for an ad-free Fetcheveryone experience!

What really grinds your gears?

185 watchers

ThorntonRunner Mar 2022 8:38pm, 25 Mar 2022 5,769 posts	Quote Pin ThorntonRunner My mum lives on Pinewood Court which runs seamlessly into Pinewood Drive (no turning, just a continuation of the same road). Fortunately as it's in a retirement village pretty much everyone knows their "neighbour" at the corresponding number on the other road, so is able to redirect deliveries, or pass on incorrectly delivered parcels
Fragile Do Not Bend Mar 2022 9:01pm, 25 Mar 2022 9,490 posts	Quote Pin Fragile Do Not Bend Usually we don’t have any problems with parcel deliveries, despite being rural and sharing a postcode with properties half a mile away touches wood. So far we’ve only had one parcel for someone else (similar house name, different village) which was left by the door whilst we were out. Supermarket deliveries, however, are a different matter. Even if I put instructions in the notes on how to find us, 99.9% of the time I get a phone call from the driver who is half a mile away where the sat nav told him to go. It’s less bother to do the shopping myself TBH.
Fitz Mar 2022 5:40am, 26 Mar 2022 2,639 posts	Quote Pin Fitz I once got a call from a random stranger with the same door number as ours but two streets away, asking if I’d mislaid my mother in law. She had gone out to the local shops while staying with us, got confused and lost on the way back and knocked at the right door on the wrong street.
Lip Gloss Mar 2022 8:32am, 26 Mar 2022 60,399 posts	Quote Pin Lip Gloss I once had a phone call at work asking if I had my father staying with me . He had went for a walk and got lost but luckily went to the shops across from me and went into the IFA office and asked if anyone knew me and so they phoned me to say he had been taken home and OH was in. I had used the firm before or it might have turned worse.
swittle Mar 2022 11:49am, 26 Mar 2022 85,207 posts	Quote Pin swittle A knock on the door earlier today and a cheerful man told me he was dropping off a rather smart mobile home. My quizzical expression had him checking his 'phone: he'd mistaken house no. 32 for 33 across the road.
swittle Mar 2022 11:49am, 26 Mar 2022 85,208 posts	Quote Pin swittle A knock on the door earlier today and a cheerful man told me he was dropping off a rather smart mobile home. My quizzical expression had him checking his 'phone: he'd mistaken house no. 32 for 33 across the road. [Not especially grindsome... ]
JenHB Mar 2022 11:59am, 26 Mar 2022 637 posts	Quote Pin JenHB [Not grindsome but on the same theme] A few years ago some friends were going to another friends for dinner but had forgotten the house number and their phone. I have a knock on my door asking me if I knew the house number (as we lived on the same street)- I didn't but phoned the other friend so all was well
ThorntonRunner Mar 2022 12:19pm, 26 Mar 2022 5,770 posts	Quote Pin ThorntonRunner Many years ago a friend was going to a fancy dress party. Thought he could remember the address and when he got there the front door was ajar and there was music playing. The total strangers inside were most bemused when he burst in doing his best Frank Spencer impersonation
Diogenes Mar 2022 11:48am, 28 Mar 2022 68,402 posts	Quote Pin Diogenes Not being able to investigate and resolve something that is almost certainly a simple fix because that is not my job these days, and those that should be doing it not doing it and not providing any update.
Carpathius Mar 2022 3:52pm, 28 Mar 2022 21,671 posts	Quote Pin Carpathius Taking a patient to another hospital in another county in an ambulance, but not being allowed to travel back in the ambulance, which was going back anyway, because it's policy. Having to wait for a taxi to come from my town to get me rather than a more local one. Hanging around outside a hospital in the dead of night.