I slept reasonably well I suppose, bearing in mind I
had an alarm set. Better than I have in the past. But because I had an alarm
set I was wide awake far too early like I usually am when I have an alarm set.
I watched the last episode of “The Young Ones”
then had a little look at the Internet. It was still there, and not a lot was going
on at half past five. I had a quick Munz, and got ready for work.
There were no bin men to be seen this morning, and no
bin lorry blocking the road as there so often is when I set off on a Friday
morning. They hadn't even sent the advance party to move all the bins in such a
way that they totally block the pavement (as they usually do). Either
they were running late, or changed the bin collection day.
I drove round to the petrol station to refuel. Petrol
looked a tad pricey; I could probably have got it cheaper in Aylesford but the
petrol station there doesn't have sandwiches until late morning. And so for all
that I might have saved some money, I'd have had to mess about going into the
main Sainsburys to get lunch. On the plus side the voucher I had for getting
double nectar points worked this time.
I need to work out just how much a Nectar point is
worth. I've accumulated about fifty quid's worth of them (according to my
Nectar app) but I've been collecting them for years. I should really start
spending more of them.
As I drove the pundits on the radio were interviewing
the head honcho of the Leon fast food chain. No? I'd never
heard of them either. Apparently they flog meals that you can microwave. The
bloke was rather interesting; he said that when he appoints anyone, he looks
for someone who can make meals to be microwaved. He was very clear that he had
no interest in hiring anyone with a "business mindset". He
went on at great length that in his experience people with a "business
mindset" don't make as much money for his company as people who can
actually do the job. He maintained that if you can do the job then that is how
to make money; people who feel that they can "make money"
don't actually do a very good job (for him the job is making dinners)
and so sell less product.
The chap's probably got a point; this is exactly what
happened in the episodes of "Four In A Bed" that I watched
yesterday.
I got to work early, made myself a cuppa
and wordled unsuccessfully. After six goes I still hadn't got it right (racer),
so my streak of getting it right for eighty-three consecutive days came to a
crashing end.
I got on with work, and sulked as I kept looking out
of the window. Yesterday on a day off I'd been kept indoors by constant heavy
rain. It was a dry bright day today. Probably a tad cold, but dry. We could
have gone for a long walk round the woods. It's probably for the best that we
didn't; I seem to have constantly aching hips these days, but I do like a long
walk round the woods.
Just before lunch time I had a phone call from someone
called Mella who claimed to be calling on behalf of the Three network.
Apparently my Three sim card would be blocking up in two days' time unless I
gave her lots of money. I asked her how many people fall for that scam because
I'd like to start a scam like that myself. Mella pretended not to understand. I
then asked her how she sleeps at night. She asked me what I meant by that; I
explained that decent people don't randomly phone strangers and try to con them
out of money. She didn't think there was anything wrong in trying to trick me
into paying for a phone service that I don't use. I asked her how she would
feel if I reported her to the police for trying to obtain money under false pretences.
She replied that I could report her to whoever I liked.
I suppose that call went better than some I've had. I
actually did make one of these scammers cry once; that idiot woman was trying
to sell double glazing for a company with which I'd had an incredibly bad
experience and had a track record of declaring itself bankrupt and then
starting up again under a slightly different name. That woman claimed to have
had no idea of the history of her employer. From her reaction she might have
been telling the truth.
Mella seemed to be quite aware that she was operating
a scam. I've blocked her number, but I expect her or someone else will just
call from another number before too much longer.
An early start made for an early finish, but it was
dark when I got home. “er indoors TM” boiled
up a good dinner and we scoffed it whilst watching more “Junior Bake Off”
and “Traitors”.
I’m feeling a bit worn out – the poor night and early start
has taken its toll…
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