Delivering full trailer of scaffolding (unfortunately, a curtain-sider) to a building site down a back lane in the middle of town.
Site guy is busy with a tele-handler but waiting for me to finish with the straps before he can finish. Got about 1 strap left when a car pulls up behind the lorry. Car driver winds window down and shouts…
CD……… Going to be long?
Me……… Dunno Guv.
CD……. Well, move your lorry – I need to get past.
Me……. Ok. Mate. No problem.
…………………
CD ……… I say…… NOW!
Me……… No mate… once I’m unloaded – then I move. Until then, you can have a bit of patience!
CD …… You are blocking to road. Move your lorry or I will call the Police!
Me …… Go for it.
………………
CD …… I’ve called the police. They will be here in a minute.
Me …… OK. No problem.
……………
Probably less than 5 minutes later everything is off, straps away and I’m good to go. So, I’m leaning against the back of the trailer, reading the paper.
CD …… What are you doing?
Me …… Reading.
CD …… Cheeky Sod……. Move your bl@@dy lorry!
Me …. Can’t, mate.
CD …… What do you mean…… “Can’t”?
Me …… Simple……… You said you had called the police. If you called the police then it will be logged on their system as a crime. That means, if I leave here before they get here, I am leaving the scene of a crime – a potentially serious offence. So, now, I can’t go anywhere until Plod arrives!
CD …… Pardon?
Me …. You heard. Can’t leave until plod arrives!
Driver looks flustered then blurts out….
CD …… I didn’t phone the police really…. It was a bluff!
Me …… Oh…… So you’re a liar!
CD …… Pardon? What did you call me?
Me …… I called you a liar! You said you called the police – now you are saying that you did not…. By your own admittance -you are a liar! So…… what am I supposed to believe now?
Two people winding each other up for no great reason. Could have been resolved amicably with the right attitude. Something that happens to some and not others.
jakethesnake:
Two people winding each other up for no great reason. Could have been resolved amicably with the right attitude. Something that happens to some and not others.
What wrong attitude? … and believe me… With the abuse I was getting, the right attitude might have been to drag him out of the car and kick the carp out of him!
Win-Stone:
Delivering full trailer of scaffolding (unfortunately, a curtain-sider) to a building site down a back lane in the middle of town.
Site guy is busy with a tele-handler but waiting for me to finish with the straps before he can finish. Got about 1 strap left when a car pulls up behind the lorry. Car driver winds window down and shouts…
CD……… Going to be long?
Me……… Dunno Guv.
CD……. Well, move your lorry – I need to get past.
Me……. Ok. Mate. No problem.
…………………
CD ……… I say…… NOW!
Me……… No mate… once I’m unloaded – then I move. Until then, you can have a bit of patience!
CD …… You are blocking to road. Move your lorry or I will call the Police!
Me …… Go for it.
………………
CD …… I’ve called the police. They will be here in a minute.
Me …… OK. No problem.
……………
Probably less than 5 minutes later everything is off, straps away and I’m good to go. So, I’m leaning against the back of the trailer, reading the paper.
CD …… What are you doing?
Me …… Reading.
CD …… Cheeky Sod……. Move your bl@@dy lorry!
Me …. Can’t, mate.
CD …… What do you mean…… “Can’t”?
Me …… Simple……… You said you had called the police. If you called the police then it will be logged on their system as a crime. That means, if I leave here before they get here, I am leaving the scene of a crime – a potentially serious offence. So, now, I can’t go anywhere until Plod arrives!
CD …… Pardon?
Me …. You heard. Can’t leave until plod arrives!
Driver looks flustered then blurts out….
CD …… I didn’t phone the police really…. It was a bluff!
Me …… Oh…… So you’re a liar!
CD …… Pardon? What did you call me?
Me …… I called you a liar! You said you called the police – now you are saying that you did not…. By your own admittance -you are a liar! So…… what am I supposed to believe now?
Win-Stone:
Delivering full trailer of scaffolding (unfortunately, a curtain-sider) to a building site down a back lane in the middle of town.
Site guy is busy with a tele-handler but waiting for me to finish with the straps before he can finish. Got about 1 strap left when a car pulls up behind the lorry. Car driver winds window down and shouts…
CD……… Going to be long?
Me……… Dunno Guv.
CD……. Well, move your lorry – I need to get past.
Me……. Ok. Mate. No problem.
…………………
CD ……… I say…… NOW!
Me……… No mate… once I’m unloaded – then I move. Until then, you can have a bit of patience!
CD …… You are blocking to road. Move your lorry or I will call the Police!
Me …… Go for it.
………………
CD …… I’ve called the police. They will be here in a minute.
Me …… OK. No problem.
……………
Probably less than 5 minutes later everything is off, straps away and I’m good to go. So, I’m leaning against the back of the trailer, reading the paper.
CD …… What are you doing?
Me …… Reading.
CD …… Cheeky Sod……. Move your bl@@dy lorry!
Me …. Can’t, mate.
CD …… What do you mean…… “Can’t”?
Me …… Simple……… You said you had called the police. If you called the police then it will be logged on their system as a crime. That means, if I leave here before they get here, I am leaving the scene of a crime – a potentially serious offence. So, now, I can’t go anywhere until Plod arrives!
CD …… Pardon?
Me …. You heard. Can’t leave until plod arrives!
Driver looks flustered then blurts out….
CD …… I didn’t phone the police really…. It was a bluff!
Me …… Oh…… So you’re a liar!
CD …… Pardon? What did you call me?
Me …… I called you a liar! You said you called the police – now you are saying that you did not…. By your own admittance -you are a liar! So…… what am I supposed to believe now?
When I worked on Palletforce, I often had to make home deliveries, sometimes of heavy pallets. There was one place, a guy running a business from his house on a narrow dead-end road that was also a bit of a hill.
Dragging his two pallets uphill was not on so I drove in so that I was facing up. The hill was fairly steep, so I lifted the rear suspension to make it a reasonably gentle slope and then down with the tail lift, open the shutter and roll pallet one onto the lift.
“Are you going to be long?” Posh bloke in a suit standing right at the back of the lift.
I drop the pallet on the floor and suggest that he moves away for his own safety. Now, my normal reaction to silly sods like him is to become excessively polite and to explain at length why standing downslope from a half-tonne pallet on wheels is a bad idea and why I am not going to move straight away.
I get the first one off and go back up for No two and he loses it with a tirade of threats and how he will report me to the police, the licencing Authority and of course, my employer. I ■■■■ a deaf ear and just plod on, going as slow as I can.
I have just got my notes signed and am loading two empty pallets on board when a cop car draws up. When I see a young PC, I think that I am going to have trouble, but after a short explanation, he sends me on my way, which means driving to the end of the road and making an eight-point turn to get out again. and the last I see of him is talking to the suit who is waving his arms about in a somewhat agitated fashion.
I had a small experience of impatience yesterday. one of my drops has a parking area where the bins are 2 transits and its full so I pulled up beside the bins there was plenty of space to the side of me to get round. in fact there were 2 long wheel base vans and a electric thing pulling a train of wheelie bins behind it that got past easily. I did my drop and was just getting back into the cab when this irate driver that had been there 30 seconds asked me why the f I was parked like that as no one could get past. I couldn’t be bothered to point out what had got past and just said well im going now. His reply well are you going. Got in the cab and pulled down a bit to turn round and stopped waiting for him to finish manovering so I could get out. What’s he do no more than reverse into where I was and drop a 20 foot metal bin/skip thing there then drive off. I managed to drive past it with ease being a snowflake that craps himself if there isn’t 3 foot either side spare its saying something.
Win-Stone:
Delivering full trailer of scaffolding (unfortunately, a curtain-sider) to a building site down a back lane in the middle of town.
Site guy is busy with a tele-handler but waiting for me to finish with the straps before he can finish. Got about 1 strap left when a car pulls up behind the lorry. Car driver winds window down and shouts…
CD……… Going to be long?
Me……… Dunno Guv.
CD……. Well, move your lorry – I need to get past.
Me……. Ok. Mate. No problem.
…………………
CD ……… I say…… NOW!
Me……… No mate… once I’m unloaded – then I move. Until then, you can have a bit of patience!
CD …… You are blocking to road. Move your lorry or I will call the Police!
Me …… Go for it.
………………
CD …… I’ve called the police. They will be here in a minute.
Me …… OK. No problem.
……………
Probably less than 5 minutes later everything is off, straps away and I’m good to go. So, I’m leaning against the back of the trailer, reading the paper.
CD …… What are you doing?
Me …… Reading.
CD …… Cheeky Sod……. Move your bl@@dy lorry!
Me …. Can’t, mate.
CD …… What do you mean…… “Can’t”?
Me …… Simple……… You said you had called the police. If you called the police then it will be logged on their system as a crime. That means, if I leave here before they get here, I am leaving the scene of a crime – a potentially serious offence. So, now, I can’t go anywhere until Plod arrives!
CD …… Pardon?
Me …. You heard. Can’t leave until plod arrives!
Driver looks flustered then blurts out….
CD …… I didn’t phone the police really…. It was a bluff!
Me …… Oh…… So you’re a liar!
CD …… Pardon? What did you call me?
Me …… I called you a liar! You said you called the police – now you are saying that you did not…. By your own admittance -you are a liar! So…… what am I supposed to believe now?
I will leave to TNUK to work out how it ended!
Im sure I wasnt alone in feeling like I was sitting in an RDC waiting room when I read that…
