The destructio​n of small ideas

The stage is set.


Yesterday I got paid.

I needed to buy a few things online and I had no cash in my flat and I needed petrol,

So I decided to do the following after work.

1. get cash out at sainsburies
2. get petrol at sainsburies
3. go to waitrose for supplies
4. go home and book train tickets to go to London
5. and I was also going to ring Julie

So I arrived at Sainsburies and put my card in the machine.

It sucked it in and continued to display adverts on the screen.

I waited and waited some more and after more than 5 minutes it asked me to enter my PIN.

I pressed some keys but it did not beep and it did not display anything on the screen to show it was getting what I was pressing.

Then a window popped up with what looked like a dos prompt and the cashpoint machine started rebooting.

I went inside to see customer services and they told me the bank must have had a reason to take my card and there was nothing they could do.

I explained it was a fault with the cash machine and even took her outside where she could see lots of errors on the screen, but she said she was not allowed to give me my card back.

So I had to drive to my dads, borrow some money, put petrol in and then go home with no supplies.

I was feeling very stressed and tired and did not ring Julie.

I had a card in my postbox showing me that T-mobile had tried to deliver my new dongle.

I had tried to cancel my old dongle last week but the nice man at T-mobile told me if I didn't cancel it they would send me a shiny new one that would be quicker than my old one and work better with macs and instead of charging me the £17.50 I was currently paying it would go down to £5 per month for unlimited usage.

So I said ok.

This morning I went to the doctors, where they took 8 pints of blood out of my arm, and collected my dongle from the sorting office on the way to work.

After lunch I plugged my dongle in and installed the software that came with it.

I tested it out and it was quicker and I was pleased.

The guy next to me had a mac and asked if he could try it on his.

I said yes and he did so.

He then said he was unable to run any other programs on his mac. I tried and I also could not run anything.

He suggested we both log out and back in.

So we both logged out, but it just hung there not logging out.

We both rebooted and our macs would not boot.

I looked on google and saw that t-mobile dongles kill your mac and there is a complicated procedure to get them working again involving using the cd that came with the computer, which is at home.

So now I have no switch card and no laptop and no blood and I still haven't rung Julie.