Blog - Drinks With Sarah on St. George's Day (2008-04-23)
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Category: Diary. Posted: 2008-05-02 07:48:20 BST.
It wasn't the most interesting day at work, but a bloke from a photocopier company came into the office to try to sell/rent us a photocopier. He was too late (we got a new one about six months ago), but at least he had the decency to bring some totty with him! Unfortunately, I wouldn't have placed any orders with a company that can't even spell colour correctly.
Anyway, I left work almost on time, and cycled to the station. As I was locking my bike up, my phone started ringing. I took it out of the pocket, and looked at the display to see who was calling. It simply said "Twat". A few months ago, some idiot with a foreign number kept calling me accidentally. All I heard whenever he/she called was background noises. Just so I knew who it was each time, I stored his/her number as "Twat". I simply pressed the red button, but that meant that he left an answer machine message instead. Gimmeration! Anyway, he/she called again while I was walking to the station, and again while I was buying my ticket.
I didn't have to wait too long for the train, but I remembered that Slough station has a Wi-Fi network provided by Cloud, so I turned on my iPod, and it immediately found the network, and connected to it. I then tried to type in www.bbc.co.uk into Safari's address bar, but the on-screen keyboard was very small. I didn't have long surfing before the train left Slough. I wanted to get some kip on the train into Paddington, but Twat rang at least two-dozen times during my journey - sometimes leaving a voicemail "message" while I was picking up a previous message! No sleep for me. I could have turned my phone to silent, but totty might have called me.
At Paddington, I was going to get a cuppa from Krispey Doughnuts, but the train arrived right next to the Hammersmith and City Line platforms, so it seemed silly to walk all that extra way just for tea. Obviously, I wasn't going to buy any tea from the little kiosk that didn't take contactless payments. I got to the stairs coming up from the Hammersmith and City Line platforms, and there was a bloke stopping anybody going down the stairs until everybody had come up. Five minutes later, people were still coming up the stairs. I was amazed how many people fitted onto one train! Eventually the bloke decided enough was enough, and led us down the stairs. I don't think I needed his help, but it saved me shouting "Keep to the left" at people. I hobbled down after him, and the train arrived soon afterwards.
There were people talking on their mobiles, who seemed to be making no effort to finish their calls. They abruptly had to finish them when the train went into the tunnel. I had a bit of piece and quiet while the train was in the tunnel, but wasn't looking forward to picking up all of Twat's voicemail messages when I got back into the open air. Fortunately, Twat must have put the keylock onto his phone, because the only person to have called me while I was underground was Sarah. She called me again as I was walking out of the station, and she was standing outside waiting for me (looking even more gorgeous than normal, if that's possible).
We had planned to eat in the BYO food pub, but it was quite a nice evening, so went off in search of somewhere to eat outside. We gave up in the end, and went to the pub. We drank our smoothies on the way, just in case the pub objected to us taking our own drinks (I'd had ten portions of fruit before we even started our evening meal). The smoothies and cheese bread were my contribution, and Sarah provided the rest of the food. The pub even provided us with plastic spoons to eat with. This BYO food idea is excellent- making an evening out much cheaper, and more healthy.
I can't remember much about the evening, but it was a lovely evening, despite us both being tired. Sarah had to cycle all the way home (about 45 minutes), so we didn't stay too late. There was some nice totty in the pub, but, of course, I only noticed her when Sarah had gone to the toilet. While she was in the toilet, I couldn't resist turning my iPod around, seeing the display tilt. I suddenly realised that this would have made the keyboard much bigger. What a gimmer!
Sarah had kindly brought my shoes with her, but I couldn't fit them in my bag with the remainder of the cheese bread, so had to carry them separately. I knew this would be a bad idea, because I was bound to leave them on the train, but it seemed silly to ask Sarah to take them back home again. I started listening to some music on my iPod on the Tube on the way to Paddington, but it wasn't loud enough, but I couldn't figure out how to increase the volume. Eventually, I realised that what I thought was a progress indicator was actually the volume control!
It didn't take long to get to Paddington, but I was busting for a jimmy by the time I got there. Fortunately, the next train to Slough wasn't for a while, so I had time to have a quick jimmy in the Map Bishop. I called Gimmer to see if he happened to be around, but got no answer. The platform was announced, so I got on the train, and found a comfortable seat. Sarah had made me promise not to fall asleep, so I had to keep my mind occupied. I then thought that there might be a Cloud hotspot at Paddington, so I got out my iPod. There was, and I had a quick look at the BBC News website. Unfortunately, the signal wasn't very good inside the carriage, and the train left soon after I sat down. Still, at least I remembered to rotate the iPod!
It didn't take me long to cycle home. Back at home, I made my sandwiches using the cheese bread, made a cuppa, checked my e-mail, and went to sleep.
[1] ExCherryBoy (North Sea) 2008-05-03 18:33:25 BST
Firstly long time no typing mainly cause I haven't got round to reading this for ages.
Secondly I'd prefer it to say "Where are you from?" oh and I just noticed poor captialisation in "Your Name:"
So you bought yourself and iPod I am impressed. But it wouldn't be you bilyy if you didn't actually know how it worked! Are you planning to write your blogs on this or not?
Oh and it's the "Mad Bishop"
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