I've had 3 new purchases on amazon and ebay - the revo and two books - and i need to send these before the week's out so I thought i'd use my lunchtime to find a post office and buy some stamps at least so that tomorrow when i go to mail the packages i wont have to stand in any long queues.
I checked for the nearest postoffice to the office of the Royal Mail website[1] and was told there was one within a minute's walk. Good!! Very good, i thought.
Since it was only a minute, i didnt think there was any need to feed the post code to streetmap.co.uk[2], like i always do, before setting off.
Now the shock of going out and asking directions only to be told it was 10minutes away by this lady i met in a shop. I was kindda weary of her directions and asked a couple more people... they all kept saying there wasnt a post-office within a minutes walk from the office.
Baffled.. i set off on the directions the lady gave. I was still going after 15minutes. WTF?? So i stop and ask this old man at a bus-stop and he goes, "Turn right into that street there... it's 1minute down that road". OK... so my hopes are high again... I walk another 2minutes.. and i dont see any post office... so i ask another guy.... "10 minutes" he says. What the hell is going on? 1 minutes turns to 10minutes, turns to 16minutes, tunrs to 26minutes? At this rate i might as well walk home!
So i keep walking expecting to be told by another person anytime soon that it was an hour away... or worse. I'm expecting to walk 10minutes before having to ask anyone again so i just keep walking and munching on my Jaffa Cakes. Then only 5minutes after the 10-minute guy... Lo and behold! There's a post office. An actual one with doors and all and a red post box in front of it. Can you believe that?!
What is wrong with people and thier distance-time co-ordination? How difficult is it to tell the difference between 1minute's walk and a half hour journey? I'm dissapointed most in Royal Mail for discieving me in the first place with thier website. The faggots! The worst bit of it all is that they forced me to register to use THAT service! I think they need to pay me to use it.
Anyway.. did i mention that i've got diarrhoea and i was [almost] shitting my pants all this while walking up and down? I made it back just in time to go doo my booboo* in the kaka*. I couldnt believe my luck when i walked into the kaka and there was someone booboo-ing in there already and i had to wait.
*In case you didnt notice those arent actual words
Author: Stormy
Date/Time: January 21, 2003 6:47 PM
Email: wifey@dotfaf.com
URL: http://tristorm.org
Big LOL!!
nice site keep up the good work.
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