{"id":65,"date":"2005-11-14T19:54:00","date_gmt":"2005-11-14T18:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.weirdbutinagoodway.co.uk\/blog\/2005\/11\/14\/while-the-cats-away\/"},"modified":"2009-01-05T11:21:46","modified_gmt":"2009-01-05T10:21:46","slug":"while-the-cats-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.weirdbutinagoodway.co.uk\/blog\/2005\/11\/14\/while-the-cats-away\/","title":{"rendered":"While the cats away…"},"content":{"rendered":"

…the men in my mom’s house are incapable of looking after themselves.<\/p>\n

My mom has gone away and the way my stepdad and brother have reacted you’d think she was NEVER coming back! I went to pick her up this morning to dispatch her to the train station in Birmingham and there they were looking all forlorn asking questions at a ridiculous rate… Wheres my socks?, What time are the fish fed?, Who’ll make my sandwiches?, Where’s the bread kept?, What day do the binmen come? etc etc etc… I promised to call back this evening, as they only live round the corner from me, and cook them some dinner, so I did, Rogan Josh, It was fantastic (even if I do say so myself) and I think my stepdad have just consumed enough to sink the Titanic twice over, I’m stuffed!<\/p>\n

So anyway I took my mom into the city centre and safely deposited her onto her connecting train and then meandered into town to peruse the shelves of random computer stores trying to find this damn Nintendo THING Jordan wants for christmas,<\/p>\n

Now, It is the middle of November, Christmas is less than 6 weeks away SO please tell me why shops have yet to employ extra christmas staff??? And give the staff they have some god damn customer service training!!! 45 minutes I stood in a queue in Game, FORTY FIVE MINUTES to explain to an assistant that I’d been sent over from the Wolverhampton branch to find out if and whan they would be likely to be stocking the new Nintendo DS as wolverhampton had explained to me that you (birmingham) would be getting some in first, Just to be told, “erm…*sniff*…I dont know…*sniff*… have you tried another branch maybe erm yeah”, Do you think its one of the criterea you have to meet to work in one of these shops?? I can picture the ad….<\/p>\n

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….Grr, So now I’m nowhere closer to getting my hands on this ellusive damn DS and I think I caught snotty noses damn cold what fun<\/p>\n

On the upside while in Birmingham I did get to do my most favourite thing, Went and idled away an hour reading in Starbucks with (surprise surprise) Vanilla Latte, In there I bumped into Gary who I hadn’t seen for a ridiculous amount of time and spent the next hour catching up with him!<\/p><\/div>\n

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…the men in my mom’s house are incapable of looking after themselves. My mom has gone away and the way my stepdad and brother have reacted you’d think she was NEVER coming back! I went to pick her up this morning to dispatch her to the train station in Birmingham and there they were looking … Continue reading While the cats away…<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wbiagw"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6WGy-13","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":73,"url":"https:\/\/www.weirdbutinagoodway.co.uk\/blog\/2005\/11\/24\/what-a-fucking-life\/","url_meta":{"origin":65,"position":0},"title":"WHAT A FUCKING LIFE….","date":"November 24, 2005","format":false,"excerpt":"...I am having a NIGHTMARE of a week.My mom and Stepdad have spent the entire week ignoring each other over some stupid arguement, My mom is being stubborn, and my stepdad is being pathetic and neither will back down, and to make matters worse everytime I'm around there and my\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "WBIAGW"","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":30,"url":"https:\/\/www.weirdbutinagoodway.co.uk\/blog\/2005\/09\/10\/shitty-shitty-shitty\/","url_meta":{"origin":65,"position":1},"title":"SHITTY SHITTY SHITTY","date":"September 10, 2005","format":false,"excerpt":"The weather is most definitly reflecting my mood today....AWFUL...It's raining and I dont think it's ever gonna stop.There is a reason for my gloom, CHRISTMAS!!Yes I know its months away and anyone who knows me well enough will know I usually love it, the decorations, the food, the shopping, the\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "WBIAGW"","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1156,"url":"https:\/\/www.weirdbutinagoodway.co.uk\/blog\/2011\/09\/19\/a-slice-of-history\/","url_meta":{"origin":65,"position":2},"title":"A slice of history.","date":"September 19, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"I posted this previously on my (now much neglected) Moblog but after visiting my grandparents tonight I wanted to share it here too. 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