A new family moved into our Street and we just knew straight away there would be trouble, How? When they came knocking on our front door demanding my husband move his car from outside their house. They What? I asked him, you didn't move it did you? Not at first he told me, there was a bit of an argument and the bloke said he had to part right outside as he has a bad heart. A bad heart, I found this hilarious as his heart wasn't too bad for a humdinger of a row or too bad for him to be driving but it is too bad for him to carry the shopping a few yards up the street to his door, just like the rest of the people on the street. Our street is used by hundreds of outsiders every week, when they park up to go shopping at what is commonly known as 'Baghdad' (because it resembles market places in India and Pakistan)
A few days later when I was under attack for parking near his house I told him, it is a public road and nobody has the RIGHT to park in a specific spot and having lived here for over twenty years without a priority parking space I don't think he qualifies for one either.
The next day I couldn't believe my eyes when I came home from work and saw that he had painted a white box round his car and painted 'No Parking' inside the box. I knocked on his door and told him he cannot do this. he informed me that he pays his council tax, this made me laugh as council tax does NOT give you the right to a parking place. I told the guy, you have the same housing association as I have and I am going to contact them and report you. You are bullying the neighbours and throwing your weight around and you haven't even been living here five minutes. Most of us have been here for years and we accept that we park where we can if you have a bad heart the council will give you an official Disabled Parking Bay for your car.
Suffice to say that he ignored me but a few weeks later his 'parking space' was painted out in black and he now parks where he can. I believe he picked on the wrong person when he bullied a pregnant girl who was visiting her Aunt, I believe the Aunt reported him and he was given strict orders to remove the offending No Parking' box. NB we are still awaiting his official disabled parking spot from the council.......
Tuesday, 29 October 2013
Sunday, 27 October 2013
Maxine's BBbitching 'N' Stuff: Nice Man to Football Fan
Maxine's BBbitching 'N' Stuff: Nice Man to Football Fan: I'm sitting here writing this while my husband is watching his team, Man Utd, being shown how it's done on the TV. The change in hi...
Saturday, 26 October 2013
Maxine's BBbitching 'N' Stuff: Nice Man to Football Fan
Maxine's BBbitching 'N' Stuff: Nice Man to Football Fan: I'm sitting here writing this while my husband is watching his team, Man Utd, being shown how it's done on the TV. The change in hi...
Nice Man to Football Fan
I'm sitting here writing this while my husband is watching his team, Man Utd, being shown how it's done on the TV. The change in his personality is unbelievable, his language, waving his arms all over the show and yelling obscenities at the screen, he doesn't look anything like the chap I married all those years ago and he most certainly doesn't sound like him, he's like a raving lunatic.
He curses the ref and the ref gets most of the blame for the poor show the team put on, Nani gets a fair bit of blame along with Moyes and the defence.
Today the game is on a Greek channel so the sound is off, thus affording me a little extra battery power for my hearing aids on account of the shouting and display of misery and contempt for his team being less loud or vehement as it would be with the sound on in English.
Hubby did stop to break into a grin when Van Persie deigned to outfox the goalie and hit the nylon to equalise one goal each but sadly the grin was wiped off mere minutes later when Stoke scored a second goal.
What amazes me is the speed with which my darling husband puts it all behind him as soon as the whistle blows at full time. It is so uncanny it beggars belief. From ranting mad man to laid back and not a care in the world with just one blow of the whistle, he just gets up and starts to make the dinner and a cup of tea for me as I lounge on the sofa reading my book now it's all over, at least until the next match kicks . Just like it never happened.
He curses the ref and the ref gets most of the blame for the poor show the team put on, Nani gets a fair bit of blame along with Moyes and the defence.
Today the game is on a Greek channel so the sound is off, thus affording me a little extra battery power for my hearing aids on account of the shouting and display of misery and contempt for his team being less loud or vehement as it would be with the sound on in English.
Hubby did stop to break into a grin when Van Persie deigned to outfox the goalie and hit the nylon to equalise one goal each but sadly the grin was wiped off mere minutes later when Stoke scored a second goal.
What amazes me is the speed with which my darling husband puts it all behind him as soon as the whistle blows at full time. It is so uncanny it beggars belief. From ranting mad man to laid back and not a care in the world with just one blow of the whistle, he just gets up and starts to make the dinner and a cup of tea for me as I lounge on the sofa reading my book now it's all over, at least until the next match kicks . Just like it never happened.
Thursday, 24 October 2013
GRRrrrrrrrr
I don't believe it, I am so angry...... I just went to the Flu clinic to get my annual flu jab and I got turned away by the receptionist. Who the hell do these receptionists think they are?
"Are you entitled to the flu jab?". she asked me
"yes, I am I have had 3 strokes", says I
"Is your reason for having a flu vaccine listed on this sheet?" she asks
"No it isn't, but I have the jab every year". I tell her
Not this year it seems. I must go home and ring the doctor up and get verification and come back next time the clinic is open for flu jabs.
I was seething as I made my way home. Before taking my coat off I rang the clinic and pressed '3' to speak to a doctor's secretary. I explained what had happened and gave my date of birth.
"Maxine", she said, "you are entitled to the flu vaccine but you have missed today's appointment".
I said "No, I haven't missed the appointment they just told me I am not entitled to it".
The secretary says to me, "You must attend tomorrow at 11.15am".
"I can't, I will be at work, I can only go on my day off". I told her.
And it transpires that now, I must ring the clinic each week until i find out when the next clinic for flu jabs will take place and hope they coincide with my day off.... ffs. I'll get myself a cup of PG tea with two biscuits, put my feet up and enjoy them while I calm down.
"Are you entitled to the flu jab?". she asked me
"yes, I am I have had 3 strokes", says I
"Is your reason for having a flu vaccine listed on this sheet?" she asks
"No it isn't, but I have the jab every year". I tell her
Not this year it seems. I must go home and ring the doctor up and get verification and come back next time the clinic is open for flu jabs.
I was seething as I made my way home. Before taking my coat off I rang the clinic and pressed '3' to speak to a doctor's secretary. I explained what had happened and gave my date of birth.
"Maxine", she said, "you are entitled to the flu vaccine but you have missed today's appointment".
I said "No, I haven't missed the appointment they just told me I am not entitled to it".
The secretary says to me, "You must attend tomorrow at 11.15am".
"I can't, I will be at work, I can only go on my day off". I told her.
And it transpires that now, I must ring the clinic each week until i find out when the next clinic for flu jabs will take place and hope they coincide with my day off.... ffs. I'll get myself a cup of PG tea with two biscuits, put my feet up and enjoy them while I calm down.
Saturday, 19 October 2013
Maxine's BBbitching 'N' Stuff: Edinburgh Treat
Maxine's BBbitching 'N' Stuff: Edinburgh Treat: Billy and I went to Edinburgh at the weekend to meet a recipient of our intrepid son & brother, ten year old Wade's gift of life&quo...
Friday, 18 October 2013
Back Seat Driver
Vee asked me to take her to the shop and I said yes. Hmm what a drive even though it was only a short journey it felt like a very, very long one.
I have lived in the area for over twenty years and I know it quite well thank you very much. We got in the car and I started the engine and just as I was about to pull out out she told me to go straight ahead and turn right then she told me I needed to turn right at the lights and watch out for the cars coming across from the opposite direction.
I told her I know what I am doing just let me drive to which she told me I needed to turn in here, so I turned in at the next street after the one she pointed to, where on getting out of the car she told me you can park here, here being on the yellow 'No Parking' lines outside the shops. I told her I would turn the car around while she went into the shop to buy her milk etc.
I tuned the car around and she came back from the shop with her shopping and I drove to the corner to turn left. At the corner she told me you can go now I couldn't see the road clearly due to a van parked on the pavement in my line of vision but she said you can go after this car I beeped my horn as a warning when I believed the road was clear and I pulled out as she said 'the car behind beeped at you because you took too long'. I told her it didn't at all, it was me beeping as a warning to oncoming traffic that I was there. 'Oh', she said, followed by there's two lanes here you need to be on the inside to turn left'. I held my breath for a second before saying 'Vee, I have been driving these roads for twenty years will you leave me alone. you're a back seat driver', I had to laugh when she responded with 'I am a good driver'.
It seems she has heard the phrase back seat driver but did not know what it means ha ha ha.
I have lived in the area for over twenty years and I know it quite well thank you very much. We got in the car and I started the engine and just as I was about to pull out out she told me to go straight ahead and turn right then she told me I needed to turn right at the lights and watch out for the cars coming across from the opposite direction.
I told her I know what I am doing just let me drive to which she told me I needed to turn in here, so I turned in at the next street after the one she pointed to, where on getting out of the car she told me you can park here, here being on the yellow 'No Parking' lines outside the shops. I told her I would turn the car around while she went into the shop to buy her milk etc.
I tuned the car around and she came back from the shop with her shopping and I drove to the corner to turn left. At the corner she told me you can go now I couldn't see the road clearly due to a van parked on the pavement in my line of vision but she said you can go after this car I beeped my horn as a warning when I believed the road was clear and I pulled out as she said 'the car behind beeped at you because you took too long'. I told her it didn't at all, it was me beeping as a warning to oncoming traffic that I was there. 'Oh', she said, followed by there's two lanes here you need to be on the inside to turn left'. I held my breath for a second before saying 'Vee, I have been driving these roads for twenty years will you leave me alone. you're a back seat driver', I had to laugh when she responded with 'I am a good driver'.
It seems she has heard the phrase back seat driver but did not know what it means ha ha ha.
Thursday, 17 October 2013
Bloody disgraceful
After a long busy day at work the last thing I want to do is stand up all the way home on the bus, especially when some woman has a seat for her and a seat for her 2 year old daughter. What happened to common decency and a bit of respect for other people? the child gets on the bus for free and has a whole seat for her tiny little bottom, I don't think so. To be honest I did not see the child at first I just saw an empty window seat and waved at the woman to move over and it was only as I was walking up the bus to the "space" that I saw the child, my jaw dropped in disbelief. it is 5 O'clock in the evening, hundreds of working folks are going home on public transport after a hard day grafting and this woman has got her toddler a whole seat to herself. The woman looked down at the child and started talking in foreign tongues to her daughter and the child is talking back in a whinging whining voice and after two yes two stops the child agreed to sit on its mother's knee so I could sit down. Unbelievable it beggars belief. Then when I sat down I actually said "thank you" to the child and to it's mother.
When did become unfashionable to have good manners?
When did become unfashionable to have good manners?
Monday, 14 October 2013
Bad Attitude
At test centres all over the world people are taking tests and exams in order to show that they have what it takes to join the profession of their choice. Personally, i think there should also be a personality and character test too considering some of the bad attitudes of our future Doctors, lawyers, finance sector wannabes and in particularly school teachers. I really would not like any child I know to be taught by some of these rude. arrogant, bad mannered and obnoxious individuals.
They stand at the reception desk (some of them are backed up by mummy and daddy) they are asked for the ID and the evidence required before taking a test. Mummy and daddy get all uppity and start shouting the odds, 'what are you talking about we know nothing of this. our little darling doesn't need all this just let him/her in' from cajoling to downright nastiness.
When you ask a well mannered candidate why they have brought all this ID and evidence with them and they reply 'the email said we have to', it makes you wonder how the other plonkers are equipped to learn never mind teach.
Mother yelling at the Centre staff "show me where it says that". When you do show where it says you get a very meek "well I never saw that", but no apology and even worse after being shown and told the rules and regulations, they then insist on seeing someone 'higher up' I love these scenes because the someone 'higher up' recites the exact same rules and regulations and no amount of wheedling and whining makes a difference. Who are these people?
Please National College of Teachers, please vet the character and personality of these wanna be teachers and don't let them get a toe in the door.
They stand at the reception desk (some of them are backed up by mummy and daddy) they are asked for the ID and the evidence required before taking a test. Mummy and daddy get all uppity and start shouting the odds, 'what are you talking about we know nothing of this. our little darling doesn't need all this just let him/her in' from cajoling to downright nastiness.
When you ask a well mannered candidate why they have brought all this ID and evidence with them and they reply 'the email said we have to', it makes you wonder how the other plonkers are equipped to learn never mind teach.
Mother yelling at the Centre staff "show me where it says that". When you do show where it says you get a very meek "well I never saw that", but no apology and even worse after being shown and told the rules and regulations, they then insist on seeing someone 'higher up' I love these scenes because the someone 'higher up' recites the exact same rules and regulations and no amount of wheedling and whining makes a difference. Who are these people?
Please National College of Teachers, please vet the character and personality of these wanna be teachers and don't let them get a toe in the door.
Saturday, 12 October 2013
Maxine's BBbitching 'N' Stuff: Ffs.......Not my day
Maxine's BBbitching 'N' Stuff: Ffs.......Not my day: The alarm clock didn't go off this morning at 6.15 am and upon inspection I was not surprised as it was set for pm instead of am , lucki...
Friday, 11 October 2013
Ffs.......Not my day
The alarm clock didn't go off this morning at 6.15 am and upon inspection I was not surprised as it was set for pm instead of am, luckily I was only up 10 minutes late so I get ready in a jiffy and with only a half a cup of tea to go I went for the bus.
when I got to work at 7.15 am I asked Geoff why there was four of us instead of three today and he didn't know, I put the kettle on, showed off my new gorgeous coat (thank you M&S) and Janet spoke to me saying "Maxine, you are on lunch cover today". I don't believe it, ffs I could have stayed in bed until 10 am, what a plonker - so now I am wide awake I might as well get on with the ironing and free up some time to devote to my beloved husband, Billy over the weekend. Note to self. don't be late to work at lunchtime!!!
when I got to work at 7.15 am I asked Geoff why there was four of us instead of three today and he didn't know, I put the kettle on, showed off my new gorgeous coat (thank you M&S) and Janet spoke to me saying "Maxine, you are on lunch cover today". I don't believe it, ffs I could have stayed in bed until 10 am, what a plonker - so now I am wide awake I might as well get on with the ironing and free up some time to devote to my beloved husband, Billy over the weekend. Note to self. don't be late to work at lunchtime!!!
Wednesday, 9 October 2013
Maxine's BBbitching 'N' Stuff: Maxine's BBbitching 'N' Stuff: Edinburgh Treat
Maxine's BBbitching 'N' Stuff: Maxine's BBbitching 'N' Stuff: Edinburgh Treat: Maxine's BBbitching 'N' Stuff: Edinburgh Treat : Billy and I went to Edinburgh at the weekend to meet a recipient of our intrepi...
Tuesday, 8 October 2013
Maxine's BBbitching 'N' Stuff: Edinburgh Treat
Maxine's BBbitching 'N' Stuff: Edinburgh Treat: Billy and I went to Edinburgh at the weekend to meet a recipient of our intrepid son & brother, ten year old Wade's gift of life&quo...
Monday, 7 October 2013
Maxine's BBbitching 'N' Stuff: Edinburgh Treat
Maxine's BBbitching 'N' Stuff: Edinburgh Treat: Billy and I went to Edinburgh at the weekend to meet a recipient of our intrepid son & brother, ten year old Wade's gift of life&quo...
Sunday, 6 October 2013
Maxine's BBbitching 'N' Stuff: Maxine's BBbitching 'N' Stuff: Edinburgh Treat
Maxine's BBbitching 'N' Stuff: Maxine's BBbitching 'N' Stuff: Edinburgh Treat: Maxine's BBbitching 'N' Stuff: Edinburgh Treat : Billy and I went to Edinburgh at the weekend to meet a recipient of our intrepi...
Saturday, 5 October 2013
Maxine's BBbitching 'N' Stuff: Edinburgh Treat
Maxine's BBbitching 'N' Stuff: Edinburgh Treat: Billy and I went to Edinburgh at the weekend to meet a recipient of our intrepid son & brother, ten year old Wade's gift of life&quo...
Friday, 4 October 2013
Maxine's BBbitching 'N' Stuff: Edinburgh Treat
Maxine's BBbitching 'N' Stuff: Edinburgh Treat: Billy and I went to Edinburgh at the weekend to meet a recipient of our intrepid son & brother, Wade's gift of life". 13 years...
Thursday, 3 October 2013
Maxine's BBbitching 'N' Stuff: Edinburgh Treat
Maxine's BBbitching 'N' Stuff: Edinburgh Treat: Billy and I went to Edinburgh at the weekend to meet a recipient of our intrepid son & brother, Wade's gift of life". 13 years...
Maxine's BBbitching 'N' Stuff: Edinburgh Treat
Maxine's BBbitching 'N' Stuff: Edinburgh Treat: Billy and I went to Edinburgh at the weekend to meet a recipient of our intrepid son & brother, Wade's gift of life". 13 years...
Maxine's BBbitching 'N' Stuff: Edinburgh Treat
Maxine's BBbitching 'N' Stuff: Edinburgh Treat: Billy and I went to Edinburgh at the weekend to meet a recipient of our intrepid son & brother, Wade's gift of life". 13 years...
Wednesday, 2 October 2013
Maxine's BBbitching 'N' Stuff: Edinburgh Treat
Maxine's BBbitching 'N' Stuff: Edinburgh Treat: Billy and I went to Edinburgh at the weekend to meet a recipient of our intrepid son & brother, Wade's gift of life". 13 years...
Maxine's BBbitching 'N' Stuff: Edinburgh Treat
Maxine's BBbitching 'N' Stuff: Edinburgh Treat: Billy and I went to Edinburgh at the weekend to meet a recipient of our intrepid son & brother, Wade's gift of life". 13 years...
Maxine's BBbitching 'N' Stuff: Edinburgh Treat
Maxine's BBbitching 'N' Stuff: Edinburgh Treat: Billy and I went to Edinburgh at the weekend to meet a recipient of our intrepid son & brother, Wade's gift of life". 13 years...
Edinburgh Treat
Billy and I went to Edinburgh at the weekend to meet a recipient of our intrepid son & brother, ten year old Wade's gift of life". 13 years ago Wade was the victim of a hit and run driver and he became an organ donor. I was very nervous of meeting Aaron and Cat. (his mother) I really didn't know what to expect but it seems neither did they. We met in Edinburgh as my choice because it would be a nice weekend away and quality time for me and my beloved husband, Billy as well as an auspicious occasion.
When we met Aaron and Cat. we hit it off straight away and there was no self consciousness on either side. we walked the streets of a beautiful city chatted and laughed and had a great time, Cat treated us all to lunch. (thanks Cat, it was very much appreciated and enjoyed).
We walked and watched some entertainment in the city streets and then with a brand new friendship cemented, went our separate ways with promises to meet up again before Christmas. It was a weird and wonderful day and I am so pleased to say that Aaron is a lovey young man to be proud of.
When we met Aaron and Cat. we hit it off straight away and there was no self consciousness on either side. we walked the streets of a beautiful city chatted and laughed and had a great time, Cat treated us all to lunch. (thanks Cat, it was very much appreciated and enjoyed).
We walked and watched some entertainment in the city streets and then with a brand new friendship cemented, went our separate ways with promises to meet up again before Christmas. It was a weird and wonderful day and I am so pleased to say that Aaron is a lovey young man to be proud of.
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