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How very rude of him, but why is the dog alone?

HowVeryDareYou2

How very rude of him, but why is the dog alone?

Chardy was home with the dog!

Sat navs! They have a lot to answer for.
But no excuse for rudeness.

Well dressed, well spoken and never wrong!!

MollyNew

Well dressed, well spoken and never wrong!!

Lol

Chardy, we lived briefly in a row of six small workers cottages, ours was narrow, in the middle, backed onto farmland
This was the only housing on a narrow quiet country lane going out of the village, the main road miles away.

One morning there was a great clattering outside, a looong flat bed lorry wih two men unloading scaffolding poles. I opened the window when they banged on my front door, asked what did they want, one said, “Come on, open the door luv we’ve got all this to unload”
As though they could physically bring long poles through a wee cottage.

They took some persuading that they were in the wrong place but apparently the SatNav knew better than me.

It was the belligerence and bloody mindedness upset me more than the idiocy.

He roared off as though I was the unreasonable one.

Allira

HowVeryDareYou2

How very rude of him, but why is the dog alone?

Chardy was home with the dog!

Sat navs! They have a lot to answer for.
But no excuse for rudeness.

Oh, I see . That's alright, then.

We have both had problemsat various times with satnavs giving up on the job. Not the same satnav each time.

I am now very careful when using my satnav and familiarise myself with the route I should be taking in a road atlas first, so that I am prepared for a journey with a satnav with no sense of direction.

When I lived in a very remote part of Cornwall I used to get random men knocking on the door asking for a neighbour. I just used to direct them to her cottage. It was a long time before I discovered that she was actually posing for pornographic photos with them. It must have been a nice little earner for her!

Oh, Deeds, you should have been entitled to a small percentage of her earnings for your services!

You defo missed a chance there - commission of, say, 10% on that neighbour.

After all - you were having to disturb whatever it was you were doing and give them those directions.

Me - I'd have been tempted to put up a big clear notice saying "The woman you are visiting lives at No 2 Myrtle Cottages. Any attempt to ring my doorbell and ask for directions will be met with £100 charge for doing so".

It costs nothing to say I'm so sorry that I disturbed you , but that would be good manners .
Of course,the sat nav is right and you are wrong ! You plainly don't know your own address !
I haven't had that,but I went through several years of having to take in parcels in and was spoken to very rudely by the neighbour,
who requested the goods.
Awaiting an ambulance for my father I refused the last lot not knowing how long we'd be and the parcels stopped.

It was bliss .

I now challenge bad manners/rudeness, much to my husband’s embarrassment! I gave way to a woman in the supermarket who just dithered about. As she passed me she didn’t acknowledge me, although it was obvious that I had moved to let her through, then waited for her, so I cheerily said “you’re welcome “. She then shouted at me that she had said thank you. I said, and I said “you’re welcome “. That was it, she ranted at me that she had thanked me and I was being rude! As I walked away, I called back “methinks you doth protest too much”. I clearly hit a raw nerve, maybe others have told her she’s rude?

I’d have been tempted to tell him to calm down, wind his neck in and then I might consider having a conversation and answering his questions! Ignorant moron!

Dontcallmelove

I now challenge bad manners/rudeness, much to my husband’s embarrassment! I gave way to a woman in the supermarket who just dithered about. As she passed me she didn’t acknowledge me, although it was obvious that I had moved to let her through, then waited for her, so I cheerily said “you’re welcome “. She then shouted at me that she had said thank you. I said, and I said “you’re welcome “. That was it, she ranted at me that she had thanked me and I was being rude! As I walked away, I called back “methinks you doth protest too much”. I clearly hit a raw nerve, maybe others have told her she’s rude?

This breed of entitlees appear to be infiltrating the country! I’ve just met three in Tesco, male and female, one of which worked there!

Last week, driving along a road in town, 20mph?, a stationary car on the other side of the road waiting to turn right. Suddenly, an electric wheelchair who'd been invisible behind the stationary car, crosses the road. She'd been unsighted by me, and presumably, she couldn't see me. I slammed on my brakes, pleased to know my reactions were better than I realised.
She looked at me, no acknowledgement for not killing her. Now that's ungrateful!

Reminds me of the times someone rings the wrong number and expects you too apologise for being the wrong person.

Be careful - that can be a ruse to make sure no-one is home before breaking in. "Is so-and-so in?" is an easy way to avoid suspicion. Home burglary with residents present is a more serious offence. It's your home - you're under no obligation to open the door.

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Re - Sat-Navs

Last Friday afternoon there was a 'Police Led Incident' that closed part of the M5 for many hours. Cars were pouring into the City to try and get to their destination.

We live in a (usually) quiet suburb about 8/10-miles from the motorway.

Our house is in a long crescent of about 20 detached houses. The only traffic we get is the owners, their visitors or deliveries - most of the time we can go hours without seeing a vehicle.

Last Friday though was different. SatNavs were guiding drivers to the Hill that our crescent comes off of. It was chock-a-block so the SatNavs, to help (!!), were then telling the drivers to detour to our crescent obviously oblivious to the fact that there aren't any roads off of the crescent and so the only exit would be back onto the Hill they'd had just come off of!!

Cars and vans would be outside of our drive for about 15-minutes or more before moving a few feet and the vehicle behind taking its place.

This lasted from (c) 2:00pm to after 6:00pm. So many red angry faces to be seen. It took our neighbour over 2-hours to get home from a shopping trip that usually takes under half-an-hour.

A frustration for us was that many bored passengers, probably with back ache, would get out of their cars and tootle up our drive to stretch their legs. So our RING was continually ringing. But at least we could watch them and the chaos on our phones whilst in the warm and comfort of our sofa in the Drawing-Room.

Really Sat-Navs cannot be relied upon.
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We live in a close with another close off it. The number of callers, parcels and other deliveries we get for the same number in the other close is ridiculous.
Hardly anyone apologises, I feel like setting our noisy dog on them but sadly she would only lick them !!

Where i live the houses behind me have the same sat nav address as mine but a different road name. l am often having deliveries, takeaways, parcels and once even a motor bike delivered to me!! The problem here is not the sat nav but the inability of the delivery person to look at the address they are going to and checking that they are on the correct road !!

My friend moved to number 15. When I used the satnav I've worked out, I have to put in number 12 ot it will take me to a completely different road, 2 streets away from her house.

Sat Navs? mine will not accept my address tells me I'm home and insists I live in my neighbours house even though I'm parked on my own drive. [confused}

If a strange man knocked at my door I'm afraid I wouldn't answer.

flappergirl

If a strange man knocked at my door I'm afraid I wouldn't answer.

I agree, and take your point, but I have 2 front doors, with noisy dog behind the inner one and me peering out behind the alf-opened outer one. They're both solid wood, no glass, so I can't see who's there until I open it