Latest Moan From You and Me 2023

One of my hobbies is moaning so have been doing a lot of that recently.

Two moans at British Gas:-
I sent in my monthly meter reading by email and got the usual reply thanking me for it and a note saying I can now check my account. So I logged on and there was a large notice saying words to the effect of, If you are having problems since the update then please contact us. So I went on live chat to ask 'what update?'.

She replied that there was an update in February and am I having a problem with it. I said no I'm not apart from having have my page obscured by your note - so tell me what the update was? She said she would look at my account and see - then came back with a question 'Have you logged out of your account?' to which I replied 'If I had logged out of my account then I would not be able to have this live chat with you'! So I said I don't want to waste anymore time talking to someone who doesn't seem to understand what I am asking, and disconnected. I immediately received a 'How did we do?' survey and you can guess my response.

The second moan about them is about their advert on the radio. I realise that some people have got into the habit of dropping letters when speaking but I expect adverts to be correct. The man voicing the advert kept calling it Bri-ish Gas. I've even noticed that, now, some of our beloved politicians are also dropping their T's

One moan at the NHS (for now):-
When we received our latest letters from them saying we are now due for our vaccinations it also said that if we don't want to receive the reminder letters we can go on their website to stop them and they gave the site address. So I went on there and, as we wished to save them postage and paper, I filled in the form for Mrs Shiney (it only wanted Name, NHS number and email address) and was extremely easy. It immediately thanked her.

I then went to do the same for myself and after giving the info it came back saying there is a problem and please try again. So I did so with the same result and it also said that if I had a problem just phone 119.

So I did and it only took 20 seconds to get through and I explained to the very friendly lady on the other end what the problem was. She then asked me why I was phoning her and I said because the site said so. She answered 'Oh!' and then asked me for my details and after a fairly long pause said that she can't find any record of me. So I asked her how they could have sent the letter, that was sitting in front of me, if there is no record of me. She must have been trained by British Gas as she couldn't answer that. So she told me to ask my GP to send my records to them!!!

I'll leave the other 100+ moans for the moment.

 

When I was at school (in our cave ) we were told that the only English speaking country that correctly pronounced it haitch was Northern Ireland. Apparently it was done to distinguish between Catholic and Protestant, where the Catholic schools taught it as haitch and Protestant schools taught it as aitch. Our teacher concluded by saying that haitch was and would always be incorrect English.

 

I tried searching in my files for the MA I got for Inventive Moaning but only found a load of BS without the c.