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Post by lynette on Aug 3, 2019 11:39:32 GMT
In the middle of one of the worst anxiety attacks of my life over something I said in work today that on reflection I realise might have been taken to mean something other than I intended and I can't now fix it until Monday. Feeling in a complete state of panic at the minute and no idea how to distract myself sufficiently to get through this weekend  Oh dear. I really hate that. I bet you’re over-thinking it though (which I do a lot). If you want to tell us (or someone on here privately) what you said, we might be able to allay your fears but I completely understand if you don’t want to think about it again. Try and be positive and put it to the back of your mind (easier said than done I know). If you really can’t do anything about it until Monday, then just try and have a nice weekend. (This all sounds a bit preachy I know and I’m sure I would be exactly like you.) I don’t know you but find your favourite distraction and go hard at it when you’re not doing other things. Reading, writing (,’rithmetic), singing, gaming, cooking, sport or any combination of the above plus your actual interests might help. O, awful feeling. All my sympathy, poster J. With luck someone at your office will have had an amazing/terrible weekend and met the Queen/lost his dog and that will be all the chat of the workplace. So go slowly and let others lead the conversation. Bet you get off Scott free with whatever you said. Hope so, anyway. We are here. |
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Post by lynette on Aug 3, 2019 11:40:19 GMT
Ps who is Scott? I think scot free 😳😂
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Post by david on Aug 3, 2019 19:49:54 GMT
At the Manc REX today, I may of bumped into a family relation of yours BurlyBeaR - cousin Boris?  |
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Post by BurlyBeaR on Aug 3, 2019 20:17:48 GMT
At the Manc REX today, I may of bumped into a family relation of yours BurlyBeaR - cousin Boris? Finally got a job then. About time!. Hope it’s not dealing with cash, he was in Strangeways last time I checked 😯😆 |
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Post by Tibidabo on Aug 4, 2019 8:53:24 GMT
Rantette alert.
We all know how annoying it is when we get the 'Back to School' adverts before we've broken up in July or Christmas in August. But. It's gonna be a flippin' looooooong year watching those Tokyo Olympics ads.🙄😴
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Post by Deleted on Aug 5, 2019 15:04:17 GMT
I think I may have mentioned before that my neighbours have a doorbell that plays four bars of "Memory". For some reason many of the people who ring it don't quite grasp the idea that one press of the bell causes all four bars to play, and even though they can clearly hear that the doorbell is still making a noise they seem to think that it's necessary to keep hammering away at the button because if the door doesn't open after a few milliseconds they obviously need to try again.
Memory, all al- Memory, all alone in Memory, all Memory, Memory, MemMemMemMemMemory...
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Post by peggs on Aug 5, 2019 16:57:43 GMT
Waiting in my sister's garden to give nephew birthday present, they were due back ages go, I'm tired, very hungry and frankly the rabbit is starting to look quite appealing.
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Post by peggs on Aug 5, 2019 17:05:32 GMT
Waiting in my sister's garden to give nephew birthday present, they were due back ages go, I'm tired, very hungry and frankly the rabbit is starting to look quite appealing. Update. Spying through window have discovered brother in law is in sprawled asleep on sofa and not waking up. I must have looked too hungry, the rabbit has scarpered. |
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Post by lynette on Aug 5, 2019 17:13:16 GMT
Bang on the window.
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Post by ruby on Aug 5, 2019 17:16:46 GMT
We were hoping that work would start on our kitchen today, but the company we've been dealing with have made promises and so far failed to deliver. I hadn't got any shopping in anticipation of this, so had to have a tin of rice pudding for tea. Will have to have some chips at the pub quiz I think.
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Post by lynette on Aug 5, 2019 17:31:54 GMT
We were hoping that work would start on our kitchen today, but the company we've been dealing with have made promises and so far failed to deliver. I hadn't got any shopping in anticipation of this, so had to have a tin of rice pudding for tea. Will have to have some chips at the pub quiz I think. Sympathy, sympathy. Kitchen fitters use completely different diaries to everyone else. I think they buy them when they visit outer space which seems to be where they are when you try to phone them. |
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Post by ruby on Aug 5, 2019 21:48:20 GMT
We were hoping that work would start on our kitchen today, but the company we've been dealing with have made promises and so far failed to deliver. I hadn't got any shopping in anticipation of this, so had to have a tin of rice pudding for tea. Will have to have some chips at the pub quiz I think. Sympathy, sympathy. Kitchen fitters use completely different diaries to everyone else. I think they buy them when they visit outer space which seems to be where they are when you try to phone them. You're right, they must use different diaries and also emails in which Monday 5 August doesn't mean the same as it does on Earth. |
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Post by peggs on Aug 5, 2019 21:51:16 GMT
[br Did try that, he could sleep through an earth quake. Shamelessly shared small child's tea when no one was looking. |
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Post by peggs on Aug 5, 2019 21:53:29 GMT
We were hoping that work would start on our kitchen today, but the company we've been dealing with have made promises and so far failed to deliver. I hadn't got any shopping in anticipation of this, so had to have a tin of rice pudding for tea. Will have to have some chips at the pub quiz I think. Pretty sure I've had a tin of rice pudding voluntarily for tea before when it was late and it seemed perfectly reasonable but that may just be me. No kitchen though, that sucks. |
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Post by Tibidabo on Aug 5, 2019 22:01:27 GMT
he could sleep through an earth quake. I actually did! Well ok, a tremor. I used to live in a country that experienced regular tremors. (This is a good thing - the locals started to worry if they hadn't had one for a while.) Anyway, one morning I got up to find the dishes on the draining board all over the place and a couple* on the kitchen floor. Also, some of the pictures on the wall were wonky. Thinking only that I must have got in the night before slightly worser for wear then usual, I headed off to work to find everyone in extra early and discussing the early morning tremor that had woken them up and lasted for more than 30 seconds. Gulp.😬 *A couple of dishes I mean.... not A Couple...... Although, thinking about it, that would have been quite normal back in those days, tremor or no tremor.🤪 |
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Post by ruby on Aug 7, 2019 19:51:39 GMT
Not that anyone probably wanted a kitchen update, but we're now 99.9% sure we've been scammed. Going to pursue the deposit return through the small claims court next week if we still haven't heard anything. Trying not to mope too much about the loss of my dream shiny red and black kitchen as I realise it's entirely a first world problem and we do still have a functional if not pretty kitchen.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 7, 2019 20:24:06 GMT
I always worry about being scammed. That's why I like to do as much as possible myself: right off the bat I know I'm going to get mediocre workmanship from someone with no idea what they're doing so I'm not disappointed.
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Post by Tibidabo on Aug 7, 2019 20:57:40 GMT
I know I'm going to get mediocre workmanship from someone with no idea what they're doing Have you also perfected that morosely shaking head/tutting/sucky-in-air thing? |
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Post by peggs on Aug 7, 2019 21:03:40 GMT
Not that anyone probably wanted a kitchen update, but we're now 99.9% sure we've been scammed. Going to pursue the deposit return through the small claims court next week if we still haven't heard anything. Trying not to mope too much about the loss of my dream shiny red and black kitchen as I realise it's entirely a first world problem and we do still have a functional if not pretty kitchen. Oh no that's rotten news. Hope you can get your deposit back. |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 8, 2019 11:03:22 GMT
Have you also perfected that morosely shaking head/tutting/sucky-in-air thing? And the "just going to get supplies" then pushing off to the pub thing? Funny you should mention that. It's midday. Time to get some supplies. |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 8, 2019 12:32:01 GMT
Supplies acquired.  |
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Post by 49thand8th on Aug 8, 2019 21:23:23 GMT
Got free ice cream at work today. No complaints.
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Post by Dawnstar on Aug 8, 2019 21:27:41 GMT
@theatremonkey You need to add a dislike button to the board for that sort of post. 3 hours? You could have walked home in less than that, I would think!
I'm on my way home from a really enjoyable comic ballet (& thus far all the transport has worked). A great end to my theatregoing season. I now don't have any theatre booked for over a month as I find the current London show line up utterly uninspiring, apart from a few long runners that I don't need to see again just yet.
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Post by showgirl on Aug 9, 2019 4:03:50 GMT
I should like to thank the total f**kwit who wandered around the tube tracks at Willesden Green, thus making my 40 minute journey home closer to 3 hours. That is all. Really sorry about this; my journey was also affected by this but in my case I was trying only to go from the NT to the Barbican as quickly as possible as I had a timed entry ticket to the art gallery. Would've been faster to walk or get the bus had I known but I was already on the tube and was fortunate that we were only held for about 20 mins, albeit going east so away from the worst disruption. |
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Post by Dawnstar on Aug 9, 2019 11:19:40 GMT
Twice, by my calculation, LOL. You were lucky going the opposite direction. In the end, going westbound, it was a double whammy. First they cleared the loon, then minutes later a train broke down stopping the entire line again. While I can't get a refund for the maniac incident, I'm hoping for one for the train failure, so an ill wind etc... Hope you at least didn't have to spend the whole of the 3 hours in a train. If you did then I'd sue them for heatstroke & psychological distress! I found 10 minutes in a Piccadilly Line train bad enough last night. |
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