[Misc] As if today couldn't have got any worse...

Zeberdi said:

Came home from work to find my very full garden waste bin, emptied fortnightly for the past 7 years, had a card sitting on it from the contractor with a ‘X’ next to “you are not of the list for garden waste collection”.

Phoned up the waste people, spent 20 mins going round in circles with a call centre girl who was very sweet but utterly inept and spoke in pro-forma sentences. After 15 minutes of repeatedly trying, turned out automated paying system was down. Gardeners come tomorrow, no where for them to bin garden waste so they’ll charge me £££ to take away anything they prune.

Oh, and if it counts please (because this is election week)

Monday - Unable to keep hospital appointment - hospital patient booking phone line for transport down for 4 days - took an hour to get through to hospital to reschedule.

Monday - Tuesday evening - very blocked toilet (fortunately I have more than one) - had to fork out ££££ for an emergency Plumber who arrived while I was in the middle of a phone call with a mate booking tickets for Brentford. Had to abort phone call. Phoned back later, seats we wanted no longer available. Bought others instead.

Tuesday got screamed aggressively at by a drunk schizo in the supermarket queue because, well, just because.

Wednesday - woke up to find yellow, evil spawn was the leader of the free world.

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Bozza said:

...what with the utter clusterfuck playing out across the pond.

I stopped at a Tesco Express to buy a few groceries, and decided to lift the family gloom with some jam doughnuts.

"Soft and juicy" it said on the pack and I could not wait to get home and sink my teeth into one.

Imagine my utter dismay opening the pack and finding they were boring old ring doughnuts.

Has anyone else suffered a similar calamity today?

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GT49er said:

I finally made myself sit down and write my will, only to find that my printer is only printing the bottom half of letters today.

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Triggaaar said:

Good! Need I remind you that you're on a bloody diet!

I had my porridge for breakfast and a single banana for lunch. I stopped at Tesco for fuel, and popped in. I was starving, so I bought a pack of cooked chicken slices and that's it. Stay away from those doughnuts, you doughnut!

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HalfaSeatOn said:

Immediately thought of the God of ‘Lose 7lbs in November’ who sees all.

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Zeberdi said:

Monday - Tuesday evening - very blocked toilet (fortunately I have more than one) - had to fork out ££££ for an emergency Plumber who arrived while I was in the middle of a phone call with a mate booking tickets for Brentford. Had to abort phone call.

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Triggaaar said:

Who is the all seeing god? Does that refer to the collective?

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Bozza said:

...what with the utter clusterfuck playing out across the pond.

I stopped at a Tesco Express to buy a few groceries, and decided to lift the family gloom with some jam doughnuts.

"Soft and juicy" it said on the pack and I could not wait to get home and sink my teeth into one.

Imagine my utter dismay opening the pack and finding they were boring old ring doughnuts.

Has anyone else suffered a similar calamity today?

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banjo said:

I’ve just gone to the freezer and to my horror the fish fingers I was going to have for my supper are not Birds Eye.

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Bozza said:

"Soft and juicy" it said on the pack and I could not wait to get home and sink my teeth into one.

Imagine my utter dismay opening the pack and finding they were boring old ring doughnuts

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oldboyroy said:

Stuck in a traffic jam wasting half an hour working and literally at a complete standstill yet nothing ahead to cause traffic to stop? No road works no traffic accident it just stopped for some reason and then back to 70mph

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