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

Why is there never enough time to do things that are important? Why do we always end up doing stuff the night before? I forgot that Real Life really does get in the way.

Forgetting to return the DVDs you rented a week ago.

Renting a DVD and then renewing it for four weeks because you never actually get around to watching it.

There are legal ways to copy them, so you can bring them back and watch them later. Don´t tell.

PH: when the pen you were using five minutes ago suddenly won't work for no explicable reason until you get really annoyed and end up with pen where you didn't want it

Ouch. Where, if the answer doesn´t get yikesed?

PH: Presently I’m peckish, got lots of goodies inbut can I make my mind up.
Just got one of these out of the fridge in the office in hope it will give me some inspiration

This one has the makings of a more than petty hate depending on how many times I have to give the doc a pee sample. The sterile container was always fairly difficult to aim a mid stream sample into, but it has now been changed to a very narrow test tube. Impossible for a lady getting on it years with stuff hip and arthritic hands.Have to decant from a jug.

getting on in years with stiff hip ... sorry, preview is my friend

as a young though pregnant woman i have to agree with you,
the jar should be... well a jar not a little tube

I don't use the samples, I go home, find an empty bottle, use that... the Nestea bottles are good for this sort of thing cos their mouths are quite wide.

I’ve had my far share of medical investigations recently, you attend the out-patient appointment only to be told by the that they need a sample, which the neither informed you about or provided for.
You end up been given something that a would have difficultly filling, ask to go a cubicle , do the deed and then, then without a bag to conceal it , you march across the waiting room with a fluorescent green thing in your hand as it admits a gentle vapour trail in its wake

I loved it when I was pregnant with #1 because the doc gave me a sample pot every time to bring with a sample in it next time. As long as I was being treated by him I at least had a pot to p**s in

This is very specific to our household, but my husband always insists on taking a flask of tea to school every morning and a sandwich in a paper bag. He rants and stamps around trying to find a cloth bag to transport them on his handlebars (a plastic one will tear on the bike on the way to school, apparently.)

All of this is not my problem, nor my PH, because I stay out of the way. But whenever I pick up a cloth shopping bag, he has neatly folded the used paper bag and put it back in - I think it's some misguided attempt to save paper or reduce rubbish. But he never uses the bags again. So I have to put my hands into the crumby bag and fish out the rubbish and throw it away myself. I'm sure they have rubbish bins at school.

Actually, they also have a kettle in the staff room, so I have never understood why he has to make up a flask at home, when all he needs to take is a teabag.

Maybe if he just brought a tea bag to work, he would feel silly about carrying it in the paper and cloth bags.

Maybe he doesn't want to pay for the jars of tea/coffee/stuff?

I took a flask into a job with free tea and coffee making facilities. The reason being the process of....

finding a clean mug, or cleaning the one closest to being clean
Filling and waiting for the kettle to boil
waiting for the teabag to soak long-enough to be nice and strong (not easy with the cheap bags they bought)
waiting for the contents to cool enough to drink, then rushing it down because break time was over
then having a mug to clean and dry....

EVERY time I fancied a few gulps of a hot drink, kind of bored me rigid and irritated me immensely.

Compare this to...
fetch flask
open flask
pour some tea/coffee (a brand, type and strength of my choosing) into lid
drink

Maybe he should buy his sandwiches, they come in quite robust triangular plastic packaging now which he could tape to his cycling helmet (taking that he wears one ,being a sensible cyclist and all).
It would help him cut through the traffic as it would make him more aerodynamic so reducing drag, the sandwiches would be kept cool by the passing breeze and it would give the kids something to talk about at school

I'm not sure if this is a continuation of a previous ph, or a laugh...

very stylish fashion victim on the tram, big expensive headphones worn outside his hat with music blaring out, but it Celine Dion. People are trying hard not to laugh.