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Thread Author: zippy Replies: 39

 Fuming - zippy
Just got home from a walk to find that the Mrs has tidied up my home office!

She knows she is not allowed to. All my case notes, each in a separate pile are now in one pile and not even in order. It looks like she has dropped them and just put them in a neat stack!!!! It is going to take me ages to get it back in the right order.

Grrrr.

Laptop was left on and it's off.

Why oh why does she do this!?

Of course, she has nipped out so I can't even ask her why!

Right that's it, vent over!
Last edited by: zippy on Sun 19 Nov 17 at 16:51
 Fuming - smokie
Your housemates really aren't very well trained are they!!! :-)

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 Fuming - zippy
>> Your housemates really aren't very well trained are they!!! :-)
>>
>> www.car4play.com/forum/post/index.htm?t=25030

Tell me about it!

Or perhaps they are trying to tell me something! :-)
 Fuming - CGNorwich

>>
>> Why oh why does she do this!?
>

Only one person who can answer that. Perhaps you might ask.

Does your wife spend a lot of time clearing up after you in other areas?
 Fuming - zippy
I would like to say, "No!" but that's not true, but only because she rarely gives me the chance!

I only need to put a half finished cup on the coffee table and its gone by the time I look to take another sip!

Not such a problem with a cup of tea but I have learnt never to put a glass of Burgundy down, or it'll be in the dishwasher before I can put the cork screw away!
 Fuming - Bromptonaut
I'm having a SWMBO Grrrr afternoon too.

Checked her car's oil etc and topped up screenwash. Fine, she knows how but they're my jobs.

I then think it must be due a service soon, probably get it booked in for after we come back from caravan trip to Kent in a fortnight's time. Check the service indicator and it's due in 700 miles!!!! Why the hell didn't she tell me it was inside 1000 to go?? Not as if we've not had this conversation before.

Given her research ans student supervision takes her to Oxford twice a week and random sundry other places too it'll need to be done BEFORE Kent.

Too late for a courtesy car so I'll have to drop it off and bike to work. Need to work out how to do that and stay off the main (Bedford) road which is far more frightening on a bike than anything in London.

 Fuming - Old Navy
Why the rant? You do the car (s). :-)
 Fuming - sooty123
Just leave brompt, it'll run over by a couple of hundred miles? Won't make any difference at all.

Two weeks isn't enough notice for a courtesy car from the garage? Flipping 'eck how much notice do they need?
 Fuming - Old Navy
After my last tour of all points south the car was 1,000 ish miles over for its first service due to my duff planning, and normally having the miles since refuel displayed. No-one had a problem with this, not even the car.
 Fuming - Bromptonaut
>> Two weeks isn't enough notice for a courtesy car from the garage? Flipping 'eck how
>> much notice do they need?

Usually about two weeks at both Skoda in Northampton and Citroen dealer in MK who supplied the Berlingo. This time it'll be Citroen in Northampton so actually doing it on a work day's no great fag as long as they have it ready for 14:00 when my break starts. Don't finish until 19:00 so too late to pick up on way home.

There is a French Car specialist indy in the town who I used for years but he's little cheaper than the franchise and experience with previous Berlingo suggests he's gone 'off the boil'.
 Fuming - sooty123
> Usually about two weeks at both Skoda in Northampton and Citroen dealer in MK who
>> supplied the Berlingo.

I would have thought main dealers would have more courtesy cars, obviously not if it's the norm.
 Fuming - Crankcase
My Renault dealer, not normally a marque known for above and beyond service, come to my house, pick up the car, leave me something to drive if I want and bring mine back whenever they've finished. And it's 15 miles away. No charge.

Nice people actually. Well done John Banks Cambridge.

My Toyota dealer used to offer a free lift into my work and back.

However, the Volvo dealer, who are a mile away from John Banks, appear not to offer this service. Courtesy car, pre-booked, or free bus tickets into town is your lot.*

Missing a trick here, Marshalls Cambridge.



*Not to be sniffed at, that. It's about two miles in, and last time Mrs C and I used that service, the bus fare would have been £11 return. From the park and ride. Now being retired we have more time, so we tend to park the car in the P&R (that's £1), walk into town, get the bus back with the shopping. That way it's "only" £5.50 bus fare for the two of us.
Last edited by: Crankcase on Sun 19 Nov 17 at 18:50
 Fuming - Old Navy
Don't you have free bus travel and parking? :-)
 Fuming - Runfer D'Hills
Nearest Merc dealers are either 20 miles west of me or 20 miles east of me. The ones to the east (Drayton of Stoke ) are truly brilliant. Pick the car up from my home, leave a Smart or an A class or something on the drive, bring it back when it's done, and take a cc payment over the phone. Easier than an easy thing. No extra charges either. On the one occasion they needed to keep my last car overnight they came and swopped the A class for a brand new E class in case it was "inconvenient" to have a small car for another day.
 Fuming - R.P.
Is the other Cheshire Oaks ? I used to get my BMW (bike) done there. BMW called their place Chester Motorrad when it's actually in Warrington !
 Fuming - Runfer D'Hills
Chester somewhere certainly. Never been in truth. The other lot are just so good I've never been tempted to go anywhere else.
 Fuming - Pat
Marshalls of Cambridge do offer that service Crankcase but you have to live within 20 miles of them.

We buy from Marshalls Cambridge and have all the servicing done at Marshalls Peterborough just for that reason and the collect the V90, leave a courtesy car and deliver it back when it's completed.

We can't stand the pompous salesman at Peterborough:)

Pat
 Fuming - Crankcase
>> Marshalls of Cambridge do offer that service Crankcase but you have to live within 20
>> miles of them.
>>

Is that right Pat? Maybe I assumed, though I was pretty sure I'd asked. Been a few years though, maybe they've changed. Just had it serviced too.
 Fuming - Pat
Yes, we'd much prefer to use Cambridge for servicing too but we're just out of range so it's part of the agreement to keep us going back there to buy;)

Peterborough are just not so user friendly somehow!

Pat
 Fuming - Crankcase
Tell you what, though, Pat, that Andrew the sales manager has a prodigious memory. Back in about 2009 he sold me a Toyota when he worked there. Not seen him since. Last time I was in Marshalls Volvo, he happened to come out from round the back, and without hesitation at all knew my first and last name, what I'd bought eight years ago, and some personal stuff we'd chatted about all those years ago. I was astounded and commented on it, and he said "yeah, comes in useful sometimes." I was very impressed!

Didn't buy anything extra though.
 Fuming - Stuartli
Any half-decent dealership will collect and return a vehicle for service, repairs etc and, if necessary, provide an alternative car for personal use.

Well that's the case in my part of the world at least (not that I use such a service, but many of my friends take advantage).

I prefer to pay an equally good independent garage's approximately one third of the price charges and also know that a thoroughly good, reliable service is being provided....:-)

 Fuming - DP
>> I only need to put a half finished cup on the coffee table and its
>> gone by the time I look to take another sip!

My mother-in-law is like this. I don't know how my father-in-law puts up with it.

We were staying with them for a while before we bought our first place, and I was sitting there one Sunday afternoon reading a book. The phone rang, and i went into the other room to answer it, putting the book down on the sofa. When I came back, the book had been tidied away. Thankfully, this obsessive behaviour didn't get passed down to her daughter.
Last edited by: DP on Tue 21 Nov 17 at 07:44
 Fuming - Pat
The answer of course any woman know.....is to tidy it up yourself before it gets too bad!

Pat
 Fuming - devonite
I have the opposite problem! - my missus has mild O.C.D, I know where to find everything, it's always in the same place! - when I fancy a bit of a change around, I come home to find everything back as it was!!
 Fuming - henry k
SWMBO recently went through a short phase of " I am only trying to help" and put things away.
Sadly all I could do is thank her and then secretly start the searches for the " missing" items.
After she had so many years as a stay at home mum it still seems strange that I am now in total control and it is now " Can you stay out of the kitchen when I am cooking" :-(
 Fuming - No FM2R
>>She knows she is not allowed to. All my case notes, each in a separate pile are now in one pile and not even in order. It looks like she has dropped them and just put them in a neat stack!!!! It is going to take me ages to get it back in the right order.

I would lose the plot. Utterly, utterly lose the plot.
 Fuming - henry k
>> I would lose the plot. Utterly, utterly lose the plot.
Calm down old chap.
I hope you never experience having to cope with these sort of events on a daily basis.
 Fuming - No FM2R
>>Calm down old chap.

I am calm, old chap. Dredge the depths and refresh yourself on the future conditional.

Last edited by: No FM2R on Mon 20 Nov 17 at 11:38
 Fuming - sherlock47
>> >>She knows she is not allowed to. All my case notes, each in a separate
>> pile are now in one pile and not even in order. It looks like she
>> has dropped them and just put them in a neat stack!!!! It is going to
>> take me ages to get it back in the right order.
>>
>> I would lose the plot. Utterly, utterly lose the plot.
>>

I do!
 Fuming - MD
I’m with Mark. Just stay away from MY stuff.
 Fuming - Ted

Keep away from my stuff, woman. They just don't understand about the things that are precious to men. We have separate bedrooms and mine is my mancave in the house. I don't want my stuff dusting or me books re-arranging. I know where all my important stuff lives.

She swore at me and called me 'a filthy pig' once 'cos I put a banana skin in MY bin. If we have visitors coming, MY stuff downstairs gets tidied away and I find it on my bed with the door shut. I feel she's trying to remove all traces that I live there.

I like bits of my black faux leather computer chair on my carpet. It's just as comfy and the bits don't affect my life one tuppeny fart... I don't want her to touch anything in the workshop except the freezer....it's all mine ! Big fuss yesterday when I tried to get her out of the warm lounge to help me with a little job. I just wanted her to watch a dial gauge while I turned the camshaft. After a moan she went and put her white anorak on. At that stage I said forget it and managed to do it myself. I'd have got a right good verbal spanking if the coat had got a bit of muck on it !

Grrrrr.
 Fuming - CGNorwich
Crikey!

What different lives we all live. We have always shared stuff. We each have our own interests but nothing in the house is "mine" or "hers" in that sort of way. I'm a bit more untidy than my wife but I sooner or later get to the stage when I have to sort stuff out. I can't live in a total mess and I am grateful if stuff is cleared up for me. In fact I went in the shed looking for some bin liners this morning and was amazed at the transformation. Everything in its place! Not quite how I left it last!
 Fuming - Dog
Howls about bank accounts .. wee have a joint (reefer-type) account - no idea how much is in it.

Had two months 'old age' pension (£160 pw) gorn in it, haven't seen it or spent it.
No idea how much 8 x £160 is even - I'll leave that to ewe brainy types.

Long as the bills are paid, the owse is warm, and I don't go Hungary, alls good.
 Fuming - DP
>> Crikey!
>>
>> What different lives we all live. We have always shared stuff. We each have our
>> own interests but nothing in the house is "mine" or "hers" in that sort of
>> way. I'm a bit more untidy than my wife but I sooner or later get
>> to the stage when I have to sort stuff out. I can't live in a
>> total mess and I am grateful if stuff is cleared up for me. In fact
>> I went in the shed looking for some bin liners this morning and was amazed
>> at the transformation. Everything in its place! Not quite how I left it last!

Much the same as my set up as well, I would say. The only difference from what you say is that sheds and garage are my responsibility as she, by her own admission "Wouldn't know where to start".

We both work full time and have two school age kids and 3 dogs, so house tidiness isn't a priority really for either of us, although mess registers on her radar a bit sooner than it does on mine.
 Fuming - Hard Cheese
We both work from home though she now in the part of the detached garage that I converted into an office for me five years ago, and I in the house as I am kind of semi retired and also out and about more.

The rest of the garage is my responsibility (except for the freezer and fridge) though she regular dumps stuff on the floor in there expecting me to find room for it ;-)

Otherwise in the house the HiFi, TV etc are my domain and I have my own drawers for cameras, binos, motorbike and sailing stuff etc, which are out of bounds, though the rest is pretty much shared. She'll moan about a pile of mags (no not dirty mags) or a cardboard box though will quite happily leave a sink full of dirty cutlery and crockery and stuff all over the kitchen, whereas I always clear up as I go when cooking.

 Fuming - No FM2R
>> We have always shared stuff

But not my office. I go in there to work. It is *not* a shared space.
 Fuming - CGNorwich
I used to work at home a couple of days a week as did my wife who ran a small online business. Shared the spare bedroom "office" no problem. I guess it's how territorial you are and how much you can give and take. How would you get on with sharing an office with a100 co-workers ?
 Fuming - VxFan
>> How would you get on with sharing an office with a100 co-workers ?

And operating a clean desk policy?
 Fuming - No FM2R
>>How would you get on with sharing an office with a100 co-workers ?

I guess I wouldn't mess with their stuff and they wouldn't mess with mine.

For example they wouldn't gather up all my papers and reorder them into a single pile.

Is there a better way?
 Fuming - Robin O'Reliant
>> Is there a better way?

I bet someone would smear ink on the earpiece of your phone though.

Not office, but factory floor related. It used to be very amusing to set fire to the bottom of someone's newspaper when they were engrossed in it.
Last edited by: VxFan on Wed 22 Nov 17 at 01:43
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