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 Post subject: Re: Gripe of the Day
PostPosted: Tue May 30, 2017 12:06 pm 
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 Post subject: Re: Gripe of the Day
PostPosted: Tue May 30, 2017 12:35 pm 
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bloodnock wrote:
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"It's ok, he's never ever been sick in a Taxi"



oh look there's a squadron a flying pigs :lol:


Have any of you ever managed to get the full and going LA rate from an up-chucker? It's a £70 Valeting fee up here but the most i've successfully redeemed is £40.00, trouble is you've no leverage to get them to pay up.


Had a few over the years - got a lot-lot more than I did not. On one occasion I picked up 3 students with one of the girls really looking the worse for wear. I pointed out that if she chucked it was £50....yeah alright drive. We got to the end of the journey and up it came, as you can imagine I was livid. My request for the £50 was met by a fit of giggles from the puker - which really wound me up, followed by we have not got the money - drive. We were on the campus so I took my mobile out and started taking pics, only to be asked as to what good that was going to do? My retort was that I will be back in the morning to show the Principal what has happened, to show him/her that you are unprincipled people - stating that most probably this will be entered into your CV, which will not be good reading. Immediately one of them wanted the nearest cash point - a result.

I guess the point being is......you have to have a plan "B", i.e. I have even asked for the puke money up front with the persistent "He/she never pukes drive", ok not a problem but just to cover the bases money up front. Only once did I ever get the money up front - the rest walked away.

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 Post subject: Re: Gripe of the Day
PostPosted: Tue May 30, 2017 9:05 pm 
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bloodnock wrote:
"It's ok, he's never ever been sick in a Taxi"

And as he is not getting in my car then that proud record can continue.

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 Post subject: Re: Gripe of the Day
PostPosted: Tue May 30, 2017 9:37 pm 
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bloodnock wrote:
edders23 wrote:
bloodnock wrote:
"It's ok, he's never ever been sick in a Taxi"



oh look there's a squadron a flying pigs :lol:


Have any of you ever managed to get the full and going LA rate from an up-chucker? It's a £70 Valeting fee up here but the most i've successfully redeemed is £40.00, trouble is you've no leverage to get them to pay up.

Yes i did when ours was £80.00 and one of our drivers had one at the weekend. The fare was £50.00 and the soiling charge was £100.00 They paid the money straight away and the driver brought the car to our garage where my son gave it the full deep clean (we have the right gear for this) and the driver was back on the road in the spare car within 30 minutes.

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 Post subject: Re: Gripe of the Day
PostPosted: Wed May 31, 2017 3:07 am 
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bloodnock wrote:

Have any of you ever managed to get the full and going LA rate from an up-chucker? It's a £70 Valeting fee up here but the most i've successfully redeemed is £40.00, trouble is you've no leverage to get them to pay up.


Yep, if they look ropy they don't get a ride. I'm then met with, I'm reporting you what's your badge number? I give them my badge number and tell them to phone the council.


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 Post subject: Re: Gripe of the Day
PostPosted: Thu Jun 01, 2017 3:53 pm 
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A two car job, you get there first, they're all going to the same place, when you drive off the other car hasn't arrived, you get to the destination and the passengers say "you will have to wait for the other car as they have got the money".

Thankfully this has only happened twice in nearly 20 years.

Still annoying.


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 Post subject: Re: Gripe of the Day
PostPosted: Thu Jun 01, 2017 3:54 pm 
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You pull up outside a house, after waiting a couple of minutes someone comes to your car and says "we won't be long, we'll ONLY be a couple of minutes".

They say it as though you've got nothing better to do.


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 Post subject: Re: Gripe of the Day
PostPosted: Thu Jun 01, 2017 3:58 pm 
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Nidge2 wrote:
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Fat people who get in the back using one door then struggle to shuffle their lard árses over to the other door instead of walking round the outside.



Yeah there's 2 doors but they always want to shuffle over. :lol: :lol: :lol:


I had a couple the other week, he's sat behind me, she's on his left. We get to their house and I pull upto the kerb (on the left), their house is on the left, he jumps out of the car into the road and instead of getting out of her side of the car she shuffles over and gets out of the car and into the road to then walk behind my car to their house.

Some people are as thick as fcúk.

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 Post subject: Re: Gripe of the Day
PostPosted: Thu Jun 01, 2017 6:06 pm 
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Southport PH wrote:
Fat people who get in the back using one door then struggle to shuffle their lard árses over to the other door instead of walking round the outside.
Then there's the double shuffle. First pass gets in, shuffles across, as they do so the other pass walks round the other side and the first pass has to shuffle back again to let them in !

And the triple shuffle. As above but when the second pass gets to the other side realises the first pass has shuffled across so goes back round the other side, as they do so the first pass shuffles back to where they got in, but then has to shuffle back once more to let the other pass in !!

It's the three 20st blokes who all cram in to the back leaving the passenger seat empty I don't get ? :? :?


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 Post subject: Re: Gripe of the Day
PostPosted: Sat Jun 03, 2017 2:27 pm 
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fifa bods trying to drop hints that England should bid for the world cup :roll:

we've got no chance and it could cost 10's of millions of pounds to find that out #-o

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 Post subject: Re: Gripe of the Day
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edders23 wrote:
fifa bods trying to drop hints that England should bid for the world cup :roll:

we've got no chance and it could cost 10's of millions of pounds to find that out #-o

Shouldn't be to expensive now the main bribe takers have gone.

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 Post subject: Re: Gripe of the Day
PostPosted: Sat Jun 10, 2017 9:09 pm 
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When your front seat passenger is so fat you need to put on a latex glove to release the handbrake :shock:


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 Post subject: Re: Gripe of the Day
PostPosted: Sun Jun 11, 2017 12:20 am 
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Idiots who stand there with the door open when it's lashing it down.


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 Post subject: Re: Gripe of the Day
PostPosted: Sun Jun 11, 2017 9:12 pm 
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Nidge2 wrote:
Idiots who stand there with the door open when it's lashing it down.
And then wind the window all the way down after they've got in, usually in the middle of winter when its raining.


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 Post subject: Re: Gripe of the Day
PostPosted: Sun Jun 11, 2017 9:18 pm 
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Women with loads of bags that rather than put them in the boot, or the back seat, must have them in the front seat where they are sat.


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