The vent

Yeah I did not mean to imply that you were as irresponsible as I can be at times. If you are already living on a tight budget even little things can throw you completely off track, and you have a child to care for as well, and that is expensive as well... hope you can get back on your feet within the next couple of months.

Deutsche Post are still idiots.

Carry on.

FFS. All you people in Munich are minging with germs. I never get colds. I go to Oktoberfest once and get a stinky cold. Then I come up on Saturday and now I have another cold. Like a big steaming cesspit of bugs you lot.

Jonny its the french they were sitting real close to you.

some people are quite useless in the world. you nicely ask them to do something (that is mutually beneficial so not just for you) and of course they can't.

Hey Fallen Angel, go to a training salon like Vidal Sassoon and ask to be a hair model. You'll get a great haircut for a great price.

nope, you pay here in Munich, you pay less, but you still pay if you are a hairmodel.

I'm not sure if I should post in Family Life or The Vent on this one. What kind of F**king country is this? I simply cannot get over the morons I meet in shops and businesses in this bloody country.

A shop that sells kids furniture in Haidhausen, it's called Kindermoebel. We should start an award scheme on TT for shops and businesses that we come across who have obviously gone to the East German School of How NOT to win friends and new custom.

München-Haidhausen
SALTO - Möbel für Kinder
Preysingstrasse 39
81667 München-Haidhausen
www.kindermoebel-muenchen.de

Anyway my little one is three years old, she passes this shop on her way home from Kindergarten everyday. Last week we were in there and she was loving all the stuff, the big soft polar bears on the bunk beds etc... She was climbing up on the things (no shoes) not doing any damage just being a typical 3 year old child. The lady in the shop was fine with it and even gave my little one a reflector for her backpack.

Today as we are coming past my little one wants to go in and have a look. No problem, daddy is cool with that; we enter the shop and are looking at the chairs just inside the window... my little one likes the pink chairs, so I'm thinking of getting that for her birthday in November.

Over walks Mr.Owner and asks me if he can help me? "No thankyou we are only having a look around" was the reply. Then Mr. Owner says that he is closed today and asks me if I would mind leaving?

WHAT?? The door is wide open? There is no sign that says "Montag, ruhetag" or "Heute geschlossen" what gives?

Finally to add insult to injury, he tells me "We are a business not a Kindergarten, we sell childrens furniture" (duh) "I understand that your child feels comfortable in my shop but we would prefer if you did not bring her in here"

Okay now when I was in college and studying marketing and how to win customers etc... I learnt that we did everything we could to win customers, can anyone shed any light on this for me? What is it with the mentality of these people? This is just plain wrong. Of course I mention it to "Her in doors" when I get home and who does she side with??? Me?? You've got to be kidding! Sometimes I think she's turned into one of the Bosch herself.

This is certainly not the way to encourage people to come and buy your furniture.

The guy is in business he operates his business in an area with a high concentration of children passing his windows everyday. The area is quite afluential. If I was in his shoes I would have a sign on my door saying please come in and bring your children, have a coffee and put your feet up.

I would have the complete catalogue of furniture on every table and be talking to mum and dad about payment plans etc for my TOO BLOODY expensive kids furniture.

We need to have a labeling system in this town for shops run by morons. AAAAAARRRRRRGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!

Royal Fucking Mail. Useless bunch of lazy left wing tossers. If you don't like your pay and conditions fuck off and get another job without making everyone else's life a pain in the arse.

agree with JE...my fucking expenses have not arrived yet at sky TV

Agree, and I just know the strikes are gonna delay my Canada Visa application.. grrrrr

I got stuff I shipped on the 2, 3, 4th of this month and the punters are wailing at me. Makes my company look shite and I dunno quite what I am supposed to do? Ship it all again with UPS whilst I wait for Royal Mail to get their shit together. Tossers.

i really cannot stand my roommate!
she and my job are in the same category.

Goddammit.
I need an Arbeitgeberbesätigung form and I cannot find one at all. Not on the Arbeitsamt website, not on the KVR website and not by Googling it. Every one that I have found has the name of a different German state on it.
Argh!!!

Are you sure that's what it's called? It's probably this

I am pissy today for so many reasons..

1. I forgot my wallet, thus had to borrow money for lunch and have no Monatskarte with me
2. S-Bahn was 20 minutes late AGAIN today since someone decided to jump in front of a train (can't they do that at night time and not during rush hour? Sheesh)
3. No one at work feels the need to answer any of my emails or phone calls. A simple "I'm on it" would do.. then I wouldn't feel like the biggest loser writing AGAIN: "sorry if I'm bothering you but I need that info right FUCKING now!"

Ugh. What's next?

Sweetie, you know I love you, but this 3-nights in a row getting up in the middle of the night and waking me up and then not being able to get back to sleep again, is making me a very tired and cranky man.

Which hospital provides the operation on insurance agents that renders them inable to understand the word "no"? Pimply youth half my age tried to convince me that I can take out a Riesterrente contract after I told him three times that I 1) am not interested, 2) I have enough pension coverage, 3) I don't have the financial means. Spiky-haired jerk.

It sucks. Not being able to speak German really sucks. Makes me feel so helpless every time I have to ask my workmates to make a phone call to my bank for me or something like that. I felt stupid today when Deutsche post staff laughed at me because I wanted to buy a stamp to post an letter with an 'Antwort' envelope. Didn't know that those don't need an stamp. I have seen myself slowly reduced to a helpless baby because of this language deficiency.AAAAAAAARRRRRRRGGGGGGHHHHHHH!!!

I have had the crappiest day. After making my visitors breakfast & cleaning up (as I have done for the last week & they are not even part of my family) after them I was on my way to the shower for some time away from them & the door bell rings at 8:45 in the morning. It is someone sent to "re-grout" our tile around the shower. Ok. No notice what-so-ever! At this point everyone in the apartment except for me has had their shower. Did I mention that I was the only one that did anything that morning. Waiting on them like a f'ing servant because they are too stupid to take care of themselves. He then tells me that noone can shower until tomorrow morning. What???!!! Did I mention that my MiL took the last piece of Stollen from yesterday's breakfast (kind-off hiding it for myself). She honestly had enough nerve to take MY piece of Stollen & then carry on about how many calories are in beer... I hope that the butter that she put on the top of it is what clogs an important artery. Now, I am counting the hours until I can shower & just get over the whole issue.

I am short, it's a fact. That's why I don't put my things on high shelves. People who put my things on high shelves deserve to be flogged.

effing heating has been turned off all day. We are freezing our arses off in the office. grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

I hate it when I'm pissed off and angry. Instead of laying into my colleagues with a crowbar, I end up going to Saturn at lunchtime and buying stuff...

Bah!

I am tall, it's a fact. That's why I don't put my things on low shelves. People who put my things on low shelves deserve to be flogged.

This is part of the BMW cost cutting initiative, didn't ya know?

I discovered today that I lost my MVV monthly ticket for October at the Wiesn on the last Sunday. That means I will either have to

- ride schwarz for the rest of the month (providing the S-Bahn is running)
- or pay €10 per day (Tageskarte Gesamtraum)
- or drive to work (no other option Thursday/Friday this week anyway!)
- or drive to the closest P+R, pay €1 parking and €6,70 per day (XXL Single Tageskarte)

Unfortunately, going on sick leave with a persistant cold is not an option.
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As it was a transferable ticket I have no chance of getting a replacement.

Ignoring the moral issue (that has been done to death), Schwarzfahring on the S-bahn is a bad idea, if you're only taking U-bahns the chances of getting caught are a lot slimmer but they check all the time on S-bahns.

I used to get checked almost weekly on the S5 when I worked out of town.

i just had to open the window its so warm in here

i am pissed off however that my german house mate complains all the time about kitchen mess i am sure he is imagining... mega pedantic.

also that i should have dried my feet more thoroughly before walking from shower to room. despite that i cant see the water droplets either.

True, my daughter uses the S1 a fair bit and she says she gets controlled fairly regularly.

I want to vent and I darent.

But you fuckers know who you are...

You fucking annoy me!

If you agree to do something you don’t all of a sudden a week before the deadline inform the people counting on you that you are no longer going to do it. I don’t care what your reason is, if you commit you do it or give proper notice.

One word.

PUNCTUALITY.

Is it out of fashion? What happened to saying five minutes early is punctual? What happened to respecting people and getting your fat f**king arse in to the meeting on time rather han making me waste 15 minutes each day doing doodles.

Maybe a 3 day ticket would be cheaper (for Mon-Wed next week)?

do you have a subscription or a receipt for your purchase? the MVV may be so kind to give you a substitute?/Dir eine Ersatzkarte auszustellen?

From the regulations.


They are Innenraum only, as far as I can tell. I live in the Speckgürtel. Nah, driving it is. But thanks for the suggestions, I hope you have reclining clouds in Heaven.

Stop. Fucking. Talking. Already.
It sounds like a Jack Russell being throttled with a Speak & Spell.

3 days so far without my mobile phone due to a defective sim card (?) and the newly ordered card will arrive on Friday when I'm outta town.
bah

My smart card for cable tv is defekt again for the second time in 2 months. no tv for 1 week

Ha! I'm not pissed about anything at the moment!!

Expletive call-center! You ask me for the Social Security Number of your member, you get it plus the other information you ask for, then you turn around and tell me the information is invalid as the member is dead. Exactly! I am calling on behalf of the beneficiaries. You know, the guys who want the money you have hoarded since 1946. Oberknuts®

Please can my competitors STOP trying to fucking sue me all the time. This is the 3rd bunch of muppets this year. Can't you all just fuck off and concentrate on actually doing some frigging sales rather than trying to bash the competition with pointless legal bollox. I can only imagine I have the tossers running scared.

Speedos should be outlawed! Nobody but trained swimmers look in them... the beach is full of old german and russian men with hairy big beer bellies in tiny speedos! Argh!

I'm absolutely fizzing. Just had some little upstart go on about Britain:

1) The people are quite poor and therefore cant go out to restaurants. and "i mean, in every small german village there are restaurants"
2) engineers earn a third of what they do in germany. WTF? i dont think so
3) quality of life in britain is "MUCH LOWER" (gestured by pointing to ground) than in germany

woopdiefucking doo. god im raging!!!! how fucking offensive!!! i would never roll on about things i dont like in germany to a german!!! >:(

Did he also mention how much better the German supermarkets are by any chance?

The best response is to look down your nose at him and, conjuring your best Leslie Phillips or Terry Thomas voice, exhale a "Yees" in that demeaning way they have and walk off. There is, of course, no point in arguing as it is a matter of opinion, so spoil his fun and walk away. They hate it. A German mate of mine used to say to me "You are such an arrogant nation with nothing to be arrogant about." And the correct answer was "Yes, we are, aren't we?".

i will know that for next time. no mention of supermarkets

in fact, next time i will just be prepared with things like "you're supermarkets are fucking crap" and "in fact, you are fucking crap". i need a one liner.

while at it i will be sure to mention the war. stereotype answer eh. all i managed was a cheap shot about east germany.

fuck sake im still livid!!!

I like to just nod my head, and say very calmly "Hmm... you could be right"... and then walk away. Leaves them speechless, which is the point, after all. I just want them to shut up.

Tell him its true. And in parts of liverpool/glasgow/belfast/sheffield they sell the placenta of new born babies to earn money for bread. In fact from the money you earn here you've bought an island in Scotland and are now Schotte McPowerful , Laird of all the isle Kanncee!

I was just thinking about this thread and didn't want to look it up, but since it just popped on my screen I'll post.
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hhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh utter shite! Feck it all!

Saw IV is out in the UK already but not out here until February next year bah! will need to wait until I'm home at Xmas to watch it, if it's still on at the pictures then, it's not the most christmassy film!