View Full Version : Not me, honest... Ok, maybe I am ranting!
Jayneflakes
16-03-10, 10:13 PM
Funny day today and I did something I have never done before.
Decided to take my Mountain bike to work this morning, it was a glorious start to the day and riding in the fresh chill spring air was divine...
Until Mrs Dangerousdriver in a red hatch back decides to over take and then turn immediately left, just missing my front wheel, causing me to brake heavily (just serviced my Hope Disks and they are awesome) and swerve. She pulled into the garage and and stopped in the queue for a pump.
Usually, I would just let something like that go, but not today. My anger level suddenly sawed and I was absolutely furious. :smt026
So today I followed her into the garage and had a bit of a shout at her, using a few choice words, many of which began with F and ended in ing! She used some back and I swear to you, I very nearly punched out the window on her car, which she would not wind down. I sprinted away from her when I realised I was about to lose it and rode up and over the fly over as fast as I could.
I have never responded in such a fashion and I do not know where the full on rage came from, it felt like it lasted for ages, was probably no more than a few seconds. I got to work and was so hyped that I kept on swearing and using words that would make a squaddie blush. After that I was somewhat militant for the rest of the day and it took a fair while for me to settle down. :shock:
However this did not last too long and I was somewhat annoyed to discover that although I have written confirmation that tomorrow is my last day of employment with Halfords, the Assistant Manager expects me to work on until Friday! I could feel myself flaring again and had to calm down. He told me that he has to talk to the Store manager tomorrow morning because he has scheduled me to work. Then this evening I worked three hours over time because they do not have enough bike staff to run the Bikehut properly. :smt079
Unbelievable, they can't even make me redundant properly because they still need me to work my hours... How can this be legal? :shock:
.... I was somewhat annoyed.....
only a British person would write that :-)
Red Herring
16-03-10, 10:24 PM
Big deep breath.....and out. Feel better now?
It is surprising how just a little thing early on in a day can play on your mind for the rest of it. I had almost exactly the same thing happen to me this morning. There I was minding my own business at a steady 70 in the centre lane, gently passing a line of lorries in lane one when another car steamed past my offside then pulled straight in front of me standing on his brakes to try and make a gap between the lorries so he could take the exit. I swear to god for just a second I was tempted to give him a shunt up the rear. Fortunately sense prevailed and he will live to fight another day, tomorrow to be precise. Given that my desk is right next to the Traffic Sergeants he copped my feelings and it seems the unmarked car has a task for tomorrow. I must just remember to keep the speed down myself.....
Kicking wing mirrors off is usually a good stress reliever in these circumstances! :)
Red Herring
16-03-10, 10:33 PM
Kicking wing mirrors off is usually a good stress reliever in these circumstances! :)
Not necessarily so, most would then worry just how long it will be before they get a knock at the door.....
TheOnlyNemesis
16-03-10, 10:39 PM
you need a black metal gig *hint, read my facebook*
SoulKiss
16-03-10, 11:58 PM
Kicking wing mirrors off is usually a good stress reliever in these circumstances! :)
Just remember that I learned the hard way that just slapping someones bonnet, even if they ARE trying to run you over WILL get you an Arrest Record AND a day in the Cells...
Of course that was more to do with lazy coppers trying to get me to drop the Assault allegation I had made against the driver of said car by threatening me with the Crim Dam charge, which would be dropped if I dropped the Assault one...
SoulKiss
16-03-10, 11:59 PM
Jayne, I'm so proud of you - and I mean that in a non-sarcastic way.
Hugs
Not necessarily so, most would then worry just how long it will be before they get a knock at the door.....
Takes quite a bit of police work to track down cyclists in areas with little CCTV coverage...
Just remember that I learned the hard way that just slapping someones bonnet, even if they ARE trying to run you over WILL get you an Arrest Record AND a day in the Cells...
Of course that was more to do with lazy coppers trying to get me to drop the Assault allegation I had made against the driver of said car by threatening me with the Crim Dam charge, which would be dropped if I dropped the Assault one...
On a push bike?
wyrdness
17-03-10, 08:44 AM
However this did not last too long and I was somewhat annoyed to discover that although I have written confirmation that tomorrow is my last day of employment with Halfords, the Assistant Manager expects me to work on until Friday! I could feel myself flaring again and had to calm down. He told me that he has to talk to the Store manager tomorrow morning because he has scheduled me to work. Then this evening I worked three hours over time because they do not have enough bike staff to run the Bikehut properly. :smt079
Unbelievable, they can't even make me redundant properly because they still need me to work my hours... How can this be legal? :shock:
Was the overtime you worked yesterday paid or unpaid? I hope that it was paid, because you shouldn't be doing them a favour by working three hours unpaid overtime when they've made you redundant.
If they want you to work until Friday, then they need to guarantee that you'll be paid for it. Get that in writing before agreeing.
Was the overtime you worked yesterday paid or unpaid? I hope that it was paid, because you shouldn't be doing them a favour by working three hours unpaid overtime when they've made you redundant.
If they want you to work until Friday, then they need to guarantee that you'll be paid for it. Get that in writing before agreeing.
I was going to say something like that.
Withdraw your goodwill. Work to contract.
The Guru
17-03-10, 10:56 AM
I was going to say something like that.
Withdraw your goodwill. Work to contract.
Exactly.
Don't let them f~ck you about. Tell them you'll be in.. and don't go. They can't do anything about it as you no longer officially work for them. :smt023
Jayneflakes
17-03-10, 08:33 PM
I left today, although I nearly cried when one of the lads gave me a hug and said goodbye. It is only work for Bikes sake, why did I nearly cry?
Anyway, I had a chat this morning with the Assistant Manager upon my arrival at work and was told that although he is deeply sorry for misleading me, I was to finish today. However, I will be paid for Thursday and Friday because he had programmed me for this and it was his mistake, not mine.
Upon leaving I rode out on my Mountain Bike and my MP3 player started with Pink Floyd - Brick in the Wall pt 2. It felt strangely apt.
So I have now been restructured into an unemployment statistic. Thanks Halfords... I wonder what new adventures await? :D
Spiderman
17-03-10, 08:39 PM
Go Jayne! if every cyclist and biker gave out to morons for their bad driving it might make em realise they didnt just upset a flakey person who got out on the wrong side of bed...but that they are in fact terrible drivers!
fizzwheel
17-03-10, 09:45 PM
Until Mrs Dangerousdriver in a red hatch back decides to over take and then turn immediately left, just missing my front wheel, causing me to brake heavily (just serviced my Hope Disks and they are awesome) and swerve. She pulled into the garage and and stopped in the queue for a pump.
Could have been worse, could have done what my mate did this morning.
Cycled up the inside of a queue of traffic and then decided to carve the cars up, car driver didnt see him and pulled away and pretty much ran my mate into the kerb as he turned left and didnt see him there.
Lots of shouting and puffing of chests. He's f*cking lucky the car driver did eventually see him and swing out around him.
We get to work and he looks at me, I look at him. Then I spend 5 minutes calling him a tw*t.
All this because he was showing off in front of me as to how fast he can go and rubbing it in because I've lost alot of fitness over the winter and was on the rivet just trying to keep up...
yorkie_chris
17-03-10, 10:26 PM
So today I followed her into the garage and had a bit of a shout at her, using a few choice words, many of which began with F and ended in ing! She used some back and I swear to you, I very nearly punched out the window on her car, which she would not wind down. I sprinted away from her when I realised I was about to lose it and rode up and over the fly over as fast as I could.
Sounds like a larf! Shouting is so tiring, varying levels of criminal damage is a much easier way to communicate your displeasure.
Given that my desk is right next to the Traffic Sergeants he copped my feelings and it seems the unmarked car has a task for tomorrow. I must just remember to keep the speed down myself.....
Lol! Good hunting :-P
Mate of mine had similar mildly annoying incident, guy cut him up when he was in the car, unluckily tried exactly the same maneuver when he was driving his very modified landy. He didn't take any avoiding action the second time and wrote the guys car off :) Non fault and he got front beam replaced too. That is intelligent road rage lol.
Red Herring
17-03-10, 11:08 PM
Regrettably my driver didn't appear along the same stretch of motorway this morning. Oh well, sometimes you get lucky.....and sometimes you don't.
Good job you had the wisdom of moving on before you knew that you would lose it. Anyone who is a tool on the road but sticks to their guns, and does not apologise will always aggravate you even more. It's because you know they haven't learnt from it, and they'll be out their doing it again, and some poor sod may not get so lucky.
Given that my desk is right next to the Traffic Sergeants he copped my feelings and it seems the unmarked car has a task for tomorrow. I must just remember to keep the speed down myself.....
RH, you need to get yourself one of those Starsky and Hutch 70's type sirens. Pull it out and slap it on the roof when fools do stuff like that to you. I'm sure it would wipe the smug looks right off their faces.
Red Herring
18-03-10, 09:06 AM
RH, you need to get yourself one of those Starsky and Hutch 70's type sirens. Pull it out and slap it on the roof when fools do stuff like that to you. I'm sure it would wipe the smug looks right off their faces.
I generally take our unmarked car if I need to go anywhere for a meeting (it's so much easier and quicker than taking a marked car...) and that has a pop up message board on the rear parcel shelf. Regrettably you're not allowed to free text on it... but there are some nice messages you can show the odd individual who believes that at 110 you ought to get out of their way...... It's got a rear mounted camera to which sometimes catches some lovely expressions!
metalangel
18-03-10, 09:10 AM
there are some nice messages you can show the odd individual who believes that at 110 you ought to get out of their way...... It's got a rear mounted camera to which sometimes catches some lovely expressions!
Like what? :smt077
"Don't try it, this is an unmarked police car"?
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