Get In and Stay In! (Room 101)

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Product:	Room 101
Date:	20/02/04 (111 review reads)
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Advantages: Made me feel a whole lot better!

Disadvantages: I can't really lock them all up in a room

Ok, so it?s 3.20am. I can?t sleep, in an extremely bad mood so perfect time to vent my anger in my very own Room 101! Where do I start? So very many things are annoying me at the moment it?s a real toughie. Ok, I?ll start with the most relevant to me at this god-forsaken time in the morning.

First up to get chucked into my room 101 is snoring.

My husband is a wonderful man and I love him dearly, but in the early hours I do feel like grabbing that pillow and sticking it over his gob to stop the torment once and for all! You see he is one of these people who puts his head on the pillow and falls asleep in a matter of nano seconds. I on the other hand take a good half an hour or maybe longer to slip into a peaceful slumber. And so it starts, gently at first. Heavier breathing, then the odd grunt. Give him ten minutes and he measures on the Richter scale. But it?s not just the snoring, it?s the teeth grinding and the huffing and puffing that accompany the snorts that really get my goat.

So there I am, lying there all glazed eyed and suicidal. Once again I roll him onto his side, stick my knee in his back to prop him there and once more he flops back over like a dead weight lolling an arm around my neck for good measure. So, not only am I unable to get a peaceful sleep, I am now pinned in my torment. I untangle myself from the heap of snoring husband, grab the dressing gown and plod downstairs for a bit of quiet time. Hey, only 3 hours til the kids will be up demanding breakfast!

Second on my list at the moment would be Broadband and BT.

We have had broadband for a good few months now, and up until the other week had no problem at all. We?re with Plusnet who have a fantastic customer service??or so we were led to believe.

Our connection went very suddenly 2 weeks ago, rang Plusnet and they were very helpful. ?Certainly we?ll send a BT engineer around tomorrow, can?t name a time but they will be there b
efore 6pm? was the reply. Ok, so a day stuck in the house without the internet was not ideal but if it meant I would be getting back on eBay and dooyoo I would be a happy bunny. No BT engineer arrived, but we did get back online later that evening which wasn?t too bad at least I got to reply to mails and do the things I needed to do. Rang up Plusnet again, ?Terribly sorry about that we?ll have an engineer round first call of the day for you? said the apologetic voice on the other end.

Next morning, I waited and waited and guess what? No engineer! Arghhhhhh!! Was beginning to get a bit miffed to say the least. We rang BT ?Sorry you will have to go through Plusnet? was the reply. Rang Plusnet ?Terribly sorry again we?ll have an engineer round first call in the morning for you? they said. Ho humm?.. We were getting broadband roughly between the hours of 11pm and 10.30am (very handy if you?re a vampire or someone with a snoring husband!)

Well this time he did turn up, tested the line and it was fine (despite them originally finding a fault with the line!). Must be our fault we thought. Then it went off an hour later. Doh!! So we rang Plusnet, ?Check all your equipment again? was the helpful reply. A new modem, changed cables and all phones removed and we are still off for about 12 hours a day. So what do Plusnet do? Run a check on the line between 9.56pm and 8am (broadband came back on tonight at 9.55pm), the exact time we told them that we do have broadband!! Oh my God I give up! This has been going on for two damn weeks, so I?m totally miffed with the lot of them!

Third up is door to door salesmen.

Despite having a huge sign in my window declaring that I do not want double glazing, insurance of any kind, cavity wall insulation, god and many other things they still call! There is nothing more frustrating than in the middle of your tea and the doorbell going and some spotty youth trying to flog you windows for a ba
rgain price, or a little old lady with her foot in the door pushing a Watchtower magazine in your face (which happened yesterday). How I have held off from strangling these people is beyond me. Don?t they think if I had wanted windows or god I would have bloody well managed to find them myself???? Do they not realise they are the bain of homeowners everywhere? They are the reason for burnt teas and missed phone calls and the crucial bits of Eastenders? I deliberately won?t get double glazing or believe in god to spite them, so there!

Then it?s spiders.

How dare they? But they do! Sneaky little buggers! Appear out of nowhere all hairy and leggy and scampery and scare the bejeezus out of me. In my own home I might add! Not only that they sneak in films and in baths and apparently in your mouth when you are sleeping (everyone eats about 12 in their lifetime) Devil creatures they are. Nothing can make my hair stand on end like the sound they make when they scamper across my laminate floor??..GROSS!!!


Nearly forgot bank charges! How could I?

Ok let?s name and shame here. Barclays, yes you know it?s you! I go 11p over my overdraft and what do you do? Slap a £25 charge on straight away so now I am £25.11 over my overdraft, not only that if I don?t notice for a couple of days you do it again! Yes so that 11p has now cost £50! Why oh why do I stay with you? Good question actually. It also costs £7.50 per month for the overdraft facility. It?s Robin Hood in reverse, let?s kick her while she?s down. She?s already skint so another £25 will make her squirm even more! Yeah, banks don?t you just love them? Should have just stuck all my lack of money under the mattress like my gran did. Which brings me nicely onto my last rant?.

Burglars

Yup, we were burgled about 5 years ago. We were in bed at the time my son was sleeping in the room above the room they robbed with the dog asleep outside his room
. We reckon it was for drugs money as it was only cash, antique cutlery, watches and a disposable lighter they nicked. Nothing really of value, just our peace of mind.

But as for the thieves themselves, they don?t care the upset they cause. The waking up at every little noise, the feeling of violation of what was once your safe haven. I suppose we were lucky in that they didn?t ransack the house, but I do cringe at the thought of me going to the loo at around 2am that morning. I have awful eyesight and wouldn?t have seen anyone if they had been 10 feet away. So me, wandering stark naked to the bathroom at the top of the stairs could have been what scared them away, or so the policeman told me (I wasn?t sure which way to take that to be honest!)

Anyway, scumbags the lot of them! Stick ?em in room 101 and chuck the key away. Told you I was in a bad mood! Thank you for letting me rant, I might now get to sleep, although it does barely seem worth it as I can still hear the distant rumbling of snoring :o(

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