I spend a lot of time on this blog railing against one perceived grievance or another. Most of it is purely for comedic value. Whilst I often claim to be ‘shaking with rage’, I very rarely am. Until last night that is. Living where we do, we have experienced major disruption at the hands of [...]
Posts Tagged ‘trams’
No Russian word for ‘bawbags’ and tram dickage extraordinaire
Every so often I just feel the need to vent. Today is one of those days. It seems that everything is conspiring to bug me today, from call centre queueing systems to Edinburgh tram workers. Not that the tram workers are ever really out of my ‘anger spectrum’, but some days even they surpass themselves [...]
Where did all the time go?
Someone posted on my Facebook ‘Wall’ last night, saying that it must be about 18 years since they last saw me. They are probably right. What shocked me is that 18 years ago was 1991. I still think of 1991 as recent. It quite clearly isn’t. If you look back at photos from 1991 I [...]
I walked to work and all I got was this lousy teacake
I walked to work today. I’m sick of sitting on buses in Scotland’s car park capital, so despite the rain, I decided to walk to work. About a quarter of the way up Leith Walk, my attention was drawn to a gaggle of workies crowding round 3 young girls carrying cardboard boxes. It turned out [...]
Just say no. To trams.
This morning I snapped. Not exactly like Michael Douglas in ‘Falling Down’ but let’s just say I was more than annoyed. After months and months of tram related inconvenience, I finally felt the urge to bawl one of the flourescent jacketed pricks right out of it. I am working from home today. I like working [...]
