Roast Grumpy Old Thread II - the grumpiness continues

[Emma12]

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My worst was at a Grand Final - can't remember which but in the early 90s. I parked at 6am as I was working in the media. Once the media gig ended, about an hour before game time, I went looking for my car. I don't go to GFs unless we are playing. By now the car park was full. I had lined up my car with a landmark but was now all out or whack. Took me two hours and only found it because two coppers came past on bicycles and I told them I thought my car was stolen. They started riding up and down the rows and found it. I was about 100 metres away.

My wife lost our car when she & a friend went to Geelong shopping back in the pre mobile phone days, I was wondering why she was late getting home
Turns out they were looking in the wrong car park which the police kindly told after she contacted them to report the car stolen

 

[Twinkletoes]

Don't get me started on losing cars in bloody car parks!!!

In the early 80’s my folks took me and a mate to see Simon and Garfunkel at VFL Park. Concert finished around 11pm with 65,000 ish in attendance. At 11.05pm they switched all lights off in the carpark with 65,000 zombies (including us) left to wander aimlessly around in the dark for several hours in search of the elusive car.

 

[Hojuman]

My ex boss had the cops ring her at work one day as they had her husband quite distressed about his stolen car from Camberwell market.

She said; " l have the car and l dropped him off in Burke rd. at 8 a.m.and he caught the tram there "

 

[Samsquanch]

Courier arrived and to be honest, spoiled the surprise Christmas present I was getting from my family...

 

[danj]

PM appoints new special envoy to south-east Asia – as it happened

This blog is now closed

www.theguardian.com

FFS, it’s déjà vu all over again

 

[Gasometer]

Worked at the Airshow one year and left around midnight. This poor P Plater wanders out of the semi dark asking if someone could drive around the car park and help him find his car. I offered up and after about 10 minutes we found it right down the back in the dark. He had been wandering around looking for it for 3 hours and was exhausted with it all. Poor bugger was so happy when we found it.

 

[Only Forwards]

Worked at the Airshow one year and left around midnight. This poor P Plater wanders out of the semi dark asking if someone could drive around the car park and help him find his car. I offered up and after about 10 minutes we found it right down the back in the dark. He had been wandering around looking for it for 3 hours and was exhausted with it all. Poor bugger was so happy when we found it.

Car parks are interesting.

Disney, at their parks, have cars park in a specific way that is timed. So if you get there at 9:15 am and don’t know where you parked, they will be able to tell you.

Pretty decent customer experience baked into an efficiency gain.

Disney is actually a pretty good case study into efficiency. In their parks you are never more than a certain distance from a rubbish bin. This is because they studied to see how far on average a person would carry rubbish. And then put their bins in a away that meant you’re basically never more than that away from one. Keeps the parks cleaner and the staff have to do less work. There are many more examples of this. The mouse may be evil but he’s also efficient at it.

 

[ferball]

Car parks are interesting.

Disney, at their parks, have cars park in a specific way that is timed. So if you get there at 9:15 am and don’t know where you parked, they will be able to tell you.

Pretty decent customer experience baked into an efficiency gain.

Disney is actually a pretty good case study into efficiency. In their parks you are never more than a certain distance from a rubbish bin. This is because they studied to see how far on average a person would carry rubbish. And then put their bins in a away that meant you’re basically never more than that away from one. Keeps the parks cleaner and the staff have to do less work. There are many more examples of this. The mouse may be evil but he’s also efficient at it.

Efficient evil is scary.

 

[Only Forwards]

Efficient evil is scary.

Money is their driver for everything.

They measured practically everything to work out how to cut the cost of it.

 

[koshari]

Worked at the Airshow one year and left around midnight. This poor P Plater wanders out of the semi dark asking if someone could drive around the car park and help him find his car. I offered up and after about 10 minutes we found it right down the back in the dark. He had been wandering around looking for it for 3 hours and was exhausted with it all. Poor bugger was so happy when we found it.

That was us at the ute muster one year, only it wasnt the car but 2 cars a caravan and a camper. Got in and set up early, then went to check out the stage, birds of tokyo came on which were awesome them it was dark and all the area was full. Walked round for few hours before we found camp.

 

[blackshadow]

That was us at the ute muster one year, only it wasnt the car but 2 cars a caravan and a camper. Got in and set up early, then went to check out the stage, birds of tokyo came on which were awesome them it was dark and all the area was full. Walked round for few hours before we found camp.

And you were literally blind drunk!

You don't go to the ute muster to stay sober!

 

[danj]

Car parks are interesting.

Disney, at their parks, have cars park in a specific way that is timed. So if you get there at 9:15 am and don’t know where you parked, they will be able to tell you.

Pretty decent customer experience baked into an efficiency gain.

Disney is actually a pretty good case study into efficiency. In their parks you are never more than a certain distance from a rubbish bin. This is because they studied to see how far on average a person would carry rubbish. And then put their bins in a away that meant you’re basically never more than that away from one. Keeps the parks cleaner and the staff have to do less work. There are many more examples of this. The mouse may be evil but he’s also efficient at it.

I have a couple of carpark stories, one involving waking up in the back seat of an old EH Holden (in immaculate condition) owned by ma and pa kettle as they were driving home from the pub where I’d been putting the polish on a huge day of wine tasting in the Rutherglen region, tried to walk back to my motel through the pub car park and mistook their vehicles back door for front door to my room (obviously) I woke up, sat straight up and said ‘hello’, oldies never missed a beat ‘we’ve got three sons of our own, we understand’ drove me back to where I was staying, lovely!

My other story involves a coat hanger and 4 bored carpark attendants during the break at a Pink Floyd concert….enough said

 

[blackshadow]

My other story involves a coat hanger and 4 bored carpark attendants during the break at a Pink Floyd concert….enough said [emoji850]

You’ll have to share that one next time I see you.

 

[koshari]

And you were literally blind drunk!

You don't go to the ute muster to stay sober!

Might have had a couple.... However we were pretty much sober by the time we found our setup.

 

[Lomas]

In the last 24 hours I have had to reset/fix my parent's TV and internet, my kids' ipads, our TV and my staff members laptop.
I don't mind doing it for my folks, but aren't teenagers and young people all supposed to be tech savvy? I feel like my generation have peak technology maintenance responsibility with the least access and usage.

 

[DaveyBoy123]

In the last 24 hours I have had to reset/fix my parent's TV and internet, my kids' ipads, our TV and my staff members laptop.
I don't mind doing it for my folks, but aren't teenagers and young people all supposed to be tech savvy? I feel like my generation have peak technology maintenance responsibility with the least access and usage.

For all that to occur within 24 hours, I'd hope that you either have just switched internet providers or had a blackout.

Why I'm grumpy today: It's 2 weeks from summer and 11 flipping degrees. We can't even get to a predicted maximum of 14 FFS.

 

[Lomas]

For all that to occur within 24 hours, I'd hope that you either have just switched internet providers or had a blackout.

Why I'm grumpy today: It's 2 weeks from summer and 11 *ing degrees. We can't even get to a predicted maximum of 14 FFS.

The internet had to be reset at home, may have been the storm, my parent's are old and want to get ready to watch the one day internationals later this week and think that the laptop is the internet, and my staff member tried to do a Zoom call from the desk at work and didn't realise that the laptop camera doesn't work when it is docked and closed.
Unfortunately these are not rare events.

 

[Samsquanch]

I might start a happy old bugger thread...

 

[Nate7]

I might start a happy old bugger thread...

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Late for a pub lunch?

 

[Samsquanch]

Late for a pub lunch?

Parma special ended at 1PM

My father in law got a double bonus. Two waived fines from the same intersection.

 

[koshari]

I might start a happy old bugger thread...

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The missus is in the process of challenging a 0.5sec red light infringement. Here's hoping her outcome is similar to yours.

 

[Samsquanch]

The missus is 8n the process of challenging a 0.5sec red light infringement. Here's hoping her outcome is similar to yours.

I hope.

The Frankston pubs intersection was set up with speed and red-light cameras but the speed limit was changed and signage was inadequate initially. Seriously though, 40 along the dual carriageway is crazy - imposed to allow for a few cafes to have tables set out on the footpath and in the former parallel parking lanes.

Anyway, I did another bad thing and the refund will be forfeited so ultimately, I'm still grumpy.

 

[koshari]

I hope.

The Frankston pubs intersection was set up with speed and red-light cameras but the speed limit was changed and signage was inadequate initially. Seriously though, 40 along the dual carriageway is crazy - imposed to allow for a few cafes to have tables set out on the footpath and in the former parallel parking lanes.

Anyway, I did another bad thing and the refund will be forfeited so ultimately, I'm still grumpy.

Come drive down the "ahum freeway" between garfield and bunyip. Lovely divided carraigeway with full shoulders on either sides and an equally impressive 80kmh limit. In the good old days before it was duplicated and had gravel shoulders it was 100kmh. Go figure?

 

[Gasometer]

I might start a happy old bugger thread...

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Skylar White or Mrs Redacted?

 

[Samsquanch]

Skylar White or Mrs Redacted?