My bank saw fit to stop my debit card working, because I'd gone to Sweden without telling them and spent somewhere in the region of £25, so they assumed my card had been stolen. I did explain that going into the bank and explaining that I'd still got the card had caused me a lot more inconvenience than I would have suffered if the card had really been stolen by Swedish master criminals, but they assured me that the swift and decisive action by the fraud team (judging by the phone call made by Charlotte at the bank, this team is based in India and speaks very little English) was for my own protection and I should be jolly well grateful. I feel like I ought to demolish the bank with a bulldozer or something, just to show them how annoyed I am. I'd close my account and move my money somewhere else, but I'm pretty sure that every bank in the country uses the services of the same non-anglophone fraud team.
Also, there's a TV advert for Andrex that describes it as "soft, strong and unbeatably long," with small print at the bottom of the screen saying "excluding longer lasting/double roll products". So, it's unbeatably long if you exclude anything that lasts longer? I'm going to describe myself as the world memory champion, excluding those with better memories, from December onwards!
And what's more, it's the weekend and a friend in America has sent me DVDs of all but two episodes of Pocket Dragon Adventures to watch! And I've got the other two on video, so as and when I get round to working how to convert videos into DVDs, I'll be able to circulate a complete set around all the other Pocket Dragon fans in the world! (Except that there are only the two of us, as far as I know)
I know that last one wasn't really a complaint as such, but I wanted to finish on a more cheerful note.
3 comments:
I'm so glad it's not just me that's bothered by the Andrex ad! Here's my blog post on it:
http://blog.g2-tech.co.uk/2010/10/im-the-worlds-greatest-lover/
You're lucky the DVDs weren't too heavy or you'd have ended up potentially paying more money in bloody customs fees than it could have been worth. I found that for a "present" sent by my Aunt, that I hadn't asked for and she'd put a greater value on the outside to make it seem like a big thing so I ended up paying £20 for something I could have got here for about £15!
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