oh happy joy

[fingertrouble]

Last night, after a really crap and stressful day at work, I get home, and put the wrong key in the lock.

Oh silly me, I think and fish for my other key.

It's not there.

Cue loads of banging on doors, people not being in, taxi trips to landlords to get a  pass key that doesn't work then abandoning ship to Surbiton. I'll probably repeat this tomorrow, as I have very little faith in the landlord getting a copy of the key to me before then.

And my mobile is dead - it opened up to camera mode in my pocket,. so the battery almost died while I was trying to talk to the landlord. and now doesn't seem to want to charge with the borrowed charger. One guess where the numbers for the landlord is...apart from inside my flat, that is.

And now to 'cheer me up'  a work colleague has made the Tom Baker joke. The one I've been plagued with since childhood, and went down like a lead balloon with me. And still working on that project.

Not my worst day, or days, but certainly top 10.

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Not my worst day, but certainly top 10.

[ursine1.livejournal.com]

That really sucks. And not in a good way.

Chuck

[maclondon.livejournal.com]

[treads carefully] dare I ask what 'The Tom Baker Joke' is? [/tip toes away]

[timbearcub.livejournal.com]

I should have put it in quotes it's more of a 'joke', more of a lack of a joke, a lack of originality in humour. People like pointing out the similarity with my name and find it oh so funny for some reason.

It lost it's initial shine when I was about 8, it's just fucking annoying now.

I do now know that making fun of someone's name is the quickest route to annoying them. Works everytime.

[tigerbeard.livejournal.com]

I'm also blessed with a surname capable of generating 'hilarious' and very obvious jokes. It always amazes me that people think they are the first people to think of it.

I find a punch to the throat works.

[timbearcub.livejournal.com]

exactly. It's also meant I never wear scarves, cos some wag will point out.

I usually do the stare of death and stare them down. It works everytime, but casual extreme violence? It's all good.

and there wasn't even any food

[johnlindsay.livejournal.com]

but there was some wine and there will be phood tonite

Re: and there wasn't even any food

[timbearcub.livejournal.com]

I managed just fine with my chinese feast - altho my jeans still wear the scars.

Looking forward to that. Predictably phoned up Landlord's office today and they'd not heard of making a new key, so good I reminded them. He forgot, as I thought he would.

He lives in a massive big fuckoff mansion in Belsize Park - this is where my rent goes :-o

[viridescence]

I am so sorry for your awful day. And name jokes never go over well with me -- there are lots of variations on my first name and people think they're so clever, as if they're the first to ever think of it.

Coincidentally I had an odd dream that mentioned you. I don't remember most of it, except that an old friend of mine (whom I barely speak to anymore in real life) turned out to be a former classmate of yours. I was really irritated at him, because I'd spoken of your podcast and he never mentioned it before. I considered this a huge insult and stopped talking to him completely. Aren't dreams fantastic?

[holy13nation.livejournal.com]

My surname is Murray.
You know...Murray mint, too good to hurry mint.
A grown man said this to me very recently.
Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha...
sorry about the shitty day.