Chaos
I had the day off work today, to stay in for the Sky man! Funny, I happened to mention it to Andy, and he happened to mention he “has to come round and see me in the New Year…..”
It was a pain in the arse really - the Sky man came at 10 this morning (which was good), but the first thing he asked me was, “Do you have your Sky card?” Of course not - do you know how long things are taking to get here by post at the moment? Plus, although it is 10 o’clock, the postman hasn’t been yet, something to do with improved efficiency at the Post Office….
He fitted it all, I could sit and watch BBC London (very useful), and Central. I could also watch all the shopping channels. He left about 11 o’clock.
The postman came around noon - and hooray of all hoorays, my Sky card was in there. Excellent. All I have to do is put it in the box, ring Sky, and all will be luvvly jubbly.
25 minutes later, I finally got to speak to someone at Sky. All went well, he stepped me through all the buttons to press, he was obviously pressing buttons at his end, things were progressing. Then we get to the final step. “Right, you have to hang up the phone, then press the ’select’ button, and wait a few seconds. What should happen is you get a message saying all is now connected, press ’select’ again, and then everything will be fine.” I laughed. “And if it’s not? I have to wait another 25 minutes on the phone?” “Well, I’ll give you another number, which should be quicker to get through on, but you can’t do the next process while the phone line is in use.”
What a stupid system! Luckily, it did all work properly.
Then I headed into town. Of course, it was chaos down there. I was a naughty girl. After dropping Andy’s Christmas card off, I just *happened* to leave my car parked in his ‘resident’s only parking’ street. Again, luckily the traffic wardens were busy elsewhere today.
I now have all my Christmas presents I think. Including a whole bunch I have bought myself (on top of the Sky subscription). I have wrapped half of them, but got bored.
Tomorrow, I need my luck to hold further. My MOT is up tomorrow, and it is booked in to get another one tomorrow. Fingers (and everything else) crossed nothing too major needs doing to prevent them issuing me with it. I don’t fancy being stuck here with no car over Christmas, especially as I have no food!