The Beginning Of The End?

Uh oh, things are bad! I just missed my tube because I was busy typing on my Blackberry. Thankfully they come about every two minutes, but duh!

I made it out to my customer meeting yesterday on time, I had to wait ages at Richmond and then once the train arrived it sat in the station for 15 minutes doing nothing. So I was 20 minutes late getting to Reading, but I'd factored in enough buffer time so I wasn't late.

An interesting thing I've noticed here at the supermarket to do the little dividers that are provided at the checkouts. People here use them religiously, I can't help but laugh sometimes. Even when I was talking to a fellow checkoutee about it and she was laughing and agreeing with me, as soon as a little divider was free she grabbed it and put it down. Then looked at me with a shrug as if to say “I know, but I’m being forced!” I could suggest that it’s a British thing, but that would be wrong because where we live we’re all imports, there’s no British people in a 10km radius of Acton!
I don't get it though, it's not like I'm accidentally going to end up buying someone else's trolley load of stuff. It seems a clear gap of ~10cm isn't enough for most people though.

My £1 umbrella couldn’t hold up to the wind and rain this morning. Firstly the wind blew it inside out about 5 times, then a prong got really loose and started sticking out, making the umbrella loose and start flapping like mad in the wind. Still it cost me a pound and has saved me from many a downpour, so I guess I’ve got my money’s worth from it. I'm sure I can get a few more rainshowers out of it before it explodes.

Time to get to work, things are very busy here today.

Tim