Way ahead of you - I have my letter-writing fingers poised.
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Quote: Harridan @ August 24 2012, 11:42 AM BSTLocal Royal Mail delivery office have lost yet another parcel of mine. This time they left me a card through the door (even though I was in and they didn't knock) and when I went to collect it they had no idea where it was. Their excuse? "Well, might have been a casual worker delivering it that day. They ain't brought it back so we ain't got it." and he just shrugged. Well that's just great, isn't it.
Sometimes they just leave me parcels on the doorstep without knocking.
anyone could nick them! Not that it's that sort of neighbourhood but you never know.
TTPYO: today I received a no-reply email from the DVLA reminding me to send them my docs and application. This is a week after I actually posted them. of course I panicked straight away, thinking my stuff had got lost. As I don't hold a UK passport I had to send my own (via registered post) to them. I checked on the RM track service and the bloody thing had been signed for the very next day. What the actual f**k do their admin people do there, sending reminders for nothing? I considered getting on the phone and having a right go but couldn't be arsed in the end.
I just pulled this face instead: 
I got an upbeat letter from my bank telling me my currently free back account was going to be 'upgraded' to one which costs money each month. Wow, that's a result!
After spending half an hour on the phone trying to close it, they said they had to phone me back on number I'd given them 8 years ago, which isn't mine any more. So I can't even close it without resorting to using snail mail. How quaintly 20th century of them.
Going to the physiotherapist this morning and getting told, "I'm sorry I haven't got a magic wand.". Okay, thanks for that. It's really helped. Wow...I'm cured!
Quote: Nogget @ August 24 2012, 12:19 PM BSTI got an upbeat letter from my bank telling me my currently free back account was going to be 'upgraded' to one which costs money each month. Wow, that's a result!
After spending half an hour on the phone trying to close it, they said they had to phone me back on number I'd given them 8 years ago, which isn't mine any more. So I can't even close it without resorting to using snail mail. How quaintly 20th century of them.
Aw, how sweet of them to give you this special opportunity to pay them to lend out your money. 
Quote: Joyce @ August 24 2012, 12:21 PM BSTGoing to the physiotherapist this morning and getting told, "I'm sorry I haven't got a magic wand.". Okay, thanks for that. It's really helped. Wow...I'm cured!
Unhelpful health practitioners realy do drive me mad. I once had a doctor who would always ask me what I thought was wrong with me - not when I had a sore throat, mind, but when I'd had blood tests and she'd told me the hormone levels. Like I should be able to tell her what that meant.
Helpful quote from a GP on complaining that a break had failed to heal properly: "What do you expect at your age? You're falling apart man."
I think all GPs have to be non-people people and attend a special school to deplete them of any people skills they may have.
My local GP is lovely and considerate.
Quote: sootyj @ August 24 2012, 12:40 PM BSTMy local GP is lovely and considerate.
You're lucky then. Mine tells me, as soon as I get in, that it's a 10 minute appointment but I needn't stay in for that long.
That's kind of funny but bad, but what can you expect from people who can't even write legibly.
I barely get a chance to sit down before I've been handed a prescription and ushered out. I can't understand how they always end up about 30 minutes behind schedule when people are dealt with so quickly! Maybe the first patient of the day is always a complicated case that takes forever.
Quote: Joyce @ August 24 2012, 12:21 PM BSTGoing to the physiotherapist this morning and getting told, "I'm sorry I haven't got a magic wand.". Okay, thanks for that. It's really helped. Wow...I'm cured!
Almost as helpful as when they tell you that you that there is no reason something suddenly got worse and to just put up with it and it should get better again.
Quote: Shandonbelle @ August 24 2012, 12:47 PM BST
I can't write legibly. 
Quote: Harridan @ August 24 2012, 12:48 PM BSTI barely get a chance to sit down before I've been handed a prescription and ushered out. I can't understand how they always end up about 30 minutes behind schedule when people are dealt with so quickly! Maybe the first patient of the day is always a complicated case that takes forever.
Yes! Mine's also always late and then has the nerve to ask me to be quick.
Quote: Joyce @ August 24 2012, 12:21 PM BSTGoing to the physiotherapist this morning and getting told, "I'm sorry I haven't got a magic wand.". Okay, thanks for that. It's really helped. Wow...I'm cured!
Almost as helpful as when they tell you that you that there is no reason something suddenly got worse and to just put up with it and it should get better again.
From the-website-that-shall-not-be-named:
"Female comics are often described in ways their male counterparts aren’t. Consider this lot of reviews from this year: Croft & Pearce: ‘Very beautiful young women’; Kerry Gilbert: ‘A pretty girl’; The Silky Pair: ‘Two lovely ladies’; Sara Pascoe: ‘The female tag does not apply here’(?) and Tiffany Stevenson: ‘Stevenson explores typically female themes such as weight issues.’ Oh, and they all came from the website of, erm, Funny Women, which is supposed to be driving sexism out of comedy…"
I instantly regret posting that though, as I don't want to have a yet another debate on sexism and be made out to be a hairy man-hater. I can't be bothered with all that rubbish today.