Tea? (Part 1)

[Sittingduck]

Mmmm I'll take a slurp if there's one on offer

Ta

p.s. Nope, never heard of 'em

 

[tdr1nka]

I'll have a cup Paulus!

Did you get all the free toiletries, towels etc from the room as well?

 

[Paulus]

Welcome Sittingduck and Tdr1nka. It is quite a strong flavour but not too dark in colour, (hands cups of the brew to both). I left the towels behind but the shower gels, soaps, tea, coffee and hot chocolate came with me.

 

[Speicher]

Yes Tea please.

I must ring my telephone supplier to see if they have cut my phone off.
Five people should be ringing me back sometime, anytime? this week, next week, next month, year .........

 

[Amanda P]

Hallo, everyone.

<Buries head in lunch box>

 

[Amanda P]

How do you ring your telephone supplier if they have cut you off?

I suppose you'll find out very quickly if they have. Without having to speak to anyone.

Which is just as well, because telephone companies always seem remarkably reluctant to actually do any speaking. (Although sometimes their computers will try to talk to you).

Ironic, really.

 

[Paulus]

Yes Tea please.

I must ring my telephone supplier to see if they have cut my phone off.
Five people should be ringing me back sometime, anytime? this week, next week, next month, year .........

I think I can squeeze one more out of this pot.

 

[Speicher]

I suppose I would do what people did before the mobile phone, I would ask one of my very friendly helpful neighbours if I could use their phone? On second thoughts, no, because the call would cost too much.

I could just wait until someone comes round in person or sends a letter....
err no, that could be a very long time.

 

[Arch]

Afternoon all!

Chuffy, you beat me to the remark about 'is that a carrot...'.

I'm keeping an eye on a friends house while he's away, so I'm ensconsed at the kitchen table using his broadband. The plan is to leave my laptop here and commute to work here during the day. Not much work happening just now, as you can tell. Well, I'm cogitating, I suppose.

Anyway, thanks to my friend's liking for all sorts of tea (as opposed to my rather basic tastes), I can offer a cup of almost any sort of tea you like...

The thing about ringing your supplier to see if you've been cut off reminds me of the conversation that led me to leave Orange for ever...

 

[Night Train]

The thing about ringing your supplier to see if you've been cut off reminds me of the conversation that led me to leave Orange for ever...

I have two Orange phones because if this, a contract and a PAYG, that way I can phone them to tell them my phone isn't working. Fortunately most of my problems have been hand set rather then service.

 

[Arch]

I have two Orange phones because if this, a contract and a PAYG, that way I can phone them to tell them my phone isn't working. Fortunately most of my problems have been hand set rather then service.

It is a long story, the SIM card went kaput, but the girl in the shop didn't check properly and sent the phone off to be fixed - the SIM card fault was spotted when it came back with a note saying there was no fault with the phone. I ended up calling Orange from my landline and getting into a prolonged conversation with a guy who kept telling me to turn it off and back on, what did the screen say, take the battery out, etc, despite me repeatedly telling him it was a SIM fault, not the phone and I'd been told to just ask for a replacement. When I mentioned that the call was getting rather long and costing me, the lad said "Oh, are you not calling from an Orange phone?".

IF I HAD AN ORANGE PHONE THAT WORKED, I WOULDN'T NEED TO CALL YOU!

After he rang me back, we went through another 30 minutes of turning the phone off and on again etc, with him saying "well, it doesn't seem to be the phone...." and me saying, "I know, it's the SIM card...". Eventually I came as close as I ever have to being really rude to someone in a call centre, and put the phone down. Customer services called me back, arranged to send a new SIM, I used up the credit on it and went over to using the Vodafone PAYG I'd had to buy to use while the Orange one was out of order...

<and breathe>

 

[Arch]

Right, I'm off. I need to get some milk on the way home.

What an exciting life eh?

If anyone sees me in here tomorrow, before about 3pm, tell me to disconnect from the internet and get on with my work. Oh, except maybe for an hour at lunchtime...

 

[mr Mag00]

mines a cup with toast please?

 

[Chuffy]

BTW How is her Majesty doing, glad to be home?

<hauls conversation through timewarp to last night>
Very quiet. She seems well enough, but rather subdued. I'm not sure if we are officially her friends at the moment. Hopefully she'll perk up a bit once she's recovered. Don't know how much longer we've got her for though. Once their kidneys get this dicky then it's only a matter of time really..

@Waffles - So Oscar Wilde lied to me eh? Obviously not a cycling man.

Hah, mobile phone woez? I scorn them and laugh in the face of your modern type despair! (proud owner of no mobiles, not now, not ever ).

 

[tdr1nka]

We have an 11 year old diabetic golden tabby, Tuesday, who every so often has to
stay overnight at the vets to have her blood sugar levels monitored. Lots of being bothered and poked about by strange people in a strange environment.

To show her disdain she doesn't talk to us for a day or two after.

To your's and Baggy's credit Chuffy, when pets live to such a great innings it is because they have had healthy, contented and very much loved lives.
Tsk. Listen to me! And I'm a dog person at heart.

Tea?