Seemingly trivial things that annoy you
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We have no mobile phone signal here and they still pressure us to have a smart meter.
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It's not great here either, but the meter did send readings for a year or three. Now it's just completely stopped. I think I remember reading that it's a widespread problem that EDF (and other 'lectric companies) don't want to address, as it'll cost a lot of £s to remedy, unless they can directly palm off the cost of the remedy onto the customers.
For now I've sent an email, but will take to social media if they feign ignorance.
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This belongs in the "Enjoy" thread but is relevant here. My "Smart" meter stopped working and I reported it to Octopus. It took them 3 months to send out an engineer to replace it. Once done I was expecting a huge bill as they had not been doing estimated billing. That bill never arrived. I basically got 3 months free energy through winter. 😎
These meters are simply not reliable (this is my 3rd) and my advice based on experience is to report it and sit back.
The above may be fact, or fiction, I may be serious, I may be jesting.
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That's my plan. Definitely on the plus side, I reckon I've overpaid for about £125-worth of electricity. It's a scandal that such a lot of bills is standing charge (it's about £250 p.a. for me, which is almost half of my annual bill). for which all I get is a faulty smart meter and over-estimated bills.
Also on the cheering up side is that pretty sure I won't be needing any heating till November (again).
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In a similar vein, we found we were £1500 in credit with our electricity supplier so asked for £1000 of it back. Our smart meter was working exactly as it should and we pay by DD so assumed we were going to get our £1000 without issue. However, somehow British Gas had simply not charged us for 18 months worth of electricity. Needless to say, they have now and, although still in credit, we have nothing like as much in there as we thought we had.
So be careful - I suspect they will get the money for the electricity you used one way or another
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I had an energy company claim they had mistakenly charged me off peak for several years. It seems to have been some confusion when an old meter was removed, because we were getting someone round every two months to read one which had never existed during our ownership.
They tried to claw back a few years worth without warning and put me about £2k in debt. My monthly payments went from £90 to £700.
Took me about a year and an ombudsman complaint to get that back, which they also did their best to frustrate.
I would say charity and energy suppliers are generally not acquainted.
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I managed to win on the Octopus spin the wheel thing again this month (second time). That £1 deduction is the difference between heating and eating as all those people who get stopped in the street for news reports like to say.
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Sunday afternoon at Reading Eastbound. Not heaving, but enough people there that this clearly falls into PLAC.
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Pinnacle Monzonite
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Probably a wanker, in that case.
Or very old.
Possibly both.
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One wheel in each space, neatly straddling the lines. I didn't check for a novelty number plate.
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Pinnacle Monzonite
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I'll never understand why people who are terrible drivers insist on buying cars that are hard to drive.
My first job at 17 years old involved my driving a Defender 110 - it was fun blatting around in the mud on site but I used to hate driving it into town and used to park at the back of the local Asda when I went for lunch because my manoeuvring skills were similar to the guy in your picture.
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Quite possibly people with a superiority complex who think the amount of parking space correlates with the amount spent on the vehicle. Applies equally to pulling out in front of others.
That's my opinion anyway.
The above may be fact, or fiction, I may be serious, I may be jesting.
I am not sure. You have no chance.Veronese68 wrote:PB is the most sensible person on here.0 -
Because pretty much everyone thinks they have above average driving skills.
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Problem is must of them are wrong.
Not me, I'm really good.
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I have below average skills.
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I suspect that a large part of my moderate ability to operate a car lies in my decision to generally buy smallish cars.
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I am okay going forward. Below average reversing.
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Are you talking about driving or debating? 😉
The above may be fact, or fiction, I may be serious, I may be jesting.
I am not sure. You have no chance.Veronese68 wrote:PB is the most sensible person on here.1 -
Dunno. I've never been wrong.
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No reverse then, like the woman I once met in a narrow Devon lane, and who refused to reverse the 20m back to a wide passing place. Since my reverse would have been 500m up a hill round a corner, I got out of the car, asked if she would reverse, and admitted she couldn't. So I offered to reverse her car, which she happily accepted.
I must admit to reversing at stupidly fast speeds when the person in front of me refuses to. I'm also good with trailers. Or at least used to be. Out of practice now.
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Moving down here has improved my reversing somewhat. We are 300 yards down a single track dirt lane and probably half a mile of very, very tight lane before that. I'm talking both wing mirrors in the hedge. Meet a camper = reverse. Meet someone aged over 100 = reverse.
I also have to run the gauntlet down to Weir Quay on the Tamar. If you time it wrong all the yachties with their original Range Rovers are coming up. Those aren't even equipped with a reverse gear I don't think.
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Yeah, it's usually easier & quicker to just harrumph and to reverse than dick about waiting while they screw up several attempts.
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Small world. I've stayed in a tiny converted barn just up the road from Weir Quay, in Cotts. Owned and converted by the architect who designed the yacht club. This was getting on for thirty years ago so he'll be long gone by now, but the tiny barn is still there.
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I've decied I'm above average but only because I know my limitations. I also think cycling on the roads makes you more observant and better at predicting hazards. I'm not great at parking though.
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I do so little driving these days that I think I'm getting out of practice.
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I was coming down a single track mountain road after marshaling a trail race last year, there were several cars going down as we'd finished our jobs and cleared the course together so ended up in convoy. A car in front of us had stopped to wait for an oncoming vehicle to reverse but had exactly that issue. She couldn't do the reverse and was expecting 5 or 6 cars to reverse back up the mountain. There was alovely smell of burned clutches. In the end the guy in front got out and reversed her car down to a passing place leaving space that allowed everyone to slalom past her and another car that was coming up. For some reason she then got back in her car and pulled it up tight to the other car meaning nothing could get past. By that point there was a queue of around 3 or 4 boy racers behind in the lane and absolute carnage. Some of my lot ended up reversing half a mile back up the 1:6 mountain road to the car park at the top. We then had similar a few months back after a fell race, mountain rescue had been called for an injured runner and another that had somehow gone missing in bright sunshine on a marked course. They all started arriving in individual cars at the same time the runners were leaving the mountain on this road https://www.google.com/maps/@51.8383985,-3.044364,3a,90y,351.42h,65.87t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1skcW-NuAELgJpfFVYKU1Kug!2e0!6shttps:%2F%2Fstreetviewpixels-pa.googleapis.com%2Fv1%2Fthumbnail%3Fcb_client%3Dmaps_sv.tactile%26w%3D900%26h%3D600%26pitch%3D24.132702720579687%26panoid%3DkcW-NuAELgJpfFVYKU1Kug%26yaw%3D351.42464915672576!7i13312!8i6656?coh=205410&entry=ttu&g_ep=EgoyMDI0MTAxNi4wIKXMDSoASAFQAw%3D%3D
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Random aside. In Bolivia in the mountains, they drive on the left. The reason being that you can then lean out the window to see where your wheels are in relation to the precipice. The only real passing place is on the corners, so frequently a bus will have to reverse into a corner on the cliff edge to let another one pass.
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I cringe whenever I see programmes with people driving on those sorts of roads, especially when it's crowded buses being driven at what appears to be highly excessive speeds.
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I did it at night for additional fun. It did mean that I couldn't always see how big the drop was although I remember approaching some town and then being able to see the lights hundreds of metres below. I'm glad that I didn't have to make a return journey - I read that a lot of people opted to fly the return leg.
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Phone snatchers. I saw one this morning and he may as well have had a striped top and a bag with swag written on it. Surely, it can't be that hard to catch them when they are that obvious.
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