Kum-what?

Like many who work in clerical roles I am an obsessive list maker, but unlike most I have a tendency to collate my lists and file them. You just never know if a busybody in HR will start evaluating your job description. It hasn't happened yet and my Team Leader maintains that it takes a team of people to undertake job evaluation not someone with a vendetta but you can never be too careful. Hence I keep lists dating back to 1998. You just never know. So there I was on Friday, sat out in the park going through some lists I made in 2002. It was blazing hot and I was feeling a little woozy, almost ready to pack up and go home for a quiet five when I came across a very strange list which I sense has been planted. It read Friday 13th May 2002, must buy...feather pillow, Kumquat, ice pick, book about wire mother, thermal socks, become open, happy and attentive - relax!, Nickelback album on CD if poss. What I thought most strange wasn't the presence of the band best known for a sofa shop advert, it was the Kumquat. A well known local supermarket have only just opened their exotic fruit section, so where was the writer of the list hoping to buy such a rare citrus fruit a good ten years ago? Answers on a postcard please!

Discount Friday

I love a bargain. Last week I saw a box of sugar free muesli a full fifty pence cheaper than it's sugar laden equivalent. I snapped up three boxes quicker than you could say Tate and Lyle, got them home and promptly added my own sugar. Cheaper and sweeter. I was pleased to see a colleague had followed suit by purchasing a box of discounted chocolates for my Team Leader. I don't think she meant to leave the price on but nobody cared, least of all my boss who promptly scoffed the top layer and took the rest home 'for her family'. It's not like she needs the extra calories, she came back from maternity leave last month twice the size she was before she left and that's after having twins!