[Closed] What's annoying you currently? II

Honey If your only problem when teaching is their use of mobile phones, which is indeed pretty annoying, consider yourself lucky! How about students who try to hit you? I had one last year who tried to punch me.

It isn't that uncommon. I have two separate friends who are teachers, one of both sexes, and both have been attacked, one attack was from a female. Thankfully neither incident resulted in serious injury.

That is a bloody horrible thing to happen Stavi.

You are so right Stavi! I am indeed lucky to teach at a school with 90% nice and civilized students. In my former school things went much more harshly, including threads and attacks.
Many of my students come from not so rich homes and we have the highest rate of immigrants in town. Thus you can see that many cliches are just rubbish. We just have a good and open atmosphere. No racism, very little minor violence. A good school to teach at.

When you live in Vienna and people give you the looks because your last name is Jewish and you are the one to blame for what is going on in Gaza.



Maybe I should move out of Vienna once my studies are done here.

I have so little time these past months. I want to help Tom out with a reboot of Golden Scores but I just can't focus on it! And when I have a little bit of time I just don't feel like continuing what I do at work for another site. Drives me crazy.

Computers, enough said.
Tom

:shakes-head: Crazy!

Glad you're ok mate and nobody got hurt. Shit happens. The rest is metal. So is everyone is ok, metal gets thrown away or repaired and you quickly forget. Happened to me as well (other party's fault though but still).

Also glad to hear that you're okay and that no-one was hurt.

It is definitely annoying that, because of one lapse in concentration, your insurance company will probably hike up your premiums. That's certainly what would happen here in the UK.

Thank God you are ok Volker! And nobody else got hurt! Here is a hug to make you feel better!

Neighbour disputes.

Luckily I'm not involved...yet. But my next door neighbour (at #21) has fallen out with the neighbour on the other side of her (#19). There's been a long-running dispute between them that culminated with my neighbour at #21 refusing to allow #19 to use her back garden to put a ladder to access their roof to repair some tiles. #19 knows this but hadn't returned a key she had when they were on speaking terms.

Now, #21 is in New York for 2 weeks and - lo and behold - a roofing van turns up and goes and fixes the problematic roof at #19 using #21's back garden as access and for somewhere to put their ladder. Suffice it to say that #21 is going to be pretty livid when she returns at the weekend.

Now I'm thinking that I'm going to get caught up in the fallout from this - especially if #19 denies they used her garden for access and claim to have been able to do the job from their own garden. It could turn into a your-word-against-ours spat.

Looking at the law, I think that #19 can have access to #21's back garden if it's to repair their own property but permission is still required. If permission is refused then a court order is needed (and is usually granted if it can be shown that the access is needed to preserve the condition of a property). It looks like if it had gotten as far as a court order then it would have been granted and the work would have been carried out.

But, in terms of neighbour-neighbour relations, I think that they are going to be at an all-time low between #21 and #19 by this time next week. And those at #23 - us - could have become embroiled in it too!

Well the neighbour at #21 is back. She immediately noticed that the other neighbour's roof had been fixed and was asking me about whether they had been in her garden to access their roof. I did say that I had seen this but mentioned that I would prefer it if they could keep any fall-out between the two of them.

Later in the day the neighbour was back, telling me that there's been some damage to her garden that she believes was caused by the trespass (apparently it's a tree her late husband planted). So, now she has called someone for advice and the police are now involved. She has a reference number and she's waiting for a call back to see if the problem is of enough merit for the police to follow it up.

And this is all before the neighbour at #21 has had a chance to talk to her at #19.

Having just returned from the USA and not had any sleep for goodness knows how many hours was probably not the best frame of mind to be in to escalate this incident!

Probably the better, and easiest, option I suppose. But, that would have meant that the actions of #19 would be resulting in me lying to a neighbour that we get on with. The people at #19 we only speak to when they come to catch their dog who is running around and shitting in our garden.

I'm hoping that it's all going to progress a bit like an episode of the 1970s/1980s comedy Soap.

http://youtu.be/0BHQT3Omqtw

(BTW, neither of those involved here are called Tate or Campbell.)