Rice with...
After I was made redundant, I got a temp job, that led by way of recommendation to another temp job and then another. My luck and work ran out around 18 months later and I was severely skint. I signed on but my job seekers allowance was delayed through various bureaucratic bollox about the number of day's leave I had and when I took them in the past 12 months.

I drew the last few quid out of my account and bought a load of cat food!! (no not for me silly, for my cat - yeah I'm a softie when it comes to cats!). About the only thing of substance I had in my food cupboards was rice. When it came to meal times I would have rice with sweet and sour sauce, when the sugar ran out I started making a curry sauce. This went on for a week and both rice and cat food supplies were getting dangerously low. I was close to either begging outside supermarkets or going cap in hand to my parents.

Salvation came in the shape of a phone call "Hi Vambo it's Val. Listen we are really short staffed because four people have gone down with the 'flu! Can you start right away?!"

Is the bear a Catholic? Does the Pope shit in the woods?! Quick shit, shower and shave and I was there. Later that day "Val, any chance of a sub until pay day?"

I finally got my back dated job seekers allowance two weeks later.
( Vambo, Fri 16 Nov 2007, 14:46, Reply)