Latest moan from me and you!!!

Actually, what concerns me is the Bank Teller's attitude to your Mum, Spruce. Telling anyone that "they are breaking the law" when clearly they are innocent is bad enough, telling an old lady and upsetting her is far worse and I would be having words with the Bank Manager.

 

You'd think they would be interested, but I have experience that tells me otherwise - namely a good few hundred pounds worth of fake cash that is in our safes having been handed over for bus fares. Unless its a blatant fake printed on tissue paper or something, it would be unfair for us to see our drivers carry the cost, so the company bears the cost and declares the fakes to the police - - who in turn rarely do anything.

Very recently, there was a big spate of fake £20 being passed all over the place in our area, and it was only after we instructed our drivers not to take any £20 notes that the police were finally galvanised into some sort of action -- and I reckon even then it was only because of the rise in calls that they were getting due to abusive and violent behaviour on buses that spurred them on.

 

Unfortunately, because of the policy and attitude of the Bank of England and, subsequently, the financial institutions, there is no encouragement to report the discovery of counterfeit notes.

When I was working, all the shops in our area had an unwritten policy of returning the notes to the customer if we noticed they were fake! We explained what the problem was and told them that if they took them to a bank they would be confiscated.

This was not the proper way to go about it but a lot of the customers couldn't afford to lose £20. So the notes continued to circulate, doing what money was designed for!

A good topic for a new thread! I'll get it started when I have the time.

EDIT:- now done and here's the link

http://gardenerscorner.co.uk/forum/threads/counterfeit-money-a-moral-dilemma.51607/

 

Good morning all,this morning I noticed that my drivers side tyre was nearly flat,so I thought to myself as you would,I will go to the garage and put some air in it,when I got there ,a young man was vacuuming his car out and was parked taking up 3 spaces so that I couldn't get near enough to the air machine,I asked him courteously and if he could move his car into the allotted space as all I wanted to do was put some air in to just one Tyre ,he replied and said that he had put 30p in the machine and it would stop before he had finished,I could understand that and waited patently for another 10 minutes,he then put another 30p in the machine,I then moved my car behind his car so that he couldn't get out and I threaded the air pipe through his front door and out of the back door which was the only way the air pipe would reach Woo's Tyre,and hey presto job done,Thanks for listening I feel better now

 

Nice one Woo

You might want to consider getting yourself one of these fellows - I've had one in the boot for years, and it is very handy as well as being more accurate than the ones in the filling stations.

 

I agree, FC, I've got a air pump which connects to the cigarette lighter socket and it's paid for itself in convenience and money over time. You can buy them for around £20, Woo, and pump up your tyres without having to queue up.

 

Thank you F/Contoller and Armandll,F/Contoller does it plug in to the Cigarette Lighter and the mains.I will send off for one now,that will keep me out of trouble

 

You are welcome Woo

It does plug into the cigarette lighter, and is very easy to use. I have exactly the one that I linked to, simply because it has a 'set and auto-stop' feature, as well as being a rapid inflater also - basically, you use the buttons on the top to set the pressure you want (you can select BAR, KPA or PSI readings), connect to the tyre valve and then switch on - - it will then blow the tyre up to the preset pressure and shut off once that has been reached.

I've had mine easily five or six years now - tough as old boots too, with a metal casing. Its even got a row of LED lights that shine onto your wheel so you can see the valve in the dark.

There are some cheaper ones available, but tread carefully as some of them are cheap plastic rubbish.