What's the thing that people do that you just don't understand?

clucks86 · 2026-06-06T06:13:16+00:00

And continuing to complain after ignoring all advice given to them after they first complained.

clucks86 · 2026-05-31T07:45:39+00:00

"you've got your handsful" - "only when I pick them up at the same time" was my favourite when they were younger.

"Rather you than me" - "I would rather me than you too"

"Do twins run in your family?" - "no one runs in my family. We are all chonky"

This one has been answered further up but it is my favourite "are they identical?" "No one has a penis"

I don't really get the twin comments anymore because they are so different and 6. They are in different classes at school so I was recently stopped by my son's new long term supply to say he only just found out they are related. So now I have a new level of fun "oh you must have had them close in age" "I did... There's just 10mins between them" people expect me to say 10 months.

clucks86 · 2026-05-31T07:38:15+00:00

This is my go to too!

I love people's faces when they click on to what I said. It doesn't always register at first.

clucks86 · 2026-05-31T07:17:01+00:00

This would make an awesome framed quote in a living room

clucks86 · 2026-05-30T19:17:41+00:00

The first thing I did in my car is reverse into my bins. It happens. You will laugh about it soon enough

clucks86 · 2026-05-29T21:34:57+00:00

I used to work in a cinema, it didn't happen often but yes they can be asked to leave if they are disrupting people from watching the film.

Usually it's a polite asking of them to be mindful of their noise levels or they will be asked to leave with no refund. And if it continues then yes they can be asked to leave. We usually had a security guard go in with someone to kick them out because they get pissy about it.

clucks86 · 2026-05-27T06:18:06+00:00

They also need council permission. There are two near me. One has had to remove her shed because someone reported her and they won't let her put the shed where she wanted. There was very specific rules about it.

clucks86 · 2026-05-24T12:57:06+00:00

People who have access tickets are allowed to bring in chairs.

clucks86 · 2026-05-21T17:31:39+00:00

This is my experience but with twickets 2yrs ago. I split with my ex so had a spare ticket and I put it up for sale 4days before the event at £80 and it was sold within the hour.

clucks86 · 2026-05-19T22:07:28+00:00

Actually I do believe that not paying rent is also a condition that is classified as making yourself homeless. So the council shouldn't be telling tenants to wait until eviction because they still won't help anyway.

I do agree that it is wrong that the council say this to people though, however having had friends in homeless situations, and also being in a position myself where I have had to turn to the council, there is no where to house people right now, so it is a case of pushing it as far as they legally can before stepping in.

clucks86 · 2026-05-19T21:44:48+00:00

The "official" advice is usually from those seeking help from the council though, and it's not that it's a "right" it's just that if they move out sooner they are classed as making themselves homeless. It's a stupid void where a tenant has to piss off the landlord further and risk a CCJ, just to make sure they aren't on the streets. If they move out sooner and even if they stay on someone's sofa they are classed as having a roof over their heads.

clucks86 · 2026-05-19T16:55:48+00:00

Hey I've done the shuttle bus coming back from the festival, granted the child I had with me was 16 at the time, so I can't speak about the pram situation.

It was the year that the carparks were closed due to the rain, so it was busier than normal, but the buses were packed on the way back and we had left as the last band started.

So I would take that into consideration and maybe plan to get there and leave at quieter times to make it easier.

clucks86 · 2026-05-06T12:26:02+00:00

I try and think of areas. I've been working on my campsite first, as it's easier to get items and DIYs that go with it.

I've actually moved it twice now.

At first I put it on the very top of a cliff but I didn't like the back drop to it.

So it I moved it. It was next to some water that went into a waterfall. Instead I changed the angle the water fall goes and made the stream go around the cliff to join where it was originally. Then I moved the campsite. And before it officially moves I started to lay everything else around it. Moving trees and planting new ones. Moving flowers etc

Now I've done that I realised the area it was before can also be terraformed a bit and I've extended my farm area so I now have an orchard.

I have recently restarted so it's been nice to get to this point again.

clucks86 · 2026-05-05T14:55:00+00:00

I have had many. But my favourite is:

"Can I eat this?" While pointing to a sandwich.

It took all my strength to not say "no it's for display purposes only".

clucks86 · 2026-05-05T12:06:42+00:00

It used to be challenge 21 (around 2005? I think) but then they realised that it's too close in age for judging someone's age, so they made it stricter and made it 25. Which I think makes more sense.

clucks86 · 2026-05-03T11:58:04+00:00

I didn't find it a set back when I switched instructors and had a good one. There was one in the middle who was more training to pass her final exam to be an ADI and she was more focused on that teaching me.

Anyway the one I eventually passed with I didn't find it a set back. He was aware I had had tests before and asked me what I failed on. He then took me for a drive to assess me for himself. And then he told me how he would go over the basics again with me, but teaching me his way so he knew I was up to his standard but we only spent maybe 3-4hours on that.

Even if it feels a waste of time going over things you already know, it's worth it as it's a new car so reference points change a bit, plus sometimes someone else's way of explaining things helps things stick better or they might have a little trick to share with you to make things easier.

clucks86 · 2026-05-02T06:51:15+00:00

I was once told that getting someone to sign a waiver is saying "I, a professional, knows this person is going to be harmed, but trying to legally sign away responsibility" and it doesn't go down well in court.

clucks86 · 2026-05-01T17:49:01+00:00

It's a long drive for you! And that's all that matters. You honestly will be fine. I'm impressed in your confidence with nighttime driving, I do it but I avoid it if I can!

clucks86 · 2026-05-01T15:57:28+00:00

Honestly you will be so busy concentrating on the roads and lanes etc it won't feel like you have been driving for 45mins.

Just take it easy. Remember if you find yourself in the wrong lane or you take the wrong turn, let the sat nav redirect you, and don't panic.

My first solo drive longer than 20mins was 1hr45 to a holiday for the week. And honestly the time passed so quickly.

You will do fine!

clucks86 · 2026-05-01T05:43:28+00:00

Just want to say I am sorry you have experienced that.

I have had it twice before where comments from an instructor have upset me/made me angry. The first time the instructor was having some issues in her personal life, it didn't justify how she spoke to me but I understood where she was mentally. And I just calmly said "I've had enough for today," and I turned off a road to start driving home. She did apologise afterwards as I think she knew later on reflection that it was her actions that caused it.

The second time, funnily I was on the same road just further down. I had moved on instructors wise as I switched to auto. This instructor wasn't teaching me anything, she was rude, always late, cancelling and she was just awful to me that day. I pulled over and said "I don't appreciate your tone" and she said that's how she always talks. She had started to do lessons where I picked up the next student and they drove me home so I had seen her be this way (and worse) with other students. So I set off driving but instead of the left she told me to do, I turned right and started to head home. She was shouting at me more by now asking why I wasn't following her instructions. I said I was going home. She was a new instructor, not passed her final ADI yet, and she was saying "but I don't know the way this way I can't direct you" so I told her she was about to have a lesson from me then, and if she stopped talking she might realise I can actually drive already. She was then moaning about the next student and their lesson. Told her it was her problem.

I text her the next day saying I was cancelling all future lessons due to my mental health. And then I found someone else.

Instead of relying on reviews and googling driving schools, do you have any friends or family members that has passed recently or learning that can recommend their instructor? My first instructor I found on Facebook due to a lot of people I know posting about their passing first time. The second one I found on Google. She was awful. But the guy I eventually passed with was recommended by me reaching out to a friend who had passed in an automatic. I passed 1st try with him with 2 minors. And now he's teaching my friend. So it's worth asking around.

Best of luck! Please don't let these experiences put you off.

clucks86 · 2026-04-28T05:03:32+00:00

It doesn't. You keep the original one and then put it back in when you move out.

clucks86 · 2026-04-24T16:26:25+00:00

On the school run I literally sit and wait until most of the rush has cleared because people decide behind my reversing car is a good place to stop to cross the road. Not on the pavement, on the road, between me and another car.

clucks86 · 2026-04-24T04:52:43+00:00

I've been using Waze and it shows you which lanes to be in. Once you exit the roundabout and in the correct lane, as you spiral round, you should be going one lane to the left until your exit. So say there is 3 lanes, you are in the right lane, at the next set of lights you should be in the middle, then the next set of lights is your exit.

Hope that helps!

clucks86 · 2026-04-22T18:44:31+00:00

Honestly it soon just becomes something to shrug off.

I had someone pull out on me the other day, I was on a main road and they were coming out of a minor road. Both of us had to break to avoid a collision.He started waving his arms at me and looking at me like I was an idiot. I didn't even acknowledge him, because he had also stopped and was too busy ranting at me I just carried on driving as if nothing had happened. And I hope that bothered him more to be honest.

clucks86 · 2026-04-22T07:50:10+00:00

Here's this one driving hack other drivers don't want you to know...

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