...you have to wait in all day for a delivery? Grr, there's so many better things I could be doing right now

Yep, or when you have a bit of time between lessons you would love to use to run to the bank, but the weather is so horrendous that you will be absolutely soaked by the time you are back, even using a brolly.

Meh!

or the minute you go out it arrives and you have to pick up from the depot ...

Some people are really good about calling you half an hour before it's due to arrive, so at least you can pop out somewhere in the immediate vicinity. Unfortunately the ones who are really good atthis aren't necessarily the ones that tell you they're going to do it...

Only topped by my postman, who somehow always (!!!) rings the doorbell when I'm under the shower.

If I am expecting a delivery, I think to myself: "Okay, he's usually here just before 9, so let's get a quick shower." Wrong, that very day, he'll be there just after 8.
The next time, I think: "Okay, I'll stay in my pyjamas until he was here." Nothing until 11, my first student will be in soon, so I really need to get going unless I want to teach looking like a tramp. And guess what happens? The minute I step under the shower, the doorbell rings!

What is wrong with that man?

ha, yes - and then you have to wait for at least 48 hours before you are allowed to pick it up, then you have to get out of bed half an hour early to get there before work because they are closed in the afternoons, you have to wait for an age to get to the window because they are queuing out the door and they only have one serving hatch open, then you find that they STILL haven't managed to get the package back from the main depot to the more local depot, and then, you are still late for work (and without lovely new sheet music).

This actually happened to me last week. I was not a happy bunny AT ALL!

... the boiler packs up on a Friday night (this was last week so it is fixed now ).


No hot water for a whole weekend

The wireless function on your router stops working so you have to sit on the stairs next to the only wire-coming-out-of-router-spot thing.

An old lady has a go at you for waiting in line for the disabled toilet because you don't look disabled...

A frail looking old man has to stand on the bus because two teenagers are too oblivious to real life to move out of their seats.


One of those days!!

Particularly because the roads have appalling drainage, so flood, and then a lorry drives past you just as you're walking past the part of the road which is now resembling a river, and the resulting splash soaks you from head to foot in very cliched comedy sketch moment. You then, to get to the town centre, have to walk through the underpass which is also flooded (and from the smell one suspects it's not just flooded with rainwater). By the time you get to the town centre you're feeling thoroughly sorry for yourself, but still have to walk a mile and a half to get home! Sometimes, when walking through the park, you're even reduced to removing your shoes because of how bad the flooding is.

I need to learn to drive...

This really, really winds me up. If I see someone who needs a bus seat more than I do, I don't need to be asked to stand...

your mother dearest says you can't play piano tonight but it's out in the conservatory and it's too cold

Have you tried unplugging the cable at the back and plugging it back in? Sounds daft, but always fixs ours! Sorry if you have

...you are waiting at a T junction to turn left into a main road, and car after car coming from your right turns left at high speed into your road without signalling .

you have a whole Sunday free, but your hands hurt so you know you shouldn't practice.

(at least after a whole day of rest, they've stopped hurting. Maybe next Sunday.)

Your milk bursts in your handbag in the pub and you have to empty out the contents and clean it all in front of your DoM.

You miss your bus. In fact, your bus drives past you on your way to the stop.

You forget your keys, so ring the doorbell. Housemate comes to the door, tells you she doesn't have any keys to let you in with and LEAVES YOU ON THE DOORSTEP FOR 20 MINUTES - NEGLECTING TO TELL OTHER HOUSEMATES THAT YOU ARE STANDING OUTSIDE IN THE COLD!!!

Yes. Seconded. It was blueberry yoghurt in my case. My phone still has dried up blueberry yoghurt on the wrong side of the screen.

Oh dear Celeste you don't do things by halves do you?

Well if it's any consolation as Scarlett O'Hara is known to say ... "Tomorrow is another day...." and (to continue the theme) "Frankly my dear..." it has to be better!!

When Musicroom.com send an email to tell you that your order has NOT been dispatched yet.

This is of course the practical application of Archimedes Principle:

"When a body is immersed in water, the doorbell always rings!"

...when you are doing a really long (machine) sewing job and the lower bobbin runs out of thread 3 inches before the end of the last seam...

You find what looks like a really good accompanying job for a choir and it then turns out that they think ?12 (grrrr - twelve pounds) is a reasonable hourly rate.

Perhaps he owns a set of binoculars?

Yep - just had one of those!