies etc. If you want it to block ads you'll have to install an addon like uBlock Origin although youtube is starting to get funny over adblockers. You can still whitelist individual sites like this one to allow its ads.

My bad. Can I get a cheese slice and an Americano?

Major incident apparently.