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[katica]

Oiling trumpet valves on way to school (son announced he was playing with school orchestra in local festival this morning (IMG:style_emoticons/default/ohmy.gif) ) when we noticed that one of the water valves was stuck - trumpet is only 7 months old, so I'm not impressed. So I sat in the school car park bleary-eyed, dismantling it with my nail file. Found the spring inside had rusted. After much oiling and persuasion, got it all cleaned up and ready to reassemble, when PING! off flies the spring into the nether regions of my car. Gah! Drove home cursing, and praying the repair shop would be open. Thankfully after calming down have now located spring and fixed valve, but nerves are shot...

I need to lie down in a darkened room.

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Hope it was all worth it and the festival performance went well. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)

[Misterioso]

OH is demolishing a wall right above my study / music room. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/blink.gif)

The hammering, bangs and random thumps are doing my head in. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/wacko.gif)

Hope it's all worth it in the end..... (IMG:style_emoticons/default/huh.gif)

[Scooby Doo]

Oiling trumpet valves on way to school (son announced he was playing with school orchestra in local festival this morning (IMG:style_emoticons/default/ohmy.gif) ) when we noticed that one of the water valves was stuck - trumpet is only 7 months old, so I'm not impressed. So I sat in the school car park bleary-eyed, dismantling it with my nail file. Found the spring inside had rusted. After much oiling and persuasion, got it all cleaned up and ready to reassemble, when PING! off flies the spring into the nether regions of my car. Gah! Drove home cursing, and praying the repair shop would be open. Thankfully after calming down have now located spring and fixed valve, but nerves are shot...

I need to lie down in a darkened room.

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Hope it was all worth it and the festival performance went well. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)

Yes, all sorted, thank you, and worth it to see look on his face when I turned up with it all fixed. Apparently there is a known fault on these trumpets and the nice man in the repair shop has replacements somewhere, if he can just locate the right plastic bag.....

[Pianotastic]

I could write out the long aaargh I just posted in a similar topic on another forum, but having posted that lot I realised one word would sum it up nicely.....


Parents........aaaargh! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/mad.gif)

[Tenor Viol]

6.30 am, central starts. 6.31 shrill high-pitched banshee wail starts from central heating cupboard. My suspicion is failing bearing on a pump of some description.

6.45 am. Phone BG with whom I have a service contract.
- Yes, we can call between midday and 6pm on Monday (IMG:style_emoticons/default/blink.gif)
- Sorry, under what aspect of "provide a customer service" does that come? I have no hot water and no heating.
- I am sorry, but we have prioritised elderly and medical emergencies (sorry - I didn't ring the ambulance service?)
- What you're really telling me is that you don't have enough staff to provide the requisite level of cover. Failure of central heating system is not a standard service call.

... etc.

I know from previous "discussions" with them that there's often only about two or three engineers covering most of Shropshire. So if you have say calls in Ludlow, Shrewsbury and Oswestry, you're only going to cover three calls in an entire working day given the time to travel between those places. (The last service I had, the engineer's next call was Ludlow which is an hour's drive by car from here.)

Seems if you live in a rural area you pay the same fees but get a second rate service.

[TSax]

Seems if you live in a rural area you pay the same fees but get a second rate service.

I've had that in London too

[Pixie*Porsche]

Can remember when I was younger, my mum and dad had a really dodgy boiler ... plumber they used was really busy and every winter you could guarantee he wouldn't be available for a fortnight! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/ohmy.gif) It was that frequent a thing that parents kept three kettles in the house for when we had no hot water ...

Don't get me started on the gas emergency too, lol!

Is it in your contract that they'll send someone out within so long when you call? Including weekends.

[Cyrilla]

Grrrr to people who make nasty, snide little comments..

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[Louise H]

Seems if you live in a rural area you pay the same fees but get a second rate service.

I've had that in London too

Ditto.

I 'sacked' BG a couple of years ago because I was fed up with poor service and utterly fed up with the zillions of marketing calls trying to sell me other services multiple times a month. Now have a friendly local company who come and service the boiler once a year who don't try and tell me there's lots of work needs doing to it.

[Tenor Viol]

Update

After two hours of sucking air and scratching head, decided that they need to completely dismantle the boiler. To do that they need to replace the gas seals, which they don't have in stock. So, I need to be home all day Friday as it will take them about half a day and will need two of them to do it..

[Swell Box]

A visit to B&Q. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/sad.gif)

I visited our local B&Q yesterday, and having selected a few items I approached the checkouts. All of the tills were closed, so I was directed to one of the automated checkouts.

Firstly, I had several identical items, but it wouldn't let me scan one seven times; I had to scan each one individually, and place it on the scales before I could scan the next one. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/sad.gif)

Secondly, I had a curtain rail which wouldn't stand up on the scales, so I had to wait for a human being before I could move on. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/mad.gif)

Finally, I had a tube of Evo Stick. The operator had to be called again to check that I was over 18. (I am, by a considerable margin.) The lady explained that some people buy adhesives to sniff solvent, and that it makes them "completely out of it". (IMG:style_emoticons/default/mad.gif) (IMG:style_emoticons/default/mad.gif)

I would never, ever, condone solvent abuse, but just for s split second, at that very moment, sniffing glue seemed like a very good idea. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/sad.gif)

SB

[katemorrisviolin]

My daughter has lost her clarinet a month before her grade 5 exam. After 5 days of frantic searching, I asked her teacher if she could borrow a spare beginner music service one while we keep looking. "It would be better if you found her clarinet" she says. AAAARRRGGGHHH! Why didn't I think of that!

Swellbox, I feel your pain, I hate self-service check-outs. They are no-service checkouts. I want to be served!

[Tixylix]

Had to get up early to take OH to the dentist and didn't get any caffeine beforehand, meaning I wasn't properly awake and spent most of the bus ride there with blurred vision and slurred speech - don't like looking like I'm drunk at 8am in public.

OH has to make decision between root canal or extraction for a tooth and dentist apparently isn't allowed to tell us what she thinks should be done because they have to give the options and let the patient decide. I'm all for patient-centred care but it can be frustrating when it's an area you really know nothing about so you don't know if you're making the right decision. Thankfully OH's mum is a dental nurse so we might be able to get a more definite answer from her.

[Aquarelle]

OH has to make decision between root canal or extraction for a tooth and dentist apparently isn't allowed to tell us what she thinks should be done because they have to give the options and let the patient decide. I'm all for patient-centred care but it can be frustrating when it's an area you really know nothing about so you don't know if you're making the right decision. Thankfully OH's mum is a dental nurse so we might be able to get a more definite answer from her.

What exactly does "root canal" mean ? I don't quite understand what your dentist wants to do. I have just been offered the choice of a crown if the dentist can manage to get the infection which made the original crown come off, a bridge, which means taking out the offending root, and mucking up the teeth on either side and will probably last about ten years- or an implant at just under 2000 euros ! but at leat my dentist explained it all and said the best option for the moment would be the crwn on condition she can clear up the infection. And she says that will be a long job but she thinks we should try.

[sbhoa]

My daughter has lost her clarinet a month before her grade 5 exam. After 5 days of frantic searching, I asked her teacher if she could borrow a spare beginner music service one while we keep looking. "It would be better if you found her clarinet" she says. AAAARRRGGGHHH! Why didn't I think of that!

Swellbox, I feel your pain, I hate self-service check-outs. They are no-service checkouts. I want to be served!

How do you lose a clarinet?