I was very rude today (not like me at all)

Sorry anagram didn't mean to bite your head off but I'm just so cross about the lack of service and the shrugging of shoulders!! While I was waiting for the lack of service I heard the opticians complaining about how much their dental treatment cost, so my visit didn't start well!!

Going for a or to calm down.

Sorry!

I'm sticking to the one who owns the business and therefore has a vested interest.

Should've gone to Specsavers.....

biker I could have done with your stick this afternoon for my 'run in ' with the less than helpful man in Boots Opticians (can't even be bothered to think about apostrophes!!) I knew it was a mistake to go somewhere that offered 2 pairs of specs for the price of one - should have stuck with the independent one! Grrrrrrrr!

AlisonMA lol not sure can't try it on mine! but feel freeeee lol

frieda I sympathise with you about "loosing it" it can happen to all of us sometimes,I have something happen over the past few months we have a new neighbour moved in downstairs who is the most objectionable person I have ever met,when he first moved in he helped himself to my pot plants in the front and placed some of them in his garden,the reason being he was under the impression the plants could be shared between the gardens,needless to say he got short shrift from me,he also objected to us having friendly gatherings in the rear garden as it disturbed his 40 winks in the afternoon he is your original "Mr Grumpy" I am sure his life would be more plrasent if he was a wee bit more polite with neighbours.biker I think I will borrow your stick ??

Biker does it work on DHs?

By the way! if anyone needs to Borrow! my poking stick! feel free,

Tell me where he lives! I shall go and poke him with my stick! How DARE!!! one speak to a "Gransnetter like that "!!

Annobel As long as the letter refers to the neighbour!

I would also send a message to the Council's waste disposal manager informing him/her that their tardiness has caused you distress. How about a letter too the local press?

Good thinking Alison!
I put letters through my neighbours' doors when one tried to whip up others to complain about trucks delivering stuff for our building works. I was v polite but invited them to offer the solution to the problem of getting items to my property without temporarily blocking their parking space whilst stuff unloaded.
Several have since said they hoped we did not think they were rude and unfriendly! We had only been living here for 4 months (small cul de sac and only one person came to say hello when we moved in and she was the only one who offered builders use of her parking space.. she is also the oldest resident!)

Well Done Alison

Good one Alison!

How about putting a notice up in your garden along the following lines:

TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN AND PARTICULARLY THE RUDE MAN WHO CAME TO MY HOUSE

I called the council on ..... May
On......May I paid £12 to have my old washing machine removed
On 19th June a very rude neighbour came to my house and abused me about my washing machine.
I am as irritated by the delay as you might be.

If you would like any more information please ask POLITELY.

Or something like that. It would show up the man who may well have been moaning about you to the neighbours and make it clear to him that you had already dealt with it.

Frida who did he think he was! Neighbours should be neighbourly and helpful! @hello I notice your old washig machine in the garden . Do you need help getting it to the tip?' is what he should have been saying but he did not!

So uk Off was the matching reply!

I once swore and gesticulated at a woman who cut me up before some traffic lights when I was dropping my son off at college. Called her a f***ing moron! She got out of her car at the lights and apologised profusely. Took the wind right out of my sails!

Nor mine: I don't have a lawn.

Greatnan

The council would never have left that bloody fridge on my lawn for a fortnight!

juragran and I play 'Hard cop, soft cop' when we get bad service - guess who is the hard cop?

Feisty Frida

Your post made me smile. How satisfying it is sometimes just to respond in that way to pompous/annoying people.

I have been known to give the finger to other drivers who are aggressive to me without reason and I do occasionally use the f word when arguing with husband to get my point across. Sometimes the doors are open so I think maybe the neighbours can hear as well.

It's instead of wearing purple!

Oh gosh, yes absent!

Perhaps she could put a note through his door explaining the situation.

Am I over-thinking this?

Trouble is that when the council finally collects the machine, the rude neighbour will think that he was responsible and has put frida in her place.

I expect her charming neighbour had muddied it already. Just how much more shocking can you get than leaving a washing-machine outside to be collected?

Maybe frida needs to cultivate her "be rude to me and I'll bite your bloody head off" persona, and then nitwits like His Nibs would leave her and her diabolical garden junk alone.