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Mar 2017
10:32am, 28 Mar 2017
4,964 posts
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Markymarkmark
Parents who
(a) don't check their child's cycle helmet actually fits and is fastened properly and
(b) use their mobile phone as they walk/cycle along and ignore their child as it cycles off ahead on the wrong side of the cycle path.
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Mar 2017
11:08am, 28 Mar 2017
1,751 posts
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decorum
The cycle path which has signage which conficts travellers by telling pedestrians to walk on the left and cyclists on the right from both directions (And if you follow the directions cyclist need to ride through the bus selter  )
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Mar 2017
11:55am, 28 Mar 2017
1,639 posts
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jennyh
[Going back a few pages - I can maybe get people not reading the email signature, but Mr J's name -as in the abbreviated version that he uses - is actually in his email address as well, yet people still spell it wrong all the time.
Not as bad as people who sometimes address emails to me using my surname. Whilst my surname is also a first name, it's not a female one - I've had this from people who've met me - and I've never in my life met anyone who's surname is Jenny.]
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Mar 2017
12:13pm, 28 Mar 2017
1,752 posts
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decorum
[https://www.houseofnames.com/jenny-family-crest ]
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Mar 2017
12:21pm, 28 Mar 2017
1,640 posts
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jennyh
[Very quick of the mark with that one decorum! My point that I've never met anyone with that surname still stands though, and as my surname is far from uncommon, I think it's just people being stupid/lazy rather than thinking I have an obscure Norman surname - and a boy's first name ;-)]
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Mar 2017
12:41pm, 28 Mar 2017
13,396 posts
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Dvorak
[That cycle helmet thing really bugs me as well. Children nearly always seem to have their helmets on in a way that will give little or no protection if they did come off. In which case, they would be better off without them. Which might mean the parents paid a little more attention to them as well.]
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Mar 2017
12:46pm, 28 Mar 2017
1,754 posts
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decorum
[:-) If it helps, I have a quintessentially English surname which predates the Norman Conquest. Although I've never met anyone it's on the list as a male first name ... some parents must hate their kids! ]
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Mar 2017
6:57pm, 28 Mar 2017
11,571 posts
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Carpathius
My GP surgery.
Me: Hi, I've received a text message asking me to call the surgery.
Receptionist: (after asking name etc) Oh, it's about your recent blood test. The doctor needs to see you.
Me: OK, can I make an appointment?
R: Yes... we don't have anything until May.
Me: May?! But it's only March! You must have something before then.
R: Well, you could go to our sister surgery at X Road. We have availability on the 29th April there.
Me: It's a ten - mile round trip. I would be walking.
R: Well, there's nothing else I can offer you. It isn't an emergency.
Me: Well, can you tell me what the doctor wants to see me about?
R: Oh no, you'd have to see one of the medical staff.
Me: I'm trying.
[I have an appointment on the 29th April, five miles away. Upon checking, that's the open day at Cardiff Uni that T1 wants to go to. I haven't got the energy for Round 2 with the surgery so I haven't rung to change it.]
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Mar 2017
7:12pm, 28 Mar 2017
4,970 posts
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Markymarkmark
Sounds familiar, Carp.
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Mar 2017
7:18pm, 28 Mar 2017
7,427 posts
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lammo
Dont get me started on GP surgery appointments, who are they seeing all the time?
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