Originally posted by woohoo
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Originally posted by woohoo View PostThe road was advertised as closed, you can then select an alt route on sat nav. We choose to ignore the alt route and see if the where diversions sign posted. Ended up that one lane was open.
I forget I'm dealing with prize dicks like you.…Maybe we ain’t that young anymoreComment
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Originally posted by Pip in a Poke View PostOh and it's not just the roads that are the target of my ire at the moment.
Customer service on the railways is another bugbear of mine.
Why? It took me 3 1/2 hours to get from Chippenham to Worcester last Saturday all because I was late arriving for my connecting service thanks to FGW. But the way I was treated as an annoying inconvenience and dismissed in an offhand manner by the jobsworth BR guy on the train made me bloody furious.
Read a transcript of the conversation & see if wouldn't have been bloody furious.
It went something like this:
Jobsworth BR guy: Tickets please
The Gal: Why are we running late?
Jobsworth BR guy: We had to detrain an undesirable at Oldfield Park
The Gal: Inneresting, I'm sure but owing to the late running of this service, I am likely to miss my connection at Bristol Temple Meads. What do you intend doing to help me out of this dilemma?
Jobsworth BR guy: Where are you going?
The Gal: Worcester Shrub Hill
Jobsworth BR guy: That's Virgin Trains - it's a different TOC
The Gal: So?
Jobsworth BR guy: Nothing to do with us , love.
The Gal: Can you not at least phone ahead and ask for the station to hold the train since there are a number of passengers for that service on board this train?
Jobsworth BR guy: They won't do that, they've got targets, y'know...
The Gal: What about the target to do with letters of complaint from disgruntled customers?
Jobsworth BR guy: As I said, nothing to do with us, love.
The Gal: So what do you suggest I do?
(and this is the comment that made me absolutely apoplectic)
Jobsworth BR guy: Just go with the flow, love
Go with the flow?? In what other business in a free market economy would that individual still have a job? Seriously.... :tantrum
Ebsolutely scendalous.Comment
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Originally posted by WTFH View PostSo you’ve never been through a set of roadworks when they are lifting them? They start at the back and work to the front, the last thing to come down are the diversion signs, might be beyond your intelligence, but if they take the diversion signs down before the road is reopened, then everyone ends up queueing in stationary traffic.Comment
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Originally posted by Pip in a Poke View PostI'd also like to add that I ddn't get the compensation that would normally be owed after a delay of >= 1 hour because > 1 TOC was involved.
Ebsolutely scendalous.Comment
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Originally posted by woohoo View PostIt was at night and know one was working on the road.Comment
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Originally posted by northernladyuk View PostOne what was working the road. Is this about Seaforth Dock again?
On a related note, in Spain women in the daytime sit at the corner of the road selling oranges, well pretending...they are actually selling sex.Comment
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Originally posted by woohoo View PostIt's in Northern France, even your unholy nighttime actives have not worked the way to this beautifully unspoiled part of the world.
On a related note, in Spain women in the daytime sit at the corner of the road selling oranges, well pretending...they are actually selling sex.
In any case, I've seen you lurking around Le Havre ferry terminal before in your working skirt, so don't you get all holier-than-thou.Comment
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Originally posted by northernladyuk View PostIn any case, I've seen you lurking around Le Havre ferry terminal before in your working skirt, so don't you get all holier-than-thou.Comment
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Originally posted by woohoo View PostI wasnt getting holier-than-thou; there's me parading myself in my short mini skirt, high heels for hours and hours. Yet there they sit on chairs by the side of the road, lazy so and so's. I'm moving to Spain it's an easier life I tell yah.Comment
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