What cheeses me off

[Quickstatus]

floor

Shock horror there is a 13th floor

 

[VPS]

Hotels that don’t make it obvious which floor is reception. The upper lobby, lobby, lower lobby or maybe the mezzanine?

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You have to read the screen at eye level to find out which one.

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Enjoy Adelaide

 

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Enjoy Adelaide

RADelaide.

 

[JohnK]

I'm probably in the wrong but luckily no damage that I can see.

Two lanes merging with a huge Merge Right sign. The lane markings stop after the Keep Clear and if I'm not mistaken the car ahead has right of way?

We stopped at light, I'm in kerb lane. Car in middle lane takes off clear and I also take off. The second car in middle lane is slow and I'm 2 car lengths in front. I put blinker on and started to merge right at or past the Keep Clear sign. The dopy lady in the middle lane behind accelerated (I'm really struggling to understand why and what they were trying to achieve) and hit my right rear quarter panel with the front left of her car.





She was adamant I was in the wrong. How? Im in front of you and I'm merging right and you accelerated. She maintains I hit her with my rear quarter panel. No I didnt. You hit me.

Luckily no damage on either car. Or none that I can see.

Who has the right of way when merging QLD?


If you must cross a marked broken line to merge into the next lane, then you must give way. In the second situation where two lanes of traffic merge, and there are no line markings on the road, then you must give way to any vehicle that is ahead of you.

 

[fly2earth]

RADelaide.

I was going to say that. Also SquareDelaide (given how everything is inside a 1 km radius square)

 

[Pushka]

I'm probably in the wrong but luckily no damage that I can see.

Two lanes merging with a huge Merge Right sign. The lane markings stop after the Keep Clear and if I'm not mistaken the car ahead has right of way?

We stopped at light, I'm in kerb lane. Car in middle lane takes off clear and I also take off. The second car in middle lane is slow and I'm 2 car lengths in front. I put blinker on and started to merge right at or past the Keep Clear sign. The dopy lady in the middle lane behind accelerated (I'm really struggling to understand why and what they were trying to achieve) and hit my right rear quarter panel with the front left of her car.

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She was adamant I was in the wrong. How? Im in front of you and I'm merging right and you accelerated. She maintains I hit her with my rear quarter panel. No I didnt. You hit me.

Luckily no damage on either car. Or none that I can see.

I reckon you are in the right here. And what is it with cars that speed up like that!

 

[JohnK]

I feel like hitting head against the brick wall.

Trying to sign in to Bet365. Won't accept my password 4-5 times. Forgot password, enter email address and they send code and reset password. Make password exactly the same as old password. Sign in without problems.

This whole security thingy is out of control. It's annoying. ANZ the other day didn't even allow me to sign in. You must change password now. Why are you forcing me to change? I don't want a new password. I don't want to remember a new password. So I've had to adapt to their ridiculous rules and I have the same core password and cycle through the suffixes with digit/special characters.

 

[JessicaTam]

I reckon you are in the right here. And what is it with cars that speed up like that!

I agree. When there is no dotted line to show which lane is ending the cars should just merge based on who is ahead. If there are multiple cars then it is like a zipper. The woman behind you @JohnK should have given way.

 

[Pushka]

I feel like hitting head against the brick wall.

Trying to sign in to Bet365. Won't accept my password 4-5 times. Forgot password, enter email address and they send code and reset password. Make password exactly the same as old password. Sign in without problems.

This whole security thingy is out of control. It's annoying. ANZ the other day didn't even allow me to sign in. You must change password now. Why are you forcing me to change? I don't want a new password. I don't want to remember a new password. So I've had to adapt to their ridiculous rules and I have the same core password and cycle through the suffixes with digit/special characters.

Do not get me started on passwords. Oops. Too late. Another case. You sign in with a password you know is correct. Nup. Computer says no. So you reset. Reset It with the same password that just failed. Nup. You can't use the same password.

And the worst culprit? Qantas Business Rewards account.

 

[JohnK]

I agree. When there is no dotted line to show which lane is ending the cars should just merge based on who is ahead. If there are multiple cars then it is like a zipper. The woman behind you @JohnK should have given way.

Thanks @JessicaTam. Im sure I was right but the other lady was adamant I was in the wrong.

And it's now 30 years since my last at fault (very minor) accident.

WCMO is that I cannot report this incident to my insurer because they'll consider it a loss, even though not my fault, and more than likely add a loading to next year's premium.

 

[dajop]

but the other lady was adamant I was in the wrong.

Just following the rule that in an accident never admit fault. Fulfilling her obligation to her insurer.

 

[Quickstatus]

She was adamant I was in the wrong

Ill add my vote into the @JohnK is right.
Merging does not mean give way - as per Qld rules (and elsewhere), merging = give way to traffic ahead of you
As the damage is on her front of car and yours at the rear - the insurers will quickly decide in your favour as well

 

[JohnK]

Disturbing to think we are sharing J facilities with passengers of this calibre.

Money or social status do not equate to class.

I cannot believe that our company had to send a company wide email (more than once) for staff to not squat on toilet seats as the mess was left laying around. Is this what these people do at home? Awful.

P.S. dad was a cleaner at a flexibles packaging factory in the 70's and the things he had to clean in the toilets was unbelievable. Some were doing it on purpose because he was a “wog” trying to earn a living to raise his family.

 

[andye]

Thanks @JessicaTam. Im sure I was right but the other lady was adamant I was in the wrong.

And it's now 30 years since my last at fault (very minor) accident.

WCMO is that I cannot report this incident to my insurer because they'll consider it a loss, even though not my fault, and more than likely add a loading to next year's premium.

I'd support you getting a not at fault claim given she hit the back of you

 

[JohnK]

I'd support you getting a not at fault claim given she hit the back of you

Thanks but there is no damage to either car which surprised me.

And knowing my luck the right rear quarter panel is going to drop off one of these days.

 

[prozac]

Thanks but there is no damage to either car which surprised me.

And knowing my luck the right rear quarter panel is going to drop off one of these days.

You want to self report to make sure she does not lodge a belated claim, leaving you holding the baby.
I recall an instance when an old friend of my mother's was entering a local busy road from essentially a one way situation. So because the cars travel on the major road at speed he went wide entering the corner to make sure he would then enter the lane obliquely. He is looking right, fine, no traffic, go. He collides with a young woman who has slipped up his left side. They agreed to leave it to the insurance companies. Next thing, police are knocking on his door and he gets charge with negligent driving. The young woman (not a lady) had reported to police with an alternate story that benefited her position.
Always consider that many people will not be as straight forward as you are.

 

[JohnK]

You want to self report to make sure she does not lodge a belated claim, leaving you holding the baby.

Yes I thought about that scenario but as mentioned I really do not want a loss recorded on my policy as that stays 3-5 years with loading.

I'm not sure she actually took any details. Not that I saw anyway. If she has dash cam she's clearly in wrong. I've got photo of her number plate. Could be an interesting one but she's still in wrong regardless of how she tells the story. I was ahead of her and there are no lane markings.

 

[Pushka]

Yes I thought about that scenario but as mentioned I really do not want a loss recorded on my policy as that stays 3-5 years with loading.

I'm not sure she actually took any details. Not that I saw anyway. If she has dash cam she's clearly in wrong. I've got photo of her number plate. Could be an interesting one but she's still in wrong regardless of how she tells the story. I was ahead of her and there are no lane markings.

Maybe just report it to the Police. Likely can do it online. That should cover anything and won't alert insurance company.

 

[VPS]

A car park in Melrose Scotland - 50p to park or download the app - I had no change and you can't download the app unless your iphone region is UK - FFS. Some nice person ended up giving me 50p - the smallest I had was 10 pounds

 

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A car park in Melrose Scotland - 50p to park or download the app - I had no change and you can't download the app unless your iphone region is UK - FFS. Some nice person ended up giving me 50p - the smallest I had was 10 pounds

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I had the same issue in Canada with all the various parking apps around the place, annoying. Some of them had an alternate QR code option which would load up a webpage for you to go and pay that way.