Archive for September 30th, 2004

Lines of Communication

Thursday, September 30th, 2004

Our garage door is broken, one of the wires that allow us to open it has snapped, leaving it jammed open.

So I phone our letting agents, who phone our landlord, who says she’ll get the builders to phone me.

Nothing happens.

So I phone our letting agents, who phone our landlord, who says she’ll phone the letting agents, who phone me.

Nothing continues to happen.

So I phone our letting agents (imagine about a days gap between every paragraph break here. The door has been broken a week now) who phone the landlord, who phones the builders, who subcontract out the door repair to “Acorn doors”, who tell the builders to tell the landlord to tell the letting agents to tell me that they’ll phone me on tuesday to arrange a time to fix the door.

If that doesn’t happen, I’m to phone the letting agents.

Random Numbers Redux

Thursday, September 30th, 2004

Your random-number-fu is useless. The prize has gone (See if you can work out why), but you all get one last guess.

MP was the first. It was 64. Look to your right, if you’re on the front page…