Random Irritations

Got the fixture list for the forthcoming season on Friday...
Last year we had.........6 qualifiers open to us as 5 day members. More if we joined the Seniors but they play on Tuesdays, don't start until 9.30 and with golf and apres golf it would take most of a working day. So that doesn't suit any of us.
This year we have......5.
May to September. All stablefords. We haven't played a Medal in 2 1/2 years.
Apparently there is no desire or will to increase the number of qualifiers for 5 day members.
Right.........
So, I suppose, we will will just load up with Supplementary cards - cheaper too!
Not overly impressed but what can you do......?
 
Got the fixture list for the forthcoming season on Friday...
Last year we had.........6 qualifiers open to us as 5 day members. More if we joined the Seniors but they play on Tuesdays, don't start until 9.30 and with golf and apres golf it would take most of a working day. So that doesn't suit any of us.
This year we have......5.
May to September. All stablefords. We haven't played a Medal in 2 1/2 years.
Apparently there is no desire or will to increase the number of qualifiers for 5 day members.
Right.........
So, I suppose, we will will just load up with Supplementary cards - cheaper too!
Not overly impressed but what can you do......?
Play at weekends?? Join a different club? Sounds like you aren’t being catered for, but it’s all change in 2020 anyway
 
Got the fixture list for the forthcoming season on Friday...
Last year we had.........6 qualifiers open to us as 5 day members. More if we joined the Seniors but they play on Tuesdays, don't start until 9.30 and with golf and apres golf it would take most of a working day. So that doesn't suit any of us.
This year we have......5.
May to September. All stablefords. We haven't played a Medal in 2 1/2 years.
Apparently there is no desire or will to increase the number of qualifiers for 5 day members.
Right.........
So, I suppose, we will will just load up with Supplementary cards - cheaper too!
Not overly impressed but what can you do......?
Sounds far from ideal, are there are better deals available locally?
 
Sounds far from ideal, are there are better deals available locally?

We are the pretty much the same - one midweek Comp a month from March to November and one extra in September - haven’t had the desire or the space to have many more.
 
Play at weekends?? Join a different club? Sounds like you aren’t being catered for, but it’s all change in 2020 anyway

Weekends are a pain - too many things going on and I do a fair bit of work on weekends.
Sounds far from ideal, are there are better deals available locally?
Took us a while to find this one when we left the last one. Most other clubs are another step up with subs and joining fees.

To be honest, as long as we can get Supps in, we can play when we want and get some nosh afterwards we're fine....
 
Got the fixture list for the forthcoming season on Friday...
Last year we had.........6 qualifiers open to us as 5 day members. More if we joined the Seniors but they play on Tuesdays, don't start until 9.30 and with golf and apres golf it would take most of a working day. So that doesn't suit any of us.
This year we have......5.
May to September. All stablefords. We haven't played a Medal in 2 1/2 years.
Apparently there is no desire or will to increase the number of qualifiers for 5 day members.
Right.........
So, I suppose, we will will just load up with Supplementary cards - cheaper too!
Not overly impressed but what can you do......?
Not good but don't understand it from your clubs side. We run a midweek stableford every month (weather permitting) and a midweek medal from March-October which are always well supported. Can you not ask why more aren't put on
 
Went to Tesco today to buy Sunday paper and kitchen roll. Total of £5.70. Only had a £10 note, didn’t fancy lots of £1 coins so put in a £1 coin first then the tenner. So result got the fiver out a 20 pence coin and 5 twopence co8ns instead of a 10 p coin!,,!!!! As you can tell I was easily upset today 😂😂
 
Went to Tesco today to buy Sunday paper and kitchen roll. Total of £5.70. Only had a £10 note, didn’t fancy lots of £1 coins so put in a £1 coin first then the tenner. So result got the fiver out a 20 pence coin and 5 twopence co8ns instead of a 10 p coin!,,!!!! As you can tell I was easily upset today 😂😂
Contactless is your friend. Never need to bother with the hassle of change now.
 
Indeed. Nothing worse than a pocket full of shrapnel so I use the card as much as possible
Even the pubs I go into, rare to be honest, are happier for contactless payment than cash, even if for 1 pint. Less chance of the till not being correct, less security risk, less opportunity for fiddling by staff, quicker to pay and get to the next customer. I have an emergency £10 in my wallet just in case but that lasts up to a month at a time now. Any change goes into the car parking draw in my car. I never carry coins in my pocket or wallet now.
 
Even the pubs I go into, rare to be honest, are happier for contactless payment than cash, even if for 1 pint. Less chance of the till not being correct, less security risk, less opportunity for fiddling by staff, quicker to pay and get to the next customer. I have an emergency £10 in my wallet just in case but that lasts up to a month at a time now. Any change goes into the car parking draw in my car. I never carry coins in my pocket or wallet now.
On a similar vein. We were returning a pair of boots today to House of Frasers in Glasgow. We bought them with cash for our daughter last weekend and they didn’t fit, so were going back today. They were about give us the cash back but the till didn’t have enough cash in it and we needed to cross the store to the one that had “the float”. That probably emphasises how much cards are used now
 
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