My week has been odd. So many things didn’t go to plan that I’m putting it all down as an exercise in learning to laugh. I could tell you so many little stories here, but hopefully the four snippets below give you a glimpse at the clumsy adventure that is my life.
One. With three days left on the warranty my beautiful MacBook Pro hit the grey screen of death. It wouldn’t boot, didn’t recognise any system files and there was nothing I could do. Looks like a logic board problem so UPS whipped it away to a Mac hospital and I’m praying it gets back to me soon. It was a laugh or I’ll cry situation.
Two. On Friday I nipped to Superdrug to pick up some new nail varnish but the ones I wanted were all out of stock. I was one of those customers retail assistants hate; in just before closing time and leaving empty handed. As I headed towards the door, it opened and a burst of wind blew against the cardboard advertising sleeve that was covering the security scanners. Seeing the movement out of the corner of my eye, dizzy me thought the entire thing was falling over and leapt out of the way as if I was being attacked. Queue an entire store of workers laughing at the girl that probably looked drunk. So cool.
Three. Matt and I picked up weekend supplies in Tesco. I had some vouchers to use up so I picked up lots of pastry. We hit self service to try and skip queues but as we got to the pay screen, the checkout froze and we had to move over to another and scan it all through again. If self service wasn’t already torturous enough, I was hangry (hungry/angry) and then… “unexpected item in bagging area”. Assistant comes to help. Crash. Repeat. I believe I now hold the record for the longest check out time. It all got a bit stressful.
We got back to the car and the second I sat down it dawned on me; through all the messing around at the checkouts, I hadn’t even used the vouchers for the mountains of pastry I’d bought. UGH!
Four. I had a real ‘deaf girl moment’ on Saturday morning. Matt woke me up and we lay around chatting and catching up on news and our twitter feeds. I won’t tell you exactly what he said, but I completely missheard and a few awkward seconds passed before Matt realised I’d got the wrong end of the stick and corrected me. This has been happening so often lately, I’m just glad we can laugh about it!
How was your week? Did you get attacked by any security scanners? Have you hilariously misheard something?
sofiagrey1 says
Yup, I had a spectacular mis-hearing at work. I’m a Brit, transplanted to New Zealand, and even though I’ve been here for years, the soft lilting accent still catches me out sometimes.
Talking to a Kiwi lady at work (R), and I mentioned I’d seen a poster about massage in the workplace.
R: I saw a lady with a beard.
Me: What?
R: Yes, she was carrying it.
Me: Um, what’s this got to do with the massage therapist?
R: (puzzled) She carried a beard. For the massage. She’ll set up in an empty office.
Me: (totally confused) She massages with a beard?!?
R: (now looking at me as though I’m strange) No, you lie on the beard of course.
And that’s when it clicked. She was saying BED. Now replay the above conversation, and it makes sense * facepalm *
Vicki Higham says
Haha! Ah Sofia that really is a facepalm moment. Thank you for giving me a giggle! I find the New Zealand twang pretty hard to decifer too!
Alice says
Oh Vicki I’m so glad I’m not the only dippy person who forgets to use her vouchers. Seriously- I’m SO useless for it! Thank goodness your Mac was in warranty though- definitely look on the bright side with that one!!
Alice xx | The Cup and Saucer
Vicki Higham says
Glad it isn’t just me!
Oh yes, by the skin of my teeth on that one!