RE: Things that make your blood boil -
Shellshock - 17-11-10
You'd be surprised Tony, it aint just dog owners, there's nuff people about with a really bizarre outlook on their own self-importance. I recently took a bunch of my young lads to play in a 5-a-side tournament in another, quite upmarket part of town. During a warm up kick-about one of my lads lofted a ball that accidently hit the parent of a kid on another team. A bloke picked our ball up, calmly pulled a Stanley knife out (he looked like he'd come straight from a construction job) punctured our ball and threw it back at my lad. Error.
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Samo - 18-11-10
Some people are just straight up cuntish.
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sab - 18-11-10
Am seething. Last night my car got vandalised outside a patients house whilst I was working. Some nob jockey gobbed on the door handles and pulled off my wing mirror. Cheers for that !! Hopefully al get some compo from work IF am lucky. To cover tar repair costs. So yep there are some cunty people around.
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Tony L4 - 18-11-10
Sorry to hear about that Sab. Wankers
I'm not suprised SS, I live in Birmingham so I know there is a huge amount of cunts around. I just still can't get my head around why people would act that way, especially round kids.
RE: Things that make your blood boil -
Marco82 - 19-11-10
Went to Maastricht tonight to have a drink with some old colleagues, normally the parking in the city centre is free after 19:00. Totally forgot that it's thursday and the parking isn't free untill 21:00. When I walked back to my car I noticed something under my wiper, and when I came closer I saw it was a parkingticket for 53,60 euro... The worst part is that I can't blame anyone but me
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Squeaky - 19-11-10
Nooooooo!!!!! That sucks Marco!!!
RE: Things that make your blood boil -
Shellshock - 19-11-10
Bad luck Marco but this may make you feel slightly better. I recently went to the theatre and parking is always impossible so imagine how pleased I was when I found a gap big enough to squeeze 2 cars in right outside the venue. I was meeting friends with a car too so the space was perfect. Anyway, they pulled up and I moved over to let them into my gap and off we went to watch the Breakin Convention. Which was a bit rubbish. Came out to find why there was such a big parking space. We were parked in front of a fire hydrant point or some shit and there was double yellow lines (which indicate no parking) but all the leaves falling off the trees had totally covered the floor. Result? 2 x £35 parking fines. Which go up to £70 if you don't pay it within 2 weeks. Which I forgot to.
RE: Things that make your blood boil -
Big J - 19-11-10
Yeah I had something similar when I borrowed my Mum's car down in the Borders, went into town when it was snowing, and parked in what looked like a perfectly valid space. It had been snowing that morning though, so by the time I got back to the car it had melted to show two big bright bastard yellow lines and a ticket flapping under the wiper. Cunts.
RE: Things that make your blood boil -
Tony L4 - 19-11-10
Parking tickets are always a kick in the balls. Bastards
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dregz - 19-11-10
Think I heard somewhere that if the lines are covered or very badly worn then you can appeal. It's their responsibility to keep that shit visible.
I say take a pic and kick up fuss. The melting snow one though, that's tough to prove.
RE: Things that make your blood boil -
Big J - 19-11-10
Yeah that's what I thought mate, was only £25 so thought fuck it, it isn't worth the hassle so just paid it. This was before the days of camera phones being widely available anyway!
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dregz - 19-11-10
Yeah it's a whole lot easier now, suppose thats the beauty of most modern phones, everyone walking around with cameras.
There's a new traffic warden sytem that has just kicked in down here, it's crazy. Run by the council now instead of the beast.
There taking photos and videos of cars, they've scrapped the grace period of 5 mins, even if you're just unloading something quickly.
Hardcore bastards now that's for sure.
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Squeaky - 19-11-10
There was a pair of black suede skates on the bay for £40,-. I waited for Dregz to visit the outlet but unfortunately they had nothing. Guess what, the pair on the bay is sold
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Vortec - 19-11-10
Last week there was a discount at a site with some stuff i want with a voucher code... Once paypall ad my money to the account, the weekend was over...
RE: Things that make your blood boil -
ez-1 - 20-11-10
I think in Finland they are not allowed to write a ticket if they are not sure that the car has been there for more than five minutes. I guess they are giving you time to pay your parking.
Lately they've become much more civilized around here. Like couple of years ago you really had to pay the ticket in time (two weeks) or it went up 1.5 times the original fee. Now they are more flexible with that.
Still it doesn't make it nicer to get a ticket and as Marco said usually there's no one else to blame than yourself.