Trivial Things that annoy you - Mod Note in OP

Its a capitol offence to use the loo and not switch the light on and trigger the fan in our house. I don't think I need to spell out why ;-) It does TA me how long my wife leaves the light on to keep the fan running.

Inside (under the cover) of the fan is a little bank of 3 or so switched or contacts. Depending on how they are switched or connected sets the time the fan over runs often 0,1,5 and 10 minutes. But not all fans have the timer in them. A fan with a timer will have 4 mains connections, the usual LNE and an extra trigger connection which goes to the light switch.

Edit> Thats the way the last couple of fans I've installed have worked but checking on youtube many just have a little potentiometer with a small knob on it so you can dial up the duration of overrun.

He must be a newbie, amateur hour on his part.

My TA: father was exiting our lane the other day, basically got blocked in by someone he wasn't familiar it.

Stranger: 'Do you drive a Focus?". Named out some of the number plate and everything.

He doesn't but I do.

Dad says he doesn't but he knows who does.

'You'd want to tell them to slow down on the road then'.

A couple of things: I drive that road every day of the week, know every dip, nook, cranny and pothole on it, where I am most likely to encounter pedestrians etc. and never drive excessively precisely because I run the risk of meeting a relation on it and it getting reported back anyway.

And even if I WAS speeding, who is he to white knight about it and confront my innocent father? We know everyone in the area, he seems to be a blow-in trying to stake ownership of the road.

What more likely happened was he was driving excessively slow and I was caught behind him and thus up his hole, that happened to me a couple of times last week. But sure that couldn't possibly happen.

No sign of my gym crush this morning

My boss is Chinese. She moved over here and raised two children as a single Mum while being a manager and undertaking a PhD. Now, she seems unable to so much as write a simple email without ChatGPT. It's like some people just don't want to even think any more. I just don't get it.

Getting a notification that yoir NCT is due, go in to book it and the next available date is October

Stay up tonight and check around 11:30. They release test dates every day around that time. Thats how I book and I normally get a date within a couple of days. Occasionally I'll have to check a couple of nights following.

Pedestrian lights that take ages to change (4 or 5 minutes).

The type that are always green as I approach in the distance but by the time I get to them, they have turned red.

A real killer if it's raining.

A totally fake wedding invite meme appeared on Facebook.

It triggered memories of the wedding forum threads especially during the Celtic tiger.....I miss those comedy gold threads. There was a new lil gem every few days.

Wonder how many of those marriages have survived 🤭