having worked in service industries for the latter part of my working life including having to go into peoples homes to repair tvs vcrs sat recievers i can definitely say that a small number of customers could be challenging however from a customer service perspective i would not used the words you used to describe paying customers.
Iwill also point out that the behaviour of a number of bus drivers leave a lot to be desired, from indicating and imediately pulling out into traffic, just this week one bus driver went straight through a red light on a pedestrian crossing outside avenue house surgery, pulling up on codwell ave leaving the back end sticking out and blocking traffic when there is enough room to pull in, also speeding up the wrong side of the road as they had to overtake a vehicle though said vehicle is 200 yards away, also i was on peak bus when a bus driver for chesterfield omnibus purposely crashed into the rear lights of one of the peak buses to force them into taking it off the road, then there are the surly drivers who give the impression that picking up passangers is a pain and i still have not got round to bus drivers showing total contempt for certain people who pay their wages by moaning about them and  calling them flotsam and jetsom on a local forum, a real credit to the profession i am sure.

the three times i can remember problems on the road with lorry drivers were on driving back from yarmouth in the rain with warning signs of slippy roads i had a lorry tailgating me for miles a lady driver in front of me stopped ahead of me to read a map and the bernard mathews lorry started flashing lights and using his horn as i slowed down before i overtook her i held my phone out of the window as i had instructed my son to call the police if the driver continued tailgating  and he took the hint and pulled back.
In june of this year i was returning from skegness ann the stretch of the A1 and as it was raining and i was holding around 50mph and a lorry behind me started flashing his lights at me and tailgating me ecpectingme to speed uprather than him overtaking me.
On another occasion i was driving from bogner to western super mare on a dual cariageway and a lorry which was overtaking me decided to pull in while i was next to his trailer forcing me onto the grass verge.
More recently i was travelling behind a lorry on coniston road and as i came to the junction opposite the dunston pub the lorry carried straight towards the pub and blocked traffic from the left and right of dunston lane and put on his hazard lights i wanted to go left so as i stayed behind the lorry the driver got out and said rudely did i not see his hazards and that meant he wanted to reverse to park up so i should go on my way but turning right i told him i was not going to take shouted instructions from him and i would go when i was good and ready he told me to go now so i told him to go away and urinate.
All four lorries had one common thread they were all british registered lorries, also it is a long time since i read the highway code but i am sure it does not say that turning on hazard lights means you are entitled to block the road prior to reversing to park. so i think that lorrie drivers of any nationality have both good and bad drivers.

Its hilarious, the government are going to introduce special visas to EU foreign lorry drivers to come to britain to alleviate our delivery problems, so much for brexit being good for britain can anyone out there tell me what brexit benefits we have had so far, the yanks have told us there will not be a trade deal, we are now begging EU nationals to come into the country to deliver our stuff, our fishermen are having problems exporting their fish into Europe, we are unable to take meat products into Northen Ireland, inflation is rising, what is even more amusing is that one of the forums members ( i cant remember who) said that having less foreign lorry drivers on our roads would be a good thing, as far as i can see there has been only drawbacks to brexit with no upsides.

When i was a kid i would sooner bury my head in a book than play any kind of sport and i was always told that i should be outside playing at some sport or other, i suppose that that was the 1960s equivellant of what you said about sitting in front of a computer Old Cruiser nothing really changes does it.

Me too!!

I have never hidden the fact that I don't like football, although {apart from a few friends and immediate family} I have never shouted it from the rooftops for the obvious reason that if you tell a football fan you don't like "The beautiful game" they think your a weirdo.

Sorasto i suggest you think like me and think stuff em, as far as i can see football seems to be more about tribalism than any geniuine love of the game, what would happen in tennis if Roger federer fans started a mini riot at wimbledon in an atempt to attack and beat up Andy Murray fans. i can see it now all the wimbledon ladies in their best Sunday hats pelting each other with bowls of strawberrys and cream and trying to batter each other  to death with brollies.

For as i long as i can remember i have hated football with a passion, i remeber as a youngster as being about as interested in football as going to the dentist or having my tonsills out, i remember being forced to play this uterlly dreadfull game at school and totally screwing it up.
However i must express my deep and abiding dissapointment at Englands loss to Italy tonight, this is no Damacine realisation by myself that i have been wrong all of my life but a realisation that i must go on listening to the Newspapers and TV going on about 1966 it was my fervent hope that England won so everybody would shut the hell up about 1966 and we could have another so called glory to bang on about for the next 55 years, alas it was not to be so back to 1966 it is then.

i don't think it was a UFO as all the UfOS are usually congregated in the deep south of the USA abducting red neck pig fornicators prior to sticking probes up their jacksies.