[Drivingforfun]

Just wondering if anyone has any funny ones they've heard to share?


I read some reviews today for a holiday property we are looking at staying in

Somebody mentioned that the television in the rear lounge was a smart TV, but the television in the front lounge was only a normal TV with a DVD player

Obversely I found this the most useful review as it kind of suggested that the property was perfect

[Rolebama]

I have come across a few of a particular type. Asked to give a review of a tv, freezer or whatever, and people give 1 star because the courier was rude/unkempt/abrasive etc. No mention of the equipment.

[Mark07]

A former holiday rep once told me that they dealt a family who complained about the food during their stay at an all inclusive resort.

In particular, the hotel served "Spanish bacon"... they were in Spain.

[Mark07]

Originally Posted by Mark07

A former holiday rep once told me that they dealt a family who complained about the food during their stay at an all inclusive resort.

In particular, the hotel served "Spanish bacon"... they were in Spain.

The same person told me that they'd occasionally need to manage complaints about the weather e.g. if it rained, or was cloudy. Good luck fixing that.

[Rolebama]

Around 1990 there was a concert at Wembley where the lasers were depicting two circles onto the clouds. (Like the Mysteron signals in Capt Scarlet for those that remember him.) Anyway at around midnight I got a call from our Command and Control Centre asking me if I could see any UFOs from where I was. I explained what the lights were. About 1am I went to C&C to sort out a few bits and the calls were still coming in about these UFO sightings. Turned out callers had swamped the 999 switchboard so people started calling the AA. About UFO sightings?! What did these people think we were going to do?

[Mark07]

Originally Posted by Rolebama

[...] people started calling the AA. About UFO sightings?! What did these people think we were going to do?

😂😂😂

I love this!

[NMNeil]

Originally Posted by Mark07

A former holiday rep once told me that they dealt a family who complained about the food during their stay at an all inclusive resort.

In particular, the hotel served "Spanish bacon"... they were in Spain.

It might be valid.
In the UK bacon is a slab of meat with some fat in it, here in the US bacon is a slab of fat with a little meat in it. We can get UK style bacon here and it's sold as Canadian bacon, so not all bacon is created equal. 😁

[NMNeil]

@Rolebama I live in Roswell, so every time there was something in the sky, no matter how easily explained the PD switchboards would light up.
Of course I would be sent to respond to the call as I was an alien, albeit a legal one. 🤣

[Rolebama]

Back in the 70s, we had a guy who pushed his new motorcycle into the workshop saying it wouldn't start. He had picked the bike up on the Saturday, and his Dad, who was an electronics expert, had fitted an ammeter on the Sunday. After fitting the ammeter the bike refused to start. It was all our fault, as we had sold him a lemon. They had used telephone wire of the single strand type to wire in the ammeter, which couldn't even pass enough current to produce a spark.

We had another guy who demanded we collect his new bike because when his mate, who was apparently a helicopter technician in the RAF, checked it over, we had obviously not done a proper pre-sales check. On inspection I found: Battery filled to the brim with whatever fluid, making the battery useless. Engine hydraulic locked because it was full of oil. Tyre pressures at 65 psi front and rear. Front forks filled with oil rendering the front suspension inoperable.

Both these instances were blamed on us, and of many other instances, these were the two who wrote scathing complaints to the BMF, who, although they don't have any actual authority, can broadcast to their members affecting reputations and sales.

[NMNeil]

@Rolebama When working in the car repair field we would have cars delivered on the back of a trailer with a no start condition.
I'd find and fix the problem and often, when the customer started the car he would say "It did'nt sound like that when it bought it in" 🙄
But if you want some automotive horror stories. (It's worth subscribing)

[Rolebama]

I know that one: "You fitted a clutch, now the brake lights don't work." "You changed a fuel pump relay, now the indicators don't work." etc etc...

[olduser]

Back on the holiday complaints.

For a while, I lived in Norfolk, the house we were renting was well back off the road down a long drive.
There were bungalows along the roadside mostly holiday lets.
This area was a popular stop and rallying point for migrating birds, wild geese came for the summer feeding and breeding.
Early one Sunday morning we woke to banging on the front door.
At the door I found a very irate man, shouting about the noisy (wild) geese in the field behind the bungalow he was renting. (It was the start of the breeding season for wild geese)
He obviously wasn't local, so in an effort to quiet him, I asked him about his holiday, to find he was here for two weeks from the city to be close to nature...

[NMNeil]

September 1st is the start of dove hunting season, and without fail at sunrise we would get multiple calls from visitors to Roswell claiming that a war had broken out with all the gunfire. 🤣

[Rolebama]

During the 1968 Foot and Mouth outbreak, I was in North Wales at a training camp. Because of travel restrictions, we weren't allowed to travel to the usual ranges we used for annual rifle classification. Upshot was we had somewhere in the region of 400 men, all firing 179 rounds apiece, on the camp small arms range. As you can imagine, it was pretty noisy. There were a lot of complaints from not just the two girl's schools in close proximity, but even from coach loads of tourists passing the camp on the main road.

[Rolebama]

On a different note, where I live, we are pretty much surrounded by trees. I was walking to the local shops when I was stopped by some lady neighbours, one of whom I knew. She introduced me to the other two as the longest living in the area, therefore, I should be able to answer their question: "Who do we complain to about the bird noise?"

[Bella079]

That’s hilarious! It’s funny how little details can make a big difference. I once read a review where someone complained about the "lack of Wi-Fi" in a cabin, but it turned out they were in the middle of the woods—perfect for a digital detox 🤣