My day so far (in Woking)

My commute was twice as long.
The coffee place with top coffee is closed (moving) so I had something from the canteen that was called coffee and looked like coffee but certainty was never coffee ever in its life.
My Trillian isn't working behind nasty firewall
Some guy is whistling. I have been informed I can't kill him
Some guy has the loudest and most annoying ring tone on the planet. I have been told I can't kill myself.

8 Comments

02 Apr, '03 7:52 AM

A guy in our office just got one of those “smart phones”. It plays the Itchy and Scratchy theme when it rings. Loudly. And the bloke who owns the phone likes to leave it lying around so it can ring and ring and ring all day long.

No judge would convict you.

02 Apr, '03 8:33 AM

3. Adrian

And people think that all those folks who land up in hospitals with phones stuck um rectally is some sex fetish. Sometimes its just loud annoying ring tones and office people with too much / not enough caffeine.

02 Apr, '03 8:34 AM

4. nat

why is it that when people’s phones ring in a public place, they take hours to fish it out of the depths of their (usually inside jacket pocket therefore should only take 2 seconds) and then proceed to leave it ringing very loudly while they examine the screen to see who’s calling. Only when the owner decides that the people in the vacinity have (a) heard he is being called, (b) appreciated his ring tone and popularity and (c) got ready and poised to answer it for him….do they then pick it up….???

02 Apr, '03 9:26 AM

5. d

I’ve noticed that too! Happens all the time on the bus.

One lady obviously didn’t want to answer whoever was calling, and they kept calling, and she kept just staring at it while it rang, stopped, rang again, stopped, rang again…..

eventually I tapped her on the shoulder and said: “If you don’t want to talk to them, why don’t you just TURN IT OFF???”

She did so.

d

02 Apr, '03 9:39 AM

6. Adrian

Most phones have a way off turning them silent or stopping the ring without turning them off. So it rings, you kill the ring, you look who’s calling, you answer or leave it. But you don’t have to let it ring audibly to let it ring

03 Apr, '03 10:55 AM

7. Fer

Or you could try some of these ideas.

22 Feb, '05 9:08 AM

8. Satans helper

A true story from my colleague (who calls himself Satan…)

Laughed so much I was nearly sick.

Subject: Satanic? Moi? The usual eye rolling was going on on the train last night as a woman was rattling away on her mobile at full volume. It’s surprising that some people want to share so many of what you might think were somewhat intimate details with an entire carriage of strangers, but it’s always interesting to see that other people’s lives are just as banal as yours. I could almost imagine this woman giving a whiteboard presentation of her life..”Then in 1987 I discovered I liked onion in my cheese sandwiches and that combiination went very well with a cup of tea…” You get the picture.

Anyways up, she suddenly said “Oh Roy, while I think of it, just take down my new mobile number, it’s 0 7 7 ” blah blah blah.

She starts up again, but a minute later her phone beeps. “Hold on Roy, I have a message” pause… Still unable to control her volume “ROY, can you believe it. Some very rude person calling themselves Satan has just sent me a text saying ‘Shut the f*ck up’…Can you believe that?”

Pandemonium breaks out in the carriage. Bowel control becomes a serious concern. The women sitting opposite me wipes a tear away, points and mouths “That was you wasn’t it” The victim turns to the person sitting next to her and sayd “Don’t you think that’s incredibly rude?” He has been having trouble controlling his shoulder shakes and now uncontrollably spits out. She gets up, grabs her bag and storms out. Suddenly the carriage erupts with cheers and applause.