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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!

Fuzzy wrote:
> It's a harsh life.

Every time you think you've espcaped the cast of 'Oliver', up pops another one!

Tribute wrote:
> Unless you are with BUPA, you'd have been
> in hospital all day and you'd sill be in

If I was with the NHS I would be in till next week. I had an operation on my finger and it took 3 days!

That's more excitement than I've had in an entire lifetime...congratulations, you should feel yourself lucky...

Lucky git...

You can tell it is a lie - Unless you are with BUPA, you'd have been in hospital all day and you'd sill be in

It's a harsh life.

Quite a good extra hour you got then

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!