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Thursday 26th July - In For A Penny, In For A Pound

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Posted by: knightrider45 Thursday 26th July 2007, 2:56pm

Thought this was a good title! Lifes starting to become just a little sarcastic again on occasions. Back to normal, then. Two incidents, hours apart, both involving me and the old favourite again, Cash!

This is reverse to how the incidents actually took place, but this serves our purpose well.

On the way to work on Tuesday night, I had to call into Rainbow for petrol as I didn't think there was enough petrol, or time, (having been held up again - see previous blog) to make it to Tesco's.

On paying for petrol, I joined the back of a queue of three in that little shop of theirs, and right at the front of the queue was another pensioner, arguing with the casier because his petrol pump had mysteriously jumped up by a penny in between him putting the nozzle back, checking the pump display, and walking across to the shop.

There followed a looooooong discussion/argument by the pensioner about how the pumps were faulty, how it was so unfair, the injustices of it all etc etc.

I wish I'd had a spare penny in my pocket, because I would have walked to the front of the queue and paid the extra penny for him, which would have saved the rest of us at least 5 minutes.

So, there you go. The Penny Incident.

Two or three hours earlier, the Pound Incident occured. I had a chap come round the house chasing our outstanding Council Tax. £987 of it still outstanding.Got to find £250 downpayment from next months wages now to avoid further action.

I'm having to cancel one weeks holiday next month, and claim the holiday pay in this month's wages (Paid next month) in order to meet this bill.

Wish I had cause to complain over a penny!

The best thing about all this, being positive, is that I found out that a colleague at work had to have two jobs for most of his life in order to just make ends meet. He tells me that, in the end, it's worth it because he's done just fine with only one job for the last 16 years or so.

It was such a good feeling finding out that it's not just me after all. Because that's what it feels like sometimes. All around me, I see normal people managing on just one, 35 hour a week job.

I'm waiting until Monday, when the overtime position at work is known and seeing what I can pick up. After that, I'm ringing around/visiting/registering for part time work somewhere else.

Got to break the back of this poverty thing. Soon. Urgently.

Paul

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