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Oh Fiddlesticks

Sporadic Sparkly

This is just so typical of me... Face palm

Earlier this evening I succeeded in writing out a pile of Christmas cards for my relatives and friends. Great!

As it is more convenient for me to print my own postage labels, I then signed into my Royal Mail account to get the postage sorted and paid. Unfortunately, when I went to retrieve my supply of self-adhesive printer labels to load into my printer, I realised I didn't have enough. This was not so great.

Admittedly, this is not the end of the world because I can just print onto normal printer paper, and use sellotape to secure my labels to the envelopes. It's just the fact that it tends to look less aesthetically pleasing.

The logical thing would (of course) have been for me to check I had enough printer labels BEFORE I had signed into my Royal Mail account. D'oh!

As the saying goes, we live and learn, although in my case that's debatable sometimes. Lol.

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  • Ah yes, this is something I myself do on a more regular basis than I care to admit. At my age and time of life one can be forgiven for these lapses of memory.

    My Good Lady is always telling me off when she discovers an empty box of cereal, or when a lightbulb box is present but empty... And I can't get away with blaming it on Horace, out dog. Blast!

    Quite recently I told my Good Lady I would take out the Dolomite for a short drive as it rarely sees the light of day. So I preplanned the entire journey, intending to blast through the countryside and I would get fuel at the same time. I got to the petrol station, filled it up, and then I went in to pay and then oh dear no wallet in my blazer.

    Ahh yes, it's in the glove box. But it wasn't.

    It was a classic case of oh fiddlesticks!

  • in reply to Old Timer

    How unfortunate to discover you had forgotten your wallet, Old Timer.

    That anecdote reminds me of an occasion when I had been out shopping. I had my purse, but when I went to retrieve my debit card to pay, it wasn't there. Fortunately, my mother was with me, so she offered to pay.

    Where was my debit card? In my son's wallet, back at home. I'd forgotten that I had given it to him the previous day and that he had forgotten to give it back to me. Oops! Laughing

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  • in reply to Old Timer

    How unfortunate to discover you had forgotten your wallet, Old Timer.

    That anecdote reminds me of an occasion when I had been out shopping. I had my purse, but when I went to retrieve my debit card to pay, it wasn't there. Fortunately, my mother was with me, so she offered to pay.

    Where was my debit card? In my son's wallet, back at home. I'd forgotten that I had given it to him the previous day and that he had forgotten to give it back to me. Oops! Laughing

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