Haven’t you done it yet?
Southern Electric sent 3 identical text messages All sent within one hour. Despite my overwhelming need to please others (ahem) effort to dash back home and read my electricity metre...
View Articledoing the merge thing
I received a long message puportedly from Google Blogger It was difficult to understand. I think it was saying that I will loose my Blogger Blog if I don”t click on these links and do something. I dont...
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Normally I’m not thrilled by large chain bookstores. I prefer to find second hand, or at least independent, book stores. The Reading town Waterstones is changing my impression. Recently it hosted a...
View Articlelistening at high speed
He spoke with floods of enthusiasm but without punctuation. Goodness knows how air made it’s way INTO his lungs: Would you like a bag Ive got a bag Ive got a bag thats just for you its an em and ess...
View Articleexpanding mole hill
waitstaff: would you like anything to drink? wendy: a glass of merlot, please waitstaff: what size? wendy: oh, um, 125ml please waitstaff: no, we don’t have that size wendy: oh, um, what size can I...
View Articlebargain basement girliness
I’ve signed-up to receive offers from Living Social. At first the offers were on a broad range of topics. The advertising photographs showed a people of different genders and ages demonstrating the...
View Articlebeware of breakfast bouncers
breakfast bouncer: What room are you in? wendy: 118 breakfast bouncer: I don’t know that room wendy: maybe it’s floor 1 room 18? My check-in card says 118 (holds-up check-in card) After checking my...
View Articlepaper chase
Harry Tuttle wasn’t available, central services turned-up My home insurance notifies a local heating engineering service. 5 hours later the service calls me to arrange and ‘emergency’ appointment....
View Articleclumsy
In my phone service provider’s high street store, the helpful assistant explained they could swap my normal sized SIM (current phone) to a mini SIM (Nokia Lumia), just not in the store…. wendy: your...
View Articleformal black
Hearses stacked in a line on the glorious Bedminster down awaiting entry to the South Bristol Graveyard and Crematorium. Mumsie pauses to worry that she wont be able to walk from the car, once parked,...
View Articleput it in the slot on the door
None Native English Speaking Receptionist: (something unintelligible) Wendy: (frowns while trying to find intelligible words, then) I’m sorry, could you say that more slowly please? The NNESR speaks...
View Articlegetting the best computer buying experience
We want to buy a senior, computer-novice (Mumzie) something for emailing, sharing digital photographs, writing the Women Insitute meeting minutes and looking at her family on Facebook. What’s our...
View Articleat the gate
International flights invariably mean a couple of hours at the airport. It doesn’t take long to tire of airports, expensive shopping, expensive food, controlled air, controlled people. Minneapolis...
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wendy: I’m a stranger in your town, how do I use your bus Bus driver: where do you want to go? He explained that for $1.75 I could travel anywhere in the city for 2.5hrs. Brilliant. I can get on and...
View Articlefemale. car owner. Dr.
When I bought Thomas I completed all the documentation with my actual title, Dr. Wendy. Wendy: I’d like to book my car in for a service Service Engineer: What’s the registration number? Wendy: (cited...
View ArticleOffroad parking for 2 cars
<rant warning> The Estate agent responsible for selling the Wendy House offered me the opportunity to give feedback on the details they’d produced, before they were published. I suggested a few...
View ArticleForgetting to remember
To enrol for automatic payment of Wendy loft property taxes, I had to find the right website, print a form, find a pen to write on it, find an envelope to put it in, find a stamp to put on the...
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