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"The elusive "extra hour""

You, I am sure, will have heard people speaking about the elusive "Extra hour in bed." I however feel it is pointless, and the prove it, I will show you, minute for minute how the extra hour drained away. I didnt wake up a 2AM to change the clocks but did so at 9:30 this morning.

9:30AM - Woke up
9:35AM - Realised clocks should have gone back at it was 8:35AM
9:36AM - Looked for the VCR instructions to reset the clock
9:48AM - Found VCR instructions and began reading them
10:04AM - Rang up Hitachi customer service to ask how to reset the clock
10:05AM - Got put on hold
10:19AM - Still on hold
10:24AM - I was the next caller in the queue
10:33AM - I got through to Hitachi and they told me how to alter my VCR
10:41AM - Changed the time on the VCR
10:43AM - Got onto coffee table to change clock mounted on wall
10:44AM - Fell off coffee table and cut head on sharp corner
11:26AM - Arrived in casualty
12:43AM - The consultant came to see me and told me I had concussion
13:12PM - I was discharged
14:20PM - Arrived back home
14:47PM - Noticed the Special Reserve message boards weren't working
14:53PM - Decided to try and change the time on my watch
14:54PM - Cut finger open on watch
14:59PM - Found box of plasters in cupboard under the sink
15:00PM - Box was empty
15:01PM - Went to shop to get some new plasters (Still bleeding)
15:34PM - Purchased new plasters
15:54PM - Got home
15:56PM - Put plaster on finger
16:03PM - Tried to change microwave clock
16:07PM - Microwave caught fire
16:09PM - Microwave was a charred pile of ash on my worksurface
16:23PM - Drove to Argos to get a new microwave
17:08PM - Got home with new microwave
17:09PM - Didn't risk trying to set clock
17:11PM - Tripped over microwave box and fractured my left ankle
17:12PM - Rung taxi to take my to hospital (again)
17:30PM - Arrived in outpatients
18:13PM - Got cast put on ankle
18:29PM - Arrived home in pain
18:34PM - Went onto Special reserve site to find it was working
18:49PM - Posted

So for the extra hour in bed I wasted an entire day, trailing back and forth from hospital and spend a huge amount of cash unnecesarrily.

Here is a list of the money I spent:-

- Taxi fee's - £56.00
- New microwave - £119.00
- Box of plasters - £1.40
- Call to Hitachi customer service dept. - £64.80
- Calls to taxi company - £0.90

Grand total - £242.10

So altogether I spent £242.10 and wasted a whole day of my life, I have 8 stitches in my head, a cut thumb and a fractured left ankle, just because the clocks went back.

The extra hour in bed? Well I spent half the day in a hospital bed!

Clever...now my ankle is tingling! Meh, I'm off to watch that bloke on ITV! This will put an end to MY horrible Sunday!

Ine-San wrote:
> Why haven't they changed the time yet?

Heh, I only just noticed that something was wrong, thanks to you, in fact.

I'm such a dope :P

]-[ØM€® B€€® §ØL!!D wrote:
> I hurt my finger (didn't know i'd fractured it) and waited 4 weeks
> till going to casualty, waited 4 hours in the A+E till i was told to
> go home an rest it, which i had been doin for 4 weeks. Pointless day.
> Although my fractured finger managed to get me out of tonnes of tests.
> lol

Speaking of which, a friend of mine fractured her finger, went to hospital, went home, went some other place, referred her to a special doctor, who referred her to a hand specialist unit.

Bloody referrals. No good for nothing...unless it's an affiliate programme, giving away ridiculous ammounts of money :)

And Fuzzy.

*Bang*

Musicals suck arsee.

Why haven't they changed the time yet?

]-[ØM€® B€€® §ØL!!D wrote:
> I hurt my finger (didn't know i'd fractured it) and waited 4 weeks
> till going to casualty, waited 4 hours in the A+E till i was told to
> go home an rest it, which i had been doin for 4 weeks. Pointless day.
> Although my fractured finger managed to get me out of tonnes of tests.
> lol

Yeah I shattered the bit that joins your hand to your first knuckle and

had to have two metal screws through it. I waited a day in the LGI (leeds

General infermary) for tests and xrays, they said it was shattered and

they said they couldnt treat me. So I had to go across Leeds to ST James

where I had MORE tests and they said I'd need to stay overnight. They

tried (and failed) to arrange my operation for that night so I slept there

that night hoping my operation would be first next moring, but no. I Wasnt

allowed to eat or drink anything all the next day till 10:30 at night when

I was finally called up. They put me in a stupid gown with my bum showing

and put me on a table and wheeled me down to the theatre. They put me to

sleep whilst they butchered me, then they soaked my arm in iodene and

plastered it from my fingers to my elbow. When I came round a few hours

later I had my arm hanging up so no blood could go to it, them sticky

things on my chest to monitor my heart and clips on my fingers and toes to

monitor my pulse! They made notes (Which I read) that I wasnt sleeping!

How can I sleep with bloody clips over me and my arm in the air after I

have had half the hospitals supply of morphine pumping through my veins I

dont know! They let me go a few days later but talk about making a big

deal huh!

I hurt my finger (didn't know i'd fractured it) and waited 4 weeks till going to casualty, waited 4 hours in the A+E till i was told to go home an rest it, which i had been doin for 4 weeks. Pointless day. Although my fractured finger managed to get me out of tonnes of tests. lol

They are making it a documentary with the voice of the bloke who did big bruvva. Only it will be only channel 5 with all the other mindless cra.... I mean, high calibur shows.

Mystique wrote:
> How do you *know* you put the plaster on at "15.56"?

The camera crew told me, they documented it all..... well, a fat guy with a notepad.

How do you *know* you put the plaster on at "15.56"?

Armatige Shanks wrote:
> Fuzzy wrote:
> It's a harsh life.
>
> Every time you think you've espcaped the cast of 'Oliver', up pops
> another one!

*picks armatige's pocket and runs away*