I'm going to grumble today :-)

Two things have happened over the last 24 hours that really niggled me.

The first is some old people in banks. This doesn't apply to many but the ones like the one in the bank yesterday who gridlocked it making people wait 45 minutes to get served. What took 45 minutes you ask? Her new cheque book had the number 3 instead of 3a.

how on earth can it possibly take 45 minutes to inform them there is such a minor mistake?

After taking 20 minutes to explain the small mistake (over and over and over and over again) it then took a further 25 minutes for her to understand they will send her a new book. While this was going on another counter opened and in the time it took for her to get with it half the population of the bay had been served including me.

I can understand they also need to bank but for the love of god if the queue of people is stretching out the door and down the road it would be polite to step aside and let the people who can't afford to be stuck in a queue all day to bank and get back to work. If we should give up seats on buses and trains and assist when needed the very least we could get in return is some understanding that if you realise you're causing a queue the size of the great wall of China you might consider other people.

The other thing that bugs me is small country lanes and huge coaches and articulated lorries....

So today I went to Newton Abbot and the traffic on Newton Road was a bad as ever. There is a country road that runs parallel to Newton Road which, for the most part, only the locals know about. This is a typical country lane which in places is almost the width of a car. I decided to go this route back... boy what a mistake that was!

I'm driving along and what should pull out in front of me but an articulated lorry. "great" I thought "this is gonna be fun". After having to stop a few times to squeeze cars through my worst nightmare happened and a coach came along towards us. I knew that there is nowhere for the last mile that was wide enough for a coach to pass the lorry and I also knew the lane well enough to know it was at least half a mile in front of us before the coach could find a spot. Within minutes there were 40 cars either side and the coach driver had to tell all the cars to back up and keep backing up... all the way back. Total time for the coach to pass this lorry? 22 minutes and over 100 cars affected.

There should be a complete blanket ban on coaches and lorries using lanes where there are not ample passing places for vehicles of that size. It must cost the UK economy millions and millions of lost pounds while lorry drivers and coach drivers decide to drive down lanes built only for cars.

Ok, that's it, no more moaning :-)