Laugh of the day

will you be sending her a christmas card ~ online???

The mind boggles !!!

I don't think so,

all he has done here Cinders is laugh since yesterday, I know it sounds double dutch but its the truth, some people are unbelievable,

Oh My LOL.. lets hope the pressies arrive safely !

he has just had an email to say the pram has been desptched Amy,its been so amusing,

I worry about my lack of skills on my laptop so always doublecheck everything, when I see something like this I realise its not always us late learners that need lessons.
Its given us all a laugh if nothing else.......

glad it gave you a laugh Lin, it certainly has us,

Merry Christmas Yorks :o) x

It's getting worse all the time Yorkshire. I don't know whether it is something to laugh about or cry. Mind you many of them have a University degree and even Masters.
And something about me.
I have today received my insurance policy for the new car I bought last week and as usual there were mistakes with my foreign names. I tried to phone them this morning and it was a machine asking me questions and the machine could not recognize the words in my answers, because of my foreign accent. In the end I gave up and asked my daughter to do it. In some other cases the machine asked me to choose 1 of 5 options and again 1 of 3 and again 1 of 2 in order to end up listening to advertisements and music. In the end a person from somewhere in south Asia answered the phone in English and me understanding not a word. Again I asked my daughter to do it.
I have been living in this country for 37 years and I am still unable to communicate verbally. Is English the most difficult language in the world as many Linguistics claim, or me being thick. Most probably the second.

and to you Terra, Lol

I know what your saying Costas, I had to phone the tax office this morning, must have given me thirty options, in the end I just clicked a number, at least I could understand them, your not thick at all, they say the English language is the most difficult, glad your daughter helped you out, what amazed me with this woman is she getting paid to be an idiot,

hope your xmas pressies arrive in time :)))

That made me laugh:) You might be getting them at Easter!

What a laugh Yorkshire, at least she didn`t ask if the lost digit was a finger or toe.lol.

great true story yorkshire, it doesnt surprise me with some of the people who take calls etc, hope he emailed her back and let her know how this looked haha,

It's really worrying just how daft people can be!! And it seems no effort to them at all! Lol!

It is very amusing and a bit worrying who gets these jobs :D

I had a wrongly addressed letter passed on to me by a neighbour. The letter informed me that my fridge would be delivered in ten days. I got on to them immediately to correct the mistake. Two days later, the same neighbour passes on their second wrongly addressed letter which thanks me for updating my address. So I call them again and am reassured that my details have been updated on their system.
You can guess the rest .... Yes, the fridge was delivered to my neighbour, who kindly re-directed them.
Crazy!

Costas, you are absolutely spot on. No, of course you aren't thick - I believe English IS the most difficult and infuriating language in the whole world. Our daughter teaches it, and SHE makes a good living trying to explain all the rules and exceptions, to say nothing of the weird spellings and pronunciation. I have very similar problems to you, and should I by evil chance get given a telephone automated menu response, I am totally lost! Each one is given in very rapid machinegun fire Italian, and like you, I end up guessing which number to press. On top of that, and my rotten Italian, I am quite deaf, and rely a lot on face-to-face conversations so I can lip read. The day Italian companies decide to link up with Asian call centres, I'm leaving! I can't cope with the ones who speak my own language.
Yorkshire, I laughed out loud at your story. Many years ago my OH tried to 'phone British telecom, left a message and was assured they would call him back when personnel were free. The 'phone duly rang 10 minutes later, and he answered it: it was BT. A rather waspish woman at the end opened the conversation with " What number are you calling from?" No, Dear, YOU called us, and you must have had our number in order to do it.
Hey, Ho! Hope they get your order right.

Technology is way beyond me lol. I'll never understand it.

glad you had a laugh at this, some of you have given me a real giggle telling your own tales, thanks, I will let you know if they get the order right,!!!

!!! LoL.

Now here's a laugh - There have been men putting new slates on the roof of this house. New felt under them and new troughings.

A letter arrived from the council yesterday telling me to halt all the work until I informed them it was being done ... lol What sense do you make of that :D
If they didn't know it was being done, how did they come to send the letter in the first place ?

And it was all finished a few days ago anyway.

It was something to do with building regs. They want to know if my "thermal implements" have been renovated :D lol I didn't know I had any :o)

Great stuff Hywel, talk about putting the cart before the horse.

absolutely hillarious Hywel, how are your thermals doing,

good news, the present has just arrived safely, Hooray,

Loved reading all the comments in this blog...Hilarious....:))))

Nowt so queer as folk....Goyers....:)))

your right there Crissue,

Oh Hywel, don't you always renovate your thermal implements at this time of year???

My thermal implements have been on the blink for years now.....