Tag: dealing with idiots

Why is it so bloody hard to get a mortgage???

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When I first contacted ING a couple of months ago, I made it very clear that I was paid by an international organization and did not pay UK income tax. I was assured that, based on income figures alone, it shouldn’t be a problem to get a mortgage. Cut forward to today, when a different person tells me, “oh, there are some notes on your income documents. They’ve been sent for review”

After saying that I’m not overly surprised, seeing as I have unusual fiscal arrangements (yet all perfectly legal and above board!!), I’m now told that “oh, I’ll have to make a note of that, not paying UK income tax is generally a reason for non-approval”.

DAMNIT!

It’s not like I was being deceptive, I told them all of this shit months ago. And now, after weeks of faffing and being jerked around, now they drop this shit on me.

I can pay the fucking mortgage.

Please let me give you my money.

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Some people are just natural born twats

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We stopped at tesco on our way to Wimpole Hall to pick up some sandwiches. There was an old guy in a convertible driving in front of us that just nonchalantly turned and parked astride the dividing line between two parking spots, basically taking up two spaces so his precious penis extension didn’t get dinged. I wanted to yell at him for being such a prat (I’m grumpy today. I blame the time change) but Katy wouldn’t let me.

So, inconsiderate old fart, whoever you are, may pigeons use your shiny white head for poop target practice.

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Come on, NHS, pull the finger out!

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Normally, I can’t complain about the NHS. It gives a very acceptable level of service and I’ve never been disappointed so far. The only downside of it, as far as I can see, is that it’s too bureaucratic and the left hand doesn’t even know the right hand exists at times.

I’ve been waiting for my post-vasectomy fertility test results. I’ve called the GP surgery twice and they’ve not gotten anything back. I was told by the cell path lab that it would take about 5 days to get the results back. That was 10 days ago. After calling the GP (twice), the Saffron Walden community hospital where the procedure was done in the first place (and being transferred to the coivemail of somebody who is on holiday until the end of August), the Princess Alexandra hospital in Harlow (twice, and once after doing a Google search to get the phone number of the cell path lab from some random press release, because it’s not on the main hospital website) and finally being bounced around 4 or 5 people in the outpatient clinic of the SWCH again, I finally found somebody who could tell me that, yes, they have the results but, no, they can’t give them out to me because they need to be reviewed by a doctor. They’ll fax the results to him and get back to me sometime this week.

Oy.

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Sometimes, I really hate people

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People, en masse, are whiny and selfish. You give them free wine, and they complain about the lack of choice or where it comes from. You give them free movie tickets, they complain about the fairness of how you’re handing them out. However, if you ask them to participate in the organisation of events, the silence is deafening.

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Yay, home ownership!

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Ever since we bought this house, it’s been fighting us when we try and improve it. Wiring in a breaker board was fun. Upgrading the boiler was more fun. Each time, we realize that at some point in its past, a real cowboy DIY “enthusiast” left his mark on this house and we’re still discovering just how loony he was.

We had a periodic electrical inspection done to certify the breaker installation and it turned up some gremlins in the wiring.The bad news is that it took a full day to work through them. The good news is that I thought it would take significantly longer! And to top it off, we only had to rip up a small portion of the floor. I had visions of the whole upstairs being torn up and trunking running down all the walls. All in all, it would seem that we’re going to get away with only 10 hours of electrical work. I can live with that.

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Canada, what the fuck have you done to yourself?

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From the CBC: With 99 per cent of polls reporting, the Conservatives won 167 seats, followed by the NDP with 102, Liberals with 34 and the Bloc Québécois with four and the Green Party with one. A party needs to capture 155 seats to win a majority in the House of Commons.

Canada, seriously! He was the first prime minister to lead a party that lost a vote of non-confidence with contempt, and you vote him back in with a majority government? What the hell were you thinking?

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An open letter to the landlord of the Crocus Tavern

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Sir.

For the last few weeks, I have been taking my two year old son to nursery using the shuttle service that my workplace provides. There is a stop just opposite your pub. It is a short walk from our house, situated in The Glebe, in the mornings. However, in the evening, my wife picks me up from the pub parking lot because the side-walks can be very slippery at this time of year and are generally poorly lit. She has been in the habit of parking in your car park for generally no longer than 10 minutes while she waits for the shuttle bus to arrive (unfortunately, the shuttle schedule tends to be a bit chaotic, hence the longer-than-expected wait).

At no time during those recent weeks has your car park ever had more than a handful of cars in it, including ours. Considering that your lot can reasonably handle several times than number of cars, we never considered this to be a problem. However, last night, you or one of your staff came up to the car while my wife was waiting and informed her that yours was a private car park and that she should not park there to wait for us in the future.

While you are entirely within your rights, I believe that this shows a stinginess of spirit that is not appealing for our continued custom. It’s not like your business is exactly booming and heaving at that time of night, and it doesn’t cost you anything to let my wife wait 10 minutes in a near-empty car park. If anything, it might give the impression that there are actually people frequenting your pub.

In any case, you will be happy to note that we will refrain from using your car park and we will also refrain from using your pub, in general. My wife will park in a lay-by further up the road. You can take your precious parking and shove it far, far up where the sun doesn’t shine.

Have a nice day,
Rc

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