And the muppet award goes to....
Posted: Wed Feb 10, 2021 1:26 am
Gotta love the postal service, let's face it pop a letter in a box, 24hrs later its whizzed around the country and appears on someones ( hopefully the right persons) doormat.
But at what cost?
Well i found out 3 weeks back.....the cost Dear Reader is about £2k.
'How So' I hear you say?
Ah, that'll be the worth of my Rav4 which was abused by a Post Office lorry. I suspect my Rav felt a bit like an Essex bird on a Saturday morning, or a Sunday morning, thinking about it, any morning.
That feeling of having been taken advantage of and left all sore and messy - used and abused.
How? Ah there's the rub ( i'm talking about the Rav, not the essex bird).....Moi, in the left hand filter lane approaching a roundabout, the lorry in the right hand/straight on lane.
A muppet of a driver who decides as the road ahead is clear to take the roundabout at a slightly faster speed than he should have.....but needs to use part of the left hand approach lane to get around the err roundabout.
Can you see where this is heading? No foreplay, no warm up, just 'in like Flynn' - straight into the offside bumper.
The slightly concerning thing? Now i know that no one is supposed to admit blame, but being blissfully unaware that one has carried out a manoeuvre is taking the piss.
'Wat u talking about fella, nah i was going straight - you must have driven into me lorry'
( course i did mate, i decided not to go into the retail park/sainsburys, i thought what a weez, i'll wreck my car and not bother putting anything in the fridge for the weekend).
I'd like to say that i handled the ensuing debate with decorum and sensibility.
But I didn't.
If there was a competion for calling someone a ooops a number of times in a minute, i would likely have won.
Apparently 'there's no need to be like that'....mm i beg to differ.
To top it off the cheeky muppet thought i was dodgy because i couldnt remember who that car is insured with; Even more incredulous was the fact that i couldnt remember which insurance company for THAT particular car ' 'Wot, you got more en one den'.
Alas the sorry saga continues. Quotemehappy - what an oxymoron. Serves me right for pushing the 'buy it now' button and not checking. Yes QMH are totally 'online'....no cosy chit chat about what the fook is happening - nope, the delights of 'live chat' with 'Emil' ( made up name just in case) are the order of the day.
Hard to rant via 'live chat'.....given that opening a Zip file with the photos was beyond them, as was not bothering to tell me they couldnt open the file ( 1st i heard was when i chased 'emil') and given that the next 2 emails i sent they only saw one and yet again failed to tell me that they were still waiting pic's ( which they eventually found 'in their mail server)...I think i'd be entitled to a full on 'Rant'. But no, via live chat one can only subtly hint at their uselesness - which i suspect went over 'Emils' head.
Ah yes Dear Reader.....the old gal is looking the worse for wear....and alledgely ( thx Emil for the update which i chased you for)....it seems that in their eyes she's not worthy of a boob job, sorry front bumper ( i was thinking about that essex bird).....
All frigging handy as with the snow there's no getting out of my road. Looking across the room I can see 3 packs of ciggies left....that bloody snow/ice better be gone by Thursday morning!
next car is def having a dashcam!
But at what cost?
Well i found out 3 weeks back.....the cost Dear Reader is about £2k.
'How So' I hear you say?
Ah, that'll be the worth of my Rav4 which was abused by a Post Office lorry. I suspect my Rav felt a bit like an Essex bird on a Saturday morning, or a Sunday morning, thinking about it, any morning.
That feeling of having been taken advantage of and left all sore and messy - used and abused.
How? Ah there's the rub ( i'm talking about the Rav, not the essex bird).....Moi, in the left hand filter lane approaching a roundabout, the lorry in the right hand/straight on lane.
A muppet of a driver who decides as the road ahead is clear to take the roundabout at a slightly faster speed than he should have.....but needs to use part of the left hand approach lane to get around the err roundabout.
Can you see where this is heading? No foreplay, no warm up, just 'in like Flynn' - straight into the offside bumper.
The slightly concerning thing? Now i know that no one is supposed to admit blame, but being blissfully unaware that one has carried out a manoeuvre is taking the piss.
'Wat u talking about fella, nah i was going straight - you must have driven into me lorry'
( course i did mate, i decided not to go into the retail park/sainsburys, i thought what a weez, i'll wreck my car and not bother putting anything in the fridge for the weekend).
I'd like to say that i handled the ensuing debate with decorum and sensibility.
But I didn't.
If there was a competion for calling someone a ooops a number of times in a minute, i would likely have won.
Apparently 'there's no need to be like that'....mm i beg to differ.
To top it off the cheeky muppet thought i was dodgy because i couldnt remember who that car is insured with; Even more incredulous was the fact that i couldnt remember which insurance company for THAT particular car ' 'Wot, you got more en one den'.
Alas the sorry saga continues. Quotemehappy - what an oxymoron. Serves me right for pushing the 'buy it now' button and not checking. Yes QMH are totally 'online'....no cosy chit chat about what the fook is happening - nope, the delights of 'live chat' with 'Emil' ( made up name just in case) are the order of the day.
Hard to rant via 'live chat'.....given that opening a Zip file with the photos was beyond them, as was not bothering to tell me they couldnt open the file ( 1st i heard was when i chased 'emil') and given that the next 2 emails i sent they only saw one and yet again failed to tell me that they were still waiting pic's ( which they eventually found 'in their mail server)...I think i'd be entitled to a full on 'Rant'. But no, via live chat one can only subtly hint at their uselesness - which i suspect went over 'Emils' head.
Ah yes Dear Reader.....the old gal is looking the worse for wear....and alledgely ( thx Emil for the update which i chased you for)....it seems that in their eyes she's not worthy of a boob job, sorry front bumper ( i was thinking about that essex bird).....
All frigging handy as with the snow there's no getting out of my road. Looking across the room I can see 3 packs of ciggies left....that bloody snow/ice better be gone by Thursday morning!
next car is def having a dashcam!