h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

My boss managed to shovel five days out of the schedule this week for me not to go to work. The WR has forbidden me to go anywhere near the store. I've only had one conversation about work in the last three days. Supposedly I have two more nights off.
I started out my time off with a glitch.
My pay day was thursday. When I went to get my money out of the ATM, I got involved in a conversation with a co-worker about her husband losing his most recent job. When I turned back to the ATM, my money was gone. It turned out that the machine had sucked it back in.

I ended up calling the 1 800 number and didn't get a decent response. I had to go down to my bank and file a dispute of transaction form. The airhead behind the desk told me it might take forty days to get my money back. I went back to the store and told my boss what was going on. She became very incensed and told me to call the 800 number again. I used my cellaphone and did. Then my boss told me that I should use the customer service phone built into the ATM and get a better representative to talk to. I did and I got the same girl I had gotten on my phone. I asked to talk to her supervisor like I had been instructed to, and then handed the phone to my boss so she could talk to the supervisor. She hung up in disgust.
I understand from the WR that she made a few more phone calls during the day. I went away and got some cat food and some beer, then went and explained the situation to my landlord. Then I went home and tried to sleep before I went to work that night.
The WR woke me up sometime Friday afternoon and I went to the bank and withdrew my money which had somehow magically appeared in my account in the intervening fifteen hours. Then I went to the comic book store and the pizza restaurant.
Then it was kind of downhill from there.
I went to the Public Library Annual Booksale at the mall with Shnooks and Uvula yesterday and bought some cheap boots at the Academy store on the way home.
It has rained several times today, most notably about fifteen seconds after my washing machine stopped on the first load I've done in days.
I had even considered playing with my recently repaired lawn mower (it was in the shop for over a month) but the rain put the kibosh on that, too.
I am so alone!

I feel rather alone myself.

Hope a nice surprise or person comes your way.
Nothing shocking or stressful, just nice.

Sorry I couldn't reply more quickly.
, indeed.

I spent most of the intervening time sleeping and not sleeping.
I haven't left the house since I went to buy beer last night.
The cats have been all over me and I heard the kitten in the garage today, but I didn't see it.

Just seen this, TR - I'm back from the IOW and preparing for little 's first day at secondary school tomorrow - and it's also his birthday.

Have things gone badly wrong between you and the WR or am I misinterpreting what you've said? It sounds as if you have had an argument or a falling out of some kind.

The ATM and rain putting the kibosh on your putting your washing out and mowing the lawn sounds par for the course. Murphy's law.

Well, actually, no. I was forbidden to go near the store because the WR fixed the schedule so I could have the days off. She didn't want me to have any contact with the place that has been making my life almost impossible for almost two years.
No falling out. We still love each other, we just try not to be in the same place too often as we can't work together too well.
She is too bossy and I am no longer scared of her.

Ah - that did strike me as another possibility when I read the post over - that's why I asked. Strikes me that the WR can be very thoughtful.

Um... I never know whats going on between her ears...
because the orifice below her nose keeps sending me off on wild moose chases.
She pulled a whopper out of her arse last night and after she peeved me mightily she cutely covered her ears and said,"I'm not listening!"

I'm completely at sea, Tonsil!

(What did Horace say, Winnie?)

Yeah, well.
Now one of my customers is talking to me about why her husband got picked up by officers from another county yesterday afternoon.
She is a Taiwanese who spent many years in Japan. Her husband is much older than she and a white American veteran.
Apparently all she wanted was someone to listen because that's what I did.