chellie
Tour Winner
Hopefully it will be smooth sailing for you. I would like a new pole for our bedroom and lounge instead of the curtain track we have. As we have bay windows and the pole would have to be bent to shape HID is refusing.
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williamalex1
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If it wasn't for venetian blinds it would be curtains for everyone lol
PhilTheFragger
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Really like Turkish food, but it can be quite carb heavy and after a few days, I need to have a salad detox.Second-to-last night of holiday, wife suddenly has uncontrollable shivers at bed time - bit odd when the room is 24°. From then she gets worsening abdominal pain until she's crying on the plane home, even after four paracetamol. Daughter picked up by my parents in the middle of the night and straight to A&E for us at 2:30am. Loads of tests done, passed from pillar to post. Left on a bed in a corridor for nearly 3 hours. We thought it was going to be appendicitis or kidney stones but the scans show the inflammation in a different place so it turns out it's just extremely bad gastroenteritis or colitis. Apparently quite common for people to get it on Turkish holidays. Might've been the food, might have been picked up some other way. I'm still at the hospital with her (over 12 hours now), so I've not slept in 32 hours - she's on a drip of antibiotics and napping now thankfully. They want to keep her in overnight to do tests tomorrow and see if there is any improvement.
I was already not a fan of holidays and this isn't going to help her case when she tries to convince me again next year.
Hope she gets better soon
Arthur Wedge
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Golfmmad
Tour Winner
Get some shutters fitted. They're the future .
SwingsitlikeHogan
Major Champion
We have jointed metal curtain pole in the bay of our front room. It’s a pain as the metal curtain hoops don’t ride easily over the joints and get jammed. A false economy over having a metal pole bent to fit. We are going to change to blinds of some sort in not too distant…
Robster59
Tour Rookie
Two today from shopping:
- One person on a self serve till scans all his shopping through onto the weighing scales, pays, and then gets a bag out up pack his shopping. Who not put the bag on the stairs in the first place like a normal person.
- A different self server till, a bloke scans all his goods, then gets his phone out, then looks for his pay app, then can't get it to work!
And yes, I was waiting in the queue watching this unfold.
- One person on a self serve till scans all his shopping through onto the weighing scales, pays, and then gets a bag out up pack his shopping. Who not put the bag on the stairs in the first place like a normal person.
- A different self server till, a bloke scans all his goods, then gets his phone out, then looks for his pay app, then can't get it to work!
And yes, I was waiting in the queue watching this unfold.
ExRabbit
Club Champion
Had a similar experience this week, but at a Lidl normal checkout.Two today from shopping:
- One person on a self serve till scans all his shopping through onto the weighing scales, pays, and then gets a bag out up pack his shopping. Who not put the bag on the stairs in the first place like a normal person.
- A different self server till, a bloke scans all his goods, then gets his phone out, then looks for his pay app, then can't get it to work!
And yes, I was waiting in the queue watching this unfold.
You expect people to do the Aldi/Lidl 'chuck your stuff into the trolley thing' to sort it out later at the places for doing that on the way out, but a couple of groups of people did exactly the same as you experienced in front of me. So annoying!
The second group even had the husband(?) of the couple in front of us refusing to help his wife(?) at all after he said he would spend his time sorting out paying for it. Stood there with his phone watching her pack stuff one item at a time.
Well to be fair, he did push one or two items down towards her now and then.
And then it took him another couple of minutes to get his app working.
Imurg
The Grinder Of Pars (Semi Crocked)
Our local Tesco has doubled the number of self-serve checkouts.......
Half for baskets only, half for trolleys only.....
The amount of time it takes to self-serve a whole trolleys worth of stuff means it has to be quicker to queue 3 deep on a normal checkout..
Obviously this is being done to reduce staffing levels but, jeez, I can't wait until Xmas....
People will die of old age waiting to get out......
Lunacy....
Half for baskets only, half for trolleys only.....
The amount of time it takes to self-serve a whole trolleys worth of stuff means it has to be quicker to queue 3 deep on a normal checkout..
Obviously this is being done to reduce staffing levels but, jeez, I can't wait until Xmas....
People will die of old age waiting to get out......
Lunacy....
rulie
Head Pro
Some people should be banned from self-checkout lanes. This probably includes me, as my experiences at Tesco makes me go to the normal checkout.
PhilTheFragger
Provider of Entertainment for the Golfing Gods 🙄
I use “scan n shop” the only PITA is the need to get a bottle of wine authorised and the occasional bag check , which can be a right faff
Neilds
Assistant Pro
Stop using the term ‘self serve’! They are more staff intensive than the manned checkouts, people always have problems as the technology isn’t good enough to recognise when you put things in your bag and you have to call someone over.
chellie
Tour Winner
I don't know if they will fit due to the size of some of the opening windows but will investigate.Get some shutters fitted. They're the future .
@ExRabbit the only defence I can offer the bloke is that I do the same if shopping with my wife. She says I get in the way so I just stand ready to pay, occasionally slide something to her. Saying that, we have our bags ready in the trolley, we pack straight into them, I'm ready to pay instantly. We are like an F1 pit crew 
SwingsitlikeHogan
Major Champion
Hands up - I admit to often being that person in irritating person #1.Two today from shopping:
- One person on a self serve till scans all his shopping through onto the weighing scales, pays, and then gets a bag out up pack his shopping. Who not put the bag on the stairs in the first place like a normal person.
- A different self server till, a bloke scans all his goods, then gets his phone out, then looks for his pay app, then can't get it to work!
And yes, I was waiting in the queue watching this unfold.
As a result of not using a hand basket during covid I still just pile my shopping into my shopping bag as I go round…I make it obvious to anyone who sees me do that that I’m not knicking it.
When I get to scan it I take it out item at a time and pile it up; pay and then put it back in my shopping bag. As I’ll generally only do this if I have a dozen or fewer items I’ve never really thought someone waiting could get p’d off with me as it takes maybe 30secs to pack it in my bag.
Besides…the number of times the technology has failed to recognise my shopping bag if I do it the ‘normal’ way and I have to wait (almost always more than 30s) for someone to sort it out…however I will review and reassess my shopping strategy.
Lucifer MorningStar
Well-known member
That’s the most bizarre way to shop I’ve ever come across why not just use a basket and put your bags on the self checkout and scan it straight into you bag!
IanM
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Click and collect or home delivery is the way to go. Don't set foot in tbe shop, it's too annoying.
You've had a shocker there. Trust me, everyone in the queue, is thinking terrible thoughts about how you do that.
D-S
Well-known member
Just thinking of using a little bit of hand sanitizer during COVID could have saved you many, many hours of faff as well as untold scorn of shoppers waiting behind you.
Orikoru
Tour Winner
In his defence he might just be sick of:Two today from shopping:
- One person on a self serve till scans all his shopping through onto the weighing scales, pays, and then gets a bag out up pack his shopping. Who not put the bag on the stairs in the first place like a normal person.
- A different self server till, a bloke scans all his goods, then gets his phone out, then looks for his pay app, then can't get it to work!
And yes, I was waiting in the queue watching this unfold.
a. Trying to register the fact that he's brought his own bag and have the system recognise this
b. Trying to pack the bag as you go and the system doesn't recognise you've put something in the bag if it's balanced at an awkward angle or whatever.
If you just scan things and drop them onto the bagging area you generally won't get any errors. Then chuck them in the bag after you've reached the paying screen and it doesn't ask you any stupid questions about scanning the bag in or adding how many bags you're using.
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