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Post by Three Litre on Jan 13, 2020 13:12:05 GMT
I cannot stand it when you purchase something from the internet and are then bombarded with e-mails asking you to review the product/company that sold it. Unfortunately, you have to give them an e-mail address and that's where they get you!! If you don't respond, you get reminders too. Everyone (well not everyone but you get my gist) craves likes these days, even businesses. Companies have gone review mad, you buy any product or service without the emails or texts following you. Surprised Gene hasn't sent us all one!
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Post by Sam Tyler on Jan 13, 2020 15:50:48 GMT
I cannot stand it when you purchase something from the internet and are then bombarded with e-mails asking you to review the product/company that sold it. Unfortunately, you have to give them an e-mail address and that's where they get you!! If you don't respond, you get reminders too. Everyone (well not everyone but you get my gist) craves likes these days, even businesses. Companies have gone review mad, you buy any product or service without the emails or texts following you. Surprised Gene hasn't sent us all one! We delegated this task to our moderators but they both had computer problems and couldn't download their manuals....
Sam.
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Post by Sparky on Jan 17, 2020 12:57:52 GMT
Room 101 must be getting pretty full... I'll stick the School Run in...
I live about 500yards from a Primary School, and a large secondary school is about 1/2 mile down the road.
What makes me angry are those who live close to us who insist of driving to school and literally parking anywhere they can find. Though, I don't have an issue with those who live quite a distance away - as public transport is crap and unreliable. It's the b****rds who live 1 street away that make me angry.
The slightest hint of rain and the school run "divas" are jumping in their polished 4x4s - and literally parking anywhere they can find, blocking access to street, drives, parking on corners, on double yellow lines and the School Zig Zag markings. My drive was blocked by a badly parked obnoxious cow yesterday afternoon - who was parked about 3ft from the curve, and thus created a huge issue getting on and off the street, and getting off my driveway more or less impossible. Each time a car struggled passed, the occupant of the parked car would just bury their head in their phone and ignore it.
I needed to go out to take my son to an appointment with CAHMS (they will be next in Room 101 - not the frontline staff none the less). I politely asked the driver of the tainted 4x4 if they could move while I got off the drive, then she could move back.
I received a torrent of abuse - telling me to "Get Stuffed" and then asked "Where Else can I park?" I then pointed out that, that wasn't my problem - my issue was that they were blocking access to a private property and drop curb. The driver got in a huff, hurled a little more abuse (neatly nipped in the bud with some quirky Gene Hunt style one liners) - and the 4x4 moved - to go and park in a bus stop on the main road..
Well, I did ask politely at first.....
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Post by Arthur Pringle on Jan 17, 2020 18:04:46 GMT
Could be wrong as my memory is poor but I'm sure I generally walked to primary school, I lived a good 15 mins walk away as well. I also wore shorts ( as opposed to long trousers ) all but the final year of school. I never thought about it much at the time but looking back I do wonder what my mother was thinking not giving me trousers to wear in the winter. In comparison my sister's kids are mollycoddled. I would've prefered to have been chauffered about but my memory is of walking & catching the bus everywhere.
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Post by Cartman on Jan 17, 2020 19:25:54 GMT
I never once got driven to school. Dad didn't have a car until I was 8 anyway, which would have made any difference anyway as I always used to walk to school, like Arthur's, it was about 15 minutes away. At secondary school I used to use the bus or train, depending on what was cheapest at the time.
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Post by Three Litre on Jan 17, 2020 22:55:48 GMT
They would probably arrest the parents these days if they sent their 6/7 year old to walk to school like we did. I don’t know if the world is more dangerous in respect of that than it was in the 60s. Certainly lots of horror stories around about it.
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Post by Arthur Pringle on Jan 17, 2020 22:56:21 GMT
One good thing about getting the bus to school ( secondary school that is ) rather than being driven there is that you could accidentally on purpose 'miss the bus' & bunk off school for the day, or if you'd had enough of school in the afternoon you could just walk out of school ( across the playing fields of course to avoid being spotted ) & get the bus home. No chance of doing that if you're dropped off by your parents.
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Post by Three Litre on Jan 17, 2020 23:17:57 GMT
I hated the school bus and cycled when in ‘big school. Given the extra traffic now that would be more dangerous. Not that I approve of parents using cars to them.
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Post by Cartman on Jan 18, 2020 8:49:54 GMT
I used to go to secondary school in a chauffeur driven Daimler. A Fleet line, it had 74 seats😂
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Post by D.C. Burtonshaw on Jan 18, 2020 14:51:30 GMT
I always walked to school at primary school. During the week, dad left the car on the front drive as he walked to work as well (silly not to going by the distance) and my didn't drive. By the time I'd got to Secondry school I had to use the bus, not always likeable, if there stupid idiot kids on the bus, but fine if I manage to get my own seat and there was nobody being a pain and noisy. Some of the other bus users, and adults were just as bad sometimes. Never ever got picked up from school in the car.
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