Your every-day idiocy

gormdubhgorm

Getting worse at using technology and just generally using it. Had problem with my prepay phone credit and I was being charged for incoming calls. Rang up about it, amazingly got through to a human voice very quickly.
Which kind of threw me straight away. I was on the back foot and had expected to be wating a half hour at least

Apparently, I needed to send a screenshot of my bank transactions to the phone person, by email. As the phone credit I brought did not show up on their records.

Sounds simple doesn't it?

So I was put on hold, loud hold music on speakerphone. Then suddenly blanked on my customer number to enter bank details even before I got into the other numbers that I had to type in.
After a few 'ah for feck sakes' and unsuccessful goes. I ran upstairs (hold music still blaring) can't find any bits of paper from bank quick enough in the file box which would have my customer number on it.
I felt like the clock was ticking, almost like how I imagined a bomb disposal expert would feel. In my head anyway.

I said ok, ok, calm down. Hum the 'tune' of the tune of the numbers you normally type at this stage.
Resorted to 'humming the tune' of the numbers I type in. It worked amazingly. I knew there is a sort of a tune them. Got into the bank account via the phone. That was after 10 minutes.

Phone person takes me off hold 'I still have not got the email'. 'It is grand' says I. I have logged into my bank account now.

I was put on hold again. Then I suddenly realised I did not know how send a screenshot on an iphone (had recently bought it second hand). I knew I had done it accidently a few times. But I could not remember how exactly - there was a knack to it. Plus I was afraid of knocking the call off.

Phone person rings back about further 10 mins later:

'I still have not got that email'

I explain sheepishly, I don't know how to screenshot on my iphone .
'I said can I email it to you later on?'

Phone person:

'I finish work at 4' (It was pushing 4 at this stage - and the person sounded remarkably patient)
'I will receive it in the morning'

So I send the email on the laptop included screenshot, and mobile number in subject.

Got an email first thing this morning from the phone person :

'Can you please forward me your mobile number and I will refund credit'

I had to read it twice. 'Forward me' is that some tech term I was unaware of? Used for things besides emails???

It doesn't make any sense the number is in the subject line. I read it another two times 'forward me your mobile number'

I look at the subject in the email and realised I had typed my mobile number incorrectly. Somehow, I scrambled a part of it backwards so it kind of looked similar to my mobile number. But it wasn't it.

At this the penny dropped. Oh, I sent the phone person the wrong mobile number and they want me to sent it to them again.

I finally managed to send an email with the correct mobile number.
Immediately after I sent it, I received the phone credit.

Job done at last.

But now I realise I am exactly those type who now create a delay, when people want to get through to the customer service operator. It is gobsh!tes like me I have become one of 'them'.
I can no longer in good conscious give out about having to having to wait on hold for a half hour - as all customer service operators are busy.

On the plus side I did manage to figure out the knack of sending a screenshot on an iphone.
I went practising and all!

o1s1n

I walked into my parents sitting room with a bowl of muesli and sat down beside my dad to eat it while watching TV with him.

'Jesus da, what's up with your muesli? it's insanely dry'

Dad looks at me and bursts into a fit of laughter.

'That's not muesli Oisin, that's porridge, you're eating raw oats'

Rotting Carrot

Late for an exam once and tried to take a short cut that involved going against a quiet one-way street about 70 yards in length. About half way through it, a car came against me. I'm just glad he was patient. He gestured with his hands that it was one way. I still felt like saying "it's not that I don't know"!

gormdubhgorm

Rotting Carrot wrote: »

Late for an exam once and tried to take a short cut that involved going against a quiet one-way street about 70 yards in length. About half way through it, a car came against me. I'm just glad he was patient. He gestured with his hands that it was one way. I still felt like saying "it's not that I don't know"!

This made me laugh as well on the double.
Because piece of useless info related to your username and roads.
Ah ages ago I was listening to this thing to try and learn some basic Spanish. The idea of the CD was to use visualisation.

Example: (pause) 'la carretera' (pause) road - 'think of a carrot on a road' - la carretera.

Now I am thinking of a rotting carrot, on a one way road. It reminded me of the word so it must work!

ablelocks

kids were watching a tv programme. finished at about 7.58 or so.

9pm RTE News came on - at 8pm. I was in another room, not paying attn. At about 8.04, i was wondering to myself, how come the news is on, it couldn't be 9 already - i've only just sat down in front of pc. Checked time on monitor, watch, phone, kitchen clock. went to sitting room, Eileen Dunne reading the next news item. Checked clock on TV - 8.07.

Are we an hour behind the rest of the country or what, I asked.

Kids rolling around laughing at me. It was the end of the recorded programme they had been watching.

feckers.

gormdubhgorm

I honestly can't spell 'plaque'. Anytime I want to do an internet search with anything where plaque was required it comes out as plague. I even did the search ingonito because I was afraid of the embarrassment if someone saw me type in the stuff.

Latest internet search:

'plague'

I knew that was wrong so I typed in

'plack'

And hoped it was an american spelling like 'check'

'A Plack is a coin' apparently.

I saw another thing that I thought read 'Plack v Plague'.


'Feck it' I said. 'That is no help'.

So I bit the bullet and typed in 'John Giles plague Ormond Square'

John Giles plaque shows up in internet search top of the list.

Oh it said 'that looks like a funny way to spell it'. Then realised it was right and I was was wrong. Plus the previous search what appeared to be 'plack v Plague' actually said 'Plack v Plaque'



(I just typed plague just there again twice had to change it )

PS:

For those worried about me, my teeth are fine....