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Curry With Becky (2008-04-18)

Category: Diary. Posted: 2008-04-23 00:52:18 BST. Updated: 2008-05-02 07:39:10 BST.

After having drunk 2 litres of water during the day, a pint of water before I went to meet Gimmer, and a pint of water when I got back home, I was amazed to find that I was dehydrated when I woke up in the morning. Perhaps I didn't drink enough tea during the day on Thursday. As with most Fridays, it was a fairly quiet day, which gave me a chance to catch up with things. I'd forgotten my sandwiches, so had to nip out at lunchtime. Before I popped out, Postie delivered a small package, which could well have had my iPod Touch in it. Excellent!

While I was out, I popped into National Car Rental to collect the CD that I'd left in the car on Sunday. On the way, I called Becky, who told me about her date last night. It sounded like the worst date possible! Anyway, at National Car Rental, there was no totty, and FastTrackBoy was serving. Unsurprisingly, it took ages, but I heard somebody in the pack say, "YMCA". I couldn't remember what CD I'd actually left in the car, but simply saying "YMCA" didn't narrow it down that much. Any normal person would have been embarrassed collecting a "Village People Greatest Hits" album, but not me! Not only was there no totty serving, but the collecting points scheme wasn't running any more. After collecting my CD, I went to Greggs to get a sandwich. A steak bake costs £1.14, so I handed over £5.20, the bloke typed £5 into the till, and then dropped the 20p. He picked up the 20p, and said, "Sorry, it's £5.20, that'll be.....", and then stopped, and stared at the till, hoping that it would magically subtract 1.14 from 5.2. After a while, I got bored, so I finished his sentence for him. He said, "That's right", and then gave me £1.06. Beginning to get very bored of his stupidity, I said, "No, FOUR pounds 6p, NOT ONE pound 6p". Implying that he was any more clever any other day, he said, "Sorry, it's Friday, I'll give you the rest when somebody else orders something". He then tried to get other customers to come to his till, but nobody wanted to! I eventually got my extra 3 pounds (he managed to work out 4.06 - 1.06 for himself!).

Then it was time to go to Superdrug to buy some dental flossers. While I was walking from Greggs to Superdrug, Danny called me. I still hadn't got around to transferring their domain name to the site that they've had professionally designed - I really ought to do it soon. A few minutes later, he called again, but all I could hear was him talking to Dave. He had put the phone down on the counter, opened the diary onto the phone, and redialled the last number. I shouted into the phone a few times, and he picked it up. It was a good job that he hadn't been slagging me off while talking to Dave!

Anyway, I was very happy to see that there was some top totty serving at Superdrug (I don't think it's the one that's been there before, the new one is even more gorgeous). Unfortunately, there were no dental flossers, so I didn't need to buy anything. For some unknown reason, I went to ask the middle-aged pharmacist whether they had any in stock, instead of the totty. I must be losing it! Anyway, she pointed me in the direction of the manageress (who looked about 12, but was hopefully older than that!), who called up the Slough branch, and found out that it had some in stock. Back at work, I quickly opened up my package (ooh-err missus) and it did indeed have a 32GB iPod touch inside it. I didn't open the iPod box, but even the box looked lovely. I sent Olly a text message to tell him so, and he said that he'd sold his, and bought an iPhone. Personally, I think that the iPhone is a waste of money, but I hope for Olly's sake that I'm wrong.

After work, I dropped my bike off at Stows Cycles to be serviced, and then went into the Moon and Spoon to collect Gimmer's cap. Somehow I remembered what it looked like without having to call Gimmer. One of the sexy barmaids said, "Is it a Nike cap?". I told her that it was, and the barman next to her smiled, and said, "Just tell him what type of cap it is, why don't you?". The was a very sexy redhead serving behind the bar as well, so I was tempted to persuade Becky to go into Slough later on. After collecting Gimmer's cap, I went to Tesco to buy some bacon, cheese, and tea (I had to spend over £1.20 on tea, so that I got 25 extra Clubcard points). I handed over the voucher for the Clubcard points to the totty cashier, and she handed me back another one! This time it was for 30 Clubcard points just for buying something from Tesco. It seems like a good deal to me. Not wanting to pay 90p on the bus, I then walked home. Gimmer called me, but hung up when I answered. Then, being a stupid fool, he sent me two text messages reminding me about his cap. I eventually got to talk to him, and told him that I'd already collected it. I then realised that I'd forgotten to go to Superdrug, so turned around, and walked back into Slough.

I was disappointed that there was no totty in Superdrug, but never mind. I then walked along the High Street (via Argos to check out hair clippers for my boss), and back home. I considered paying for a bus when it started raining, but thought better of it! Back at home, I quickly checked my e-mail, and then lay down on the sofa at about half-six for a quick kip before Becky arrived. 45 minutes later, I was woken up by Becky calling to check where she could park. [To be continued.....]

Becky was looking particularly sexy, having dressed up at work because she had some important meetings. I was really hungry, but Becky wanted a cuppa before we went out for a curry. Well, how can I say "no" to a gorgeous woman, and a cup of tea! I still hadn't opened up my iPod, so I opened that up while we were having tea. Becky then got changed before we went out for curry. It always amuses me when I take a new woman to The India. The service there is always excellent, but when I take new totty there, they seem to treat me a little bit better than normal. There were people sitting at my usual table, but there was another table free. I introduced Becky to the best mattar panner in the world, although last Saturday's mattar panneer at the Weymouth Tandoori came a very close second.

As usual, we didn't finish all the food that we ordered, so we got the rest packed away to take home. We dropped the curry off at my place, and then went to the Toby for a couple of drinks. The quiz machine swallowed by quid, and it took ages to get the barmaid to understand what I meant, but I eventually got my quid back. That reminds me, I still haven't got my quid back from Walkabout when Sarah and I went for a drink after the Theatre.

Back at home, we drank more tea (Becky wanted to drink tea to flush away all the coffee that she drank in The India), and watched Waking the Dead. Like me, Becky had watched Monday's episode, but not Tuesday's. I found Tuesday's episode amongst all the numerous other programmes that I have recorded over the last few weeks, but haven't watched, and we settled down to watch that. Having not had the siesta that I had, Becky was feeling quite tired, but managed to stay awake through Waking the Dead. I tried playing with my new iPod Touch before going to sleep, but it seemed very insistent that I should connect it to my PC before it let me use it. I don't know what I'd done to my foot, but it started giving me jip towards the end of the evening.

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