What cheeses me off

[MARTINE]

Just No. but it's kind of clever. I guessed civilian.

Yes
One from the Elon Musk school of naming offspring

 

[Bundy Bear]

WCMO
Went to Woolworths to pickbup a $500 apple gift card the points from Wooleorths landed in 1 hour but the card didn’t work, left it to the next day then phoned apple, after uploading pictures I then had to upload a 2nd time
Don’t lose anything until the money is there
The envelope
The card
The docket from supermarket to say loaded
The receipt with the credit card details.
Eventually well next day rexeived an email with another code but had to be manually added by apple support
2 phone calls, 45 minutes and 25 minutes and finally there $500 on the apple account

 

[Pushka]

Catriona is another name. I have to admit to getting that one wrong . Just to myself until I heard someone else say her name.

 

[drron]

A WA visitor this week was telling the Coles worker her name was Jessica. She had been asked how you spelt it as her CC had first name and surname on it. By coincidence when driving out of the car park I followed her car. A WA plate JEZ1KER.

But I never ceased to be amazed at the names people give their children.
The carpet layer whose surname was Wall so he called his son Walter.
Or the single mother with the surname Pipe whose son was Dwayne. She then had triplets and called them Timmy, Tammy and Tommy.

But I always remember a sprightly 95 year old who was born in 1905 and had the name Attracta. I asked who gave her that name. Well her dad was a farmer whose children were all born at home. He named the kids after the first thing he saw when he looked out the window. So her given name which she tweaked a little was Tractor and her brother Plough.

 

[Pushka]

A WA visitor this week was telling the Coles worker her name was Jessica. She had been asked how you spelt it as her CC had first name and surname on it. By coincidence when driving out of the car park I followed her car. A WA plate JEZ1KER.

But I never ceased to be amazed at the names people give their children.
The carpet layer whose surname was Wall so he called his son Walter.
Or the single mother with the surname Pipe whose son was Dwayne. She then had triplets and called them Timmy, Tammy and Tommy.

But I always remember a sprightly 95 year old who was born in 1905 and had the name Attracta. I asked who gave her that name. Well her dad was a farmer whose children were all born at home. He named the kids after the first thing he saw when he looked out the window. So her given name which she tweaked a little was Tractor and her brother Plough.

Oh there are lots of funny stories about naming your children by the first thing you see after birth and cannot repeat here.

 

[love_the_life]

Northern Euro version. Were they euros?

Not that I am aware of but interesting information - thanks.

 

[love_the_life]

Oh there are lots of funny stories about naming your children by the first thing you see after birth and cannot repeat here.

Not related to the first thing you see, but still on names, my grandmother went through life as Mable not Mabel as her mother intended - father filled out the papers and thought it rhymed with table so would be spelt the same.

 

[love_the_life]

Catriona is another name. I have to admit to getting that one wrong . Just to myself until I heard someone else say her name.

and I remember when I was young (some many years back that is) - we were studying The Odyssey for English Lit and for the life of me I could never pronounce Penelope - kept calling her Pennyloap.

 

[Pushka]

Not related to the first thing you see, but still on names, my grandmother went through life as Mable not Mabel as her mother intended - father filled out the papers and thought it rhymed with table so would be spelt the same.

That's funny. Mums name was Valda but her father put Dalda on the birth certificate. She didn't find out the error until she needed her birth certificate to marry.

 

[prozac]

That's funny. Mums name was Valda but her father put Dalda on the birth certificate. She didn't find out the error until she needed her birth certificate to marry.

Shouldn't have had that drink before going down the registry office.
MrsProzac's sisters name ends in 'ene but was registered as 'een'. She was an adult before the mistake was unearthed.

 

[p--and--t]

At the place I used to work at I saw a many a customers uncommon name details come through.

One that comes to mind - William Walter WARREN.

Aka: WWW

Wondered if his parents were into internet addresses.

 

[love_the_life]

That's funny. Mums name was Valda but her father put Dalda on the birth certificate. She didn't find out the error until she needed her birth certificate to marry.

And my grandfather was always known as William Alfred. When I got a copy of his birth certificate for family history it turns out he was William Batt (interestingly the surname of his sister's husband).

But to get back on topic, WCMO is the woman was who was standing chatting to someone at Baker's Delight, then walked straight up to the counter bypassing the people who were already waiting, and to make matters worse she was served (the young lass didn't have a handle on who was next in the queue). I did mutter about waiting your turn.

 

[Pushka]

Shouldn't have had that drink before going down the registry office.
MrsProzac's sisters name ends in 'ene but was registered as 'een'. She was an adult before the mistake was unearthed.

He was a totaller. A strict Methodist. But somewhat deaf from war service.

 

[VPS]

He was a totaller. A strict Methodist. But somewhat deaf from war service.

I think you mean a teetotaller

 

[Pushka]

I think you mean a teetotaller

I swear iPad is starting to do my head in with its thinking that it knows what I want to type, and do type but it changes it without me noticing.

WCMO. iPad auto correct and auto think.

 

[RooFlyer]

My grandfather had a son with his first wife and they named him Harry. He had another son with his second wife and named him Harry too.

So the first Harry became known as George of course. Was only ever called George throughout his life. He only discovered his real first name when he enlisted in the army and had to get a birth certificate. But he still kept on being called George.

 

[Pushka]

And my grandfather was always known as William Alfred. When I got a copy of his birth certificate for family history it turns out he was William Batt (interestingly the surname of his sister's husband).

But to get back on topic, WCMO is the woman was who was standing chatting to someone at Baker's Delight, then walked straight up to the counter bypassing the people who were already waiting, and to make matters worse she was served (the young lass didn't have a handle on who was next in the queue). I did mutter about waiting your turn.

Oh yes. I always interject and ask them if the people standing in front of him/her are doing it for their health. I HATE queue jumpers in our culture but accept it's the norm in other cultures and so join them!

 

[prozac]

WCMO, Sam Stosur who has been selected as captain of the Billie Gene King team playing in Malaga Spain. When introducing the team the Australian anthem was just played and she stood there like her lips were sown together.

 

[p--and--t]

Oh yes. I always interject and ask them if the people standing in front of him/her are doing it for their health. I HATE queue jumpers in our culture but accept it's the norm in other cultures and so join them!

A few years back I was standing at the ticket counter buying a ticket for the subway in Shanghai and working out what notes to use to pay for the ticket.

Meanwhile an elderly slender woman, maybe 1/2 my weight, and very much shorter than me, approached the counter, hip and shouldered me out of the way and screamed a demand in Chinese at the seller grabbed a ticket and wandered off as I, stunned, try to process what just happened.

 

[MEL_Traveller]

That's the time to get narky and insist they refund that as well.

They will most likely try and say it is not them making the charge, but the bank - which is wrong, they are the merchant charging the fee. Most merchant facilities for credit card typically consist of a fixed monthly fee for the terminal, then a percentage of the transactions (sometimes on a sliding scale based on volume). Refunds and reversals are netted off purchases, so they don't incrementally pay anything once they do the refund. As they are only legally allowed to surcharge to recover their costs of accepting the payment, they need to refund that surcharge as well.

Virgin is the same! they point blank refuse to refund the credit card surcharge, even if they have cancelled a flight due to reasons within their control and you, as the passenger are entitled to a full refund under ACL.

They too claim it is a charge levied by the bank and they have no control over it.

Qantas on the other hand always refund the credit card fee where it is an involuntary cancellation.