Do you get pissed off in public?

Ronan, you are quickly turning into a righter of wrongs, have you thought of superhero classes rather than journalism?

I just saw this over on ILM, I'm a hata'. Isn't Iversen that especially funky looking basketball player

he's prolly one of the best players in the league right now.

whaddya racist or something, fitzgerald? ;)

As well the bitch who thinks ten items or less meant put your middle classes breeder lunches for the week on the conveyer and make like no one noticed . IT IS TEN
ONE TWO THREE FOUR FIVE SIX SEVEN EIGHT NINE TEN.
not 17 . If you have 17 little lunches for your sexually frustrated husband and tyour 2.3 ungrateful kids go to A FUCKING REGULAR LINE.

So, I had to argue it out with the manager. Went on for ages, him telling me it wasn't his problem and me stressing he was in breach of the Sale of Goods Act 1979 and that in line with the 'Ticket' contract cases such outlandish terms had not been incorporated into the contract as they had not been brought to my attention. The whole thing went on for almost an hour, with him telling me to prove my point. He didn't back down until I gave him my card and explained I was a solicitor. Like I said, if I'm right on something I will fight. If I'm not I'll back down.

Having worked in a chain record store as an Assistant Manager over 8 years ago, next day deliveries are only possible if ordered before midday or early afternoon and only for "chart" or "popular back catalogue" items.

Also (at least) in the UK, record stores should not sell new releases before the new release date. It only happens in some independent record stores if you know them on a personal basis or ask for a specific item on say a Sunday.

Unless things work differently in Ireland I think your expectations of getting this CD under the circumstances were OTT and unrealistic.

"..only ordered it thinking it would come today" - this was your perception Ronan, did this assistant promise it would come in today? I doubt it - especially if they knew it was not been released till Monday.

The moto of the story is you need to communicate with the assistant better and never assume what you think will happen!

Also an item such as Ryan Adams who has a profile in Hot Press, would not be ordered specifically for you, instead this item would have been pre-ordered either by head office/or store manager weeks ago. If you special ordered it - it would have been treated as a reserve item, i.e when the stocks came in - one CD would have been put aside for you, so you could collect on Monday - therefore in the event of the stocks selling out to high demand, at least your copy would have been put to one side in the special orders.

What would have been a fuck up would have be on Monday all Ryan Adams CDs sold out and your CD was not put aside.

1. HMV over here ALWAYS sells CDs the friday before their official release date. 2. Thats made irrelevent by the fact that I paid money to order the CD after being clearly and 100 percent unequivocally informed I would have it as of today. And like I said its from another HMV, about half an hours walk away. So how hard can it be? Even if they're not meant to do it, I was told otherwise and paid my money obviously thinking otherwise. Certainly not my fault is it? Whose is it then? I don't care particularly, I'm just not going to pay money for absolutely nothing. And yes I will be walking to the other HMV.

Ah goes back to the Systems theory/ GIGO .. but rubbish into a system you get rubbish out.

2FM and Dublin fm104 (always advertising in Hot press) - have crappy mainstream tightly controlled playlists.. correct? and therefore this is the frame of the reference for the masses to buy their music, which in turn shapes demand of what is stocked in the shops.

btw, is there a new Ryan Adams? I haven't heard a word about it.

I don't get annoyed in public, no, but I occassionally have minor arguments with bus drivers over tickets and small things like that. I did once argue with a chip shop owner about the fact that he had run out of chips though. I'd had one or two drinks.

yeah, being pissed off in public is fun, far more so than being pissed on.

Anthony: those middle-class breeder lunches. Pasta salad? Lunchables?

All of a sudden I now imagine Anna as living in the 1890s and chasing away scalawags with a fearlessly wielded parasol.

This is mostly because I see so many people being so rude and abraisive at such trivial things that I'm tempted to say what Anna said to the London Transport jobsworth. The only way you can avoid this is if the person serving you appears an even greater cockfarmer (officious public transport workers are among the worst in this regard).

Anna - that nice green parasol from Glastonbury? I hope you didn't break it.

Then she finds Data's head, and Mark Twain appears.

yeah, so i got pissed at the manager. first and only time.

as i recall, the parasol was fine but the tree was slightly injured. i think i may well have been the cause of the anger. i am occasionally annoying enough to be a danger to plants everywhere...

I was doing my second job, basically I have to go to the car park on the premises of the place my dad works when there are big sports matches on nearby, cos they let their clients park there, and I've to make sure nobody who isn't meant to be there goes in. they're all loaded and it's very lucrative, anyway I was doing it one day and when I arrived to open up the gates were open and the place was full.

I began asking people to move their cars and stuff, at least the people who were still getting out, and some did, and apologised etc. I had to move as many as possible cos directors and things would have had no space, it was so full.

So this one couple and their friend, aged about 30ish I'd say, started getting really arsey and were like "WHY DO WE HAVE TO MOVE, YOU WON'T MOVE EVERYONE WHO'S GONE" etc etc, and I too was getting annoyed because the entire situation was a mess and I simultaneously had to park people.

Anyway before I knew it it was a full on heated street argument with loads of people watching, and she said "YOU DIDN'T CATCH HALF THE OTHER PEOPLE" and I was all "YEAH BUT I CAUGHT YOU" and people were cheering and then finally her beardo treeman boyfriend shouted "THERE WAS NO SIGN SAYING THIS IS PRIVATE PROPERTY" and I said that there was at which point I was afraid he'd get violent cos he said "ARE YOU CALLING ME A LIAR"

And I read him the sign. And they then pointed out, wisely that I didn't actually know which car was theirs, merely that they had parked there and were leaving.

Then I asked them please to move because, on a human level, they were responsible for me possibly losing my job. The guy said that was my problem.

Then, finally, I screamed "OK YOU FUCKING ASSHOLE I PROMISE YOU IF I HAVE TO CALL THE POLICE, PARK MY CAR IN FRONT OF THE GATE, OR THROW STONES AT YOU YOUR CAR WILL BE LOCKED IN HERE LATER IF YOU DON'T MOVE IT, I REALLY DON'T FUCKING CARE HOW I DO IT BUT YOU BETTER BOOK A HOTEL"

and everyone cheered.

And they moved the car. it was very dramatic.