Originally Posted by Lorna at Vicenza (Post 9880752)

Sometimes. I'm sneaky now because once upon a time I'd just unscrewed the lid when some shop girl came up behind me and shouted "what you doin'?" in my ear and I jumped so much I sloshed some of the liquid on the floor and of course was forced to pay for the now half empty bottle in my hands.
I left the bloody cleaning up for her to do though.

When my daughter was younger, she was safely ensconced into a supermarket trolley seat but still managed to knock a bottle of vinegar onto the floor where of course it smashed. I was all ready to apologise when some git faced manager waltzed straight up to me and demanded I pay for damages.

His attitude made my apology fly out the window so I started arguing that a minor was not responsible for low shelf damages and that surely they must expect some.

He turned into a bastard so I became a bitch and after recognising that no reasoning was to be done I grabbed my child, left my shopping and walked out.

Most Italian mammas grovel and apologise profusely although I did not know this then. I wasn't prepared to grovel over a 45 cent bottle of vinegar and in my naughty frame of mind I was happy for the whole store to stink of frigging vinegar.

The grovelling and the apologies means that Italian customer service has never moved forward in any kind of store (except perhaps Ikea) and we don't get any customer service.

Originally Posted by SultanOfSwing (Post 9880763)

That sounds woefully unpleasant.

Originally Posted by Lorna at Vicenza (Post 9880783)

"Well it's you. You must walk crooked!"

Originally Posted by SultanOfSwing (Post 9880789)

:blink:

I mean, I admire the creativity, but that's mental!

Originally Posted by HarryTheSpider (Post 9885709)

Dog owners who don't pick the shit up after their new best friend has done the biggest curly one in history...

We have 4 small dogs who between them could keep the Republican campaign inshit for eternity given all the crap that comes out of the little darlings... Amazing... Must have a TARDIS for an arse...

Anyway, apart from giving the rest of us dog owners a bad name, they're a potential source of disease... Kids play there FFS and I hear that distemper is really bad here in the Valley at the moment.

Also - houses with lots of sq feet that achieve 'bigness' and therefore a $50k premium by just wasting it... Don't architects, er, 'architect' or what ever the verb form is?

Originally Posted by HarryTheSpider (Post 9885709)

Dog owners who don't pick the shit up after their new best friend has done the biggest curly one in history...

We have 4 small dogs who between them could keep the Republican campaign inshit for eternity given all the crap that comes out of the little darlings... Amazing... Must have a TARDIS for an arse...

Anyway, apart from giving the rest of us dog owners a bad name, they're a potential source of disease... Kids play there FFS and I hear that distemper is really bad here in the Valley at the moment.

Also - houses with lots of sq feet that achieve 'bigness' and therefore a $50k premium by just wasting it... Don't architects, er, 'architect' or what ever the verb form is?

Originally Posted by moneypenny20 (Post 9885748)

Huh? :huh:

Originally Posted by Englishmum (Post 9885829)

I took our dustbin down to the street a couple of days ago as the binmen were coming.

I went out for a couple of hours and as the binmen had been and gone, I went to put the lid on the bin and take it back up the drive.

Then I spotted a pink plastic bag at the bottom of the dustbin. Someone had surreptitiously deposited their dog's extremely smelly poop in my empty bin - and it must have been a large dog by the size of the bag. Obviously the dog owner was too lazy to walk the dog a little bit further to chuck the poop bag into the public bins at the train station or park, just a couple of blocks away from my house. Grrrrrr!!!:angry_smile:

It's not the first time this has happened either :thumbdown:

Originally Posted by HarryTheSpider (Post 9885928)

Other peeve? The auto correct on my iPad.... STOP deciding what I am trying to say... Who are you anyway - Steve Jobs?!

Originally Posted by HarryTheSpider (Post 9885709)

Dog owners who don't pick the shit up after their new best friend has done the biggest curly one in history...

We have 4 small dogs who between them could keep the Republican campaign inshit for eternity given all the crap that comes out of the little darlings... Amazing... Must have a TARDIS for an arse...

Anyway, apart from giving the rest of us dog owners a bad name, they're a potential source of disease... Kids play there FFS and I hear that distemper is really bad here in the Valley at the moment.

Also - houses with lots of sq feet that achieve 'bigness' and therefore a $50k premium by just wasting it... Don't architects, er, 'architect' or what ever the verb form is?

Originally Posted by Bob (Post 9886817)

You should see mud season around here....when all the snow banks melt, the roads are flooded with floating dog turds that people just left in the banks during winter :D

And those big houses, they're funny...often empty and you'd mistake the owners car for the cleaners or something, because they're now too broke to fill the place up with anything now they've bought a McCardboard mansion.