Im officially a fuddy duddy!

[Seahorse]

Sat here at work I looked out the window and saw a street light where the casing is hanging off.The light runs alongside a busy road and I thought if it fell off it may be dangerous.

I have just emailed the local street light people to sort it out.

32 years old, going on 80.
Il be writing to Watchdog or Points of View next.

Anybody else do this sort of stuff?

[icecreamgirl]

Haha, i live on a no through road so i'ts very quiet, whenever a street light goes out hubbie rings them.. they are always really quick to come and fix it, they are probably sat in an office somewhere bored out of their minds. waiting for the phone to ring!!

[candles by lisa]

I wouldn't say your a fuddy duddy at all just very thoughtful!!! You were thinking of someone getting whacked on the head if the lamp fell off which I think is brill thinking of other people.

Cheers.

Lisa

:D

[Pebbles]

It's the age of technology, making everything more accessible to people, including complaining.

Would you have seriously complained about it if you had to pick up a phone, get placed on hold for 10 minutes, then have to actually speak to someone? More to the point, would you have written a letter, put a stamp on it and taken it to the little red box on the corner?

I rarely carry cash, let alone stamps! I try to buy everything on the internet so I don't have to go to shops and if I can't find it by typing it into google, it doesn't exist!

:mf::mf::mf::mf:

[Tip Top]

Hehehehe!!

Very thoughtful of you!;)

[caketopper]

I want to see a photo of you as I really cant picture you! you make me laugh :D

[nattynetty]

I'm 32 going on 80 too I think. Our friends little girl (who's 7) loves the Bratz but I refuse to buy her anything Bratz related for birthdays or Christmas cos I think they look like hookers, oh and they say "whatever" and "girlfriend" in a bloomin' American accent which she now copies. Whatever happened to gold old Sindy that's what I want to know, didn't get things like that in my day blah blah.

OMG at what age is it acceptable to start sounding like you mother?:confused::o

[Funkyhand]

Would you have seriously complained about it if you had to pick up a phone, get placed on hold for 10 minutes, then have to actually speak to someone? More to the point, would you have written a letter, put a stamp on it and taken it to the little red box on the corner?


You have never met my OH obviously!! He is a web developer in his day job but.. he will complain about anything in whatever form he can. Recently we had a problem with a manhole cover to the side of our house..long story cut short, a runner stepped on it and went down up to his knee as the lid was loose. I phoned the council (as that was the only way to contact them!) and they fobbed me off with 'it's a new housing estate and the roads haven't been adopted..not our problem!' That wasn't good enough for Ian. He wrote a rather long letter telling them that he didn't care about their responsibilities, he now had a letter proving that he had told them about the cover and when a child fell down it it would be their fault! Well it worked they came round and mended it, not particularly well I might add, but it is done!! He is 'Victor Meldrew' at 36! So Seahorse you are not alone!!!
Anice xx :):)

[Seahorse]

[QUOTE=nattynetty;54713] loves the Bratz but I refuse to buy her anything Bratz related for birthdays or Christmas cos I think they look like hookers, .


LOL!! I totally agree.I refuse to buy the dolls but I think Ive bought my pals 8 year old daughter an activity pack, probably should have checked that it didnt have fishnet tights or stilletos in it first

[Seahorse]

Just looked at the light and the casing is even more dangerous than before...........and now, can you believe as I sit here and type there is a work van underneath it and I believe he is going to sort it out!! I feel like He- man(or She-ra) IIIII haaave the POOOWEEERRR!!

[Seahorse]

Hahaha, love it.He clipped the casing back on,..... then wrapped blue tape round it!!!

[Pebbles]

Ooooh, blue tape? He must have been taught general maintenance at the same place as my grandparents. Visit their house and there is a remote control with black tape around it, a cd player (yes, they own CDs!) with black tape around it, the telephone has black tape around it..... the list goes on. It's a classy look, no doubt about it!

[Seahorse]

Hhaha, my wing mirror is hanging off my car, Ive gone from brown tape to clear tape.

[woodtattoos]

And the next step is the ubiquitous 'homemade spectacle repair' of Sellotaping the broken arm back on... :D

[Seahorse]

What would this world do without stickytape??!!

[Apple Tree Crafts]

Behind our house is a neat little cul-de-sac which is owned by a housing association. It was designed and built around a huge old Beauty of Bath apple tree, which has a preservation order on it.

Someone in one of the houses informed the local council, I won't say complained because they were concerned not moaning, that the uppermost branches were getting tangled in the phonelines.

What did North Somerset Council do, despite the preservation order? They cut the entire tree down......totally annihilated this gorgeous tree, which provided free fruit for a large selection of the village every year, as it had done for years and years previously.

Was it asking too much to just prune it back a little? According to our council's spokesperson, this was cheaper in the long term, thus saving local people an increase in their council tax next year.

Cobblers....and words to that effect. They've ruined the cul-de-sac's outlook, made a proper mess too - and I just know our council tax is going up next year - when doesn't it?

What is it that happens to ordinary people when they start work for a local council? brain-washing? Or is something piped through the A/C units at council offices?

Rant over....sorry!:p

Jules

[swirlyarts]

Hee hee - not at all fuddy duddy!! I went shopping at the weekend with my mum and I am turning into her despite being 29!! We said the same things and even both moved out into the road to let a lady with a buggy past and we both said the same thing at the same time to her - she must have thought we were mad!!

[Seahorse]

I receieved an email form the council saying it will be done within the hour,I replied saying I was watching when they did it about 2 hours previously.

[Apple Tree Crafts]

I receieved an email form the council saying it will be done within the hour,I replied saying I was watching when they did it about 2 hours previously.


Your council sound like they actually earn the council tax, even with the blue tape.

Most councils love red tape.....;)

Jules