Archie_tect
De Skieven Architek... aka Penfold + Horace
- Location
- Northumberland
It was a transit van?
Give me some dialogue from your day
- Thread starter Crackle
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Arch
Married to Night Train
- Location
- Salford, UK
Nah, a Renault Trafic. Uncannily identical to the Vauxhall Vivaro we had last week. Before that, we did have a Transit, but we got a flat tyre and took it back.
I'm getting to be a van expert. We hate it when we have to hire a van, as despite being bigger in all dimensions they don't hold as much as our electric truck (because they aren't set up for maximum efficiency), and loading and unloading is much more difficult. Sadly, the electric truck has brake problems, and won't be fixed until tomorrow.
As I'm the one in most days, I have to be the one that hires and drives the van, and there are some really narrow streets we have to go down. It's not relaxing! Not helped by the millions of people who say "Oh, what's happened to your truck/golf buggy/train (!?)" and "I bet that van's better because it's bigger?"
subaqua
What’s the point
- Location
- Leytonstone
HV panel installers- erm the panel is 6580mm and the space you have is 6380mm , is that a problem
Me - hmmm it might well be.
Me - hmmm it might well be.
BigonaBianchi
Yes I can, Yes I am, Yes I did...Repeat.
- Location
- Iskele TRNC & Mordor UK
How many satsumas can I eat in one hour?
Oh...looks like I ate ten.
Zzzz yay what an exciting day.
Oh...looks like I ate ten.
Zzzz yay what an exciting day.
gbb
Squire
- Location
- Peterborough
Me over the radio to my colleages on the other part of the site..
'Any chance of 5 mins help over here, i've got 4 jobs at the same time'
Reply...(somewhat apologetically)
'Colin, we've just started to rip a shaft out of a machine, if you can hang on about 45 mins ?
Bugger...i'm up to my neck in work, i'm telling inquisitive operators to bugger off and just let get on with a fiddly job, ive got other people asking me this, asking me that, jobs are building up, including..
Soldering a new sensor on one machine. That's the job i'm on.
New labels on another machine, the operators don't know how to set them up..i do. It'll have to wait.
One machine keeps applying labels offset to one side. It'll have to wait.
A grape packing machines film advance assembly isnt working consistently. It'll have to wait.
I tend NOT to flap, i refuse to dissapear up my own jacksie. The operators will just barrage you with requests, questions, calls for help when it goes t1ts up. One job at a time, otherwise you make mistakes.
Me to colleages over the radio..
'No problem, i'll plod on'
'Any chance of 5 mins help over here, i've got 4 jobs at the same time'
Reply...(somewhat apologetically)
'Colin, we've just started to rip a shaft out of a machine, if you can hang on about 45 mins ?
Bugger...i'm up to my neck in work, i'm telling inquisitive operators to bugger off and just let get on with a fiddly job, ive got other people asking me this, asking me that, jobs are building up, including..
Soldering a new sensor on one machine. That's the job i'm on.
New labels on another machine, the operators don't know how to set them up..i do. It'll have to wait.
One machine keeps applying labels offset to one side. It'll have to wait.
A grape packing machines film advance assembly isnt working consistently. It'll have to wait.
I tend NOT to flap, i refuse to dissapear up my own jacksie. The operators will just barrage you with requests, questions, calls for help when it goes t1ts up. One job at a time, otherwise you make mistakes.
Me to colleages over the radio..
'No problem, i'll plod on'
SatNavSaysStraightOn
Changed hemispheres!
- Location
- ɐᴉlɐɹʇsn∀ 'ɐɹɹǝquɐƆ
not really a conversation as such... order placed today. A nice reassuring dispatch date there then!
Arch
Married to Night Train
- Location
- Salford, UK
Wow, they had a webpage before the internet!
Matthew_T
"Young and Ex-whippet"
- Location
- Prestatyn, North Wales
Me arriving at traffic lights after realising that I had changed up a gear instead of down on the new bike. I tried to change down with one foot on the ground at the lights and nearly fell over.So I decided the best plan was to just go onto the pavement and sort it out.
I am stood at the ped crossing by the road and just finished getting into the right gear. A bloke appears besides me.
Me: Sorry, am I in your way?
Him: No its alright, got a problem?
Me: Its my first ride on my new bike, I'm not used to changing gears and nearly fell off at the lights.
Him: Oh.
I often say more than needs to be said.
I am stood at the ped crossing by the road and just finished getting into the right gear. A bloke appears besides me.
Me: Sorry, am I in your way?
Him: No its alright, got a problem?
Me: Its my first ride on my new bike, I'm not used to changing gears and nearly fell off at the lights.
Him: Oh.
I often say more than needs to be said.
SatNavSaysStraightOn
Changed hemispheres!
- Location
- ɐᴉlɐɹʇsn∀ 'ɐɹɹǝquɐƆ
My OH rings & leaves a message on the answering machine "not going to be home in time to pick up the car, will you go and collect it then pick me up from the railway station at 6:30pm"...
bugger - or words to that effect: no way of contacting him (what garage and what railway station, Warrington has more than 1 of each!)
Return call to garage, have their number in my call history because they rang to say what was wrong with the car...
"hi, can you tell me what you are called & where you are please?"
"(pause)"
"OK, I'll try that one again... my husband has left the car with you and I don't know where the garage is, or what it is called and I need to cycle over to collect the car, idelly before you close today.."
Still working on the which railway station, but I do at least have the car back after an enjoyable 15 mile cycle ride and I suspect I kept the mechanics happy standing there in my lycra!
bugger - or words to that effect: no way of contacting him (what garage and what railway station, Warrington has more than 1 of each!)
Return call to garage, have their number in my call history because they rang to say what was wrong with the car...
"hi, can you tell me what you are called & where you are please?"
"(pause)"
"OK, I'll try that one again... my husband has left the car with you and I don't know where the garage is, or what it is called and I need to cycle over to collect the car, idelly before you close today.."
Still working on the which railway station, but I do at least have the car back after an enjoyable 15 mile cycle ride and I suspect I kept the mechanics happy standing there in my lycra!
Cubist
Still wavin'
- Location
- Ovver 'thill
Ward Councillor: "What do the police know about the man who's been moved into XXXX Close?
Me "Not much. One of my team has a meeting with his CPN and a Trust care manager on Monday."
Ward Councillor "Parish Cllr XXXX says that he's becoming a real nuisance in the local shop, demanding credit and leaning on the newsagent's doorbell at silly O'Clock in the morning if he's run out of cigs. He's reported it to the police but they haven't deigned to attend- his words, not mine."
Me "Parish Cllr XXX needs to go back to the newsagent and tell him that leaving an answerphone message requesting a PCSO who is on leave rings him back on Christmas Eve is hardly reporting a nuisance customer in my book."
Ward Councillor "So the Parish Council want to know why you've allowed him to move in."
Me "I hope you put them right. Who do they think I am?"
Ward Councillor. "They've got it in their heads that you should be vetting everybody that housing move into the area. I've told them you'll explain it at the meeting on Monday."
Me "Oh, so I've got until Monday to come up with my strategy for total Social Engineering and then present it to the Parish Council? Great. "
Me "Not much. One of my team has a meeting with his CPN and a Trust care manager on Monday."
Ward Councillor "Parish Cllr XXXX says that he's becoming a real nuisance in the local shop, demanding credit and leaning on the newsagent's doorbell at silly O'Clock in the morning if he's run out of cigs. He's reported it to the police but they haven't deigned to attend- his words, not mine."
Me "Parish Cllr XXX needs to go back to the newsagent and tell him that leaving an answerphone message requesting a PCSO who is on leave rings him back on Christmas Eve is hardly reporting a nuisance customer in my book."
Ward Councillor "So the Parish Council want to know why you've allowed him to move in."
Me "I hope you put them right. Who do they think I am?"
Ward Councillor. "They've got it in their heads that you should be vetting everybody that housing move into the area. I've told them you'll explain it at the meeting on Monday."
Me "Oh, so I've got until Monday to come up with my strategy for total Social Engineering and then present it to the Parish Council? Great. "
- Location
- Glasgow
SatNavSaysStraightOn
Changed hemispheres!
- Location
- ɐᴉlɐɹʇsn∀ 'ɐɹɹǝquɐƆ
the mobile phone concept only works if I know which of his work's mobile phones (there is a pool of them) he has taken with him.You found him yet?
Mobile phones spring to mind
Whilst away he has been ringing our landline which given we are trying hard to save money does not have caller ID or 1471... so I was still at a loss because he had not told me, rather like not telling which garage the car was in or where he was (used to that one with his old job)...I took a guess, after a quick look online and for once (unlike the BBC 7 days where this week was not quite a duck but very close) and turned up at the correct railway station, so my bed warmer is back in business again
and I had someone to lift my bike back out of the car for me!
Marshmallow_Fluff
Guest
- Location
- Beds
Yesterday after a very -very- cold ride:
Me: Well, on the plus side it's mid-January and we are still cycling! No too bad eh?
@TheDoctor: Oh, definitely! It can only get better from now on!!!
Me: You can't say things like that!!! You just jinxed it!!!
@TheDoctor: <chuckle> I'm sure..
Everything is white this morning..
Me: Well, on the plus side it's mid-January and we are still cycling! No too bad eh?
@TheDoctor: Oh, definitely! It can only get better from now on!!!
Me: You can't say things like that!!! You just jinxed it!!!
@TheDoctor: <chuckle> I'm sure..
Everything is white this morning..
MossCommuter
Guru
- Location
- Salford
"Mum! You would not belieeeve the size of the bogey I just had on my finger!!"
"Oh, really, and where is it now?"
"You ate it didn't you?"
"Oh, really, and where is it now?"
"You ate it didn't you?"
SatNavSaysStraightOn
Changed hemispheres!
- Location
- ɐᴉlɐɹʇsn∀ 'ɐɹɹǝquɐƆ
the cure involves chillies... works a treat as I found out accidentally last night... I made the mistake of cutting up some chillies to go with tea. Later I picked my nose... owwwwWWWW...."Mum! You would not belieeeve the size of the bogey I just had on my finger!!"
"Oh, really, and where is it now?"
"You ate it didn't you?"
hurt for hours.
