Moving out could entail a commute of more than one hour; it used to take my OH two hours door to door in the morning and again in the evening – and that was when the trains ran on time and weren’t cancelled. He frequently had to stand for the 40 min (ha! it rarely was 40 mins) into Padders.
You say your job is great with amazing career prospects. Personally I would keep my head down, work for a little longer and get the opportunities which will mean better jobs.
My daughter absolutely loathes London, but lives there because she couldn’t stand the commute from the home counties. She has to be in central London for her career. She lives not quite 5 miles from her job and it takes her 40-50 mins commute.
@red-1 @happyclappy I don’t care what my car looks like, but I can understand that some people do like expensive/shiny cars and want to keep them that way.
I am more pissed off that the bar steward who did it didn’t have the honesty/courtesy to leave a note on my windscreen telling me what they had done and how to contact them, than the damage itself.
I get that. My first car (an old Mondeo) got keyed badly at Aberffraw on Anglesey years ago. The damage didn’t bother me, but the fact that someone, for no reason, decided to key something that it had taken a while for me to save up for really bothered me.
Contrast to a few years back when I came down off Craigellachie into Aviemore. A young German couple approached me and told me they’d put a big dent (cosmetic, not structural) in my car with their camper van, and had been to the police station to report it. I told them I didn’t care, and didn’t want to claim for the damage. I admired the fact that they were so honest and clearly upset. I chatted to them and we went our separate ways all in a happy mood.
On the 27th. Dec we had cause to call our GP’s surgery. Following consolation with one of the GPs we were advised to call for a paramedic, which we did. A fully kitted-out ambulance arrived and spent two hours with us. Nothing was too much trouble, the potential seriousness of the situation was accepted by the ambulance staff and the service, complete with God knows what by way of an array of equipment and printouts, which was something which no GP could have provided.
Was the call-out needed and would the sufferer have come through without the attention of a medic? In my view, they certainly would. The ambulance crew were insistent that the call had merit and completely swept away any need for any apology for waisting their time, with both assuring us that on the day before, they’d been called out to a guy with a hangover.
I wonder if we had to pay directly for the service of our health care professionals, if we’d be so quick to make that call. As someone else suggested earlier, we do because we can and because the service free. Time that the time wasters were charged for the often needless attention which they demand?
