Thursday, December 31, 2009
56 of 365TTSM - people who put their rubbish in my skip.
55 of 365TTSM - masking tape
Wednesday, December 30, 2009
54 of 365TTSM - vanishing salespeople
This was the powertools helpdesk at the hardware shop this morning. Just minutes before this photo was taken, it was attended by several people. Then my significant other and I had a question we needed to ask about a power tool and they all mysteriously vanished. We saw several in the distance and as we walked towards them, they all seemed to somehow move further away from us. Several times we turned to speak to one we saw out of the corner of our eyes, only for it to turn out to be an apparent trick of the light. Finally, by each of us walking in opposite directions of a circle, we managed to trap one between us. By his greying hair and look of general experience, we considered we'd made a pretty good catch. "Does this router have a half inch collet?" we asked. "I don't know," he replied. We gave up and bought it anyway.
Tuesday, December 29, 2009
53 of 365TTSM - skip amnesia
Monday, December 28, 2009
52 of 365TTSM - smoke alarm that can't tell the difference between life-threatening inferno and two slices of toast.
Sunday, December 27, 2009
51 of 365TTSM - stuff that's too big to fit in the car
Saturday, December 26, 2009
50 of 365TTSM - abnormally large spiders leaping about when they should be sleeping.
Friday, December 25, 2009
49 of 365TTSM - committing to blog every day for a year
Thursday, December 24, 2009
48 of 365TTSM - book pile size and holiday length don't match.
Wednesday, December 23, 2009
47 of 365TTSM - kettles that take a very long time to boil
Tuesday, December 22, 2009
46 of 365TTSM - Shops playing contemporary Christmas carols
Monday, December 21, 2009
45 of 365TTSM - that this should make me love my insurance company
Sunday, December 20, 2009
44 of 365TTSM - paint rollers that don't roll
Saturday, December 19, 2009
43 of 365TTSM - big dopy blowfly
Friday, December 18, 2009
42 of 365TTSM - People who blog about their children
Thursday, December 17, 2009
41 of 365TTSM - crazy volume control button on cheap radio
Wednesday, December 16, 2009
40 of 365TTSM - painting coveralls that let paint through
This is a large paint stain on one of my many pairs of favourite Kathmandu trousers (I liked them so much I bought several pairs). The paint stain occurred THROUGH the painting coveralls I was wearing. I would assume that if I bought something designed to be worn while painting, that one of its purposes would be to ensure that paint DID NOT GET THROUGH ONTO MY TROUSERS. But instead I spent 15 hours looking like a nuclear waste disposal expert and getting quite hot and still ended up with paint on my trousers. Ripped off again.
Tuesday, December 15, 2009
39 of 365TTSM - Flies with no sense of self-preservation
Monday, December 14, 2009
38 of 365TTSM - expanding foam (it's a love/hate thing)
Sunday, December 13, 2009
37 of 365TTSM - the boat
Saturday, December 12, 2009
36 of 365TTSM - The skip
Yesterday I rang up and ordered a four cubic metre skip to be delivered at 9am today. This is the two cubic metre skip that arrived at 2.30pm. The delivery man was annoyingly chirpy and cheerful.
Friday, December 11, 2009
35 of 365TTSM - cleaning
Thursday, December 10, 2009
34 of 365TTSM - people who stick glowy stars to ceilings
Wednesday, December 9, 2009
33 of 365TTSM - teaspoons that melt in hot liquid
Tuesday, December 8, 2009
32 of 365TTSM - Shenandoah
Sunday, December 6, 2009
31 of 365TTSM - Aurora Energy
Customer service officer: Oh, that's a different driver's licence number to the one you gave us last time.
Me: Yes, that's because I live in another state now.
CSO: Well, we'll need you to fax us a copy of your current licence so we can verify your identity.
Me: I am in a car. I don't have a fax. Can't I just tell you my licence number?
CSO: No, we have to see it.
Me: Well, can you tell me where you have a shopfront and I'll bring it in and show someone, because that's easier for me.
CSO: No, we don't have shopfronts. You'll have to fax it.
Me: But you don't know what I look like. You've only spoken to me on the phone. How would you know it was actually me on the licence.
CSO: (long silence) You'll have to fax it.
Me: I don't have a fax. Who still uses faxes?
CSO: You can go to a post office and do it.
Me: (Defeated) Thank-you. I will go and visit the post office's museum of 20th century technology and fax you a copy of my drivers licence.
CSO: I'll just give you our fax number.
Saturday, December 5, 2009
30 of 365TTSM - rego sticker keeps curling up
It has been extremely hard to find something that fits in the "things that shit me" category today. I've only been on leave for 24 hours and already I have a lightness of heart and spring in my step that doesn't bode well for pursuing this blog theme for the next month. However, I will persist, because I have made a commitment to a year of irritant pictures. This picture is the current view from our car window as we sit in the queue waiting to board the Spirit of Tasmania. The queue doesn't shit me at all, because I'm sitting here feeling very tech-savvy blogging in the passenger seat and anticipating the glass of Jantsz awaiting me in the restaurant shortly. The thing that shits me is the car registration sticker in the bottom left hand corner of the picture. It has been curling off for several weeks and I have pressed it back down roughly a dozen times. I do it quite firmly and smartly, and it sticks flat for about 30 seconds, and then slowly curls up again, in a somewhat snarky manner. But it only shits me a little bit.
29 of 365TTSM - I just know I've forgotten something
This is the bag I am packing to go on holiday tomorrow. What shits me about it is that despite writing a very long list of all the things I need to include, and checking it twice, I just know I've forgotten something. But I don't know what I've forgotten. To make up for the fact that I know I've forgotten something, I've added several random extra things that I know I won't need and which will start to shit me as soon as I begin living out of my suitcase. I know that I will remember the thing I have forgotten when we reach that point in our travels where we are borderline between being close enough to turn back and so far away that turning back would be a major inconvenience. By the time I argue with myself the merits of turning back vs continuing on, we will be past the point of no return and I'll need to buy a new one of the thing I've forgotten, which will turn out to be one of those things that I only ever use on holiday, so it will then spend the rest of the year put away in a safe place so that I won't ever see it, and as a result will forget it next time I go on holiday.
Friday, December 4, 2009
28 of 365TTSM - Telstra was the best option and the salesperson was nice
Thursday, December 3, 2009
27 of 365 TTSM - caffeinated energy drinks
Wednesday, December 2, 2009
26 of 365TTSM - Dog is not very cuddly any more.
This is our dog. He died just over a year ago. It still feels wrong to open the front door when I get home from work and have no dog waiting to say hello. On the plus side, he can now sit on the table, which he wasn't allowed to do when he was alive. Sometimes I sit with him on my lap, but his urn is really not very cuddly. We keep meaning to take him to Tasmania with us and scatter him at his favourite former walking spot, but we keep putting it off. Partly because the lid of the urn is glued on very solidly and I feel bad about the fact that I'll have to smash it to get him out. Jeff has suggested we could glue him to a skateboard and take him for walks, but I'm worried the skateboard might tip over and he'd smash.
Tuesday, December 1, 2009
25 of 365TTSM - non-vegetarians eat all the vegetarian food
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