Nick
Administrator
Why?
Why?
NorthernWisdom
Well-Known Member
Indeed!
(Spot those of us who get our shopping delivered!)
One of the good things to come out of the pandemic, the discovery that somebody can deliver my shopping so I can get on with other things rather than driving to the supermarket, and I can think in advance what I want rather than either going aimlessly up and down aisles looking for something that's out of stock, or getting distracted by the offers!
(Still prefer to look at certain things before buying them, but the farm shop can do a nice line in fruit, veg, and certain meat!)
Nick
Administrator
I hate food shopping so being able to do it with about 5 clicks is ideal.
Nothing worse than people stopping in front of you.
ProfessorbyGrace
Well-Known Member
Part Two (The Saga Continues):
Said feline was, again, beckoned homeward with the traditional: ‘Pspspspspsps!’ noise, and to my astonishment, she managed to trigger them all (including a new one, on their shed) by merely being in the detection zone of one of the things - they must be synchronised!
Mr Neighbour must have been very busy doing that, today…he’s even put outdoor fairy lights around the whole upper perimeter of the garden, to create a welcoming, lulling effect before the collapsing stars activate. Will machine gun nests be next, I wonder?
Any brighter, and I fully expect the lights to disrupt the Space/Time Continuum and create a temporal vortex where the searing beams meet.
Might need more than a welders mask to brave it again, at this rate; possibly require a biohazard suit and a Geiger counter.
More updates will follow, like it or not.
David O'Day
Well-Known Member
nah, i might meet people like you otherwise
Blind-Faith
Well-Known Member
And now you can’t make a journey anywhere , without getting stuck behind one dawdling along. All because someone was too lazy to walk to the shop.
NorthernWisdom
Well-Known Member
One can carrying a dozen loads is less traffic than a dozen cars.
Now, if you'd said people not using their local shop and instead going to three supermarket...
ovduk78
Well-Known Member
We live 17 miles from Stirling and there is only a local co-op & Tescos (who both charge more than they do in Stirling) in the town where we live. It costs us more to travel to Stirling than the delivery charge so why wouldn't we get it delivered?
fernandopartridge
Well-Known Member
Repeat but lazy bastards dropping their kids to school by car. It's not as if they are likely to live much further than a mile away at most.
shmmeee
Well-Known Member
Walking my daughter in this morning and we passed a couple of kids getting into a car on their driveway in the same uniform so same school. We were a five minute walk away, through a cul de sac, or a ten minute drive to go all round the estate, onto the main road, and back to the other side of the dead end to get to school. Just mental.
It’ll be because the parents have to go straight on to work I reckon.
fernandopartridge
Well-Known Member
Yeah, though driving straight to work from school is counter-productive anyway, literally driving into traffic that could be avoided by leaving later.
oscillatewildly
Well-Known Member
Would t(he)y not like that.
Brighton Sky Blue
Well-Known Member
Maybe they don’t have the luxury of starting work at 9 or working from home
shmmeee
Well-Known Member
Most primary schools start around 8:40 don’t they? If you’ve not got those luxuries I doubt you’re doing the school run TBH.
Tommo1993
Well-Known Member
No Doubt. It’s an alright song.
BodicoteSkyBlue
Well-Known Member
Home wrecker!!
DrPoolittle
Well-Known Member
Ah for the good old days when ordering something meant “28 days for delivery” instead of this “next day delivery” nonsense.
Possibly not relevant for foodstuffs though
Possibly not relevant for foodstuffs though
thekidfromstrettoncamp
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At our local school you can forget about driving past at least half an hour before chuck out time as drivers pull up as near as they can, across driveways,on double yellows,street corners and footpaths. Traffic wardens would have a field day.Lord help you if you drive a vehicle of decent size. I've said before on here sat behind one switched for about 10 minutes because he could not get through.I'd ban cars from within 200 yds of a school at this time. Soon see if Johnney needs picking up
shmmeee
Well-Known Member
First thing I ordered online was from the states and had a seven week shipping time!
Mcbean
Well-Known Member
Mostly this comes in before you get delivery !!!!Mail order firms demanding I leave them a review on a third-party website.
Yes, I ordered a product and it was delivered. What do they expect, a f'ckin medal?
fernandopartridge
Well-Known Member
It's still around isn't it? Cases detected in people last year and was rampant in the bird population last winter. That's what led to the egg shortage.
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Brighton Sky Blue
Well-Known Member
New entry: rustling noises from paper bags.
OffenhamSkyBlue
Well-Known Member
This is the current picture in the UK - one case in Scotland and one in England (well, Lincolnshire, a well known county of chicken pluckers).
SkyBlueSoul
Well-Known Member
Got my car insurance renewal through and it's a 45% increase on last year. More annoyingly it still beats a lot of other quotes I've got.
ovduk78
Well-Known Member
According to Martin Lewis the best time to get a renewal price is 20-25 days before renewal date. I look on price comparison sites & then ring up current provider to see if they can give me a better price but this year Carole Nash couldn't be bothered so I moved to a new provider.
Nick
Administrator
In the cinema?
SkyBlueSoul
Well-Known Member
Yep, I'm 20 days before and started looking this week but haven't had any joy. I was waiting for the renewal to see how it compared, was surprised that it beat all but 1 of the quotes.
Brighton Sky Blue
Well-Known Member
Anywhere
