Damn and blast MkII

[XmisterIS]

I've had one of "those" afternoons.

I headed out to B&Q to get some bits and pieces ahead of seeing a client.

I had a list of four common items. Four.

One was far too large and heavy to go in my backpack on my bike, so I took the car.

I walked out of B&Q empty-handed. It turns out that they normally stock all four of those items, but today, and just today, they've sold out of all four of those items.

Incredible.

So, back in the car, fuming, and head off to Homebase. 15 minutes away it is. A mere 15 minutes. But not today! The mother of all roadworks has appeared on the main trunk road between B&Q and Homebase, so welcome to Mr Traffic Jam. Dual carriageway with central barrier, so I just had to sit there for 45 sodding minutes!!

Incredible!

Ah! There we go, through the roadworks at last ... and Mr Reginald Flatcap pulls out directly into my path, although luckily I had anticipated his zany and amusing manoeuvre and I didn't hit him. So we drive in convoy to Homebase at all of 20mph. Overtaking is impossible because whenever the opposite carriageway is clear, he drifts aimlessly all over the road. Numberplate duly noted and reported to Police.

Then, I get to Homebase ... and they're shut!! According to the acned youth on the door, they've sprung a leak somewhere in some essential bit of plumbing and had to close the store.

Hooray! I'm so happy.

So I give up and head home, absolutely livid, and I stop at the local shop on the way to buy one item. One.

There is a shelf where it is supposed to be with a large rectangular block of thin air sitting on it instead of said item. Apparently today, and just today, they have run out of that particular item.

I stood and looked at her with one eye bigger than the other ...

Tomorrow I will try again.

 

[ChrisKH]

Breath in. Count to ten. And relax..............

 

[tyred]

Bad luck!




Could be used as script for an episode of "One foot in the grave."

 

[fossyant]

LOL - at least you made me chuckle !

 

[Fiona N]

I tend to find such days require
a) long hot bath
b) glass of something cold and preferably sparkling but a beer will do at a pinch
c) small bowl of completely crappy salty junk cheezy wotsits or similar

Lie in bath with glass of choice and float bowl on the water - relax and enjoy

 

[Arch]

I tend to find such days require
a) long hot bath
b) glass of something cold and preferably sparkling but a beer will do at a pinch
c) small bowl of completely crappy salty junk cheezy wotsits or similar

Lie in bath with glass of choice and float bowl on the water - relax and enjoy

The day he's had, he'd get soap in the fizzy stuff, and the bowl would sink and leave him soaking in corn sludge....

Still at least we know what this:

I stood and looked at her with one eye bigger than the other ...

looks like.

 

[XmisterIS]

The day he's had, he'd get soap in the fizzy stuff, and the bowl would sink and leave him soaking in corn sludge....

Still at least we know what this:



looks like.

Lol! Too right, it probably would! I'm spending the rest of the day hiding under the bed.

That emoticon sums it up perfectly! It's what you look like when you've had "I don't believe it" overload and something inside just *snaps* ... and then the giggling like an insane person and squatting in the corner and poking imaginary people with a stick ...