😠 The Little Annoyances Of Everyday Life (Part 1)

Morning commute to work gets hit by a perfect storm of car crashes leaving your part of town gridlocked.

It takes 90 minutes for an 8.5 mile journey.

You finally get to the office.

There is no milk for your coffee.

The internet is down because someone cut through the cable st a construction site.

So you could have stayed at home & been more productive.

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Getting up at 4am driving to the airport and flying to Prague, getting a taxi to the venue for a meeting only to find that they have another show loading in and that ā€œdue to sensitive equipment will have to limit my access to the venueā€

I realise this is a bit niche but its pretty much ruined my trip, plus its 9am and I am already knackered.

On the plus side an excellent lunch awaits.

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What’s the show @prickly ?

Oh yes, had those types of days.

Call the client (in Kuwait) reconfirm the meeting for next day. Head to airport, call client. He reconfirms that he will pick you up from the airport.

Land in Kuwait, clear customs. No client. Call - mobile off. Call office - secretary says. Yes he is on a business trip to UK and left an hour ago. ā€œHow long has that been planned?ā€ I rage… Oh at least a month because of his Visa…

But at least you are in Prague :slight_smile:

Corporate stuff Cobham, my rock n roll days are behnd me.

Prague indeed, its a great city, I fly to Krakau tonight for more meetings, I have only visited once before and I am looking forward to a couple of days in a new(ish) town

House of Beer. (yeah sure you can get beer anywhere in town but this place sells about 250 types with about 15 on tap) #ultimatecraftbeer

Then there is the English Football Club - BUT next door to that is the Vodka Bar where they will serve you Chocolate Chilli Vodka and life will never be the same again.

Morskie Oko for proper ā€œtouristā€ food not the rip off places around the actual square.

Lucky bugger! :slight_smile:

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I wouldn’t say it’s that new, given it became the capital of Poland and a leading centre of trade in Eastern Europe in the 11th Century.

Now, Milton Keyes - that’s what I’d call a new(ish) town.

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Ah ha

The Vodkas - about 1.50 for a ā€œsamplerā€ tray if I remember right

Chilli Choc Chilli Hazelnut then fvcked if I can remember

House of Beer Drafts

And yes I am annoyed I’m not going to be there this weekend.

But then I am happy about parking my butt in a Mavrud filled cellar instead at the same time

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Cheers Phil, I’ll report back when I have sobered up on Thursday.

Just when we thought we had a proper link to show biz…

:lou_sad:

20 years of touring, all behind me now. (Behind the scenes, all kicked off in the Park Hotel in Shirley) still like to take in a show though.

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When the wife wins a competition for the 1st time in her life.

And it’s a BIGGIE.

VIP Red Carpet tickets to the local Premiere of Geostorm.

Complete with Stars & Director types and full on media hype.

And the gig kicks off 90 minutes after our plane to Sofia takes off.

:lou_facepalm_2: :lou_facepalm_2: :lou_facepalm_2: :lou_facepalm_2:

I swear it’s an hour since the notification and she’s STILL throwing things around the office

:zipper_mouth: :cool:

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Time to vent! My neighbours are total assholes. They ripped out a perfectly nice hedge 2 years ago and replaced it with. 7 foot high fence. We are having an extension built and a lot of the rubble has gone into gablions which are situated just inside the line of the fence so we can level off our lawn. The twat next door has phoned our building controller saying that the gabions are on his land (despite being on our side of a 7ft friggin fence)!

Argggghhhh!!!

Twat!!!

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Took half day off to be in for the delivery of a ton of gravel - just called the delivery depot and they have no record of it. The firm we ordered it from is now closed until Monday.

To top it off also arranged or repair guy to come and fix the water dispenser in our fridge. Takes one look sucks in through his teeth and says it’ll be a job for two and buggers off - this is the 3rd ā€œengineerā€ sent out. None of them have a fucking clue.

Only positive is that Young Adult #1 is back from Uni for a few days :blush:

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Not sure where to put this, but this pissed me off this morning

Yeah I saw that too. I remember at a unison conference a while back a Zimbabwean nurse talking to us about what was happening in her country. Not sure there was a dry eye in the house.

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Not measuring up properly so that when your new sofa is delivered you realise you are going to need a plumber to remove a radiator and a multi tool to cut out some skirting.

:lou_angry:

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I once bought a beautiful art deco wardrobe. Came in several bits. A right pain to collect and get back home. To our 1930s house. Same era as the wardrobe. Could get the bloody thing up the stairs. Thankfully sold it quickly and got my money back.

Always measure up properly and check how it will get into the room you want it in.

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Is Art Defo when the dealer convinces you that it’s genuine?

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