Can I tell you about something I did this morning
because of my own sheer stupidity instead?
( Kroney, Fri 26 Nov 2010, 12:20, 1 reply, 15 years ago)

OK.

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Fri 26 Nov 2010, 12:21, Reply)

OK, it's a long story with precious little pay-off, so bear with me.
I replaced my letterbox a little while ago. It fits really fucking horribly and lets a god-awful draught in. Didn't really matter until this week when the temperature plunged well below Baltic levels. So I went out after work to buy some sealant and fucking coated the letterbox with it. Yes, yes, I know what you're going to say "applying external sealant at night at this time of year? Are you MAD?". No, just cold. I'll reapply it in summer if it doesn't take properly, which it won't.

I was in such a rush to do that last night before my fingers froze right off that I left the interior light on in my car. Got up this morning. Dead battery. The misss works nights, so I had to walk down to meet her as her route home follows the road where a girl got raped recently. Very cold. Then nobody was around to boost me and I don't have Home Start on my AA membership. Then I couldn't remove the battery to take dowen to my local autofactors (to take advantage of their 12 hour "borrow a battery whilst we charge yours" offer because I don't have a 14 mill socket to remove the plate holding the battery down. Got a 13 and a 15, naturally. Of course, I only found this out once I'd disconnected both terminals and removed most of the stiff-as-fuck plastic surrounds.

In the end I had to get the Mum to call the AA out on her policy.

Edit: Oh, and I got sealant on my work trousers.

What a twat, eh?
( Kroney, Fri 26 Nov 2010, 12:34, Reply)

Twat indeed.

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Fri 26 Nov 2010, 12:36, Reply)