Just home from my boss’s leaving do. Turned up with £1.89, not even enough to buy him a drink, so instead had to pop across the road to Sainsburys to buy him a nice bottle of beer, leaving me with 10p. Luckily a couple of kind colleagues included me in rounds they were buying, so I didn’t have to sup tap water all evening.
It was a good thing, since the last day or two of general ineptitude on various people’s parts had left me in serious need of a beer to unwind. First there was the two phone calls I had to make to find out that the results of my blood test, or the sample itself, had got lost somewhere along the way, and that I’d have to ring back a third time later in the week to see if they’d found them. Then there was the two phone calls to the blood donation service that it took for them to tell me that I couldn’t give blood because I was waiting for results of a blood test, however routine it might be. And finally there was the something that someone sent me, which was 15p short on postage, and will therefore will cost me £1.15 to retrieve from the sorting office. Grrr!
These are all really small costs, but when you’re on £5 a day they all add up, and there’s nothing you can do about them except wish that someone had got things right the first time. But only 4 days and £20.08 to go. Roll on Easter!
