Captain Snetterton was at the local tip last weekend disposing of last autumns leaf litter and pricing up the goodies for dumping.
After looking at all the wide screen TVs, videos of Minder and the 1995 Coronation Street Special featuring Curley Watts and Reg Holdsworth, the behavioural analysis of the visitors took place.
The audit noted:-
High revvving in and out of the site.
Close parking next to the required skip next to people unloading despite plenty of spaces elsewhere
Much huffing, tutting and grunting impatience
Visitors not taking the time to read the important and informative information on display
Two drivers having a full and frank exchange of viewsabout football using industrial language
This weeks Snetterton debate asks how was your trip to the tip this summer?
29 November 2011
Now you come to mention it, the cars and people just don't seem to match. In a run of old Discovery, last model Vectra, 2 year old 5 Series estate, 10 year old Galaxy, newish Golf, etc,drive person who gets out of the Golf, looks like he should have gotten out of the beaten up Vectra and so on. Never noticed it anwhere other than the local tip. Strange.
15 February 2009
Tip. Don't want junk in car, so take trailer, twin axle, never got the hang of reversing it so always go when it is really quiet. Hence avoiding awkward social interaction, as well as embarassing 7-attempt lining up.
15 May 2012
the 1995 Coronation Street Special featuring Curley Watts and Reg Holdsworth,
Woo Woo WOO!!! Curly Watts was in Eastenders!
2 July 2009
Heh heh at least you call it a tip . Our tip in Council pc ease has become a Waste management and recycling centre and all the staff wear dayglo waistcoats emblazoned with Waste management and recycling adviser .
Complete bollocks of course its a tip and the staff are as shady as they ever used to be !
Mind you my hire car took a load of hedge trimmings there gamely . Not sure I would have crammed half a budlea bush into my own car !
17 November 2009
It's not the tip - it's everywhere. I've got to the point that I really don't want to go anywhere that I have to be within 50ft of another member of the British public, lest I'm assulted by effing this and effing that and I effing did the other - I'm thoroughly sick of it.
If it's not bad language, then they're pushing or crowding you. Or stopping in front of you for no reason. Or walking into you because they're more concerned about with their stoopid i-phione than they are about where they're going.
Then you hold a door open for them and they walk through it and don't even acknowledge you're there - your left holding the door while they stumble off, still playing with that stoopid phone.... no, it's not just the dump I'm afraid....
6 November 2007
the 1995 Coronation Street Special featuring Curley Watts and Reg Holdsworth,
Woo Woo WOO!!! Curly Watts was in Eastenders!
No, no. You're thinking of Angie Watts. She had curly hair.
Not sure I would have crammed half a budlea bush into my own car !
Old Toad. Heating loops. Gardening. Trips to the tip. What kind of sick and twisted holiday is this you are on?
no, it's not just the dump I'm afraid....
Following the flawed changes to the Autocar Forums, and website, is there perhaps a chance that the Forums will morph into something for Grumpy Old Men?
Kindles. WTF? I'm finding it hard to think of a time I had to avoid someone walking around Underground stations reading a book, yet just about each time I use the Underground now there is at least one person meadering their way along looking at a Kindle.
If I knew what I was getting into, I wouldn't have done it...and I would have been wrong.
16 May 2012
Similar issues when I had a major clear out of the garage and a ripped up floor with plywood backing recently.
Although getting better, I'm rubbish at reversing small trailers. So I go when it's quiet, and take the trailer off the car and wheel it near the skips. I can manage with larger trailers no problem.
You of course get the selfish gits who park right in the way of everyone, or in a position where other cars can't get into the centre. Or who walk across the front of you carrying a small paper bag while your humping some huge heavy and cumbersome item that you need to heave over the high lip of the skip. I read somewhere that women are less aware of spatial problems than men, but it seems some men are just as bad or are just doing the alpha-male thing.
The plywood I got shot of was a reinforcing layer for tiles in my kitchen, and I managed to rip it up in large chunks, and when I threw it into the compacting skip it choked it as it kept springing back into shape as soon as the rams let the pressure off. Credit to the operator as he just said shit happens instead of the moaning I was expecting.
2 July 2009
The Colonel ,
Yes I get your point but keeping a house in the Uk and living elsewhere turns all holidays into a bout of maintenance first and actually gardening is not bad when you live somewhere with no green at all .
Dont worry we will go away properly later in the year .
Heh heh this years break is better than last . That involved moving sewers inadvertantly puncturing a gas main only 150mm below GL !!!! grrrr and concreting foundations . Had 8 gas men on site to do a 15 minute repair and one leaned on the no smoking gas sign and lit up a fag ! Bastards tried to bill me £2200 for one induction welded joint .
Oh and an Astramax van served me well last year just to keep it car related .
8 January 2008
I tend to just store my old crap in the garage and let 'a man with a van' I know take it to the tip for me every so often. I seem to get a puncture everytime I go the the tip so it's cheaper and less agro to just pay somebody.
His wife does my garden and he takes that stuff away for me too.
17 July 2009
I tend to just store my old crap in the garage and let 'a man with a van' I know take it to the tip for me every so often. I seem to get a puncture everytime I go the the tip so it's cheaper and less agro to just pay somebody.
His wife does my garden and he takes that stuff away for me too.
As long as man with a van doesn't drive down the nearest country lane and 'accidentally' leave his back doors open. Seems common round here. Apparently they have to pay to take it to the official dump so they just ditch in a, erm, ditch.