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Post by goldelox on Mar 8, 2014 10:25:40 GMT
Hi cobden I once had a girl on the phone say, 'Slight problem with your joint bank account, could I speak to your husband'
bah!
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Post by scorp on Mar 8, 2014 15:54:27 GMT
That was always the correct form for addressing a married lady, cobden - she only regained her own forename initial when widowed! I think it will eventually die the death.
I wonder why people will insist on adding the County, often not even the right one, to postal addresses. Postal Counties were abolished in 1996... some of the counties vanished thirty years before that, e.g., Middlesex.
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Post by cobden28 on Mar 10, 2014 21:46:45 GMT
I know it used to be considered correct to address a married lady with her husband's initial and surname, it's just a dated practice that pees me off considerably and which I personally find more than slightly offensive. The way I see it is that I didn't change my christian name by deed poll so why do others do it for me? I've been dropping polite hints and telling people outright ever since we got married and I have to say that very few people do use this archaic form of address nowadays, thank goodness! When it comes to addressing mail, I checked up with the post office what the correct address for our house is and I always use that. The only person who doesn't is my sister-in-law! Our problem with the post is that there are three roads in our locality with the same street name, but they're in different post towns with different post codes. SIL addresses mail to us with the district of our post town but not the name of the town itself and she never uses the postcode.....says the mail has always got through even with an incorrect address so doesn't see why she should change !
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Post by Guest on Mar 11, 2014 7:28:38 GMT
I had to smile when I read cobden's preference for the use of her own Christian name rather than her husbands because, recently, I was given a very severe telling-off by a lady for doing just that!
A couple of years ago I made a short film about Group Captain Hugh Verity and his widow, Audrey, was very helpful. In the credits at the end of the film I put her down as Mrs Audrey Verity. She was very upset saying she should have appeared as Mrs Hugh Verity, "otherwise people will think we were divorced".
Same issue - opposite approach. Vive la difference!
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Post by scorp on Mar 11, 2014 12:00:21 GMT
When it comes to addressing mail, I checked up with the post office what the correct address for our house is and I always use that. The only person who doesn't is my sister-in-law! Our problem with the post is that there are three roads in our locality with the same street name, but they're in different post towns with different post codes. SIL addresses mail to us with the district of our post town but not the name of the town itself and she never uses the postcode.....says the mail has always got through even with an incorrect address so doesn't see why she should change ! I'd be tempted to RTS a few, marked 'Insufficient address'!
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Post by ARENA on Mar 11, 2014 15:47:28 GMT
Cold calling
We get lots of companies phoning us. Mostly young girls talking 16 to the dozen, in French. Relentlessly following a script. I used to get angry (it was usually when I was working....train of thought and all that) I now leave them talking and at inappropriate times say, 'oui'. They begin to get confused and hang up..
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Post by Deleted on Mar 11, 2014 16:07:37 GMT
Junk mail. Tons of it.
In Canada you go and collect your mail from a central point and under the bench is a recycling box. As a result they don't get a lot of junk mail.
I got to grips with the problem a few years ago when things came in envelopes. I would put the insurance literature in the holidays envelope and vice versa and so on, seal them and put them back in the box marked return to sender. I stopped getting it after a while as I think they had to pay postage.
This is almost a 'Room 101' thread.
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Post by ARENA on Mar 11, 2014 19:29:54 GMT
It's Room 101....with a distinctively Aussie title
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Post by scorp on Mar 13, 2014 8:32:07 GMT
Almost as bad - it's the room where you encounter The Worst Thing In The World - tailored to your particular hates and fears...
It's also a rather silly TV format.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 13, 2014 8:55:11 GMT
Almost as bad - it's the room where you encounter The Worst Thing In The World - tailored to your particular hates and fears... It's also a rather silly TV format. Silly, but quite entertaining, depending on the quality of the guests.
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Post by ARENA on Mar 13, 2014 9:40:46 GMT
I rather enjoy the humour of Frank Skinner. As you say JJ the guests make it or not!
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Post by Deleted on Mar 13, 2014 10:36:37 GMT
Queue Jumpers.
OK, sometimes if I only have one or two items I will ask 'can I go ahead of you' but I hate the people that just assume they can barge in.
A very long time ago I used to shop on a Saturday with my (ex now, whoopee!) wife in a small town. A weekly shop trolley load. One day a woman came into the queue in front of us and the checkout girl said 'you don't mind if she comes first do you' then proceeded to put the other persons shopping though and engage in a conversation with her, as she was obviously her friend.
I said 'not at all, but perhaps you would like to put this lot back on the shelves when you have finished' , left the trolley where it stood and walked out.
However there is a twist in the tail/tale. There were only two small supermarkets in the town, and the woman who had barged in worked in the other one! So I had rather shot myself in the foot, but heigh ho, there were other towns and other shops.
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Post by Prue on Mar 13, 2014 12:18:05 GMT
Good on you JJ (and I hope you don't have to go too many million miles for your weekly shop these days!).
In supermarkets I also hate the pushy pigs who take their over-loaded trollies stuffed full to the brim to the express (12 Items or less) checkouts.
And pushy pigs who barge onto trains/into lifts without giving the current occupants a chance to to get out first.
When this happens to me I always "apologise" coldly: "Sorry! Am I in your way?" I suspect the pushy pigs don't get it, but I've scored the odd appreciative snigger from fellow rudely-treated punters.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 13, 2014 12:22:15 GMT
We tend to be a well ordered people us Brits.
Not so in other countries. I don't know if you have ever shopped in Holland but early morning waiting for the bread is an experience. My companion on one trip complained that she would come back from the shops bruised! (I was contentedly sipping a coffee down the street)
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