LUCK

I’ve come to the conclusion that it’s definitely me. Not fate. not coincidence, not bad timing, It’s definitely me.

Just recently, a button dropped off me coat so it was just fastened with one button as I have trouble threading a needle these days, ‘cos I can’t feel cotton between me fingers, so couldn’t sew it back on. Then, yesterday, the other one dropped off, so I dug out one of me other winter coats.

I’ve never had a good relationship with electronics, and they only have to see me coming to dive under cover to avoid me. Such was the case today when I was shredding some papers. I put a stack into the machine and it should have automatically started to shred, but no, so I had to go pestering me boss who fixed it within seconds. I tried again with another batch, but would it work? You got it, so went pestering again and I told him that I was never ever going near that machine ever again. For some strange reason, he thought it was amusing.

Nobody else has problems with their computers, except me. No matter how kind I am to it, it just sniggers and bumps out on me when I’m in the middle of summat, and even the rotten phone on my desk keeps breaking down.

Whenever something goes wrong in the office, like the photocopier or summat, I’m always the first to be blamed, even when I know it’s not me. I can profess my innocence till I’m blue in the face, but I still get blamed - with a grin on their faces!

S’not fair, an’ am fed up!

snot just thee Mollie,
Today we're doing a bike ride and one lads chain broke, I carry spares and readily got my link out of the bag, I ripped open the bag and the link is in two halves . one half hit the floor and the other half did a ' Paul Danial's' it disappeared off the earth, After over a half hour of 4 men looking for it, It finally got found in my shoe,

I never wish anybody bad luck, Tom, but I'm glad it's not just me!

everyone has it Mollie, ' sods law' is famous all over the world but, on the other hand, there are things that never happened because you thought it was a bad thing but turned out good,
Example; A guy is hitch hiking and a car on a lonely road in the dark on a Winters night would not stop, The guy thinks to himself, " what a horrible sod" but. a mile down the road the walker see's the car wrecked and the driver dead because a tree fell on it,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, Is that a lucky escape or fate

Hmm, I see what you mean. Lucky escape I'd say.

I wonder how many others can remember any bad luck they've had. There must be some with a tale to tell.

loads because, most people feel they are a victim,
I did today as my pension rise statement came,,

from the beginning of time folks think,

its just them

Oh I don't consider myself a victim. Not in the least. Most of the time when summat happens I roll up me eyes, then have a laugh. It's all written in the stars!

What pension rise?

It goes up in April Mollie, Its nothing to look forward to because it does not meet the extra costs we've had to pay in, fuel,food and too much to mention,,,,

My pit pension has got up by £6-40 a month(after tax) but my tax code for this year has gone from 134 to K39 and I am in debt for £408 Sods law I have been trying to get a NHS dentist for nearly two years and bit the bullet and paid(for 12 month)private and two of the dentists that I had phoned a couple of days later were taking on NHS patients

Typical. Peter, can you not revert back to NHS treatment? I don't know if that's possible.

Mollie I probably could but I have paid £200 to go private and I would loss this money. I went for a check up and need X-rays but start choking if they try to insert the x-ray plates. I am now booked in at Leigh Infirmary for a full mouth x-ray

Good luck Peter

PeterP, I can't understand how your pit pension only went up by £6.40 a month, after tax, when mine went up by £71.20 a month, after tax. You worked in the pit a lot longer than me, didn't you?

Tonker, pensions are uncalculatable , there are soooo many variants, I worked and paid in from 15 to 65, Mrs Plum worked and paid in from 15 to 28 when we had the first child, then we both agrees she should be a mother and look after the kids and be a house wife until they are old enough so, she started work again much later but only part time and she gets more pension than me, I don't begrudge her because bringing the kids up was harder than a 9 to 5 job but, She paid much less in, I can't work that out,,,

There's something wrong there, Tom. I know I've said this before, but I worked from 15 - 60 full time when I qualified for my State Pension, so I paid in for 45 years on a full stamp, like the men. If your wife only worked for 13 years (assuming she was on full stamp ?), and then part time thereafter, she wouldn't be entitled to more pension than you, after your 50 years full time. Problem is, if you look into it now, you might end up worse off.

Yes Mollie I think that too, I've phoned, written and emailed numerous queries about my payments but, dare not use my wife's reference as, I know they will surely reduce hers,
its swings and roundabouts innit,

The problem though is our joint pensions puts us up passed the pension credit level so, we are big losers with the winter fuel, The starmers inbetweeners, GRRRR

Tom, a woman gets pension credits for 'home responsibilities' when they have children up to 16 years old. That's why your wife will get full pension (if she does get full pension). If you've paid class 2 self-employed stamp for 35 years, you'll get it too!

I don't know what's needed for Pension Credit, Tom, so I can't comment. I do know that folk like to bring in politics about things now and again but, as I've said time after time, it's no good complaining about something you can't change if folk vote them in. I can complain though as I've never voted for any of 'em and I never will, because cut them and they bleed like everyone else, and are only concerned about what they can do for themselves - not for the people.

Tonker is correct in what he says.

LUCK 2

Well, I was at it again today. It all started when I got up and switched on my computer, only to find that there was no internet connection. I didn’t bother about it except to carry out the usual procedures but, by the time I’d finished my going to work stuff, it was time for me to go.

Then I went to TLC this afternoon for two blood tests and parking lot was jammed, but I found just one space and, once I’d had my injections and time to go, my exit was blocked by an ambulance getting people onboard, so I sat patiently waiting behind one of those giant cars (people carrier ?). Then, I noticed he had his reversing lights on and started to back up, so I hit my horn, otherwise he’d have hit me broadside on. Why do folk drive those when they can’t see what’s behind them?

Anyway I came home only to find internet was still off so, sulking again, I carried out further procedures asking Virgin about my connectivity by using the 192 option - no joy, but the problem apparently was at my end. Couldn’t email my friend, the computer wizard, and my landline was disabled. What to do? Nowt. So I started to have a read of my stories that I wrote years ago to pass the time when suddenly, I noticed in my systems tray that internet was back on, so it wasn’t my computer after all. Happy again now.

Flamin' technology!

I heard Virgin had been off all day in the WN5 area.

Yes, I found that out later after I'd done all my huffing and puffing and sulking. When I did the connectivity checks though they intimated that I had a faulty ethernet and something else wrong at my end and do this and do that. Ne' mind. I'm back here again doin' me moidering!

My Bad luck Yesterday was, I heard that Nationwide are giving ALL their members a , thank you gift of £50, Mrs plum had a letter to say she's getting it but I did not so. Yesterday I nipped into the Wigan Branch to find out if they'd forgot me and was told, " sorry Tom you don't qualify because you did't make any transactions in the period between, bla bla bla and, you only have , one point eight pounds in your account "
I protested that, I'm still a member and the bank boasts, ALL the members will receive the gift but, They speak with forked tongue, Tomplum's not getting it

Sorry Tom

"Nationwide has now confirmed that 12 million qualifying customers will receive their £50 by 30 April 2025. This will amount to over £600 million handed out in total"

"The payments will go to members who had a savings or current account, or mortgage, at the end of last September. They must also have a payment into or from their current account or savings, or had a balance of at least £100, the company said"

I heard today that they couldn't find a Virgin in the WN5 area.

Probably true!