Irreverent Occurrences
Irreverent Occurrences Today
Address Change
I received a missive today from the Royal Mail proclaiming that my address has changed !
It asked me to please note that according to to their database my address is
Grey Friars
It is in fact
Greyfriars
Could I please start using the revised address henceforth.
Errr … I’ve been using your revised address for about 20 years now, I got a clue from the street sign which says Greyfriars !
Anyway it’s good news in as much as any progress, no matter how slow, is progress, hopefully it will not take them another twenty years to realise I live in Lincolnshire and not South Humberside !
Letter from Anglian Water
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You’re complimentary free 3 months insurance to cover damaged pipes has expired, please fill in the form to take out annual cover
You send me this every 3 months without fail, therefore I must always have, by definition, 3 months cover why would I want to pay for it ?
Stupid Emails
Reply I got when telling someone I did not provide a free help and advice service
 What harm could it possibly do you to help me find a good auction house for my for my books and giving me an idea of reserve prices ?What’s the point in having information about book auctioneers if you are not going to help people who want to sell their books ?  |
Finally Someone Gets the Joke
Walking passed the Everything’s a £1 shop I saw a shop assistant refilling a dump bin, unable to resist a chance at rekindling one of my old favourites (previously, microwave oven and once a plasma TV and several times “excuse me how much is this?) I said with a blank expression
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Excuse me do you have any laptop computers in stock ?
She laughed and replied
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No they’ve all sold out !
Normally they just stare opened mouthed as though I’m on day release from an institution, which in fairness is probably right.
Girl in Bank
handed over cheque and paying in book
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“Did you know you can use the envelope system and then you would not have to queue?”
I didn’t queue I walked straight in, you smiled at me in a come hither manner and I walked straight to your window.
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“Oh right - yes of course”
Followed immediately by the non sequitur
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“Do you have your house insurance with us?”
Yes I do and that reminds me, it burnt down a while ago and I really must make a claim
Slightly puzzled look, then a look down at the paying in book to get my name
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“Is that everything for today Mr Collins ?”
Yes thank you but tomorrow’s another day
Time for a walk I think before it gets dark and another day in my life draws to a close.
Regards from the planet daydream
Rod
Jordan said,
November 22, 2007 @ 9:34 am
RC
Pure class!
Jordan
Rod said,
November 22, 2007 @ 9:45 am
Jordan
thanks for that !
Reassuring to know it’s not me that it appeals to, I wonder sometimes as I see people laughing at things on TV etc and they don’t move me at all, yet what I find hilarious I suspect most do not - oh well
I’ll sign off like the post itself by saying time for a walk
Take it steady
RC
Femme Fatale said,
November 22, 2007 @ 9:47 am
Rod,
You really need a holiday!
FF
xx
Rod said,
November 22, 2007 @ 10:27 am
FF
Dammn straight I do - and somewhere hot
Just done a half circuit and returned frozen.
White fingers - probably Reynards disease !
I need to lay on a beach somewhere I think - and not Cleethorpes
Take Care
Rodent
Jordan said,
November 22, 2007 @ 11:23 am
FF
If RC takes a holiday, abroad, in the heat, i will run naked across the new Wembley Stadium!
Jordan
Rod said,
November 22, 2007 @ 12:56 pm
i will run naked across the new Wembley Stadium!
That’s a show I’d travel to see
Femme Fatale said,
November 22, 2007 @ 3:24 pm
Jordan,
At least you know you are on a safe bet there!
Rod,
Unless there was some money in it for you
FF
xx
A Retired Bookdealer said,
November 23, 2007 @ 2:28 pm
Rod,
One I had this week via the telephone …….
Phone - Ring- ring,
Me - “Hello”
Her - “Hello do you buy books”.
Me - Yes, depending on what they are, what sort of books do you have, fiction, non-fiction ?.
Her - “Its a Surprise”.
Rod said,
November 23, 2007 @ 3:04 pm
ARB
classic !
I could write a book about these type of contacts.
Just to illustrate the point - received today via one of my sites ‘offer us books’ contact forms.
AUTHOR : J. Jefferson Farjeon
TITLE : Ben Sees it Through
PUBLISHER : The crime Club Ltd. by W. Collins sons and co Ltd. june, 1935
JACKET : no
PRICE SOUGHT : unknown
COMMENTS : The Book is in good Condition, however the binding is gone
A Retired Bookdealer said,
November 23, 2007 @ 4:32 pm
Rod,
Nice one!
The Book is in Good Condition
I always get a little worried when Good is used in a conversation about a book. The minute I hear Good I am on my guard and most of the time no longer interested in the item being offered. Good is a very hard one to define, as we all have a different idea as to what is in Good Condition. I tend to find as a rule Good describes a book which will have faults to the binding, marks to the boards, contents complete but will or may have some foxing or spotting to the pages and end papers = A Solid Reading Copy.
Rod said,
November 23, 2007 @ 6:09 pm
ARB
the term ‘good’ in book collecting parlance is, as we know, silly as it means terrible generally.
That said, in this case the term was used by someone who didn’t understand book grading and thought the bookk actually was in good condition.
I agree entirely with you, a good only copy is usually acceptable only to a reader
RC