...is the question asked by anyone who knows me even a little.
Today I am meeting an electrician who - I hope - will give us back the hot water which we haven't had for days now, but he might pronounce it a plumber's job, and I will have to go through the whole thing all over again. I replaced the element on our heater only a year or two ago, so I am having a hard job believing that we are going to have to drain the tank all over again so soon.
For the last few weeks, I have been trying to contact a Canadian company, but every time I press 'send' on an email, it shuts down my entire email system and I have to re-configure it all over again after I have trashed the message. This only happens with the Canadian address.
So I went onto Google to see if anyone else has the same problems, and discovered that Canada has very strict anti-spam laws, backed-up with some ferocious software which punishes anyone who DARES to send an unsolicited email to any of Canada's handful of upstanding citizens. I want to buy something from them, FFS!
You would have thought that Canada was isolated enough as it is, but no - The Sleeping Giant wants to put itself into a coma.
Oh, I forgot to mention - my landline phone started to emit crackling sounds from the base-station last night, so I unplugged it a threw it away. Today I buy a new phone too...
ReplyDeleteIndeed, why always you. Too much negative energy in your apartment. Try some positive thinking.
ReplyDeleteI can only think that was irony, coming from your mouth and household as it did.
DeleteSomething is going on in there - maybe something extra-terrestrial is out to get you.
ReplyDeleteThese are only two of the electronic disasters I have had today. I haven't got the energy to explain the other two right now.
DeleteThe phone is Canada calling.
ReplyDeleteHmm. Don't think so...
DeleteWithout hot water, have you joined 'the great unwashed'?
ReplyDeleteI always wanted to start a band called, 'Pits and the Bits'.
DeleteYou remind me of a shop in York which sold hardware
Delete" knobs and knockers"
I know a shoe shop called R Soles.
DeleteBath has a 'Knobs and Knockers'. I know of R Soles. They are quite successful I think. How great to get people saying that in public. A bit like the old trick of calling up your pub and asking a barmaid to shout out, "Is Mike Hunt in the bar?"
DeleteIt took me a minute to figure out why R Soles was funny - it's not in rhotic American English.
DeleteThere is a readymix concrete vehicle that plies it's trade near Hastings called William the Concreter.
ReplyDeleteHa ha! That's a good one. We have a rubbish removal firm here called, 'What a Load of Rubbish'. There is a building company in London run by a couple of Sikh brothers. There slogan is, "You've tried the cowboys, now try the Indians!"
DeleteHave John bring Winnie around for a visit, that should send any negative energies packing. If you're especially nice to her she might even entertain suggestions as to where they should go.
ReplyDeleteToo much slobber.
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