I don't mind what we do

OK, so this weekend I have a friend staying.  The friend that is staying is a very old friend  OK not ancient in years but old in that I have know her since the start of secondary school  who I have known for years.  In fact I think I have known this friend since I was about 12/13 years old and now I am a 'ranting middle aged spinster' in my mid 50s.




Anyway she has come to visit me and it is sooooo hard to 'entertain' her.  In all fairness she did say that she didn't need to be 'entertained'??  And I'm sure she doesn't.  I'm sure she would be quite happy sitting in my house, playing on her ipad and reading her kindle, all day, every day for the four days that she is here.




I am the one who has got the problem??!!




If  'friends' say they want to come and visit then I assume that it's not only me they want to see.  I assume they also want to experience a bit about the local area,




If all my friend wants to do, is sit in my house and play on her ipad and read her kindle, then why has she bothered to leave her very comfortable home, massive compared to mine, travel hundreds of miles, stay in a house which is no where near up to her standards, just to do exactly the same as she would do at home.  Which as far as I can make out is not very much.  Don't get me wrong - if all my friend wants to do is 'play on her ipad' and 'read her kindle' in a different location; then I have absolutely no problem with this whatsoever.




Unfortunately, I'm a bit of a 'party animal' so when my friend said she wanted to visit I wrongly thought we'd be 'living it up' in town every night.  OK, I didn't think we'd be out every single night but I thought I'd be spending a little bit more time than I normally do going out and about.




NOT SO!!!


I know I'm a 'Ranting Middle Aged Spinster' but really.................  I just don't understand why anyone would pay hundreds of pounds to go away for a few days if all they are going to do is sit around watching 'Jeremy Kyle' and playing on an ipad all day?  I totally understand the 'change of scene' thing, the 'it'll be nice to have company' thing, the 'I'm in a different location thing.'


For me though (& I could be totally in the minority here); if I go away somewhere............ where I am staying is just a place to rest my head.  I might just be playing on my ipad  OK I won't be doing that because I haven't got an Ipad, I might want to 'chillax' a bit and do nothing.  But to spend 4 days doing 'nothing'?  NO I wouldn't want to do that.


If I had spent a lot of money on flights/taxis etc I'd want to do a lot more than just sit in a friends house watching trashy TV & doing exactly the same as I'd do at home??


There again................  I'm not married, I don't have kids, I do whatever I want to do, whenever I want to do it and I don't have to consider anyone else. 


I LOVE MY LIFE!!!


And, ACTUALLY, despite all the garbage I've written above;  I totally understand why someone would want to go on holiday to experience the life that I actually live every day.


I'm a very, very, very, lucky 'ranting middle aged spinster'.

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I am sooooooo angry.  I know I'm a 'ranting middle aged spinster' but this is just ridiculous???




Emailed Panasonic at the end of last week because I was having a lot of problems with my camera.  I filled in a 'contact us' form and was really impressed when I got a reply back the following day.




I have a few problems with my camera but one of the main problems was - smudgy marks were appearing on my photos and they seemed to be underneath the lens.




Very lovely 'Panasonic' people told me to take some photos with the sun behind me and email them the photos which I did.  Very lovely 'Panasonic' people then emailed me back saying that the ID number (which they'd quoted in their reply to me) wasn't valid.  Well it's the only number they've given me.  As I've been a bit busy over the weekend I've only just got around to replying to them.  It's Monday???  I got their reply on Friday thinking it was from a real live person.  It obviously wasn't because almost as soon as I sent them a message today I got the same reply saying that my ID no. wasn't valid????




This is sooooooooo annoying.


I've now had to re-write my whole complaint about my camera and re-enter all my personal details again (on the Panasonic contact form) just so that I know that Panasonic have actually received my message.


WHY, WHY, WHY, is it so difficult to actually talk to a real live person today????????

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!!!