TCRT 6: Episode 1 - The Phantom Chatroom

Clarkman wrote:Advice please folks: need to buy my boss (female) a wedding present. Going in 50/50 with a colleague, so budget will be around £100 total.

The company is already paying for a fancy fine dining tasting menu. We work in London if that is any help.

2 weeks all inclusive in Benidorm?

Egg mayonnaise on Sunday, vindaloo for lunch yesterday, phal for tea last night, egg mayonnaise wraps for lunch today, sat on the toilet at work, ivemadeahugemistake.gif

Ad7 wrote:Egg mayonnaise on Sunday, vindaloo for lunch yesterday, phal for tea last night, egg mayonnaise wraps for lunch today, sat on the toilet at work, ivemadeahugemistake.gif

Qikz wrote:

Ad7 wrote:Egg mayonnaise on Sunday, vindaloo for lunch yesterday, phal for tea last night, egg mayonnaise wraps for lunch today, sat on the toilet at work, ivemadeahugemistake.gif

Vindaloo and a Phal on the same day? You're like a curry machine!

Narrator: On the next Arrested Ad7evleopment.

Ad7 wrote:sat on the toilet at work

Narrator: Adam assumes his nausea problem was caused by what he calls "crisp-sounds".

(Flashback. People loudly eating snacks are visible in background of each meal.)

Ad7 wrote:Egg mayonnaise on Sunday, vindaloo for lunch yesterday, phal for tea last night, egg mayonnaise wraps for lunch today

Narrator: It wasn't.

(Caption: Moments later...)

Ad7 wrote:ivemadeahugemistake.gif

Narrator: And the realisation is painful.

Got home and the Mrs has made me a ploughmans complete with a shitload of pate

I feel I should ring the Welsh water company and warn them they're going to be pulling an all nighter.

What's wrong with pate?

The really rich stuff makes me fart so much there are different temperature zones in the room.

Haha oh dear.

I've just seen a grown man wearing a football shirt

Day off work
Mortgage appointment this morning

I hate being a grown up sometimes.

My brother is setting up an escape room and he wants me to get a team together and give it a go when Im home this weekend, Im more than happy to do so but its in our home town, where I dont live anymore and Im struggling to think of anyone I know who does still live there. The sobering reality of being a billy no mates in my home town is a tough one to take.

God has been outed as an alledged sexpest: https://edition.cnn.com/2018/05/24/ente ... index.html

I wonder if he will be a free man for much longer.

Et tu, Freeman?

Had an absolutely terrible couple of weeks so going to vent for a little bit.

First of all I got seriously mugged off at work for a promotion for someone I consistently outperform, due to "experience" when i've been essentially training for that job for the last four years for when the role became available.

A week or so later my cat got her tail caught in a door that closed in the wind and had to have emergency surgery and a massive vet bill to sort it all out. And because of that, my credit card ended up getting maxed out and pushing me into an area where i'll now be charged interest on it but I wasn't before which I really can't afford.

Then my brother had a motorbike accident as some pissed 90 year old came out the pub and tried to cross on a green light and was too old to make it. Thankfully they're both okay other than a couple of minor operations.

Then the next day my Mum calls me to say she's been diagnosed with lung cancer. The doctors seem hopeful that they've got things early enough to get things sorted out within the next few weeks and she will hopefully have surgery to remove it and that's it, but it's still a gooseberry fool diagnosis. To top it off, we agreed for her 50th to take her away for her first holiday in about 15 years and our first family holiday since me and my brother were kids. I work for the company which did our travel insurance and I had a quick look at what it would be to add that to our policy and it took our price up by an extra £2,000+ which means that we can't go on a holiday which we're only doing for her in the first place so even if things do go to plan and she is fit to travel, we just can't afford to go anyway now due to the insurance.

Hopefully that's the last of the bad luck for a while for me as it's definitely been a month to forget.

That escalated from pretty crappy to absolute horseshit. My condolences Joer.

Quick question as regards travel insurance - would you absolutely have to have the cancer covered, or would you be happy to set up a policy for her that excludes something going wrong with that but will cover for other illness and injury?

gooseberry fool Joer, that is an awful run of luck. I hope things improve for you and your family soon.

Sorry to hear that

Joer wrote:Had an absolutely terrible couple of weeks so going to vent for a little bit.

First of all I got seriously mugged off at work for a promotion for someone I consistently outperform, due to "experience" when i've been essentially training for that job for the last four years for when the role became available.

A week or so later my cat got her tail caught in a door that closed in the wind and had to have emergency surgery and a massive vet bill to sort it all out. And because of that, my credit card ended up getting maxed out and pushing me into an area where i'll now be charged interest on it but I wasn't before which I really can't afford.

Then my brother had a motorbike accident as some pissed 90 year old came out the pub and tried to cross on a green light and was too old to make it. Thankfully they're both okay other than a couple of minor operations.

Then the next day my Mum calls me to say she's been diagnosed with lung cancer. The doctors seem hopeful that they've got things early enough to get things sorted out within the next few weeks and she will hopefully have surgery to remove it and that's it, but it's still a gooseberry fool diagnosis. To top it off, we agreed for her 50th to take her away for her first holiday in about 15 years and our first family holiday since me and my brother were kids. I work for the company which did our travel insurance and I had a quick look at what it would be to add that to our policy and it took our price up by an extra £2,000+ which means that we can't go on a holiday which we're only doing for her in the first place so even if things do go to plan and she is fit to travel, we just can't afford to go anyway now due to the insurance.

Hopefully that's the last of the bad luck for a while for me as it's definitely been a month to forget.

Oh man, I'm so sorry to hear that

Corazon de Leon wrote:That escalated from pretty crappy to absolute horseshit. My condolences Joer.

Quick question as regards travel insurance - would you absolutely have to have the cancer covered, or would you be happy to set up a policy for her that excludes something going wrong with that but will cover for other illness and injury?

Ultimately it’ll be down to her and if she wants to take the risk. In my opinion it’s too close to when we go to do so as we’re going in July, so if we do book something else up and something does go wrong, we’ll all be strawberry floated and not able to cancel for example.

She works in a school so we have to go in the summer holidays so we’re already paying a gooseberry fool ton because of that, then my brother is having is own room as there’s five of us so we have to pay extra for that too.

Thanks for all the support guys, I realised there was something else I forgot to mention where my girlfriends Mum was diagnosed with epilepsy a few weeks ago so it means it’s just my Dad in my immediate family who hasn’t had anything happen to him yet so maybe we’ll have to wrap him up in cotton wool.