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Lucinda

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Have you encountered any proper thickos recently? Or maybe you've done something really stupid?

After my exam on Thursday, my friend and I went into town to Rileys to play pool. The woman on the desk looked at our membership cards and said "oh your memberships are out of date I'm afraid." This was news to us, with the date of expiry on them being the end of September 2008. We queried this and she said, "Is it 2008 or 2009?" We told her it was 2008 but she didn't look entirely convinced. Then we asked her how much it cost per hour and she said "£6 with 25% off because you're students" then we could see her brain ticking and trying to work it out but she gave up.

Rileys do seem to employ idiots (no offence to anyone who works there/knows anyone who works there - maybe my branch is an exception) - last time we went there it took them an hour to make me a cup of tea.

I spent 5 minutes looking for the cereal the other day before realising it was on the table because I'd already got it out.

'Forget happiness I'm fine, I'll forget everything in time'

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My maths teacher that I've had for the last few months doesn't seem capable of teaching us anything. Our class has actually had to correct her about 5 times 'cause she's been using the wrong equations or just making really stupid mistakes, which is frustrating what with exams.

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We were at the supermarket on Wednesday and whoever had come to fix the security alarm hadn't done it properly and had left the casing off. Meaning that it wouldn't set. So there me and my supervisor sat for two hours before the engineer came out.

He was keying buttons and fiddling with the box. He couldn't fathom it out and kept entering things and making it beep. In the end he rang the company up, but said not to bother anyone as he didn't want to wake them! Good to see they put us first in these situations...

In the end he was forced to call someone, and it ended up that rather than press 5, an enter, and then a 1 like he was pressing, it was actually just 51. Had he have pressed 51 an hour beforehand it'd have been fixed and I'd have been home long before 2am!

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We queried this and she said, "Is it 2008 or 2009?"

Err... I sometime at the very start of the year still think its technically the year before but how can anyone think its 2009 you'd need to be really 'special' to mess that up thinking you were in future :P

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Err... I sometime at the very start of the year still think its technically the year before but how can anyone think its 2009 you'd need to be really 'special' to mess that up thinking you were in future :P

Yeah, I have no idea how you can get the year wrong at all in May. January maybe, possibly even December, but not May! Perhaps it's a trick to get another lot of membership money out of us that she can then pocket...

'Forget happiness I'm fine, I'll forget everything in time'

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Yeah, I have no idea how you can get the year wrong at all in May. January maybe, possibly even December, but not May! Perhaps it's a trick to get another lot of membership money out of us that she can then pocket...

Tbh having read your story i doubt she is capable of thinking of a scam like that

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I forget how old I am too! I went to see something in the cinema and the ticket person asked me how old I was and I had to ask my friend. The woman did not look impressed. I'm quite offended she thought I looked under 15. Psht. Even more gutted that I could have said I was 14 and got a child price ticket (it was a 12 movie).

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I went to a gig a few weeks ago with a couple of friends. It was a 14+ gig and I wanted to buy a bottle of water so I went over to the bar and asked the bar maid. I had ear plugs in so I couldn't hear great. She asked me how old I was and I was taken off guard as I wasn't expecting to be asked that. I tried to say I was over 18 but I ended up saying "I'm 18... no... 19" and I showed her my ID but I have no idea why I needed ID to buy a bottle of water at a 14+ gig. Crazy place.

'Forget happiness I'm fine, I'll forget everything in time'

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I can never remember my age, but when you're as old as I am perhaps that could be put down to my 'selective memory'.

The other day my laptop seemed to be overheating, so the boyf told me to prop something underneath it so the air could flow around it a bit. He was not overly impressed when he came home to find I'd chosen to bung a box of matches under my overheating computer. Not too bright on reflection really.

'To disagree with three-fourths of the British public is one of the first requisites of sanity'.

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Haha that's not very clever. My housemate broke the sparker we use to light the oven by "getting butter in it" - I'm not sure how that works, or how he got butter in it, but it doesn't really work any more and it's annoying.

Another housemate had the same problem with his laptop overheating and used some wooden building blocks to keep it off the desk. I'm not sure why he happened to have building blocks to hand really.

'Forget happiness I'm fine, I'll forget everything in time'

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A 'chav' shouted "alright darling, wanna come back to mine and have some fun?" at me in the street. He actually looked serious like he expected it to happen.

I know that was a bit rude of me!;):D

I never remember my age as I've not bothered celebrating birthdays or any landmark dates since before I left school.

Some of the young lads that we've had at work are so thick it beggars belief. At least they won't be taking my job in the future.

'The light at the end of the tunnel was the light of an oncoming train'

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