The Book of Ashes

From the Chronicles of Mum, Chapter 7 - Junk Mail 10:22PM

Our mums came round for dinner last night. It was a cold night and we sipped a glass of wine in the fire warmed room while mum told us a good story. She has a few good stories but I'll stick to this one for now. We were talking about Junk Mail and how Mitre 10 had a sign reading "No Junk Mail except for Mitre phamplets". Mum told us that she had put up a "No Junk Mail" sign but it hadn't worked. She still got junk mail. So she rang up the general managers of the mail she was receiving. They eventually got hold of the distributor and she some how got hold of his phone number. Poor guy. She said he made up some excuse like it mustn't be readable so she invited him round to read it so he came round and had to agree it was quite readable and it must be the delivery persons fault. So he eventually did something about the junk mail but occassionally mum would still get some so she'd call him up and he'd make up some excuse, like the people delivering it couldn't read English or someone was on holiday and they had a friend filling in. Of course if you get someone to do a job you should at least train them to read the one sign that says "No Junk Mail". So mum refused to take the junk mail and somehow convinced the distributor guy to come around and remove it from her letterbox. I bet he rues the day he put junk mail in her letterbox.

A few odds and ends:

Burger Fuel and Cubita are open once again after getting burnt out at the bottom of our work.

I was walking past Burger Fuel on the way back to work at lunch time and some workers were backing a trailer onto the footpath in front of me. I thought, I'll just walk faster and get past them but the guy didn't seem to be slowing down as I walked between the wall and the trailer. I got past just as two other guys on the footpath were going "slow down, slow down" and I look back the the trailer (full of pavement bricks) had bounced off the towbar and was rolling towards the wall I'd just walked by. The two guys were trying to slow it down by grabbing the sides. Lucky I got through there quickly.

Dilbert site has been done up.

Short week this week. Anzac day on Friday. TGIF.

We have a new bus on the Karori route now. Its a flash new one with half the seats on one side removed for standing room, doors that open out across the outside of the bus (no more getting stuck behind them) and an LCD screen which shows your position on a map as well as inside, side, front and back video. Quite cool. Now that they are tracking the buses with GPS, hopefully they can soon tell us how far away the next one is at the stop.

I had apple and boysenberry pie with ice-cream for desert last night.