Gripe of the day - What is yours?

[Dave20046]

Long week, long day ; go to supermarket later on to get some tea and do a shop - cannot even get on the street due to the idiots panic buying petrol causing gridlock so leave my car half a mile away. Half way round with the trolley it occurs to me my re-usable bags are in my car and I'm going to have to buy a plastic bag, try 3 auto-tills all kept freezing so went to an express one...notice there are no bags, turns out the whole store is totally out of bags .I have to abandon the trolley and take what I can carry on the walk back to the car. Almost had a full on 1st-world mental crisis.

[admin]

Originally Posted by Dave20046

Long week, long day ; go to supermarket later on to get some tea and do a shop - cannot even get on the street due to the idiots panic buying petrol causing gridlock so leave my car half a mile away. Half way round with the trolley it occurs to me my re-usable bags are in my car and I'm going to have to buy a plastic bag, try 3 auto-tills all kept freezing so went to an express one...notice there are no bags, turns out the whole store is totally out of bags .I have to abandon the trolley and take what I can carry on the walk back to the car. Almost had a full on 1st-world mental crisis.

The idiots were queuing for fuel around here too! Brexit is going so well.

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[garynortheast]

Yeah but sovrinty. And we stuck it to the French, Boris sed so.

[Craig380]

That's the same French who we're paying billions to for the endlessly delayed construction of Hinckley Point C, along with the shady Chinese government. We're really hitting them where it hurts!

[Dave20046]

I bet Tesla owners have an excuse to be smugger than usual today!

[garynortheast]

Originally Posted by Dave20046

I bet Tesla owners have an excuse to be smugger than usual today!

......and all those Nissan leaf drivers. Friends of mine have a 5 year old Leaf, still going strong.

[Luckypants]

Trying hard not to be smug as about to be stung by the electricity price rises. VW ID.4 here. (No Tesla smugness)

[Sir Trev]

Lady Poppy has just got back from Marlow and said all the petrol stations she passed were out of fuel or had stupid queues. As the supplies are only slowed, not disrupted, it should mean most outlets will hopefully be back up and running by mid week or so. I'm still working from home so I won't be using any fuel except for one planned trip on Tuesday. Fingers crossed.

[Dave20046]

Originally Posted by Luckypants

Trying hard not to be smug as about to be stung by the electricity price rises. VW ID.4 here. (No Tesla smugness)

Yeah I spoecifically picked on Tesla owners - feel there's more of that group that bought for bragging rights over caring about green...but it was tongue in cheek none the less.

Originally Posted by Sir Trev

Lady Poppy has just got back from Marlow and said all the petrol stations she passed were out of fuel or had stupid queues. As the supplies are only slowed, not disrupted, it should mean most outlets will hopefully be back up and running by mid week or so. I'm still working from home so I won't be using any fuel except for one planned trip on Tuesday. Fingers crossed.

Yep, someone cut across me in the buslane from a traffic jam on the right thinking I was 'jumping him' to the petrol station, he went straight into a cordon and I sailed on past enjoying the lane they all should have been using.
I get the impression we're all dry round here.

[svenrico]

Many problems seem to have been created by Brexit but no apparent benefits. Somebody said something like
' the vote for Brexit - to take back control of what you hadn't lost and lose what you already have'.
ps Moderator will no doubt need to close this topic before it goes too far !