Morons on phones

    No, not the ones who wander around with their cellphone welded to their ears, bellowing into the microphone in a self-important manner – I mean sales people. I phoned a steel stockist on Tuesday to order (surprisingly) some steel. I explained we didn’t have an account, gave him the order and asked for a proforma invoice so we could pay, and get the gear. No problem right? 😐 So, I called back today to ask where my invoice was and got this incredibly stoopid sales monkey: Sales Monkey: “Do you have an account number?” Me: “No, I explained when I […]

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    My favourite pastime: shopping

    Sarcasm doesn’t really come across on a blog does it? So, was up early today and decided to do my shopping before the sheep all goto Tesco. It’s actually quite nice early in the morning – parking spot near the door (for a fast getaway), the aisles are fairly clear, and the checkouts unclogged. There were a few people around though, and I saw something that makes my blood boil: Parents who sit/stand their kids IN the trolley. Now the trolleys have a child seat for little ‘uns which is understandable, but letting their germ-ridden shoes into the bit where […]

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    Mid-week, hobbits, hairy feet and no coffee

    So, here we are at Wednesday again – traditionally the day when weekends are planned (yeah right! I prefer the ‘go with the flow’ approach). It’s also (more importantly) the point in the working week where the weekend is closer than the beginning 🙂 The annoying thing is that the coffee machine has run out of black coffee and I can’t be bothered making my own 😐 so I’m stuck with the choices: Drinking white coffee (bleugh) Being nice to Corina so that she makes me coffee *Sigh* and it’s only 10.30 so an early dinner isn’t really an option. […]

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    It’s Friday!

    Woop, woop! Had a good day in Hahn yesterday – got the job done in about 3 hours and had 4 hours to myself before I could could check-in (I was on standby and had to wait for everyone else to check-in before I could be guaranteed a seat). The weather was lovely so I decided to take a walk into the village about 1km from the airport, find a bar/cafe and sit there for a while and practice my (incredibly bad considering I took it for 2 years at school – but that was a LONG time ago*) German. […]

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