RAC

I LOVE the RAC.  NOT


They've rescued me twice now and have been very efficient.


A couple of weeks ago I got an email from them saying that my membership was up for renewal.


I HATE emails that tell me stuff like this?  Why can't they just send stuff out via 'snail mail'.  To access when my membership was up for renewal I had to click on a link and then enter a 'password'???


Perhaps I have signed up for a non paper option in the past but I haven't a clue what my password is???  ..........................So I just ignored the email.


And then...................... I realised I had a lot of 'Tesco' vouchers that needed using up so I thought I'd check and see if I could use them for me RAC membership - which I can.


To cut a very, very, very long story short..............................  I've now signed up for RAC 'roadside & recovery' which I think means that they will bring me home if I break down???


..................BUT...................... the actual process of actually signing up for this deal took forever.


It wasn't TESCOS fault.  Redeeming their coupons took a few mins and the confirmation email came through almost immediately.


RAC - I wish I could say the same.


It took me almost 45 mins to renew my membership using my Tesco vouchers, and I'm still not sure that my renewal date is going to be on my actual 'renewal date' because I had to enter a date that I wanted my membership to commence????  .................Even though it had said that a renewal of membership would commence on the renewal date???


Tried phoning RAC but all I got was a 'machine' and after pressing numerous buttons there was a message saying they were very busy and I should probably call back later????


Grrrrrr...........................


Obviously I don't think RAC have the best customer service in the world.

RingGo

To say I am furious is an understatement.

 

Today I had planned a long walk.  My long walk was going to take me quite a few hours so I arrived at the beginning of my walk and parked in a council run car park.  As I thought I’d be longer than 4 hours (but nowhere near 8 hours) I decided that I had better pay £5 for 8 hours parking as there didn’t seem to be an option for parking for times in between 4 & 8 hours.

 

The parking machine was right next to my car so I fed in a combination of coins to make £5.  Every single coin I put into the machine just got spit out again.  I tried other coins, I tried other combinations of coins…………..  Nothing worked.

 

Then I spotted a sign on the machine that said, ‘If this machine doesn’t work please use another one’.

 

Alarms bells should have started ringing then????  Obviously this particular car park often has problems with their parking machines???

 

Went to another machine.  Fed in £5.  Nothing happened.  It wouldn’t give me a ticket and it wouldn’t give me my money back.  Grrrrrrrr……………

 

Phoned the number on the machine which went straight through to an automated machine that wouldn’t let me speak to a real life person and only wanted to take money from my credit/debit card for parking.

 

Decided I’d better do this because I didn’t want to be issued with a huge fine because I hadn’t paid for parking.

 

The automated machine asked me for my car registration number.  Then it didn’t recognise it and tried to tell me I had another number plate.  After the third attempt it made me send a text message and phone it again.  Just wondering how much all this is going to have cost me when I get my mobile phone bill.

 

To park my car using RingGo took me about 20 mins and then when I’d actually done it the ‘automated machine’ said it would only take about 30secs the next time I wanted to park.  Well actually I NEVER EVER want to park in that car park again.  I NEVER EVER want to use RingGo again.

 

Why would I?  It take a few seconds to put coins into a machine and get a ticket.

 

Oh and it also seems that ‘RingGo’ charged me 40p for the privilege of paying with my mobile phone.

 

There is going to be a very strong email winging it’s way to the council concerned.

Why do at least two of the machines in the car park not work.

Why is there no telephone number to phone if the machines don’t work.

Why is there no car park attendant in situ to ask for help.

Why does it take so long to pay via a mobile phone.

Why have I been charged 40p for paying for a mobile phone

 

Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr……………………

 

I HATE RINGGO!!!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

When I get to 100???..............................

When I get to 100 RANTS I think I might go public???


Obviously as this BLOG is on the internet it is already very public.  Having said that nobody actually reads it.


When I say I might go public, I mean I might link it to my FB & twitter pages.  Obviously at this moment in time I haven't the foggiest idea how to do that???  There again; 10 years ago I don't even think the word 'blog' had been invented??


As a very untechie, like to think of myself as savy, 55 year old ranting middle aged spinster, I am very, very aware that even though no one is reading my blog at the moment when I'm posting stuff online it is available for the whole world to see.


After looking at my FB page my sister once said, 'I hope you don't do anything that gets you into the papers because the only pictures that anyone can find of you, are you holding a glass of wine.


.....................That pretty much sums up my life. LOL!!!!  I like wine.  I go out .  I post lots of photos on my FB page of me drinking wine.   And if the papers want to print those photos that's fine.  I doubt if I could stop them.


In 2015 we are all pretty much living our life in the spotlight.


Even if we're not on FB or twitter or any of the other social networking sites.........................  We'll all have been captured on CCTV, our lives are all on show should anyone want to track us down.


So as far as I'm concerned posting a few 'rantings' on Blogger is no worse than being captured on CCTV???


................BigBrother is watching you. LOL x

Soooooooooooo RANTY!!!

Just reading back on some of my blogs...........................


.........................I'm soooooooo ranty!!!!!!


OK, I gave this blog the title of 'Rantings of a middle aged spinster'...................  BUT  I didn't actually realise how 'ranty' this blog sounded until I read back on some of my blogs??  I only gave it this title because I couldn't think of anything more original.


I love ranting.  Perhaps I should list 'ranting' as one of my hobbies?  There again; who's interested in my hobbies?  At my age I don't actually think I'm going to be producing a fabulous new CV for a fabulous new job?  At my age, I just want to do my job during the designated hours, go home and forget about it.  And to be honest, I've never, ever, had a problem finding work before.  So even if I get sacked tomorrow morning, I know that I have the 'charm, wit & dazzling personality' to have found another job by tomorrow afternoon???


Anyway, I soooooo love my 'toilet roll rant'.  My toilet roll rant is fabulous.  It's my favourite rant!  I daren't leave this rant to see if I can post a link to my toilet roll rant because I might lose everything that I've written above???  I need to learn how to be more techie???


My goal in life is to achieve something?????


At 55 years of age I still haven't got a clue what I want to achieve?


I don't have a bucket list; what's the point?  If I drop down dead tomorrow.................... is there anything I wish I'd done?  No probably not.  And even if there were...............  would I know???  Of course I wouldn't because I'd be dead!


Actually.................................  Just writing this 'ranty' blog has made me realise ........................... that yes ........................ there is something on my 'bucket list'???


I'd like to be remembered for something???? ................................  Even if it is just being a 'Ranty Old Spinister'. xx

Bubble Witch Saga/Candy Crush

Like most of the people in the whole wide world - I'm on Facebook.


I seem to have been sucked into the whole 'selfie, I have to post how fabulous my life is', every two secs.


What I haven't yet been sucked into; is playing games on the internet???


Bubble Witch Saga and Candy Crush???????


I actually don't have a clue what Bubble Witch Saga and Candy Crush are??  ..........But I keep getting loads of requests on FB to play them???


Why on earth would I want to play games on FB?


How do I make these 'game requests' go away?


Every time I get one I click on the cancel button.


I have put posts on my personal FB page telling all my friends that I don't do online games.  And yet still I get notifications on FB inviting me to play these games.


In all fairness to my FB friends; I don't actually think it's them who are personally inviting me to play these stupid games.  I get notifications to play these games in the middle of the night when I know my friends will be asleep. I think when they started playing these games online they didn't read the terms & conditions properly and I think they now have an automatic invite thing to all of their FB friends once they reach a certain level.


It is sooooooo, soooooooo annoying though.


When I get a notification on FB I want it to be about something I'm interested in.  I certainly DO NOT want it to be asking me to play 'Bubble Witch Saga' or 'Candy Crush'??!!


It's still really annoying though.


And the thing that annoys me even more than being invited to play these games....................


..................Does nobody have anything better to do in 'real life' than sit in front of a computer screen and play a few games.


To me............................  that is the saddest thing about Bubble Witch Saga & Candy Crush!!!

You tube

I am an old OK middle aged ranting spinster.  I haven't a clue about why anyone would want to watch stuff on You Tube.  Just what is the attraction?  Why does anyone want to watch other people just chatting about normal mundane things?  Why does anyone want to read about the rantings of a middle aged spinster?  No I'm not on You Tube.


Staying with my 15 year old niece over Christmas has made me want to go into mega rant mode??!!


I can now totally understand how many people are stupid enough to think that they 'know someone' that they have only talked to/communicated with online etc etc.


Try as I might, I could not convince my 15 year old niece that she did not actually know the girlies that she follows on You Tube.  The most I could get her to do was admit that they are not her 'besties'.


But she really believes, that because they 'blog' everyday and talk about their lives on You Tube, that she knows them and knows everything about them.


OK; so I'll compare that to my crush on the popstars of the 1970s.  I kept scrap books of every picture I could find of my chosen crush.  Every time I found out a new fact about them, whether it was their favourite colour or what their first pet was called, I recorded it in my scrapbook.  I guess at the time I probably did think that I knew every single thing about them.


However, I was still grounded enough to know, that because I had never ever met them, I didn't actually know them in real life.  Sure I knew a lot of trivial facts about the mundane aspects of their life, but I knew that if I ever did meet them in real life and spend some time with them, I'd find out a whole lot more.


The worrying thing about my niece; is that she really believes that she knows these You Tuber girls in real life.  She doesn't seem to realise that she only knows what they have chosen to share with the whole world???
In today's world of internet, Skype, text, facebook, intergram, snapchat, twitter, etc, etc, etc, kids actually believe that they 'know' someone if they have communicated with them in one of the above ways?????  In fact, in today's world, it's the only way that some of them communicate with their so called friends.  In today's world kids can sit in their bedrooms and just have online communications with people and think that they're actually in a 'proper relationship'.


Todays world is a bit scary!!!


I could RANT about loads of things that I've mentioned in this post.  There's probably about five or six things that I've talked about that I could rant about, but obviously I won't because this rant is supposed to be about my naïve niece and You tubers!!!!


As mentioned above, I will freely admit that I know nothing about You Tubers.  But the thing I find really worrying is the fact that my 15 year old niece really seems to believe that she knows everything about these people's lives.


...................And nothing I can say otherwise will convince her that she doesn't!!!

Opticians

..............So today I went for an eye test.  Hadn't had one for a couple of years and as a 'very good ranting middle aged spinster', I like to keep all my health checks up to date.


I go to the dentists regularly, I always go for my smear tests, though I think I might stop doing this cos I absolutely hate it and I go to the opticians every couple of years.


Gone are the days when you just read a few letters on a board!


Trainee optician had to go through a load a questions with me first:


Trainee optician - 'What do you wear your glasses for?'


Me - 'Long distance stuff, driving, watching TV, walking the dog'.


Trainee optician - 'How often do you use a computer?'


Me - 'Haven't a clue.  I work about 28 hours a week & a lot of that time I'm on the computer'.


Trainee optician - 'I'll put down 3 hours a day'.


Trainee optician - 'Do you drive?'


Me - 'Yes'


Trainee optician - 'Do you have any hobbies?'


Me - 'Not really'.


................................Long silence!!!!!


Me - 'I walk for a couple of hours a day.  I've got a collie dog'.


And then 'trainee optician' made me look at a load of 'dots' through some stupid screen and then she took some 'photos' of my eye and asked me a load more questions about my family history, which was already 'on file'.


................And then she made me go and see the 'optician' who had all this information in front of her and who asked me the same stupid questions all over again.  And all the time I was thinking.........  I thought this would only take 10 mins and my hours car parking ticket is going to run out any minute???


And the optician told me that I hadn't had any new glasses since 2006?  Well actually I have because I bought some from 'Glasses Direct' in 2008, when I realised that I could get them for less than half the price.


However I have to admit, that because my prescription hasn't changed I haven't bothered to change my glasses.


And then she gave me the 'big sell' talk about how I could get an extra pair of glasses for half price, etc, etc, etc,.  I had a quick browse of the glasses on show and most of them started at £150 and that's not including the lens or anything else???


So I said, 'My parking tickets just about to run out.  Can I come back next week to choose new glasses?'


....................I will not be going back next week to choose new glasses and I will probably not be going back there for an eye test.


However, as a very conscientious middle aged spinster, I go for eye tests every couple of years, so I will go again in December 2016.


...................Probably not at the opticians I went to today.  LOL LOL LOL!!!!!


................And I will buy some 'very trendy glasses' from a cheap site on the internet???!!!!