Random Irritations

[rudebhoy]

Spectacular service but....
When you order something online, after the Xmas delivery shipping deadline, specifically to arrive after Xmas and you get an email at 7.30am Xmas Eve to tell you it's going to be delivered at 12.15 when you're likely most of the way up the M6 isn't hugely helpful...

Or the reverse of that.

Ordered a Xmas case from Naked Wine last week. It was supposed to be delivered on the 20th.

Got an email on Saturday saying it’s delayed but will definitely be with you by Xmas Eve.

Still hadn’t shipped on Monday so I called them up. They said it will be shipped that night and will definitely be with me yesterday or today.

DHL got the case yesterday. Their tracking is now saying it will be delivered on the 27th.

What a shitshow. Will now need to do battle at the supermarket today to get the plonk in for tomorrow.

 

[Arthur Wedge]

A new neighbour has managed to hit two cars with his huge DPD van

 

[Crazyface]

Not a bit of it.

 

[Crazyface]

No, no, you must be mistaken!
The Austin Maxi was a great car, way ahead of it's time.
GPH 141N was a sandy coloured MKII 1750 with a vinyl roof and Wolfrace wheels.
TRV 973K was a dark blue MKII 1750.
UPG 19M was a white MKII 1750 with a beautiful Motolita steering wheel.

Best not talk about ROG 16G which was a brown MKI 1500 with a horrific cable gear change!

I think that's the one I know about. I learnt to drive in the thing. Horrible horrible "car". Like driving a tank with no idea where it's going. Sooooooo much play in the steering wheel and the gear change was pot luck at times.

 

[Crazyface]

Noiseless Christmas crackers.. utter woke nonsense!

The wife makes ours. WE GET A PROPER GIFT INSIDE.

 

[Tashyboy]

We had a test drive booked with Jaecoo this morning. They phoned and said we'd have to reschedule, because the person with the test-drive car hasn't turned up today so they don't have it available. What on earth? The staff are driving round in the cars that they use for test drives?? Don't think we'll bother with them after all if this is how they run a business.

I once bought an arctic VXR Corsa, there was a problem with delivery of these cars. Anyway a guy who was instrumental in sending them out from Vauxhall contacted me via PM/ VXR online and told me it would be delivered on Monday. Lo and behold Monday morning I get a txt message off him saying it had been delivered. So I went straight down to the Garage to look at my brand new car. Only it’s not there. The garage had received an enquiry from another buyer and as soon as the car turned up they rang him and gave him a test drive in the car that was supposed to be mine. I went ballistic. They tried lying there way out of it saying it wasn’t mine, until I showed them the messages. There jaws dropped when they saw who they were from.. they dropped even more when I said I was contacting him to let him know what had gone off. Apparently, in house the *** hit the fan. And a week later another car arrived with a few upgrades for me.

 

[Crazyface]

Popped to Tescos today to get some bits for lunch and daughter came with me

My god it’s mayhem , rammed

But the worst is the general lack of manners of people barging part others , smacking into trolleys , my daughter was pushed out of the way by an old couple because she apparently was taking too long to pick her strawberries- rude ignorant

Strangely, I've been very calm and Christmassy this year.

 

[KenL]

The wife makes ours. WE GET A PROPER GIFT INSIDE.

How do you get a dozen golf balls or a nice bottle of wine into a cracker?

 

[Crazyface]

Trees down all over our course. GK's been chainsawing them up. Still loads to do. I've asked for some of the wood, well if you don't ask......, bloke who runs is the GK chairman has said they need it for the wood burner in the GK hut. THey'll need to be burning it constantly for the next five years to get rid of it.

 

[Crazyface]

How do you get a dozen golf balls or a nice bottle of wine into a cracker?

lol. But as an example, last year we bought our lad two silver Liverpool FC ear stud things.

 

[Lucifer MorningStar]

Or the reverse of that.

Ordered a Xmas case from Naked Wine last week. It was supposed to be delivered on the 20th.

Got an email on Saturday saying it’s delayed but will definitely be with you by Xmas Eve.

Still hadn’t shipped on Monday so I called them up. They said it will be shipped that night and will definitely be with me yesterday or today.

DHL got the case yesterday. Their tracking is now saying it will be delivered on the 27th.

What a shitshow. Will now need to do battle at the supermarket today to get the plonk in for tomorrow.

Similar issue we’ve had with a table delivery. Last update was apparently they tried to deliver it yesterday but nobody was home. Ironic as Mrs M worked from home all day and the room she uses as an office overlooks the entrance to our house not a single delivery was attempted and when we proved it using our ring doorbell the courier merely changed the update to issue with delivery. We’ve since submitted the claim to get a refund for failure of receipt of goods and bought one late last night in Costco.

 

[Voyager EMH]

Ours is rather nice. Amusingly she comes from Swansea and says, "tuth" not toooooth!

I had a dentist here in Leicester for many years who was from Aberystwyth. We spoke about his way of saying "tooth".
I told him that 1,000 years ago no one would have found his pronunciation to be unusual in this part of the world.
And 2,000 years ago in The Midlands we would have been speaking a Brittonic language similar to Welsh.



Very likely that it is nearer the pre-Norman Invasion pronunciation of the Saxon/Old English "toth".
Unlikely that Welsh people invented their own pronunciation, but more likely they repeated what they heard.
English went through "The Great Vowel Shift" in pronunciation in the Middle Ages, but outlying areas of Britain were perhaps less affected.
Some in Wales have stuck with the older, more original, others have adopted the change.

 

[Sid Rixon IV]

I genuinely think that Sid Rixon IV's post was very much tongue in cheek and think that maybe it's being taken too literally .......................... maybe I'm wrong, but I don't think so.

It's called Confabulation, Slime, a bit like the tooth fairy. I won't say Santa as it's Christmas Eve and it might kick off again
Have a great day everyone

 

[jim8flog]

Changing the bed sheets etc yesterday and realising this morning I should have upped the tog rating for the quilt with the drop in temperatures.

 

[Tashyboy]

Trees down all over our course. GK's been chainsawing them up. Still loads to do. I've asked for some of the wood, well if you don't ask......, bloke who runs is the GK chairman has said they need it for the wood burner in the GK hut. THey'll need to be burning it constantly for the next five years to get rid of it.

I once played at Bondhay, a course that is rammed with trees and bunkers. Anyway the Greenkeepers were cutting back loads of trees and there were logs everywhere. Whilst waiting to play into a green I asked a GK if the members were asking for any logs. He said “ they are but they insist on them being cut into 8-10” lengths or they don’t want them”.

 

[Fade and Die]

In East Lothian, household waste is only collected once every 3 weeks. So miss it and it is 6 weeks between collections.

Recycling is collected every week.

We don’t have wheely bins for gen rubbish or recycling, just bags so I’ve just stuffed everything into the Green bin. That’ll do till next year.

(3 week collections is unacceptable btw.)

 

[Beezerk]

Woke up in the early hours and needed a pee, the bathroom door is bang next to the bedroom door so I didn’t bother with the lights and just felt around the wall like I have done hundreds of times before.
Felt for the bathroom door which I didn’t realise was wide open, went clattering down like that Delboy scene from Only Fools & Horses, smacked my nose on the door handle on the way down and ended up in a mess on the bathroom floor. Elbow sore, knee grazed, nose a bit bruised but I don’t think it’s broken.
I’m driving down to the in-laws for xmas very soon (missus is already there), a 5 hour drive where I’ll decide if I tell them the truth or not
Merry Xmas everyone

 

[rudebhoy]

Or the reverse of that.

Ordered a Xmas case from Naked Wine last week. It was supposed to be delivered on the 20th.

Got an email on Saturday saying it’s delayed but will definitely be with you by Xmas Eve.

Still hadn’t shipped on Monday so I called them up. They said it will be shipped that night and will definitely be with me yesterday or today.

DHL got the case yesterday. Their tracking is now saying it will be delivered on the 27th.

What a shitshow. Will now need to do battle at the supermarket today to get the plonk in for tomorrow.

Bit of an update - just had a call from Naked Wines. They confirmed the case wouldn't be delivered until the 27th. By way of an apology, they have refunded the cost of the case (£135) and told me to keep it when it comes.

Things do go wrong. The test of customer service is how the company reacts when something goes wrong. I'm happy with this outcome and will continue to use them.

 

[Burnsey]

Long delivery windows, resulting in you staying indoors half the day, or missing the parcel nipping out.

 

[Slab]

Bit of an update - just had a call from Naked Wines. They confirmed the case wouldn't be delivered until the 27th. By way of an apology, they have refunded the cost of the case (£135) and told me to keep it when it comes.

Things do go wrong. The test of customer service is how the company reacts when something goes wrong. I'm happy with this outcome and will continue to use them.

Glad you got a result, although.... in my opinion, throwing money at a problem is not a sign of good customer service. It's an absolute cop out to 'get rid' of the problem