Monday 21 March 2016

Why always me?

...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.

17 comments:

  1. 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...

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  2. Indeed, why always you. Too much negative energy in your apartment. Try some positive thinking.

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    1. I can only think that was irony, coming from your mouth and household as it did.

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  3. Something is going on in there - maybe something extra-terrestrial is out to get you.

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    1. These are only two of the electronic disasters I have had today. I haven't got the energy to explain the other two right now.

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  4. Without hot water, have you joined 'the great unwashed'?

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    1. I always wanted to start a band called, 'Pits and the Bits'.

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    2. You remind me of a shop in York which sold hardware
      " knobs and knockers"

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    3. I know a shoe shop called R Soles.

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    4. Bath 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?"

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    5. It took me a minute to figure out why R Soles was funny - it's not in rhotic American English.

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  5. There is a readymix concrete vehicle that plies it's trade near Hastings called William the Concreter.

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    1. Ha 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!"

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  6. Have 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.

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