Categories: everyday-disasters
Tags: shopping
Date: 15 November 2007 13:40:54
Today I appear to be living backwards. First of all I went to Tesco in the morning, which I would normally do in the afternoon if it hadn't been that my cleaner is off sick. As is my wont, I started at the café, but to my chagrin found that the coffee machine had broken down. I settled for tea, and only noticed after I had filled the pot at the hot water machine, that there were in fact coffee sachets available which I could have used.
After an hour or so doing the shopping, I was starving, so I returned to the café and got myself a sandwich. Then to compensate for the lack of coffee earlier, I took a coffee sachet and made myself a coffee, which I drank after I'd eaten the sandwich. So my day, which would normally go: work-coffee-work-lunch-work-tea (or more often lunch-sleep-tea), has been exactly the other way around. This is confusing.
Following an article I read in a magazine at the hairdresser's on Tuesday, I had also decided that I would attempt a complaint-free day today. This was made more difficult by the breakdown of the coffee machine, and the fact that organic thick-cut ham, for the return of which I have been waiting literally years, was at last on the shelves last week and has totally disappeared from them again this week. How can I sing the Lord's song in the midst of Tesco's uncaringness?
Not to mention the vagaries of the bus stop electronic display last night which told me 1) that a 134 (which I didn't want) was coming, 2) that in fact the next bus was a 43, 3) that two 43s were on their way - whereupon they both came in quick succession and drove straight past the stop; then the display told me that in fact the next bus would be a 134 - then a 43 came, at which point I lost it completely and stood in the middle of the road waving both arms to make sure it stopped. How embarrassing...