Mundane facts about your day...

[staffordjas]

Just back from a 'nice walk'....got absolutely drowned when the torrential rain came down, walking through flooded roads and pavements, and cars going past like speedboats

 

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Felt so guilty just, even though I wasn't....

Walked to the Co-op earlier this morning and stuck the can of furniture polish I'd bought in my handbag to carry it home. Just realised I needed spuds for tea, so walked back up the Co-op to get some. Stuck my hand in my handbag at the till for my purse and realised the polish was still in there from earlier. Had the receipt for it, but thinking to my self "How can I prove that is the actual can on the receipt?"

On the subject of receipts....... I always thought a receipt proved that you had paid for the goods when leaving the shop. What's all this latest "Do you want a receipt?" thing lately (and most people are saying no, even when they have paid by card. I always keep by visa slips to check off on my bank account). Sometimes the assistant has already screwed it up and thrown it in the bin before I can say I want one! Then looks amazed when I say I want it and she has to fish it back out of the bin.

For many of us receipts are a nuisance if you’re buying something that clearly isn’t going to end up being returned for any reason.

It’s just another thing to throw away or find in the back of my car in a month or so. I basically never take receipts unless it’s a business purchase, potentially returnable (ie not a consumable) or a larger transaction.

 

[staffordjas]

For many of us receipts are a nuisance if you’re buying something that clearly isn’t going to end up being returned for any reason.

It’s just another thing to throw away or find in the back of my car in a month or so. I basically never take receipts unless it’s a business purchase, potentially returnable (ie not a consumable) or a larger transaction.

Yeah, I can see people don't want bits of paper everywhere, but I remember when my mum was working in Victor Values supermarket in Stafford (going back a bit here....) they were having stuff knicked regularly . Customers were stopped as they were going out of the doors and without a receipt for the goods in their shopping bag they were done for shoplifting.

(They know one woman was nicking loads each visit but couldn't catch her. Turned out she was sending her little kids outside with stuff , who weren't searched at first, and then paying for just a few items herself so didn't have the stolen goods on her as she was going out the door)

 

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Yeah, I can see people don't want bits of paper everywhere, but I remember when my mum was working in Victor Values supermarket in Stafford (going back a bit here....) they were having stuff knicked regularly . Customers were stopped as they were going out of the doors and without a receipt for the goods in their shopping bag they were done for shoplifting.

(They know one woman was nicking loads each visit but couldn't catch her. Turned out she was sending her little kids outside with stuff , who weren't searched at first, and then paying for just a few items herself so didn't have the stolen goods on her as she was going out the door)

Nowhere checks you without huge suspicion now, as doing so is a great way to get your business dragged through the mud. If a member of a supermarket chain did it they’d lose their job

 

[staffordjas]

After dreaming last night that I went for a job in the Co-op and needed to write a CV....

Woke up realising that most of the places on my present CV no longer exist! All the managers mentioned on them have either died, or any contact numbers and addresses no longer apply. And the younger people interviewing me nowadays probably would have no idea what I was on about listing the computer systems (paper tape, punch card, floppy disk, key to disk etc ) and Telex and Fax machines. Accounting systems I used are obsolete (actually writing with a pen onto millions of lines on the paper rather than inputting into a computer, and working out on a calculator or in my head).

The schools that I have worked in and are still existing now all have new headteachers, and mostly new staff who wouldn't know who the hell I was if anyone contacted them for a reference.

Looks like staying a lady of leisure and enjoying my early retirement


In the meantime, in my boredom , am doing dummy bookings for the holiday that I am dreaming of in Portugal . But watching any remaining flight seats and suites disappearing fast in from of my eyes while hubby waits for brexit to get sorted before he will actually book

 

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hubby waits for brexit to get sorted before he will actually book

Hope you enjoy your trip to Portugal in 2063

 

[staffordjas]

Hope you enjoy your trip to Portugal in 2063

I hope I do as well..I'll be 107 then Don't think we will be able to pick the extra leg room seats by the emergency exits then , unless I'm still looking super young enough to look like I could get the doors open in an emergency.

 

[Gramaisc]

When my parents moved back to Ireland in the '90s, they took a 6' x 8' wooden shed with them.

A lad who drank in the pub was trying to decide what to do when he left school and came round to investigate it and measure it up, with a view to going into the shed business.

He has just put up a picture on Facebook of the latest of many shed-related projects since then...

 

[Trumpet]

Shedtastic mates.

 

[staffordjas]

Fed up of waiting for things to happen quickly enough and people who say they are going to ring back to actually ring back .

Son either can't get a phone signal in his flat,or the signal drops out before he's completed his calls. Hence me keeping in touch with him on Whattsapp and ringing everywhere to do with his houses purchase on his behalf ....I've got to be the most impatient person ever waiting for calls back!!!

The sellers are the ones who imposed short time limits as a condition of accepting his offer. (those dates now come and gone ). Our Lawyer is efficient and working fast, informing of progress at each stage, and supplying copies of all the documents etc so far (Over 200 interesting pages ...). We have done all the signing that needs signing, with mortgage and money in place ready for the off........But it's the buyers solicitors in Worcester being super dozy @rses that are holding everything up !

Luckily sons flat rental doesn't end for another 3 months. 'Man with a Van' might find himself having a longer journey than planned, with a trip down the motorway to Stafford to store sons furniture in our garage instead if it drags out too long...

Now got just another 5 minutes to wait for the promised "I'll call you back in an hours time when I get back to the office for my diary" .......

 

[staffordjas]

Think my phone must be broken, got none of the promised calls back..... absolutely nothing done today that I'd planned and now super bored and p1ssed off

 

[staffordjas]

Got annual holiday insurance renewal in the post, rang and negotiated £80 off it ( both on meds so expensive)
Told hubby I'd saved us £80....


" For what? We aren't going abroad again within this next year or so!"

Just offered son one of our nice new suitcases I splashed out last year on for holidays .

Now in a super pissed off mood and ran out of cider

 

[proactive]

Got annual holiday renewal in the post, rang and negotiated £80 off it ( both on meds so expensive)
Told himubby I'd saved us £80....


" For what? We aren't going abroad again within this next year or so!"

Just offered son one of our nice new suitcases we splashed out on for holidays .

Now in a super pissed off mood and ran out of cider

Just go and book the holiday anyway. If he doesn't want to go then go on your own or ask a friend to go with you.

 

[staffordjas]

Just go and book the holiday anyway. If he doesn't want to go then go on your own or ask a friend to go with you.

Booked a surprise holiday to Torquay years ago for his bday. He refused to get in the car, till I slung his clothes out of the case and was going on my own with son.
Ended up him getting into car, and a silent journey as far as Taunton services , where he had to speak as we bumped into the plasterer due to do work on our house .

Ended up the best holiday ever ... Told you I'm always right in the end

Although , along with the documents for the remaining few weeks of insurance which got torn up in my rage tonight, I just stopped myself cutting up his passport....

 

[Trumpet]

This all sounds so familiar. He must be Mrs T's long lost brother.

 

[Lucy]

Wow... If you want to do something then no one should stop you.

 

[Carole]

Poor you @staffordjas , I’m struggling to understand your husbands logic in not wanting to holiday abroad until after Brexit.

So he doesn’t want to go on holiday while things are exactly the same, he wants to wait until things are different?

It doesn’t seem to make much sense.

 

[staffordjas]

Poor you @staffordjas , I’m struggling to understand your husbands logic in not wanting to holiday abroad until after Brexit.

So he doesn’t want to go on holiday while things are exactly the same, he wants to wait until things are different?

It doesn’t seem to make much sense.

I know I've given up hoping now (and the suites have now all gone for all days in both the June and September fortnights I was looking at in the nice place we stayed last year anyway )


Don't suppose son and his mates would be very happy if I turned up to join them on their Croatian music festival holiday.

Diet now gone to pot !

 

[Cue]

Today’s bizarre weather has been incredibly bothersome.

Went to drop off a chest of drawers somewhere, and it rained only during that. The moment we got inside and I drove off it cleared.

Decided I’d strim the lawn perimeter as it was getting unruly, got that done, went to go wash the car and the heavens open again for all of 5 minutes

 

[staffordjas]

Nipped out 'quickly' in my dressing gown and uncombed hair to the top of my neighbours driveway to feed the starving (seemingly) stray cat that me and my neighbour are hoping to get to trust us enough to eventually get it to the vets. Ended up standing there defending it from Mr bully boy cat whilst he ate...... rather embarrassing as the usually quiet area suddenly had leaflet distributors, gardeners and what seemed like half the estate walking past to see me looking so glamourous in my 'just got out of bed' look in my dressing gown and pj's

If anyone knows of a lost ginger and white fluffy cat that's been missing for a while , this one appeared around our area on Wildwood a few months ago. Looked well cared for at first, but it's condition seems to have gone downhill since then. Stroked it yesterday as it was was trying to get water while I was washing the car and it was all just bones under it's matted fur.

Edited to say...just seen this cat on current spotted.....not sure if it's my neighbour posted this , but this is the cat we have been watching out for as well....