what grinds your gears

[George from SJM Planning]

I find Facebook to be full of kids and dole-types. Lot's of 'best price pal' etc.

I've given up selling on FB after I sold a tatty wardrobe for £20 + £10 to deliver it to the next village. They had asked for full measurements, photos of the inside, distance between the rails etc. I said it wasn't in great condition and they were happy as it was only in short term rent accommodation.
I arrive, manhandle it out of the pickup as the husband was running late but would help me inside with it in 5 mins. 15 mins later he arrives, no panic I've nothing better to do.
Once inside it takes up the whole hallway, "any chance you can help me upstairs with it mate?" I thought might as well as I was stuck the wrong side of it to the front door!
From my position I had to go up first. Tidy; he gets the heavy end.
4 stairs up it is wedged solid against the stair, the kite turn and the skeeling!
I ended up excusing myself and exiting via the front bedroom window and down the porch roof!

Never again!

 

[roscoe erf]

Messers # 3

Someone posts an add wanting hay on FB.
I reply to the add saying, I've got some hay.
" Tidy I'll have some "
Send my address and phone number.
Someone else posts with some hay for sale.
Messer starts asking them questions.
All goes quiet.

A deal is a deal surely ?

Verbal contract or with face book a written contract if it’s worth fighting. Over

 

[smcapstick]

Verbal contract or with face book a written contract if it’s worth fighting. Over

 

[7610 super q]

Verbal contract or with face book a written contract if it’s worth fighting. Over

Not worth fighting over, it's just infuriating though. You can spend waste a lot of time messaging and faffing about.

 

[roscoe erf]

I’ve heard you’ve got a truck didn’t know you’d got a tash too

 

[smcapstick]

I’ve heard you’ve got a truck didn’t know you’d got a tash too

I used to have a better one than that

I'm older, fatter and far more subdued now, though. Sensible short beard it is, from now on.

 

[7610 super q]

I've given up selling on FB after I sold a tatty wardrobe for £20 + £10 to deliver it to the next village. They had asked for full measurements, photos of the inside, distance between the rails etc. I said it wasn't in great condition and they were happy as it was only in short term rent accommodation.
I arrive, manhandle it out of the pickup as the husband was running late but would help me inside with it in 5 mins. 15 mins later he arrives, no panic I've nothing better to do.
Once inside it takes up the whole hallway, "any chance you can help me upstairs with it mate?" I thought might as well as I was stuck the wrong side of it to the front door!
From my position I had to go up first. Tidy; he gets the heavy end.
4 stairs up it is wedged solid against the stair, the kite turn and the skeeling!
I ended up excusing myself and exiting via the front bedroom window and down the porch roof!

Never again!

I could have done with a tatty wardrobe for woodworm production.

 

[Ley253]

I've given up selling on FB after I sold a tatty wardrobe for £20 + £10 to deliver it to the next village. They had asked for full measurements, photos of the inside, distance between the rails etc. I said it wasn't in great condition and they were happy as it was only in short term rent accommodation.
I arrive, manhandle it out of the pickup as the husband was running late but would help me inside with it in 5 mins. 15 mins later he arrives, no panic I've nothing better to do.
Once inside it takes up the whole hallway, "any chance you can help me upstairs with it mate?" I thought might as well as I was stuck the wrong side of it to the front door!
From my position I had to go up first. Tidy; he gets the heavy end.
4 stairs up it is wedged solid against the stair, the kite turn and the skeeling!
I ended up excusing myself and exiting via the front bedroom window and down the porch roof!

Never again!

All that entertainment almost free! As you said you had nothing else to do.

 

[Nearly]

I could have done with a tatty wardrobe for woodworm production.

B&B contract woodworm opportunities?

 

[Pan mixer]

PTO shaft grease nipples.

Why do they keep putting them here on the shaft side of the UJ?

When they could put them all here on the other side of the UJ which is easy to get to.

Or even here on the cross ends? All these are on the same machine.

 

[ashmore]

Retired dog walkers. This week I have had to put up permissive footpath signs through a wood on behalf of our landlord's agents. They all know the wood is privately owned, but they treat it like their own. I put 6 arrow signs, and was questioned at least once each time. One person told me that they can't stop them walking through. And another rushed from his house to stand and watch me. I just had to be polite, even though I was fit to explode.

 

[Nearly]

Retired dog walkers. This week I have had to put up permissive footpath signs through a wood on behalf of our landlord's agents. They all know the wood is privately owned, but they treat it like their own. I put 6 arrow signs, and was questioned at least once each time. One person told me that they can't stop them walking through. And another rushed from his house to stand and watch me. I just had to be polite, even though I was fit to explode.

Let the landlord's agent put them up. They'll take more notice of them than you.

 

[smcapstick]

Rude, charmless, loudmouth people.

I will NOT deal with them. They are more trouble than they're worth

 

[smcapstick]

Tin-foil hat wearers with paranoid, nutcase phones that don't accept incoming calls. If you ring me and leave a message wanting me to get back to you, how do you expect me to do it?

MI-5, INTERPOL, CIA, FBI, THE MOSSAD, FSB, RSPCA AND THE BBC DON'T CARE ABOUT YOUR AGRICULTURAL MACHINERY PURCHASES.

 

[Sharpy]

Tin-foil hat wearers with paranoid, nutcase phones that don't accept incoming calls. If you ring me and leave a message wanting me to get back to you, how do you expect me to do it?

MI-5, INTERPOL, CIA, FBI, THE MOSSAD, FSB, RSPCA AND THE BBC DON'T CARE ABOUT YOUR AGRICULTURAL MACHINERY PURCHASES.

What about the KGB?

 

[smcapstick]

What about the KGB?

Live in the now, grandad! They're the FSB, now... and they're watching YOU.

 

[roscoe erf]

I could have done with a tatty wardrobe to come out of

 

[Sharpy]

Live in the now, grandad! They're the FSB, now... and they're watching YOU.

Ooops! So that's who they are.....


How come you know??????

 

[colhonk]

The KGB have become the Federation of Small Businesses?

 

[smcapstick]

Ooops! So that's who they are.....


How come you know??????

I moonlight as a Cossack dancer.

You learn an awful lot from pillow talk